THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

POSTURE POSTURE POSTURE One of my dad's oft repeated phrases and infinitely preferable to the showbiz stalwart TITS AND TEETH! (Babs Windsor I'm looking at you). The Alexander Technique is a great basis for shoot because it puts in mind how clothes are being worn while providing a fresh contrast to the pigeon-toed slouch of tumblr. 

Once again, the brilliant Katie Shillingford at the helm.    

GILBERT APFEL

The new cover of Dazed & Confused featuring Iris Apfel reminds me of an old drawing I did of Gilbert Heron, father of Gil Scott-Heron.

SHADES OF GREY

Although the weather outside makes me want to get under a duvet and hibernate till March, I still love grey, especially the dove shade of Katie Shillingford's wedding dress.

A close friend of Gareth Pugh and fashion editor of Dazed and Confused, it was a given that Shillingford would wear something amazing.

WASHOUT

Styled by Katie Shillingford for Dazed & Confused.

DONATELLA'S TIME CAPSULE FOR DAZED AND CONFUSED

DONATELLA: "The ability to make fire has always been a sign of human ingenuity. In Greek mythology, fire is what the intelligent Prometheus stole from Zeus and gave to mortals. This lighter, covered in white Swarovski crystals and bearing the Versace Medusa-head motif in gold - a reference to another Greek myth - is a portable fire-maker and that is why I have chosen it for the time capsule. It's both useful and symbolic of the human spirit."


For Dazed and Confused's twentieth birthday issue they have invited fashion's finest to choose an object to put in a time capsule for the next twenty years. There are a lot of wanky and annoying contributions as well as some thinly disguised press releases [*cough cough milliner Stephen Jones] but I loved Donatella's, pretentious chat about the Greeks and all... a pleasing combination of pyromania, mythology and, staying true to Gianni, gold and diamonds.