The next London Fashion Week, showing collections for Autumn/Winter 2013, begins on Friday. What do you need if you're attending fashion week as a journalist? 1. Bright, stylish notebook (Lanvin, £40) for jotting down first drafts of show reviews and overheard conversations about how wearing your jacket over the shoulders makes you look like a ... Read more
Last weekend I took a quick trip to Venice with my family to see the Elegance in Exile: Between fashion and costume, the time of Sergei Diaghilev (L'eleganza in esilio. Tra moda e costume, il tempo di Diaghilev) exhibition at Palazzo Mocenigo. The exhibition portrays the influence of Russian émigrés on fashion, displaying costumes of ... Read more
It's 12:30 and I've just returned from H&M. This is what was still available on the racks at 11:20 (not including a few pairs of shoes): I almost got lost in the store because I had no idea where they'd set up the "designated area". When I found it, my attention was immediately consumed not ... Read more
I'm not nearly as stoked about the Lanvin for H&M collection as I thought I'd be. The menswear is so dull that I won't waste any further word on it, but I would like to discuss womenswear. When I saw the lookbook yesterday, I found it difficult to focus on clothes because of messy styling. ... Read more