Went to a screening of Coco Before Chanel this afternoon but reviews are embargoed until 27th July apparently. Just as well as I fell asleep during a big chunk of it but what I will say is the costumes are fabulous. Look out for the white waistcoat, the tweed coat and the belted Breton. J’adore!
Wow wee, Burberry to show in London to celebrate 25 years of London Fashion Week. This is brilliant news for the UK fashion industry. Whether it’s a cost-cutting exercise or a genuine supportive gesture to LFW, all I know is I’ve got to get a ticket to this show!
Great commentary by Vanessa Friedman in the FT on the trend for fashion short films. At Cannes we have the Oliver Dahan (director of La Vie En Rose) six-minute Dior movie starring Marion Cotillard. The online-only short has a thin plot, looks suitably lush and of-course features lots and lots of lovely product. It follows on the heels of the Chanel No 5 internet film starring Audrey Tautou – another big budget ad dressed up as a film. There’s no doubting the films are beautiful but are the punters fooled that they are art rather than commerce? Read the article here for Friedman’s verdict.
Really pleased I made it to the last day of the PYMCA Unordinary People photography exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall, documenting British youth culture from 1960-2009. The picture above is my favourite but there were lots of other excellent snapshots of blink-of-an-eye fashion moments. PYMCA (Photographic Youth Music Culture Archive) was started by Steve Lazarides back in the days before he was Banksy’s agent and was merely the picture editor of Sleaze Nation magazine. These days it’s run by Jon Swinstead and is being developed to include a youth culture video archive from the BBC Motion Gallery (this I’d love to see) as well as streamed music from each decade. Unfortunately, it will be subscriber-based which I assume means not-free.
