What is Fashion Good for? Part 2

The second part of my article for One Quart Magazine, ‘What is Fashion Good for?’ is now up. It is my response to why I teach fashion design. I hope you enjoy it, alongside the excellent articles by my fellow writers.  Read more

What is fashion good for?

I’m delighted to be a contributor for a new publication, One Quart Magazine. My first article is now up, part one of my response to the question, what is fashion good for? I hope you check it out, along with all of the excellent articles in the magazine. My thanks to Astrid Swan for the invitation to contribute. Through Monokini 2.0 I’ve got to know Swan’s music well over the past year; she provided much of the soundtrack to writingRead more

Slow Down! We are Creative!

The following is an edited and revised outline of my keynote lecture that opened the Creative Cut conference at the University of Huddersfield on February 24th, 2016. Good morning. Thank you Kevin Almond and the University of Huddersfield for the invitation to speak at this conference. Thank you all for being here this morning. It is a privilege to be with you. I am not the first to declare that fashion is in crisis. For more than a decade myRead more