Liberty- the renaissance



I was a bit alarmed after I wrote my Liberty post to find people misquoting me as saying Liberty was definitely on its last legs. Yikes. I honestly didn’t mean to spread that rumour and to make amends I can report that Liberty is fighting the recession with a brand new overhaul to be unveiled on Valentine’s Day. Highlights will include a scarf hall, two floors of womenswear and new-to-Liberty labels Cacharel, Balmain, Josh Goot and Aquascutum. 

I’m most excited about the bazaar on the ground floor – whatever will it look like? The Liberty blog is the place to read all the as-it-happens news. For starters, they have reported that their allocation of Nike x Liberty high-tops will arrive on 14th Febuary and when they’re gone, they’re gone.

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Observer Woman – loving your work




Another ace effort from the monthly Observer Woman supplement. Love the wee piece on Susie Bubble (not bothering to link to La Bubble’s site. If you don’t know who she is there’s no hope!), Sarah Mower’s Marc Jacobs article and especially the Make Your Own Designer Outfit section. Yep, Observer Woman hooked up with Vivienne Westwood (How to make your own Viv dress), Paul Smith (how to customise a vintage shirt), Jade Jagger (fashion your own bracelets with a handful of safety pins and charms) and Martin Margiela (how to make a waistcoat out of…newspaper) – all very eco meets chiconomics!

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Harpers’ Bazaar says, ‘we mean business’




A few weeks ago I had a meeting with a photographer who was bemoaning the state of the magazine industry. “No one has any money, they’re all slashing their budgets, it’s a nightmare,” he droned. Oh dear, I thought. It wasn’t news of course, I know many magazines are so skint they are hardly doing any shoots, but buying in pictures from their sister editions in the US. Dire. So today I brightened when I bought the March issue of UK Harpers’ Bazaar. Bloody hell, I could hardly pick it up. It’s huge – not only thick (360 pages) but supersized, almost as big as W. And the content this month is great – Roisin Murphy’s fashion picks, a scrap-book style catwalk roundup, interviews with Sofia Coppola and Luella Bartley and a profile of YSL.




The fashion shoots aren’t my bag (way too grown up) but I did like the Balmain dress with the nomad headscarves and the girl with the naughty cigarette.





To me the supersizing is a good move. If the offline magazine industry is seriously threatened by online publications then this sends out a clear message – “We’re significant and we’re here to stay”. Amen to that.

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