Trends

From the vaults: the return of the trunk show



Last year I wrote a piece for Glass magazine about the newly revived interest in trunk shows. The trend is building in 2011 with the launch of businesses like ‘online trunk show’ Moda Operandi and the likes of Jason Wu hitting the road, so I thought I would reproduce the piece here. (more…)



AW11 press day highlights part 1



The Moleskine notebooks have been bought, the Muji pens are standing to attention and the camera charger is permanently plugged in. It’s press day season! Here’s what I’m liking so far…

Margaret Howell’s black knitted hairbands, Catholic schoolgirl dresses and belted trench coats
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Bally SS11: clean shapes, pure colours



There are interesting things going on at Bally under the design directorship of Michael Herz and Graeme Fidler. I love the simple, stiff shapes for SS11, especially in the dresses and bags. And a girl can never have too many masculine-feminine dress shirts… (more…)