Diversity in fashion is a conversation that I’ve been involved in for many years. As a part-time senior lecturer in Fashion Journalism, I contributed to several research projects at university ̵...
Here’s a true story with a happy outcome. The artist, activist and children’s author Faith Ringgold is having a solo retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, her first in Europe.
Whatever our take on fashion, fundamentally we all have a connection with clothes because we all wear them. Sewing literally touches our daily lives.
Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love the documentary by Nick Broomfield highlights the perils of becoming an artist’s muse. Particularly during the era of free love.
Frank Bowling is 85, he now paints sitting down with the help of assistants. ‘I can see more of what’s happening and use these nimble people, my new painting tools, to do more of what I want to ha...
Even though we live in an ageing society, old age is treated like a problem. We are living longer, and yet, ageist attitudes prevail.
The fact that female artists are undervalued and underrepresented in the art world is no new phenomenon, but thankfully the situation is finally changing. Two of the most popular exhibitions la...
I’m due a trip up north and hoping that there’ll be time to cross the Pennines and visit friends in Wakefield. As well as a walk in the glorious Yorkshire Sculpture Park, world-reno...
‘Hey luv, Mary’s here!’ was the slogan JC Penney used to attract customers when designer Mary Quant and her collection hit New York in the 1960s, and 50-years later this should be em...
The curators at Tate Modern are to be congratulated for another exhibition in the main temporary gallery space dedicated to a gifted female artist. For the past decade or so the work of Louise ...
A date for the diary: on Saturday 11 May 2019 I’ll be talking Ageless Style at Stella Live’s inaugural event. This two-day extravaganza at the Saatchi Gallery, London has been coordinated ...
The dark political days drag on but fortunately there’s plenty of comedy on telly right now to to counteract the despair. Fleabag is back – and everyone’s in it.
