Handy pronunciation guide for famous fashion designer's names.

Of course, there are so many, not everyone is there: repeat after me.
Schiaparelli: Ski-ap-are-elly.

Yes, the weather's been insufferable but the proof that I'm morphing back into fashion mode [1] is that I've been buying coats, coats and more coats all over the place ( Read more... )

One of the subjects I've been researching lately is that of Biba, the London design label and shop by Barbara Hulanicki in the 1960s and '70s. It wasn't so much a business as a retail phenomenon ( Read more... )