Isabella Blow, the British style icon, fashion editor, talent spotter and muse who died by suicide in 2007 aged 48, is remembered as one of the last true fashion eccentrics, having donned traffic-stopping ensembles before it became a street style norm and social media popularity contest. Isabella Blow at fashion week, shot by Bill Cunningham ... Read more
Doing image research for my book I stumbled across this photo from the Chloé: Attitudes exhibition (curated by Judith Clark) that took place at Palais de Tokyo in Paris last year. The shower dress, designed by Karl Lagerfeld, is one of Chloé's most iconic pieces. If you're looking for a new fashion shower to replace ... Read more
Yesterday I attended the opening of the Between Sense & Sanity exhibition by Young@Squat. Young@Squat is a collective of young Slovenian fashion designers (Ivan Rocco, Petja Zorec, Špela Hvale, Peter Movrin, Anđela Lukanović, Ana Jelinič, Nena Florjančič, Katja Magister, Sanija Reja, Dajana Ljubičić, Nina Tomažin and photographer Peter Giodani). This is the first time they're ... Read more
A freezing winter morning is the best time to have an exhibition to yourself. Crossing the strangely quiet and empty Somerset House courtyard (how lost it looks without the frenzy of fashion week …), I entered a maze leading to the river side of the building where they had hid the Valentino: Master of Couture ... Read more
Yesterday I and hundreds of other people visited the newly opened Hollywood Costume exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum. As per the press release, the exhibition brings together over 100 of the most iconic movie costumes from classical and contemporary Hollywood. "The Addams Family" costumes The exhibition space is divided into three dimly lit ... Read more