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Month: December 2008

  • Out of Office – Break of Dawn 2008

    Pre New Years eve carnage, I was at the gym doing interval training yesterday and heard the end of a track I just had to hunt down.  Amazingly, I managed it find it going on the basis of very few lyrics – ‘suitcase at the door’ and ‘we’ve got a love’.  I knew of the…

  • Radio One Live Lounge – the gift that keeps on giving

    Christmas is usually a time involving stuffing yourself with mince pies and turkey, lazing infront of the TV and unwrapping more than one gift you didn’t really want.  Don’t get me wrong it’s not that I’m ungrateful, I’m just more a fan of giving as oppposed to receiving and sadly it seems there isn’t a Christmas that…

  • Couture correspondence – Giles Deacon note cards for Smythson

      Thanks to a tip off from their Web Editor Stephanie, word has it that Giles Deacon will collaborate with luxury leather retailer Smythson.  Deacon will launch a set of limited edition note cards this January.  And when they say limited edition, they mean it.  Only three hundred boxes have been produced.  Each box promises…

  • Warhol at Waterloo – A Rare Retrospective

    Think you know him?  Think again.  That’s the strapline to the new Andy Warhol Other Voices, Other Rooms exhibition, just opened at London’s Hayward gallery. This major exhibition not only offers the chance to see some of Warhol’s most famous works, such as the Campbell’s soup series; but also showcases some of his rarely seen…

  • (Set your) Heart on Fire with Cut Copy

    I’ve been working at a digital agency the last couple of weeks, which not only has been a lot of fun but also introduced me to one or two great new tracks.  First on the list is Hearts on Fire by Australian band Cut Copy.  It’s from In Ghost Colours, their second album that reached…

  • Matthew Williamson to debut menswear at H & M

    First there was Stella, then Viktor & Rolf, Roberto Cavalli and Madonna in 2007, Karl Lagerfeld, Kylie and most recently, Comme des Garçons. Phew.   Spring 2009, sees Matthew Williamson become the successor in the line of designer ranges at H & M.  The big news is that come mid-May, you’ll be able to own…

  • Beyoncé gets fierce with fashion

        Beyoncé?  Sorry who? Beyoncé Knowles’s alter ego Sasha Fierce has taken centre stage complete with medieval, robot inspired get up reminiscent of Madonna’s Jean Paul Gaultier number.    Fashion mogul Thierry Mugler, (known more so for his fragrance Angel these days than his 80s power dressing), has been commissioned to design Beyoncé’s (rather,…