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In-Flight Fashion Show, 1957

When I’m among the last passengers to board a flight and everyone is already seated, I tend do feel a little like I’m on parade, walking down a catwalk with all eyes on me. Next time, I must remember to imagine what it would be like walking down the aisle in a bikini! I found these photographs of…

Meet the Islington Twins, Double the Dapper

If you happened to have lived in North London at any point between the early 1970s to this day, around the Islington & Highbury tube station specifically, there’s a good chance you might have seen these dapper chaps, Chet and Joe Okonkwo, a.k.a, the “Islington Twins”. Lead image (c) Janette Beckman For almost a decade in the…

Style Comeback du Jour: Tattooed Jeans

That’s it. I’m starting a girl gang where we all go around together in our Levis 501’s with embroidered tattoos on our butts and hips. The inspiration behind this new aforementioned direction I’m taking in life? The creator of “Good for Nothing Embroidery”, Marie Sophie Lockhart. Of course she’s Parisian, but she’s now based in Brooklyn, taking…

In the Parlour with Cecil Beaton

His name was familiar to me, but I’ll admit that before this post, I didn’t know much about Cecil Beaton. If I’m honest, it was actually his 18th century English manor I fell in love with, Reddish House; the conservatory to be specific. A conservatory or sun parlour if you will, is just the sort of thing…

A Groovy Fashion Show in 1960s Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan was once known as the Paris of Central Asia. During the late 1960s, goat-skin coats were Afghanistan’s biggest fashion export, gracing the pages of Vogue and copied by designers for the chicest hippies longing for adventure along the Silk Road. For a December 1969 Vogue issue, photographer Fred Maroon and a team of American stylists arrived in Kabul…

The Fashion World’s Best Kept Secret

If you asked me to name three fashion photographers off the top of my head, I would probably say, Mario Testino (easy one), Annie Leibovitz … and does that guy who photographs everyone on the street count? What’s his name, the Sartorialist guy. Scott Schuman. Anyway. I could probably name a few more, but until stumbling across his…

The Memoirs of a Model in 1960s Paris

Anyone that saw the September Issue will know who Grace Coddington is and probably fell in love with her just like I did. The Vogue Creative Director has penned a memoir, simply titled Grace, and it hits stores this November. In an excerpt published by Vogue online, Grace talks about her early modeling career when…

Meet Slavik, the Homeless Ukranian Fashion Icon

As men’s Fashion Week is upon us and once again the fashion capitals fill up with the well-dressed elite, I would like to remind everyone that style isn’t synonymous with snobbery by introducing you to a homeless man so creative, the whole world is his runway. Meet Slavik, Ukraine’s most fashionable citizen. He once wandered around the city…

Made in Holland: The Chanel of Africa

A small town factory in the Netherlands might not seem like the obvious birthplace for African haute couture. Helmond is a place most people (Dutch or African) wouldn’t be able to point out on a map and yet, this unassuming little town is where one of the most iconic fashion brands of West and Central Africa was created. As the main…

The Fashion Brand the Cool Kids would Rather Keep a Secret

It’s not very often that you’ll catch me dedicating an entire post to a fashion brand, but now and again, I tumble head over heels for something truly unique and just absolutely need to share it with you… It’s not often that you come across a shirt that doubles as a hand-painted piece of art, which could sound…

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