Did you know that more than 95% of London fashion internships are unpaid? Unpaid internships are illegal in the UK, but employers get away with it because interning is the only way to get a job. But you learn a lot, right? Well, if by "a lot" you mean toiling 14-hour...
I spent the Easter weekend in Florence, where I visited the Salvatore Ferragamo museum. The permanent shoe collection is small but intriguing. It emphasizes the shoemaking process, not just the glamorous finished product. As attests his elegant and original footwear,...
Did you know that you can download 425 books and exhibition catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art for free? This isn't April fools, this is the wonderful reality of open culture. I found a wealth of fashion titles full of high quality photos and immediately...
Choosing the right fragrance is a science. You spray your wrist and wait a few hours for the perfume to develop. As you go about your day, you sniff your skin every five minutes, recognizing (or not) the perfume's notes you looked up online. Only then do you feel...
Paris presented effortlessness, stealth wealth and minimalism for Autumn/Winter 2015. The main idea I got from the collections was of a woman who doesn’t feel that she should prove herself to anyone. Never complain, never explain. Feeling good in your skin and...