When it comes to fashion and jewellery, everyone likes to feel unique, to own something different even if it is something that only you know is individual. As Helen Bailey of Decadorn shows, sometimes it’s the little things that matter. Graduating with a BA (hons) in Textile Design from Nottingham Trent University, Helen Bailey...
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‘Aged 18, I started designing my first bag. It was for my mother and I took great pride and pleasure in seeing her wear and style it. Her friends spotted the bag and that’s when I stared to think I might have the beginnings of a business.’ Born in 1986, Ethan was part of the...
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“I think the desire was naturally there in many ways right from the beginning. I was sometimes dissatisfied with the clothes I was put in when I was little, and vividly remember redesigning them in my head from the ages of 3 or 4.” says Phoebe English of her passion to become a fashion...
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Walking around the exhibitions at London Fashion Week, I couldn’t just pass by the Akong London stand without stopping – colourful, hand-made jewellery caught my eye immediately. Nicole Akong is the jewellery designer behind the label. Born and raised in the West Indies, she graduated with a degree in Fine Art and moved to...
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This is some dummy copy. You’re not really supposed to read this dummy copy, it is just a place holder for people who need some type to visualize what the actual copy might look like if it were real content. If you want to read, I might suggest a good book, perhaps Hemingway or...
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This is some dummy copy. You’re not really supposed to read this dummy copy, it is just a place holder for people who need some type to visualize what the actual copy might look like if it were real content. If you want to read, I might suggest a good book, perhaps Hemingway or...
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‘Getting into fashion was an accident, like most things in my life’ Simeon Farrar laughs. We meet at his exhibit in the basement of the Pirus store on Newburgh St. The exhibition is called ‘Of Rainbows and Halos’ and it consists of colourful prints, melting glass bottles, canvases that, hung in the right order,...
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As the last model swaggered off stage, all eyes were focused to the back of the catwalk, ready for the designer and the obligatory ‘quick uncomfortable bow at the side curtain’ before they duck out of view to enjoy the relief and champagne backstage. But we were kept waiting as two burly security guards...
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Whilst Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen and Gareth Pugh have gone on to international success with their punk infused, outrageously symbolic creations; Pam Hogg always seems to slip through the net of approval. Just the way she likes it. But surely a great British talent like hers deserves to be identified, as the rest are,...
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The disposition of London’s streets is a controversial subject. Scarred with graffiti and the marks of industrialisation, many would regard it to be an ugly scene, tainted by the development of our modern society. However, if we were to observe the same picture through the eyes of Anna Skodbo, then our perception would differ...
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I ask Imogen Belfield what she thinks she will be remembered for. Her answer is simple, straight-forward “Big, bold and sculptural jewellery“. I remember the first time I came across one of her designs. It was a beautiful, chunky looking, golden ring gracing the hand of singer, Lily Allen, on the cover of ‘STYLE’...
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This is some dummy copy. You’re not really supposed to read this dummy copy, it is just a place holder for people who need some type to visualize what the actual copy might look like if it were real content. If you want to read, I might suggest a good book, perhaps Hemingway or...
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