Author Archives: Anna Goumal

In Conversation with Felder Felder

Fun, feminine and a little bit wild, twin sisters Annette and Dani Felder are the perfect embodiment of their London-based womenswear label Felder Felder. Known for a rock ’n’ roll aesthetic, their designs are beloved by fashion-forward musicians, ranging from Rihanna to Florence Welch. I caught up with the duo at their West London studio [...]

In Conversation with Ashish

A look from Ashish Fall 2011. Images by Lucy Carr-Ellison Born in Delhi but based in London, Ashish Gupta’s designs blend together an array of international influences—sequins, pop-culture and vibrant hues, to name a few—into bold, irreverent garments that always say something, both figuratively and literally. Anna Goumal: How would you describe your aesthetic? Ashish [...]

Chroncles of London Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Ann Sofie-Back, SSWTR and Club Monaco at Browns

Backstage at Anne Sofie-Back. Images by Oskar Gyllenswärd. Nothing is quite what it seems in the world of conceptual American label Slow and Steady Wins the Race. A classic string of pearls turns out to be an avant-garde pair of earrings (worn looped under the chin), an unassuming pair of pumps sprouts an extra upside-down [...]

Chronicles of London Fashon Week – Fall 2011: Charles Anastase, Jonathan Saunders, J.W. Anderson…

Images by Oskar Gyllenswärd. On a cold wet morning in a disused sorting office on New Oxford Street, fashion’s most dedicated huddled together for Charles Anastase’s Fall 2011 show. Il Pleut by Brigitte Fontaine poured out from the speakers while outside the rain beat down. Frozen feet aside, this was a treat of a show. [...]

Ashish at London Fashion Week F/W10

Images by John de Lima Ashish whisked us away on a magical tour through Central Asia and the fictional fashionland of “Ashishistan” for fall. According to the show notes, our heroine is “an oligarch’s daughter…who recently gave up winters spent huddled round a yak dung fire for lazy days in the Mediterranean sunshine with the [...]