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This week I am mostly wearing a catsuit

February 26th, 2009 · No Comments

It’s not often I wear a fitted Lycra catsuit like this one by Danielle Scutt, but the piece I’ve written for the Independent for this Sunday about 80’s fashion required that I…
A: reminisce about the days when I was dressed in bondage strides and Johnson’s boots or had a bald head and wore knee high [...]

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Sample sizes and fabric choices!

December 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well I’m glad you liked my dress last post. I’ve got to tell you that no it wasn’t specially made for me, although I agree it does look like it was!
I’m conveniently a sample size (although I am way shorter than the average model, my body parts do fit into dresses quite nicely). Trousers are [...]

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This week I am mostly wearing Gareth Pugh

December 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

OK so what do you wear when you have a very large catwalk show to present?
In fact as you can see it’s the largest in Europe. Every 90 minutes an audience of 6000 people come through to watch, and an enormous gig like that needs something special!

Well there is only one thing in my book. [...]

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New Boots

July 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Yesterday, on quite possibly the hottest day we’ve had this year I went to collect my long black over-the-knee boots. I know the mags are all going on about them but they were one of my autumn winter preview orders.
Yes that’s how we in the fashion industry shop. Put simply: very early! It’s not because [...]

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