ART-CHERIE: Inspiration from online archives

Clothing and textile archives are fascinating places. Although, as a fashion historian, you might expect me to visit archives as part of my research, they're also very useful places for designers to look for inspiration. Even more so now that many museums have extensive online catalogues with images, available from anywhere in the world, but... Continue Reading →

[In]Tangible: Redressing Fashion

As regular readers of this blog will know, I am currently in my second year of a part-time Master's course at London College of Fashion. Having completed five assignments and looking forward to starting my dissertation research in 2014, I am still immensely excited by this course and what I have gained from it. One... Continue Reading →

Fashion Theory: Fields of Fashion

Part 3 of a 6-part series on aspects of fashion theory, specifically cultural studies and object analysis. Written partly to reassure myself that I do understand the concepts and partly to help clarify things for others, this post is based on notes I took during a lecture at London College of Fashion by Dr Agnès... Continue Reading →

Fashion Theory: Analysing images

Part 2 of a 6-part series on aspects of fashion theory, specifically cultural studies and object analysis. Written partly to reassure myself that I do understand the concepts and partly to help clarify things for others, this post is based on notes I took during a lecture at London College of Fashion by Dr Agnès... Continue Reading →

My posts on BitchBuzz: Style & Culture

Although the vast majority of my articles for BitchBuzz have been about sex and relationships, I have covered other topics too. I couldn't resist the odd fashion piece, some reviews for the culture section, and I even managed to get in the odd reference to Spaced. Daisy Steiner was far more 'me' than Carrie Bradshaw... Continue Reading →

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