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Explore with Rankin and more at Tate Modern’s Hyperlink festival
Fashion experimentation with Cassette Playa, photography with Rankin and zine-making with It’s Nice That. You’ll find these workshops and more to inspire at Hyperlink, a three day festival of creative experiment held at The Tanks at Tate Modern, April 26-28, organised by youth arts network Circuit.
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Fashion Popcorn joins the judges for Handbag’s Online Fashion Awards 2011
Those who follow my self-congratulatory boasts on Twitter will have noted that I am currently working on the fashion desk at online fashion and lifestyle title Handbag.com, and have thus joined the judging panel of their Online Fashion Awards 2011. Chaired by Handbag.com’s editor Rebecca Holman, the judging panel also includes Show Me Your Wardrobe‘s […]
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Presenting My Style to ‘thinking woman’s’ lifestyle site Running in Heels
Gabrielle Sander, a writer for women’s lifestyle site Running in Heels (among other titles), recently interviewed me for the RIH My Style column. Queue a frantic wardrobe scramble, and Mr Popcorn’s first foray into fashion photography, snapping my sartorial efforts on our doorstep (good practice for my planned ASOS Marketplace conquest.) The FP jury’s out on street style in […]
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Caryn Franklin and Erin O’Connor lead All Walks debate on diversity in the fashion image
All Walks, which celebrates diversity and beauty in body shape and size, and aims to get the fashion industry doing likewise, hosted Snapped, a thrumming evening of hot debate, and exclusive Rankin preview, i-D straight-up-style photobooth and an inspired art trail tonight, part of the National Portrait Gallery ‘Late Shift’ series. Hosted by the organisation’s founders Caryn Franklin, Debra Bourne and […]
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Real and gorgeous woman lady star for Yours Clothing SS11 photoshoot
Drumroll please…Unveiling the Yours Clothing spring/summer 2011 collection – shoot directed by moi. I don’t often have the opportunity to work so closely on the visuals, and so it was a great experience, and we were very pleased with the results. To a jumping soundtrack, the fantastic team shot look after fab look. Snaps to […]
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International Fashion Blogger? Watch the Evolving Influence conference live stream!
Did I mention, the hallowed digi-hood Independent Fashion Bloggers recently accepted me into their fold? Got to get me an IFB stamp onto Fashion Popcorn – I’ve officially arrived at the definitive hub of fashion bloggers, and blogger wisdom. IFB and The-Coveted.com Founder Jennine Jacob (who recently won a war of attrition against an imposter […]
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Super-chic, closed set Tom Ford salon show slated for London Fashion Week
A spokesperson for Tom Ford – who famously held back images of his SS11 collection from all prying eyes until it was poised to hit stores – has confirmed that his AW11 salon show will take place in LONDON TOWN during February’s London Fashion Week. A major coup for my fair city, Ford’s plan to reinvent his intimate salon […]
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London College of Fashion MA graduates Duel for attention
London College of Fashion‘s ‘Duel’ MA Show 2011, held in the V&A’s rammed Raphael Gallery last night. The first stop on the post-grad fashion safari (Central St Martins follows in Feb, and RCA in June), LCF is a renowned spotting ground for future fashion – and this show was no exception. A smattering of artsy […]
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Fashion Popcorn meets husband and wife team behind chic new site Monica & Joe
Passionate and experienced buyers, Monica and Joe Wahla always dreamed of starting their own boutique. Spotting a gap in the market for a boutique-style online store offering contemporary fashion – with a touch of edginess – to women in their 30s and 40s, 2011 sees them take the plunge, with the launch of Monica & […]
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Kathryn Ferguson guest-speaker on first day of RCA Work in Progress
An undisputed hot-bed of emerging talent – Wendy Dagworthy, RCA‘s Head of Fashion & Textiles, received an OBE in the new year honours list, such is her contribution to the fashion industry – tomorrow sees the prestigious post-grad college fling open its doors to the always-inspirational Work in Progress exhibition. A great opportunity to view, literally, work in progress from Fashion & […]
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Google goes fashionista with Boutiques.com
This evening New York’s fashion cognoscenti joins Google to celebrate today’s launch of fashion retail venture Boutiques.com, an aggregator of over 1000 fashion retailers, including Barney’s, Intermix and Net-a-Porter (which is notoriously careful about who it works with). The roll-out of the beta site confirm rumours of the involvement of bloggers including the UK’s very own Susie Bubble, who has curated […]
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Retail’s digital benchmark raised by Ralph Lauren in 4D
Seems Ralph Lauren has upped the ante of fashionable techiness, with its large scale, ‘4D’ experience unveiled last week in New York and London. Here in the Big Smoke, roads were closed for the eight-minute film, played out on the fascia of the fashion giant’s Bond Street store. Unable to make it – the perils of motherhood – I’ve […]