Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril: Beyond the Moulin Rouge
Jane Avril’s flinchingly high kick on the poster for her Jardin de Paris performance is perhaps the most defining image of turn-of-the-century Paris. Even at the time, Avril credited the...
View ArticleCouture and Its Visual Cues
Couture collections are always the most mesmerizing. This is of course largely due to the no-expenses-spared approach to detailing, but also I generally think couture collections have the best points...
View ArticleAbout Stylist-Extraordinaire Grace Coddington c.1975
It’s no secret that stylist-extraordinaire Grace Coddington used to hold her own on the other side of the lens. My imagination is captured particularly by these luscious and previously unseen images...
View ArticleFashion & Home Decor via Cardboard Safari
For those that want the prestige of a mounted head on their wall, but don’t have a long lineage of blue-blooded relatives to inherit from (or a taxidermist on speed-dial), step in Cardboard Safari....
View ArticleMary Katrantzou for Longchamp!
When these Mary Katrantzou for Longchamp arrived in my inbox tonight, the first thing that popped into my head was “I need to share this”. I’ve been a huge MK fan for a couple of ..... The post Mary...
View ArticleBerlin: 10 Things To Get Up To…
For the first half of Reading Week, I was whisked off to Berlin to eat lots, walk around lots and drink Jaegermeister out of the bottle. Here’s a list of ten other rather good things ..... The post...
View ArticleY.S.L., You So Lovely
A few weeks ago, my life was turned upside-down when my bag miraculously disappeared in a certain city centre bar (honestly, I’d only had one bottle of beer). Amongst the missing items was my make-up...
View ArticleLoads a Material: Fabric Samples & Then Some…
The landlord of my studio just presented me with eight black bin bags of fabric samples, for me to sort through and do as I please with. I rummaged through and grabbed everything lace, geometric,...
View ArticleOff We Set Design Conference
Having done a few interviews with some of the speakers, I was lucky enough to be given a free ticket to Offset this weekend. A design conference of epic proportions, it provided lots of food ..... The...
View ArticleA Tribute to Irish Painter Louis le Brocquy
Here’s a brief but heartfelt obituary I wrote for the Totally Dublin website after hearing of his death this past week. Read the original here. It’s not very often people react with shock when someone...
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