How many times a day do you hear someone say they are busy in a reply to how are you? It's become a weird routine entrenched in the industry and one I'm going to try and break the habit of, busy has become short hand for much more than a state of affairs, so often … Continue reading Fashions Biggest Lie, The Busy Brag
If Not Us, Who, If Not Now, When?
The challenge before us to change the world isn't breaking the Karman line, it's not wasting this window we find ourselves in.
Fashion Week Is Upon Us
Photo by Flaunter.com on Unsplash It's the quiet before the storm, though with a sense of noted irony I can hear Storm Ciara beating against my windows. As it howls and savages the South London landscape with its ever decreasing rage, giving the nod that it's heading towards calmed impotence, I'm pretty sure that's similar to some occasional … Continue reading Fashion Week Is Upon Us
The 5 Mistakes Your Fashion Business Is Probably Making
"Fashion likes to see itself as completely unique, but while like any industry it has some unique elements, most of building a successful business is built in universal concepts",
Decentralising Power In Fashion
How can the fashion industry decentralise power? The power in fashion is held in three places, the multinational super-brands who control the notion of what "style" is during any given season, the factory owners who control production and garment workers and of course the various fashion councils for each nation. As we won't have an … Continue reading Decentralising Power In Fashion
Lead From The Front
True fashion leaders ignore trends, trends are presented as something that’s happened, leaders are either projectors of the future or isolated from anything but their own sense of direction and desire. It could be said that fashion leaders wield disproportionate power, they are the true influencers, they are showing you what has been created as … Continue reading Lead From The Front
Victoria’s Secret Is A Well Known Problem
The not so secret issue with Victoria's Secret
Could The Last Designer Leaving New York Please Turn Off The Lights
In just the last week, Barneys has departed to become a sub-brand of Saks Fith Avenue, Zac Posen has shuttered his business and Tiffany & Co became a target for LVMH, just the latest round of changes to the New York fashion scene. The turmoil we feel in London seems to be a ripple in … Continue reading Could The Last Designer Leaving New York Please Turn Off The Lights
Hearing no a thousand times to get a single yes
As an older member of the fashion press, I quite often get asked for advice about writing, and a couple of the same questions always come up so I thought I’d talk about them a little bit. For me it is something personal to pass on advice and help younger or newer writers, new writers … Continue reading Hearing no a thousand times to get a single yes
Male Body Image — I’m Weighing In
Body image is an increasingly spoken of subject, but how often is it spoken of in terms of men? It really isn’t, but it should be. Go to the cinema, turn on the TV, open a magazine, peek at social media and what do you see, by and large, what you see are well-toned, tall, … Continue reading Male Body Image — I’m Weighing In
