Depressingly for London, Vivienne Westwood’s diffusion line, Red Label, is as big of a show as it gets for fashion week, bar the odd special appearance. We love Viv, it’s just that London would be a more exciting place if she showed her main line here too. This season, Vivienne seems to be sticking to the old “don’t mess with success” adage by continuing last season’s journey through various looks: from 1960s air hostess through the pie lady in Sweeney Todd and disco chic, to a model sharpening a knife on the catwalk, surely with intentional overtones of menace (but in truth just looking concerned for the safety of her spindly hands).
Monkey King - Kaisik Wong
Hopefully you’ve heard of Kaisik Wong, but it’s possible that you haven’t, which is a disaster and kind of surprising because he used to hang out with Steven Arnold, The Cockettes and Salvador Dali and whenever he went out he’d dress up as a monkey king. He’s not the kind of person society forgets. Read more »
The world is awful, make a dress
The United Nations considers Sierra Leone the world’s least developed state. In the 1991 - 2001 civil war, machete-wielding, drug-taking child soldiers were its specialty. Frankly, there is no way of linking that to these pretty pictures, except they all occurred within the same borders.
