April 2011; we had fashion shows, the shortest working weeks ever (thank you, bank holidays) and something about a royal wedding? But as the dust settled after a day that brought out our patriots, rekindled our romantic sides and made street parties cool again, a little slip up from one of Britain’s most-read magazines paved [...]
Erin Cardiff
Look’s curvy supermodel: Clothes modelling for real women, by real women?
The average British woman is a size 14. Yet the average model, the very platform for showcasing the clothes that ‘everyday’ women are going to buy, is a considerably smaller size 6. Surely, there’s something not right here? How can we judge fashion when we know that it’s not going to look the same on [...]
ALTERNATIVE FASHION WEEK – WE’LL MISS YOU THIS EASTER
Think ‘fashion week’ and your mind may immediately start to draw the following picture; stick thin and racially non-diverse models, prohibitively expensive couture and an experience only for the very elite. These negatives are anathema to Alternative Fashion Week, which takes over the very nerve centre of London’s art district, Spitalfields Market, for one week [...]