London Fashion Weekend: Weekend Insider Guide



Are you Fashion Week-ed out yet? If not, there’s more. Increasingly, Fashion Week is stretching beyond the front row and out to the consumers who want to shop it all… now. London Fashion Weekend started on Thursday and is a way to piggy-back on the buzz of Fashion Week, with shopping ops from LFW designers like Pringle Of Scotland, Issa London and Michael Van Der Ham, in the exact same location as the shows themselves.

I’ve written a wee post for the Weekend Insider Guide about how to get next season’s looks now. Have a look if you’re going to London Fashion Weekend, or even if you just want a heads-up…

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Just dropped: Agyness Deyn for Dr Martens SS13



Just arrived at Dr Martens… this new collection by Agyness Deyn. This time, her inspiration was Harajuku, hence the chunky naive sandals, Minnie Mouse bows and loveheart motifs. I’m glad to see that Dr Martens has hit its stride in recent seasons, aligning itself with the modern heritage movement and successfully catering to old and new customers (the stores in Westfield Stratford and Carnaby Street are pitch perfect). (more…)

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Are Twitter-checkers causing magazine sales to slide?



This is an interesting snippet about why fewer people are buying print magazines. According to Biz Report, the ‘mobile blinder’ effect (people hypnotised by the constant feeds on their cell phones) means customers aren’t picking up magazines at the supermarket checkout anymore. In the US,  newsstand sales of magazines are down by 8%. I’m definitely one,of those people who checks Twitter at any given moment (but I’m trying to break the habit). Are you?

[Image: Miles Aldridge/NYT]

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London Fashion Week AW13: Day five highlights



London Fashion Week has flown by this season, partly due to the new menswear-free, five-day format, and partly because I’ve become much more focused. I’ve traditionally done as many shows as I can at LFW, but these days a) it’s impossible to see everything and b) it’s unnecessary. There are so many other ways to see collections without the battle of 9am starts and seating politics. Instagrams, Vines, live streaming and the almost-instant images uploaded on sites like Now Fashion and the genius GPS Radar app means you can get a pretty good sense of what’s happening without leaving your screen. (more…)

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