“Its The ‘Fab 40!’ proclaimed the Evening Standard on its front page on 19th February. The newspaper was extolling the fact that the latest London Fashion Week AW24 (16th-20th February) also marked four decades of “shining a light on the talent, diversity and creativity of the capital”. However, on the first day of the event, […]
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“The fashion industry’s reckoning has arrived. With concerns surrounding waste,ethical treatment of workers and inclusivity, the status quo is no longer sustainable”. This declaration by the Huffington Post’s lifestyle commentator, Jennifer Barton, in September 2020 and her prediction that the brands would need to “pivot quickly” to stay relevant and desirable accurately anticipated the changing […]
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“If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead”. This was how Roald Dahl, the renowned British novelist and poet, viewed the first month of the year. The American author, Melody Beattie, by contrast, has rather more enthusiastically proclaimed the New Year to be “like a […]
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“In the good old days, anyone who wanted to change the channel on their television was obliged to get up to press the appropriate buttons on the apparatus”. That era, as “wired.com” has pointed out, came to an abrupt end when, in the mid-’60’s, the Austrian-American inventor and Director of Research at the Zenith Corporation, […]
Filed under: Media, Society | Posted on November 10th, 2022 by Colin D Gordon | No Comments »
What are balconies for? Their main purpose, states britannica.com, is to enlarge the living space in a dwelling without a garden or lawn and to provide ventilation. However, it also notes, from classical Rome onwards, the ones on public buildings have been employed as places from which speeches can be made or crowds exhorted. The […]
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For a brief moment, it felt as if the good times were back. The day after it had ended, the Guardian’s fashion editor, Jess Cartner-Morley, hailed the latest LFW (18 -22 February) as having been “shiny and happy”, with sequins and satin symbolising the new mood of hope. For her, the “pop of champagne […]
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Do you know how to pronounce the name of “Shrewsbury”, the market town in the English county of Shropshire? If you’re not sure and really want to find out, the Oxford Guide to BBC diction provides the answer: “Shrohz-buh-ri”. This is unlikely to be at the top of your list of priorities […]
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“ After an incredibly challenging year for the industry, it’s what we all need to lift us up”. This was the significance that Caroline Rush, the Chief Executive of the British Fashion Council (BFC) attached to the latest LFW (19th – 23rd February) and the fresh scope for creativity it provided, when quoted by the […]
Filed under: Media, Society | Posted on February 24th, 2021 by Colin D Gordon | No Comments »
The headlines were dire and the predictions gloomy. “London’s fashion businesses are on the brink and many brands are in crisis”, declared the London Evening Standard columnist, Kate Finnigan in the newspaper on 15th September, just two days before the start of LFW SS (Spring/Summer)21 (17-22 September). To highlight the point, she quoted the acknowledgement […]
Filed under: Media, Society | Posted on September 22nd, 2020 by Colin D Gordon | No Comments »
“Everything has changed”. That’s how the BBC’s Health Editor, Hugh Pym views the impact of the pandemic both on Britain and the international community. Life will be very different from now on, for the high street, businesses, our work routine and and the way we meet friends, he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on […]
Filed under: Healthcare, Media | Posted on July 27th, 2020 by Colin D Gordon | No Comments »