In 1923 Erwin Blumenfeld opened a leather goods store in Amsterdam. It specialised in ladies handbags and the business went bankrupt in 1935. He had started off his working career as an apprentice dressmaker and would go on to become one of the highest paid and most sought after fashion photographers of the 20th century. […]
London may be the fashion capital of the UK but sometimes pleasant surprises lie outside the cities borders. This is just the case with the display of fifty dresses on display at the Bath Fashion Museum on its fiftieth year of business. The gowns which span multiple decades and even centuries, as far back as […]
At this time of year many people flock to Chelsea in order to attend the Chelsea Flower Show. Thousands come to admire the gardens on display. However, this year, there is another reason to hop westbound onto the district line: the artisans of Hermes have set up shop at the Saatchi Gallery and are inviting […]
The Great Gatsby is one of my favourite books of all time. Normally, I despise film adaptations of my favourite novels, however, I have been more than intrigued my Baz Luhmann’s upcoming take on F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic. While the actors, the set and the script are of course integral to the film, it is […]