Saturday 4 July 2009
DC in Drapers
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Year of the hat
I'm a big fan of hats, always have been, but the gems sported during the summer wedding season only serve to remind me that generally, we just don't wear them like we used to. In fact, we wear them so infrequently now that they've become a bit of a glass-cased oddity.
In May, I was fortunate enough to catch the V&A's 'Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones' exhibition - and it didn't disappoint. In collaboration with the V&A, Stephen Jones (a magnificent milliner himself) put together an amazing collection of headgear ranging from the neat to the nuts, but aside from some of the more outlandish hats, I was most surprised by onlooker reactions. People gawped and shrieked at the hats on show as though they were looking at extra-terrestrial artifacts and although admittedly some of the designs were a bit X Files 'out there', the majority were merely beautiful examples of once fashionable accessories.
Of course, there are still mad hatters here and there (and I really can't write a blog on hats without tipping my own to the late, great Isabella Blow) but I'm looking forward to a mass-hat-resurgence. Ascot in June saw the usual array of weird and wonderful, as did the Chelsea Flower Show the month before, and Diane von Furstenberg's pompom hats are already being cited as the must-have accessory of autumn/winter 2009, so who knows...maybe by the end of the year hats will regain their rightful place - out of glass cabinets and onto our noggins.
The microsite for the V&A hats exhibition is still online btw, and well worth a look: http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/hats-anthology/
In May, I was fortunate enough to catch the V&A's 'Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones' exhibition - and it didn't disappoint. In collaboration with the V&A, Stephen Jones (a magnificent milliner himself) put together an amazing collection of headgear ranging from the neat to the nuts, but aside from some of the more outlandish hats, I was most surprised by onlooker reactions. People gawped and shrieked at the hats on show as though they were looking at extra-terrestrial artifacts and although admittedly some of the designs were a bit X Files 'out there', the majority were merely beautiful examples of once fashionable accessories.
Of course, there are still mad hatters here and there (and I really can't write a blog on hats without tipping my own to the late, great Isabella Blow) but I'm looking forward to a mass-hat-resurgence. Ascot in June saw the usual array of weird and wonderful, as did the Chelsea Flower Show the month before, and Diane von Furstenberg's pompom hats are already being cited as the must-have accessory of autumn/winter 2009, so who knows...maybe by the end of the year hats will regain their rightful place - out of glass cabinets and onto our noggins.
The microsite for the V&A hats exhibition is still online btw, and well worth a look: http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/hats-anthology/
Monday 29 June 2009
All hands on deck
With the launch just a matter of weeks away, it's all hands on deck at DesignerClothing.com. We'll be featuring collections from over 1,000 brands and designers (including Alexander McQueen, Nudie Jeans, Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood, Hugo Boss, Fred Perry, YMC, and many, many more) which means we've got tens of thousands of photos and descriptions to put together (!).
There's a real buzz online and offline about the site. Most people can't believe it's never been done before because the concept is so simple (like all the best ideas) - DesignerClothing.com will bring together the best designer clothing available on the Web, and combine it with sophisticated profiling functions so shoppers can quickly and easily find the latest from the labels they love, in the styles they prefer, and the sizes they need. There are loads of other great features too, but we'll wait until the site's launched before we unveil those ;-)
Tremendous amount of work going on 'behind the scenes', but the result is going to be amazing - really looking forward to test-driving DesignerClothing.com myself and stocking up on summer must-haves.
There's a real buzz online and offline about the site. Most people can't believe it's never been done before because the concept is so simple (like all the best ideas) - DesignerClothing.com will bring together the best designer clothing available on the Web, and combine it with sophisticated profiling functions so shoppers can quickly and easily find the latest from the labels they love, in the styles they prefer, and the sizes they need. There are loads of other great features too, but we'll wait until the site's launched before we unveil those ;-)
Tremendous amount of work going on 'behind the scenes', but the result is going to be amazing - really looking forward to test-driving DesignerClothing.com myself and stocking up on summer must-haves.
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