WRITING
As a writer, my focus is on fashion, aesthetics and popular as well as design culture. I’m particularly interested in how design from high-voltage, high-end fashion to unassuming everyday objects fit in the world around them and the peculiar functions they inhabit both in action and in our collective imaginations.
My essays have appeared in publication such as Highsnobiety, MacGuffin, SSAW, Vestoj, Press&Fold, Dazed, Valet, Reminiscences, Notion and Block to name but a few.
In addition to this, I have interviewed people such as design duo Marques Almeida, fashion designer Christophe Lemaire and fashion critic Booth Moore for published profiles.
I also write custom content from press releases to branded editorials for brands such as Uniqlo, Zeus+Dione and Kióhne
Below you will find a selection of my ESSAYS:
Selected cultural history of the celebrity fridge
On Thursday 9th January 2020, UK quality newspaper, The Independent, published an article with a headline ‘Kim Kardashian Addresses Rumours about Empty Fridge with Tour of Kitchen’.
Essay published in MacGuffin issue 10
LANGUAGE ON LEGS
If you find yourself in the supermarket wearing pyjamas or out on the town in a tuxedo jacket styled with jeans, chances are you’re communicating a fashionable ideal that combines effort and the lack of it: ‘normcore’.
Essay published in MacGuffin issue 7
Authenticity Disclaimers
On the 21st March 2016, Christina Binkley, at the time a fashion journalist for The Wall Street Journal, announced the arrival of a gift. Having attended fashion designer Hedi Slimane’s final fashion show for the house of Saint Laurent a few weeks earlier…
Essay published in Vestoj issue 8
FASHIONING STREETS
Before the start of the New York Fashion Week in September 2017, Phil Oh offered some advice for the readers of Vogue on how to dress to walk on the streets…
Essay published in Press&Fold issue 0
CLOTHED SPACE
The relationship between fashion and architecture is in constant dialogue as both disciplines echo each other’s design vocabulary. Nowhere is this more present that at the biannual catwalk shows, where clothing is made to fit the space, or more often, vice versa.
Essay published in Address - journal for fashion criticism
MARTA MARQUES AND PAULO ALMEIDA: INTERVIEW
Unified duo behind London based fashion label Marques’Almeida discuss design shaped by dialogue and the usefulness of the occasional confrontation.
Interview published in SSAW issue 3
Utopian Bodies: Fashion looks forwarD
One country in Scandinavia is known for its function-first design approach. It is the birth place for global corporations such as H&M and IKEA, which signify mass-market appeal with high-volume production, cheap prices and design that is current, never complex.
Review published in International Journal of Fashion Studies Volume 3, Issue 2
ON TIME, IN FASHION
What do fashion and Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov have in common? On initial inspection this question might appear absurd, these two seem as far apart as this season’s Givenchy python Pandora bag and 1950’s literature can be. But look closely and you’ll find one vital ingredient that is core to both Nabokov’s work and the function of fashion. They are both driven by chronophobia: fear of time.
Essay published in SSAW issue 1
ECKHAUS LATTA, S/S 2016 LOOK 26
Watching the spring summer 2016 shows taking place in New York, London, Milan and, at the moment, in Paris, it’s impossible to get excited about anything. There are no dresses that make hearts stop for their sheer, unequivocal beauty. There are no jackets that demand attention because of their geniusly engineered design.
Essay published in Address - journal for fashion criticism
BALENCIAGA: SHAPING FASHION
Spanish fashion designer Cristóbal Balenciaga was a notoriously private man. During his career he gave few interviews and permitted very little access to journalists, choosing to let his work speak for itself. After his retirement, when approached about this by fashion journalist Prudence Glynn, Balenciaga stated that he found it impossible to describe his métier and felt a ‘reticence about being drawn into discussion and criticism of other designers’.
Review published in Film, Fashion & Consumption, Volume 6, Number 2