22 July, 2025

Music is the answer: Simone Bellotti’s ‘lyrical restraint’ at Jil Sander

Simone Bellotti Jil Sander film
Fashion and music are intertwined for me. I’ve always thought that the best fashion shows also have the best music. This first look at Simone Bellotti’s new vision of Jil Sander leans heavily on music, so that’s already a potential win. And I’m loving the idea of ‘lyrical restraint’, as Vogue Business describes his approach.

Ahead of his first Jil Sander show in September, Bellotti has released Wanderlust, an ethereal teaser film of atmospheric town-to-country vignettes located in Hamburg and set to Bochum Welt’s melodic electronic soundtrack. It’s romantic, austere and elegant all at once. (more…)

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21 July, 2025

Random recs: a Phoebe store, the Versace exhibition, Conde Nast-algia and my summer Supergas

Phoebe Philo store Carlos Place

A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately…

1/ PHOEBE PHILO (above) is returning to Mayfair. I confess I’ve found it harder to engage with Phoebe’s brand without the traditional catwalk show, look book images, or physical retail. So having an IRL store in London is welcome news. (more…)

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17 July, 2025

See this: Blusher: Makeup, Art and Materiality

Blusher exhibition Leicester

Do I need a trip to Leicester? Yes, yes, I think I do!

Cathy Lomax has curated this beautiful exhibition, Blusher: Makeup, Art and Materiality at Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University (until 6 September).

Featuring work by artists including Cary Kwok, Lisa Milroy and Rose Wylie, alongside Mary Modha’s ‘Glossy Monsters’ lipstick sculptures and Stacey Greene’s familiar photographs of worn lipstick bullets (below), it aims to look at make-up through an art lens instead of the frivolous, consumerist one we’re used to. (more…)

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11 July, 2025

Quote of the day: Scott Galloway

Jeff Bezos to buy Vogue

“Your GQ and Vogues are about to become hair plugs on a mid-life crisis billionaire. The Newhouse family are smart and they will recognize that this is a dying industry with terrible cash flows so they will register some trophy value by selling it to someone who likes the idea of owning GQ. They are going to go the same way as newspapers. In a very weak flex way, it’ll be like owning Chelsea football club.” (more…)