Category: fashion
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Read | The November Issue of VOGUE
I figure since its October I am not late, things are finally starting to settle down around here, I am getting used to my space and new home and finally able to come up for air and back on the regular-ish. I am falling more and more in love with Vogue, a thing I didn’t…
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Forces of Change- Vogue
“It’s Vogue ok, please let’s… lift it.” This remains one of the most memorable quotes from The September Issue during an interaction between Anna Wintour and Edward Enninful. The phrase encapsulates her entire thoughts on Vogue and its role in larger society. And for a long time this was how I felt about British Vogue…
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Anna Wintour, A Masterclass
Interviewer: “What do you expect of your assistants and has that criteria change over the years?” Anna: “Well I hope my assistants won’t write books about me.” Perhaps the most meaningful insight into Anna Wintour is revealed in the first few minutes in the third lesson of her masterclass. Without question in response to her…
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Fashion FOMO | That Zara Dress
Has everybody seen that Zara dress? You know the one I’m talking about: the dress that conquered Britain some outlets have called it, black and white polka dot with its free flowing silhouette and ankle shaving length. At least three out of every five women have it on everyday, within a five mile radius, don’t…
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Where Are We Going Dressed Like That – Couture Edition
Let’s play dress up in head to toe, off the runway, couture; where are we going dressed like that. These are purely fictional but feel free to adapt them in your day to day, because your life should be that fabulous and that tad bit more dramatic than average Amy’s. Armani Prive- The New Wife…
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Valentino Couture Spring 2019 | Fashion’s Wildest Dream
Fashion. We often come to a time when romance and fashion intersect and the result is quite simply an incredibly, indescribable love story that takes our collective breaths away. Valentino couture takes my breath away almost every time, even so much more than the ready to wear, almost much more than any other collection. There…
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Magazines Are Killing Themselves… And Fashion
In its recent issue, Vogue US has a feature on Noor Tagouri; activist, journalist, speaker but next to one of her pictures is the name Noor Bhukari. VOGUE US had misrepresented and misidentified a Muslim-American journalist who speaks on misrepresentation and misidentification; the bloody irony! This is not the first time Ms Tagouri has been…
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Slimane’s Celine
A changed font and lost accent makes no difference where talent is stagnant. Not even century gothic can change the narrative if the there is no story in the text. The story of Céline is one of a quietly cool and comfortable woman and you got the sense that she was in love with her…
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Fashion & Comfort
The other day I was in Selfridges buying my twentieth (or twenty-fifth) pair of trainers, sneakers, kicks or whatever we call them these days and it occurred to me that I am a sneaker head, a mini sneaker head perhaps, but one no less. A habit that has become something of a compulsion, sneaking up…