DisneyRollerGirl
Observations and opinions on the culture of fashion from fashion editor Navaz Batliwalla
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Ad: On the curious cult of the Marks & Spencer beauty advent calendar
M&S is on a roll. I’ve been a customer for decades (mainly its food hall admittedly), but this year you can’t escape its impact on pop culture – from its new store refurbs and Fashion Week presence to its accidental in-house influencers (“Hi I’m Kathryn Turner, Director of…
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Beauty update: world-building with 39BC (and more)
Is it A.I-driven digital dystopia? The slow march of mindless convenience? Or the post-Covid comfort boom that’s responsible for the influx of beauty brands leaning into sensorial rituals and immersive universe-building? I’ve noticed I’m gravitating heavily towards…
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GRWM: Domestic spaces, identity and beauty rituals in art
Two must-see painting exhibitions on in London: Louis Fratino’s ‘Prose’ at David Zwirner and Salman Toor’s ‘Someone Like You’ at The Courtauld Gallery. Fratino paints ‘semi-cubist’ portraits, scenescapes, male nudes and domestic settings and I particularly like his bathroom…
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How to wear a skirt
Like lots of people, I loved the skirt-heavy Prada SS27 collection. Maybe it was the colours, maybe the commitment to one piece, maybe the contrariness of taking something so out of kilter with how we mostly dress now (jeans, sweats, leggings) and making it cool. How to wear…
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Little blue book
Who knew a simple little blue book could get me back into reading for pleasure? I’ve always loved reading, but over the years I’ve let myself be seduced by the immediacy of just one more online NYT/New Yorker/Atlantic long read (that, surely, will change my life) over the slow,…
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How to publish a book: Camilla Morton on Red Carpet Legends
Camilla Morton has had quite the enviable career, from Vogue runway reviews to being the ‘tone of voice’ of John Galliano and Dior, to publishing best-selling fashion fairytales and “how to” books (remember How to Walk in High Heels?) and even working on the publishing side. She…
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Margaret Howell AW26 by Collier Schorr
Collier Schorr has shot her first campaign for Margaret Howell AW26. There’s a very cute story attached, as relayed to Another magazine. “I probably first saw Margaret Howell’s clothes in advertisements in i-D. This was in the early 1980s, when I had started wearing vintage…
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How Zara x Aaron Levine nails the high-low formula
As we await John Galliano’s Zara debut next month, Vogue’s September issue features a lavish profile on Marta Ortega Pérez (parent company Inditex’s non-executive chair). From this we learn that Ortega Pérez is great friends with the likes of luxury insiders Pieter Mulier,…
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Random recs: Fashion People, Homme Girls, hotel thievery, Bob Beauté and more
A few snippets of digital ephemera and IRL recommendations I’ve enjoyed lately… 1/ This month, VANITY FAIR has a profile on FASHION PEOPLE’S LAUREN SHERMAN. Fashion People is a Puck newsletter and a podcast and while it’s known for its ‘scoops’ revealing which new creative…
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Quote of the day: Chinese dreamcore
“I think many people still miss the harmony and beauty of the early days of the internet — that feeling that the world would unite and that feeling of connection,” Artist Ai Kewei on Gen Z nostalgia and “Chinese Dreamcore” (“a new type of digital pain reliever for young people…