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House Of Holland In Motion
There presumably exist few labels which can lay genuine claim to dressing a heavily pregnant M.I.A. – for a performance with Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Jay-Z no less – and collaborating with the renowned photographer Martin Parr, but House of Holland’s back catalogue speaks volumes. Occurring in 2009 and…
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Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
Press previews – that is, the day or so before an exhibition opens to the public in which the powers that be generously let individuals calling themselves editors, freelancers and bloggers have a few hours to poke around and be the first to Instagram (read: spoil) the whole thing –…
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Toby Leigh Presents: Berberry
“I’d never really given it much attention to be honest,” Toby Leigh recalls of the faux Burberry check, the subject of his latest project: a photo book titled ‘Berberry’. “Around 2006 I suddenly started seeing the pattern everywhere. This coincided with right wing tabloid media coining the offensive term ‘Chav’.…
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Fashion In Motion: Ashish
“I actually don’t know where the time has gone,” Ashish Gupta told Clash 17 months ago, in a conversation that announced his latest collaboration (and tenth year partnering) with high street chain Topshop (here). Since then he has presented three collections at London Fashion Week, making a socio-political statement with…
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Demonstrating Digital Disturbances
“If we were to discuss ways in which fashion is produced traditionally, key technologies are the sewing machine and loom,” Leanne Wierzba advises, perhaps plainly, over email. “If we are talking about how fashion as an industry operates, transportation infrastructure and the printing press would be included. Digital technologies are…
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The Shoes Talk: Clarks In Jamaica
As part of the festivities supporting the V&A’s current ‘Shoes: Pleasure and Pain’ exhibition (read the Clash review, here), tomorrow night the museum will co-host a talk titled ‘The Shoes: Clarks In Jamaica’ alongside the tagged brand partner. A celebration of the book of the same name as much as…
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78-87 London Youth By Derek Ridgers
En route to the V&A or scrolling through your Insta feed, chances are one way or another you’ll have caught sight of the posters. Large scale photographs of London’s youth from the late 70s through to the 80s, beaming from Exhibition Road’s pedestrian tunnel. Finally released as a real hold-in-your-hands…
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