Category Archives: Fashion

A thoughtful article written by Rachel Seville at Four-Pins about the womenswear blogging bitch-fest. I’ve posted it below. I don’t follow too many women’s blogs but the writers she refers to are well known and at the fore of fashion journalism, one way or another. What is interesting to me, is how introverted, lazy and [...]

Contagious interviews Topshop marketing chief about the brand’s collaboration with Google. Topshop is partnering with Google to re-imagine ‘The Future Of The Fashion Show’. The retailer used Google+ platforms, from YouTube to Google Hangouts, to give fashion lovers the inside scoop on its London Fashion Week show, offering a taste of what it’s like to be a Topshop model, buyer or designer. [...]

Is now the winter of discontent for Luxury brands? After two profitable decades, the market is fragmenting. Even in China, that great Eastern hope for most industries, we are seeing not only a slowing down of growth, but more worryingly, an incredible rate of evolution in the luxury sector – new entrants are moving from [...]

I am constantly surprised by the number of modern-day menswear cues that are in fact traditional military uniform details. Obvious items like a Pea Coat or Deck Jacket aside, I was  interested to learn that the Raglan Sleeve came not from sportswear and college sweatshirts, but in fact from a certain 1st Baron Raglan who [...]