What is remarkable about the presentation of the Gucci 100 collection is how little it has to do with the past. The digital event presenting the fashion house’s new capsule collection is…
Inexpensive and influencer endorsed, Shein is one of the world’s fastest-growing brands. Created in 2008, the online fashion retailer has quickly blossomed. But there is a darker side to Shein than its…
Vogue‘s Greta Thunberg cover arrives the same week as the UN‘s worrying climate wake-up call. Scorching wildfires and catastrophic floods are on the way. Temperatures, it is predicted, will soar 1.5 degrees…
George Harrison found the final days of The Beatles chaotic. “Ringo wanted it blue,” he later said. “John wanted it white, Paul Wanted it green, and I wanted it orange.” In the…
Before I dive into this story of ghosts, gods and the Gucci Empire, let me tell you one thing. I do not believe in ghosts. Nor vengeful curses from the sea. I…
History’s greatest men have a habit of appearing in pairs. Plato and Aristotle walked side by side in ancient Greece. Born in Germany in 1685, Bach and Handel wrote melodies that still…
In the concert-less wasteland of 2021, digital is the new normal. And as the popularity of Gucci‘s 25 Virtual Sneaker makes clear, we are starting to see this in fashion too. In…
On May 8th, American music festivals returned. After a year-long hiatus the need for profit and glory, and no doubt escapism on partons’ part, saw Flordia’s Rolling Loud push ahead. It cast…
In 1995, Patrizia Gucci hired a gunman to assassinate her husband. The mafia-style execution of the former heir to the Gucci Empire shocked the world. To the public, she was a socialite…
In February 2018 Billie Eilish covered Michael Jackson‘s ‘Bad’ on Australian radio. In March the following year came the joyous frenzy of breakthrough pop single ‘Bad Guy.’ On the momentum of this…