People seem surprised when I say that I often write about workwear and uniforms for a living.Well, here’s your proof:
It’s not often that you hear designers like Lanvin or Massimo Dutti claiming rural-urban migration as their muse. But it is certainly the case that men’s fashion has fallen in love with farming this season.
For anyone, [...]
OMG you guys, I have just found the most amazing way to make some money.
Basically, you just put your passport, one of your kidneys, your house keys (labelled with the address), your bank statement and some real human hair in to an envelope, address it to Gold For Fools and within a week they will [...]
There have been lots of stories this week about how the volunteers who police and edit Wikipedia are scarpering like woodlice from an upturned brick.
A study (oh, those ’studies’, what would we bloggers do without them? Probably go outside and have ‘real experiences’. Yikes) published in Madrid has found that in the first three months [...]
New flat = good
Throat like a carpet burn = bad
Nell Frizzell
A quick blog for Little White Lies
This week, director Dieter Kosslick announced that Werner Herzog, the so-called Godfather of German New Wave cinema, will be the President of the Jury at the 60th Berlinale in February next year.
Not only will the 2010 festival mark the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and [...]
This year I shall be turning 25, my younger sister 3, my mother 60 and her partner 75. So, within two generations we have an age gap of 72 years.
My sister is young enough to be my daughter, my brother-in-law is old enough to be my father and my stunt father is old enough to [...]
A few years ago a well friend of mine, who was at the time sporting a lovely pair of artfully ripped jeans, if I remember correctly, embarked on the sort of rant usually associated with the recently converted. His subject? The ubiquitous and innate depravity of mods.
So, imagine my surprise when, this week, I saw [...]
My primary school was an interesting place. It was, ostensibly, C of E, which I only learned at the age of nine, actually stood for Church of England. I wasn’t a terribly curious or spiritual child, as you may have gathered.
The Christian aspect of the school was rather more hibernated than celebrated, due to the [...]
Another piece for director-e.com
Fashion, as you will have probably noticed by now, has an almost abusively contradictory relationship with The Establishment. On the one hand, designers like Vivienne Westwood and Gareth Pugh spend their careers trying to destabilize authority through the medium of tartan, safety pins and PVC. However, on the other, success in the [...]