FAULT reviews: Vogue’s Fashion Night Out in Manchester
For the first time in its four-year history, Vogue Fashion's Night Out was held outside of London. The 2013 event, widely referred to by its hashtag #FNO, travelled north to Manchester, bringing with it some of the most influential figures from the world of fashion. British Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman, designer Matthew Williamson and Kate Phelan, creative director for both Topshop and…
NYFW (Sept ’13) Review: Christian Siriano SS’14 show
Isla Mujeres (the Island of Women), next to the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, was the main inspiration for Christian Siriano to design his latest SS '14 collection. This was, without a doubt, a contemporary representation of - and fashion-orientated reflection on - authentic Mexican culture, so admired for its vibrant style amongst women worldwide.
The color palette evoked the vivid…
NYFW Review (Sept ’13): Tommy Hilfiger’s SS14 ‘Westcoasting’ show
Tommy Hilfiger presented his new womenswear collection for the upcoming Spring/Summer '14 season during New York Fashion Week. The set was completely inspired by the beach: sand on the floor, wood on the runway, surfboards, blue sky and the feeling of being somewhere in California. That’s why the show started with a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers whose singer, Anthony Kiedis, was seated in the…
FAULT reviews: The Weeknd – Kiss Land
The air of secrecy surrounding Abel Tesfaye shows no sign of clearing any time soon, yet with his new album Kiss Land, the picture has become ever so slightly clearer...
The Weeknd - Kiss Land
From the moment it was first mentioned The Weeknd has been keen to show his fans that Kiss Land is more than just an album. Through his now trademark minimalistic approach to communication,…
FAULT reviews: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe ’13
The approach of August brings the Edinburgh Festival to the capital, with not only inflated prices, over-whelmed looking tourists, and pubs that open at 6am and close at 4am the next day, but also the Fringe, the largest arm of the festival. 2013 featured over 2,542 different shows, in over 258 venues, by over 21,192 performers. For four weeks of the year the city hums with activity. ‘I…
FAULT Review: Hong Kong Fashion Week
Given its unique position in Asia as the ultimate crossroads of the Orient and the Occident, we had no idea what to expect from Hong Kong Fashion Week. The thing is, beneath its surface of mixed influences that can on first impression seem excessive and over-saturated, there is a current of modernity that runs through the heart of Hong Kong and just as (if not more) importantly, there is a…
FAULT Review: Populaire
Régis Roinsard makes his feature length directorial debut in this charming, albeit predictable, French romantic comedy. Marketed as ‘Mad Men meets The Artist’, its glamorous styling does aesthetically fulfil this promise and - in the same way as when Michel Hazanavicius [director of The Artist] paid homage to the silent films of the 1920s -Roinsard’s tribute to 1950s Hollywood has also been…
FAULT Reviews: Joss Whedon’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
“But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I
was born to speak all mirth and no matter.”
The genius of Shakespeare's work, we are informed by those better-read than us, is in it's timelessness. Those lilting words resonate with universally human themes of power, life, death, love and loss. In Joss Whedon's 2013 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing we have a tale of plots and counter-plots, a war of…