Category: Fashion Thinking

Vanessa Kingori is Publisher of British GQ Style & Associate Publisher Fashion, British GQ Frances and I have often found ourselves in deep conversation about the many reasons why fashion is more than the sum of its parts, more than simply the clothes on our backs. Essentially, why does fashion matter? What better place to… →

Lou Stoppard, Katherine Ormerod and Rebecca Gonsalves and I, discuss the Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2015 womenswear show live on 29 September 2014 at 20:00. →

Lou Stoppard invited pupils from London College of Fashion, Central Saint Martins and University of East London, from disciplines including fashion design and journalism, to discuss the Moschino S/S 15 womenswear show live on 18 September at 19:00 BST in a special student panel discussion. Students featured are Alexander Kessler, Maria Piankov, Clara Damaschke, Fani… →

Lou Stoppard, Caroline Charles, Frances Corner and Dal Chodha discuss the Erdem S/S 15 womenswear show on 15 September at London Fashion Week 11:00 BST →

Over the years I have traveled to many fashion cities from the established – New York, Paris, Milan; the emerging – Shanghai; the influential – Antwerp – and those that used to weld influence – Chicago. They all have particular characteristics and perspectives on fashion but none have the restlessness and energy that is London.… →

Djurdja Bartlett, an expert on Soviet fashion and Senior Research Fellow at London College of Fashion, has written how ‘following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, one of Lenin’s closest collaborators, Alexandra Kollontai, was shunned by her comrades because of her good looks, her smart dresses and her sexually liberated views.’ Bartlett continues on to remark, ‘This… →

I recently spoke to the Economist’s Intelligent Life Magazine about Yohji Yamamoto, who many of you will know is one of my favorite designers. “Yohji will describe himself sometimes as a dressmaker, but I would say in many ways he is the last of the great couturiers. In the early 1980s, he and a whole… →

My trip to New York this month was as always fast paced and stimulating. Meetings with academics, bloggers and curators were interspersed with visits to galleries, new retail outlets and people watching. I had gone to New York primarily to see the Charles James exhibition at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art and it didn’t… →

Anja Aronowsky Cronberg is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Vestoj, The Journal of Sartorial Matters. Anja gained her BA in Fine Art, knitting and embroidering at Central Saint Martin’s, and her MA, with distinction, in History of Design, at the Royal College of Art where she became an expert at the vintage phenomenon. Shortly afterwards Anja… →

Yesterday I was at the SHOWStudio Panel Discussion for Chanel A/W 2014 with Lou Stoppard, Caroline Charles, Hilary Alexander, and Grace Woodward an London College of Fashion Alumni. →