In honour of the summer that is (hopefully) arriving soon, I’ve decided to dip back into my Style History series. Each post details the life and career of a different notable designer, and there aren’t many modern designers in my series. (And a lot of […]

As it is currently Georgian History Month here on the blog, Style File Friday will be appropriately Georgian! And given that Queen Charlotte is commanding water-cooler talk and social media everywhere, I am thrilled that Georgian fashion is once again popular. I suspect that Royal […]

On 13 April 2023, Dame Mary Quant passed away. Given her immense legacy in the fashion world, this is an incredibly sad moment. However, we are lucky in some ways- we have countless sources, surviving garments, and even her autobiography. As I’ve shared in my […]

There are several infamous fashion designers that come to mind when you say haute couture. Notably, Christian Dior, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel spring up, because their houses have continued on throughout the decades. However, there are also some designers that although were incredibly talented, have […]

If you are anything like me, when you think of the Great Depression, you think of newspaper shoes and potato-sack dresses. For some reason, I always imagined that fashion essentially stopped. However, the Bata Shoe Museum thoroughly dispelled me of that notion. In Want: Desire, […]