Acknowledging a friend’s earrings or a stranger’s dress might seem like a passing comment, but it can actually transform the way someone sees themselves, says Ana Kinsella.
Charles Jeffrey loves a party. The London designer's name is rapidly becoming a by-word for nightlife and its attendant freedoms, due in part to his riotous Dalston club nights, Loverboy, which started back in 2014 as a way to raise funds for his gradu...
As the fashion designer prepares to show pieces from the past six years at the V&A, Ana Kinsella visits her in her south London studio to find out what’s in store.
From Prince’s enduring fascination with the hue, to a group of radical activists named The Lavender Menace, Ana Kinsella considers the cultural overtones of one of the spectrum's most conflicting shades.
The Rookie school of thought, to which Luella’s collections were a powerful precursor, reveres teenagedom for another reason: the infinite potential of those years, the space and time they give you for experimentation and private mythology.