tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85261461948227116462013-05-23T02:05:52.569+01:00LONDON FASHION BLOGHapsicalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07824897510618056719noreply@blogger.comBlogger559125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526146194822711646.post-47388699371781023602013-05-21T18:49:00.002+01:002013-05-21T19:12:00.127+01:002013-05-21T19:12:00.127+01:00

Something possessed me, and I bought the Celine fur Birkenstock-style sandals, or FURKENSTOCKS. They're not exactly beautiful, and they could hardly be less practical, and yet...  Actually, there's no deep explanation. I'm a victim of the zeitgeist, and had been itching to get my hands on some of Phoebe Philo's Celine, without doing a Kanye and wearing a blouse or doing a blogger and

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Hello! I'm back. And I've been shopping, so I have things to share. Above: Undercover by Jun Takahashi T-shirt, Adidas sweatpants, Prada shoes. Below: Raf Simons spring/summer 2006 bomber jacket. It's like the less extreme version of my SS03 parachute bomber. Bottega Veneta, bitch!!! Below: Undercover by Jun Takahashi T-shirt, Zara sweatpants, Nike Wardour Max 1 desert

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When Stefano Pilati took up the position of creative director at Yves Saint Laurent, the brand was haemorrhaging money (annual losses were to the tune of €70 million). Towards the end of his tenure the house was reporting profits for the first time in years, but the one business unit which had remained profitable throughout that time was the beauty and fragrance division. Indeed, Yves Saint

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Two weeks ago the popular fashion blogger Pelayo Diaz posted a couple of images of himself on his blog, Kate Loves Me, posing in a David Elfin coat and toting a Celine handbag at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. In the brief caption that accompanies the pictures, seeming to betray a fundamental misunderstanding about the memorial’s purpose, Diaz notes “the good thing is that it doesn’t make

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Here they are, the showroom images of the beautiful RAF SIMONS fall/winter 2013 collection. CLICK BELOW TO CONTINUE READING: RAF SIMONS x ADIDAS FW13: RAF SIMONS x EASTPAK FW13: Puss in Boots: See also: Raf Simons Spring / Summer 2013 collection Raf Simons Fall /

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I’m a big fan of the 1960s and ‘70s James Bond films, not for their ridiculous plots and casual sexism, but for their epic costume and set design. You Only Live Twice from 1967 is my favourite.  ---- This post contains spoilers ---- CLICK BELOW TO CONTINUE READING: We start with the distinctly sci-fi giant squid-like spaceship (totally NOT a miniature model against a painted backdrop, OK)

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And now for my end of year awards...

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STARBUCKS-LEXUS-COACH-ZIPLOC-VITACOCO-BMW-KITCHENAID-NIKE-DIETCOKE-ADIDAS-NEWBLANACE-LYSOL-TRADERJOES-WHOLEFOODSMARKET-THECONTAINERSTORE-ANTHROPOLOGIE-GAP-TORYBURCH-NORDSTROM-MICHAELKORS-APPLE-MAYTAG-MARTHASTEWART-FOODNETWORK-DISNEY-DILLARDS-BARNES&

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My day took a particularly interesting turn this morning when I discovered the existence of FUCKYEAHHAPSICAL.TUMBLR.COM EDIT - since i posted this, my #1 fan has posted something a little......disturbing. proceed to the FYEAH blog at your caution.. For those unfamiliar with Tumblr, fuckyeah---- blogs are a genre of fan-site normally created in dedication to someone famous. For example:

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Just a quick post that I wrote on my phone in the doctor's waiting room earlier this evening...so nu media, 2012, etc. To kill time before my appointment, I just did a quick whip around the Selfridges menswear department for the first time in about a year. Don't get me wrong, I think Selfridges is a fine store, great for many things (especially for buying obscure zeitgeist-y European fashion

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Here it is... the INFAMOUS spring/summer 2003 Raf Simons parachute-bondage-military bomber jacket. An unbelievably lucky find on eBay. Now that I own this, along with the pyramid jacket, I have almost reached wardrobe nirvana. Finding this ultimate bad boy took about four years searching online and at every archive sale I could go to. As someone pointed out on Tumblr, this jacket

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Unfortunately I missed the RAF SIMONS show this season, but on my way back from New York I made a 5 hour stopover in Paris to see the spring/summer 2013 collection up close in the showroom. Of course, I LOVED it all. The 1995 archive collection doesn't feature this season, so the showroom had many more mainline pieces than previous years, including items which were not shown on the runway.

