The skinny on the skinny, plus more

When it comes to fashion there is never any shortage of controversy and most recently skinny jeans have taken centre stage in the stand-off between Gen Z, who have collectively cancelled skinnies for being unflattering and lame, and the rest of us. But just when you...

Is anyone still shopping?

Confession time. Over the course of the past few weeks I admit to venturing out of my lockdown bliss to visit a handful of shiny shopping meccas. I was wary and started small with the local pint-sized mall only later branching out to a medium sized, purely functional...

Are you fast fashion or Chanel?

There’s a considerable difference between being fashionable and being stylish. Thinking about your clothing solely in terms of fashion confuses and undermines your sense of style and ability to achieve style success. It leads you to lament that you have a wardrobe...

Did we just cancel consumption?

Did we just press cancel on the age of mindless over-consumption? I’ve been thinking a lot about the pre COVID-19 world and how so many of our ways of doing and being have abruptly changed. ⁠ ⁠Where once so many people were ravenous consumers, almost overnight...