6 May, 2020

The culture of fashion: what next for magazines?

Out of crisis comes opportunity. We hope.

The Business of Fashion has a story on the future of fashion media, highlighting the struggles for magazines of operating with smaller ad revenues then ever.

There will for sure be casualties but those will likely have been coming for a while. There is just too much content out there and especially now, more short form video, memes, social media and digital newsletters than ever.

I expect the legacy players may go for reduced frequencies of print publications, both to alleviate pressure on printing businesses operating with reduced capacity and in response to market interest. (more…)

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3 May, 2020

In the moment

Zoe Ghertner Vogue UK

Zoë Ghertner’s soft focus tribute to wartime photographer Lee Miller in the May issue of Vogue is clean, serene and appropriately subdued for the current climate. Karolin Wolter is beautifully cast and Jane How’s styling is perfect as always, particularly her ways with a silk scarf… (more…)

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2 May, 2020

The Met Museum Costume Institute ‘About Time’ exhibition is delayed

“I always thought that fashion is really just another name for time, so I wanted to do an exhibition that was a meditation on fashion and temporality. I feel that fashion at the moment is grappling with ephemerality and impermanence and I thought that drawing out the tensions – between change and endurance and transience and permanence and persistence – might be a nice way to create more of a consciousness about fashion going forward.”

The Met Museum’s Costume Institute exhibition, About Time: Fashion and Duration, has been pushed back from Monday 4th May to October 29th in a sad but sensible Coronavirus-impacted move. (more…)

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29 April, 2020

Fantasy shopping: Berluti Home

Berluti Home by Kris Van Assche

Fantasy home office shopping is my new favourite thing. Especially from Berluti’s uber-swank homewares line. Kris Van Assche has done a great job curating an array of design classics reimagined in Berluti’s famous leather colours and patinas. From chairs to desk-cessories, each piece is a lesson in age-old crafts. (more…)