• SHOWSPACE Gallery

    Images via Francesca Tye A few pictures from the recent exhibition: SHOWSPACE at Live Archives for those of you unable to see it yourself, and a small glimpse of what it was all about. Intimate venue, live models and a chance to get up close with Yamamoto’s garments, a unique experience. For those whose Yamamoto…

  • Yohji Yamamoto (SHOWSPACE)

    “Are you listening? The fabric has so much to teach us.” Summer is always a great time to explore the latest exhibitions as the demands of academic life slow down for a few weeks. I was particularly pleased to hear that a new exhibition exploring the work of one of my favourite designers, Yohji Yamamoto…

  • Travel: Paris

    My trip to Paris during its latest fashion week was to see the Yohji Yamamoto show – which as an avid follower I found this time did not hang together in the way it usually does. However, my main purpose was to visit a number of fashion exhibitions. Balenciaga These exhibitions; Balenciaga, Comme des Garcons…

  • PIGEONS & PEACOCKS: Globalisation and Technology – The Implications for Fashion Educators.

    “The medium, or process, of our time – electric technology is re-shaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate every thought, every action, and every institution formerly taken for granted. Everything is changing: you, your family, your education, your neighbourhood, your…

  • Yohji Yamamoto (V&A)

    Yohji Yamamoto’s exhibition in Israel opens today. Unfortunately I am unable to go but it brings to mind the great honour I had to be invited to be the guest speaker at the dinner in honour of Yohji Yamamoto and the wonderful exhibition at the V&A covering 40 years of his career, curated so brilliantly…

  • Yohji Yamamoto

    This is a video of me in conversation with Yohji Yamamoto, one of my favourite designers.

  • SUBLIME: Going Forward, Looking Back

    In his essay, Dialogue between Fashion and Death, Giacomo Leppardi has Fashion making the case to Death that as sisters: “I’m saying that it is our nature and our custom to keep renovating the world.” Fashion then draws a number of parallels between the two of them. He makes his case, pointing out that: “I…