Hermès Festival Des Métiers, London 2013 (Artisans All Around)
London’s Saatchi Gallery hosted the travelling exhibition Hermès Festival Des Métiers in May this year. The Belle and I had enjoyed last year’s Leather Forever at the Royal Academy – the focus then had been exclusively on bags and leather goods. Festival Des Métiers had a broader remit, and  covered scarves, ceramics, jewellery, bags and fashion. Here are […]
Too Much Is Never Enough … But It Can Slow You Down LFW A/W 13-14
[col grid=”2-1 first”] I’ve been very busy lately. I’ve had a wonderful time, and it’s all been fabulously good fun and very exciting, but all this gadding about has left me with no time to write anything. I’m writing now, of course, but whilst I create my purple prose, I thought I could show you what […]
Alligators All Around
Leather Forever, the Hermès exhibition, is worth at least two visits. We went yesterday and marvelled at the room of skin and hides. Calfskins are almost as big as double-decker buses. Very fatted calves. And exotic reptiles have tender inner thighs, and a neat little buttonhole for excretory purposes. But the room of skin and hides, […]