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Earlier today I was speaking to a publicist who is in charge of the guest list for a party during the upcoming London Collections: Men (London’s first attempt at a menswear fashion week), and you would not believe some of the blagging which fashion industry ‘professionals’ (to use the term lightly) indulge in when they’re trying to score an invite. It’s toe curling, wince-inducing

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Browsing the new season collections on Luisa via Roma, the Florence-based retailer which is known for being among the first to put next season’s clothes online to pre-order, I was particularly struck by a Givenchy nose ring, which had featured in the label’s fall/winter 2012 runway show – as well as in numerous fashion editorials since then. I’m generally not a fan of Givenchy menswear, and I’

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This blog is still alive. Hell, it has more life than a Beverly Hills morgue with Lindsay Lohan doing community service. I'm going to TRY to update more frequently from now onwards. Here is a list of things I bought at the Raf Simons archive sale in April: FW01 jacket: FW03 sweater with Peter Saville graphics: SS02 shirt: FW04 shirt with removable back panel, and José Ortega y Gasset quote:

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HERE, STANDING BESIDE ANISH KAPOOR'S 'CLOUD GATE,' I SAW A BIG FAT UNIT WEARING A T-SHIRT BEARING THE NAME "IDAHO POTATO MUSEUM." HE LOOKED LIKE ONE OF THE EXHIBITS :/ CHILL OUT, OK. It's the plastic display model. In any case, I'm still labouring under the CHEW AND SPIT approach to shift those pounds. AMISH

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Protect me from what I want (Times Square, 1982) by Jenny Holzer.This post is a list of things which I would buy immediately if I won the lottery / found a sugar-daddy / had a credit card (heaven forbid the latter should ever come to pass, or I would be bankrupt and in the workhouse faster than you can say "two blacked-out Rolex's and an Yves Saint Laurent holdall, please").As it happens, I

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Issue 2 of the brilliant DUST magazine is out now. Although the first issue was slightly more powerful, probably by virtue of being the first, the second is just as hard-edged and provoking, with an equally strong focus on youth subculture. It's still beautifully printed on matte paper, and although it's not cheap at £15 it's the kind of magazine you will keep forever, because it's full of

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Raf Simons autumn/winter 2012 show (Paris, 22 Jan 2012) and showroom (Paris, 25 Jan 2012).I seem to have a block on writing at the moment (nothing to do with the show, which was as brilliant as ever), so I will share my thoughts in note form. If you don't want to read anything at all, scroll down for the photos I took in the showroom.In a season when most of the men's collections were very

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I bought these Prada shoes (from the resort 2012 collection) a few weeks ago. I love the slightly dorky shape of the toe, the formal/sporty hybrid, the height-boosting sole which brings to mind the runway pairs I have acquired over the last few seasons, but in a lighter, easier-to-wear way… however, I did not see the “made in Vietnam” label when I was in the shop. I disapprove of designer brands

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This is a total late pass because it’s now spring in crazy old fashion land, meaning fall/winter clothes are all but gone from the shops, but the Undercover FW11 collection was so perfect I am literally GASPING FOR AIR. It’s a shame Jun Takahashi hasn’t been doing super-conceptual Undercover / Undercoverism shows for a while, but I'm not really complaining, because this collection was almost the

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Raf Simons fall/winter 2006 sweater with zips and PVC accordion hood, a recent acquisition. There are about 10 different ways to configure the collars and hood.Wearing with Raf Simons SS00 MA-1 jacket, Lanvin glasses and bag, H&M trousers (with awful/amazing pleather inner leg inserts...) and b Store desert boots.The Lanvin bag is a recent purchase too. I never thought Lanvin would come up

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As part of its 20th anniversary celebrations, Dazed & Confused created a ‘time capsule’ of objects donated by the magazine’s collaborators from the last twenty years, intended to be representative of the past two decades of the title. The 34 submissions, which were auctioned on eBay with the proceeds going to Oxfam, included a crystal-encrusted cigarette lighter from Donatella Versace and a

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First off, this isn’t really a Christmas wish list. I can’t bear the orgy of consumerism which has come to define this time of year, and I find the whole gifting rigmarole rather distasteful, but I do like making lists of nice things. And since everyone else is at it, for seasonal purposes, I thought I would get involved too – in a strictly anti-festive, misanthropic way of course.Above: Givenchy

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Karl Lagerfeld in the Chanel atelierIn Part 1 of ‘How Fashion Works’ I covered the oddities of pricing. What happens in-between a designer having an initial idea and a final product ending up on the rails of a shop is, in many more respects, even more mysterious. Let’s examine this journey chronologically.Fashion is all about combining creativity with commerce, so designers who want to be

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