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Christy's "Panthera Onca" image used as the invitation to their LFW presentation This self-proclaimed ‘anti-fashion’ design duo find beauty in the simple things. Amidst the flashy fabrics and bold colours that dominated London Fashion Week, palmer // harding’s quietly stunning designs were a breath of fresh air. Levi Palmer spoke to FAULT about the concept behind their latest collection, their…

Now where did I leave my coconuts…..?

Who doesn’t love a turban?? The delicate piece of head topiary can transform your outfit into something Carmen Miranda in a mere click of your coconuts! But it doesn’t have to be brash to be beautiful. ShopFloorWhore designer Siobhan Hogan is a design (and shopping) addict and has no desire to give up. Each collection has drawn more attention than the last, and is a current fave of Jessie J…

London Fashion Week Highlights – Day 4

Words: Katlin Siil Gone are the days when London as a fashion capital took the backseat while Paris and New York dominated the scene. Still underfunded, London nonetheless boasts some of the most remarkable talent out there, drawing from its underground roots and adapting to a demanding commercial market. Day 4 at London Fashion Week demonstrated what sets us apart – we are the capital of…

FAULT Focus: French Street Art – Le Diamant

In the first instalment of FAULT Online's series of interviews with Parisian street artists we talk to Le Diamant. “I think street art is the evolution of graffiti. We have other laws that give us freedom to do what we want” I visited 25-year-old Le Diamant, the artist known by parisians as the "the guy who puts jewelry on the street", in his shared warehouse studio in Pantin, at the…

NYFW: Marc by Marc Jacobs

The swingin' sixties silhouettes that filled the runways at both the Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton Spring/Summer 2013 shows are a thing of the past, at least where the Marc by Marc Jacobs girl is concerned. This fall, expect the streets of New York, Paris, and London to filled with fashionable young things sporting casually cool looks with silhouettes that are simultaneously mature and…

The Sober Age of Couture

Christian Dior With the Spring/Summer 2013 Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris fresh in our minds, FAULT contemplates the new sober era of Paris couture. Haute couture is fundamentally lavish and decadent by default. Catering to an audience for whom money is no object - a prerequisite in belonging to the notoriously exclusive club of couture clientele - luxury will always be a key part of its…

Get the Dita Von Teese style

Dita Von Teese, or the Queen of Burlesque as she is frequently referred to by the press, is known for one thing first and foremost: she is the woman who, in her own words, "put the tease back into striptease". With that image in mind, it may come as a surprise (to the ill-informed) to realise that von Teese actually has more than a few strings to her bow. In addition to her benchmark dancing…

Yoko Ono enters the fashion world

From contemporary art, music, activism, film-making and authorship, you would think that Yoko Ono has done it all. Wrong. At the age of almost 80, Ono has entered a new world - the fashion industry. The 52 piece menswear collection called - forthrightly - Fashion for men, is purportedly based on sketches Ono drew in 1969 as a wedding present for her late husband John Lennon. In a statement, Ono…