57th Post - January Oveview

Finally, here are my recommendations for January, hope you enjoy them and find them interesting to watch, listen and eat. In the meantime, January has a lot to offer especially in London, so head this month and take in all the best new events, exhibitions and best events in the capital.

They say the early bird gets the worm. Inspiring motivation. If you're the bird. The worm, however, has no idea when her future will be plucked away by the next airborne attacker. The Beatles sang, Living is easy with eyes closed. But even with our eyes open we all still have blind spots. Or maybe we're just looking in the wrong place. But when we finally do see the light, it's Strawberry Fields Forever...

Fashioned from Nature:

This is the V&A doing what the V&A does best: staging world-class exhibitions of immaculately preserved and presented fashion. There are two strands to their new spring blockbuster’s bow. The first covers the way clothing has been inspired by the beauty of nature for hundreds of years (think jaw-dropping seventeenth-century botanical embroidery through to Alexander McQueen’s final complete collection, which coated runway models in an amphibian-like skin). 

 

Upstairs the focus shifts to the modern era and the brands working with ingenious new technologies to make fashion sustainable. There’s nothing dodgy-looking made from sackcloth hemp here – much of this is high (or high street) fashion, proving that the days of ‘eco-fashion’ equalling New Age are long gone.  Dotted throughout are pretty additions to the space including Instagrammable ferns in glass bottles and some Attenborough-style videos of climate change screwing over the Earth. 

There are many clever echoes between the upstairs and downstairs sections. Some are visual, like an eighteenth-century fan and a 2014 Christopher Kane outfit, both adorned with images of the sexual anatomy of flowers. Others are thematic, as with the early attempts at sourcing alternative materials like ‘vegetable ivory’ taken from the seeds of a dwarf palm tree. This exhibition is about more than looking fabulous. It’s about the future of fashion – and the planet.

 

 

But, if you feel like relaxing this month then put your feet up and enjoy Harper's Bazaar magazine, full of celebrity gossip, style and secrets!! Hope you all enjoy my recommendations and have a great time in January... See you in February, when I'll be sharing style secrets, and places to go to on Valentines day as well as places to go and things to do to get you 'in the know' for 2019!!!