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Stephen Jones Millinery Salon

In the midst of colourful Christmas-time shops overflowing with decorations, each window of Stephen Jones' millinery salon in Covent Garden displays only two hats against white background. In the left…

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Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland exhibition

Emilio Pucci dress, 1968 Back in March I visited the Diana Vreeland After Diana Vreeland exhibition at Museo Fortuny in Venice, Italy. It was the day after the opening that…

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Fashion industry

Wanted: Non-Designers, Dead Designers

With last week's news of Anna Dello Russo designing an accessories collection for H&M and revival of the brand Elsa Schiaparelli, I've been asking myself what is rotten in the…

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Shoes & bags

Tokio Kumagai: Shoes to eat

Clockwise: ice-cream sundae shoes, meat shoes, red-bean rice shoes. Before Lady Gaga's meat dress, there were Tokio Kumagai's meat shoes. Shoe designer Tokio Kumagai first produced his Shoes to eat…

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Elsa Schiaparelli: surrealist Coco Chanel

Elsa Schiaparelli designs, 1934 I've always admired Elsa Schiaparelli's ability to transform the quotidian into the quirky. Looking at her designs in the time of Lady Gaga and the ever-present…

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