A decade of Dover Street Market
Oh, what a busy year it’s proving to be for London’s Dover Street Market. This month marks its tenth year and to celebrate it’s doing what it does best, collaborating with its fashion friends to...
View ArticleTHE DRG STYLE INDEX: HERMES PARFUMERIE, COMME DES GARCONS E-COM, MATTHEW...
Here’s the latest weekly DRG STYLE INDEX ranking, a round-up of the brands currently buzzing on my radar… 1. HERMES OPENS A STANDALONE PARFUMERIE Hermès is going to great lengths to big up its...
View ArticleWhere did it all go so Comme?
Sometimes it feels like there are only a handful of designers who ever existed and everything is a nod to one or other of them. Comme Des Garcons, Prada, Margiela, Alaia, Galliano. Step, repeat. At...
View ArticleTHE DRG STYLE INDEX: VETEMENTS, SAINT LAURENT, COMME DES GARCONS, TOPSHOP,...
It’s been a busy week for fashion with Vetements, Comme des Garçons and Saint Laurent dominating the feeds. And a sad loss for design with the shocking news of the passing of architect Zaha Hadid....
View ArticleHow to wear tomboy dresses
I don’t write about dresses much in my book The New Garconne – How to be a Modern Gentlewoman, but there is a small mention and I’ve noticed a recent uptick in dresses suitable for non-frou-frou...
View ArticleTHE DRG STYLE INDEX: LOUIS VUITTON, JUDITH LEIBER, KING & TUCKFIELD, ANDIE,...
Here’s the latest weekly DRG STYLE INDEX ranking, a round-up of the brands currently buzzing on my radar… 1. BUT IS IT ART? Louis Vuitton has done it again, riling the purists with its Jeff Koons...
View ArticleQuote of the day: Rei Kawakubo
“When things are too easy, you don’t think and you don’t make progress. Not just in fashion. In everything.” Rei Kawakubo, The Guardian Jess Cartner-Morley’s recent interview with Comme des Garcons...
View ArticleTrend report: what to wear for SS21
God I’m so bloody ready for spring, aren’t you? Granted I mean actual spring more than fashion spring but fashion spring is a good start. I was wondering if we’d see big changes for SS21 but I don’t...
View ArticleSuddenly I want to smell like a coconut again
Well this is awkward. After a lifetime a year in relative isolation during which my longest journey away from home has been the decidedly unexotic Hastings pier, I find myself craving tropical...
View ArticleHighsnobiety just opened its concept store – in an airport
Last week saw Highsnobiety open its concept store, ‘Gatezero’ at Zurich airport. For six months, the bricks-and-mortar location will sell a hypebeast-friendly selection of products and exclusive...
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