Colin D Gordon

Fashion, according to the Venezuelan designer Carolina Herrera, “has always been a repetition of ideas”. What makes it new, in her opinion “is the way you put it together”. The British Fashion Council (BFC) clearly seems to be aware that the occasional “radical shift” to the London Fashion Week (LFW) formula strongly advocated by the […]

If you accidentally scald your thumb in a bowl of hot soup at a self-service restaurant, whose fault is it: Yours or theirs? Most of us would blame ourselves. But not a man to whom this happened at the Victoria & Albert Museum. They had to pay him £400 for his “injury” because he claimed […]