Interview

Chic Chats #26 – When being an Outsider is sustainable…

Never feel that the small changes you make don’t mean something, if we all make changes, we will contribute to a better future. This is not only a fashion industry problem, we need to look at the way humans interact with our planet as a whole.  This requires joined up thinking... [...]
Fashion

An evening with Clare Press and Fashion Roundtable

As sustainability continues to remain on the top of the fashion industry’s agenda, this Lawfully Chic writer recently attended a Q&A and Workshop Evening with Clare Press (presenter of the Wardrobe Crisis podcast, Global Ambassador [...]
Art

Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life

Sixteen years after The Weather Project graced the Turbine Hall and proved to be one of the most popular immersive art shows ever, Olafur Eliasson’s work is drawing crowds to Tate Modern with another “unmissable” [...]
Interview

An interview with…Suzi Sendama and Steve Rowe for DAKS

Steve Rowe and Suzi Sendama were interviewed by DAKS as part of their 'An interview with…' series and photographed in some of their latest collection. [...]
Fashion

South African fashion start-up Utamu promotes universal education

Utamu celebrates craftsmanship and supports children’s education, simultaneously; when you buy an Utamu jacket, you're sponsoring a term of English and Maths lessons for a young person in Masiphumelele, a small community in South Africa where more than 40,000 people live disadvantaged and poor by the legacy of apartheid. [...]
Fashion

Bespoke. Printed. Organic. Handmade. It’s Doc Cotton.

What if there were a marketplace for sustainable fashion that provided an innovative way of purchasing sustainably and ethically made clothes by independent designers? That’s what Doc Cotton are offering. A sustainable fashion brand all [...]
Fashion

Underwear that’s (not) just for Y.O.U.

It’s hard to start a blog this way without smiling, but: imagine having no underwear on. No, seriously. I mean it. Imagine that you didn’t have any underwear at all. Because, well… you literally didn’t [...]

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Chic Chats #26 – Akamae

New York entrepreneur Cara Boccieri is committed to freedom, both the cultivation and the promotion of it. She founded Akamae in 2014 with the explicit aim of transforming the fashion industry by co-creating high-end fashion [...]
Luxury | Travel

Agriturismo to Know (Part I)

With humble roots in traditional Italian farming, agriturismo or agrotourism (‘agriculture’ plus ‘tourism’) is now a fast-growing global movement.  For some guests it’s about authentically experiencing different cultures and knowing they’re giving back to the [...]
Luxury

Walpole Brands of Tomorrow 2019: STOW and Desmond & Dempsey

Lawfully Chic takes a look at two of the winners of the accolade, Walpole 2019 Brands of Tomorrow. [...]
Art

Jo Spence & Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies

“I keep thinking about the intimate and vulnerable tone of the work and it being hosted in this large institution that has huge audiences. For me this is where the politics are situated: between the [...]
Luxury

Walpole 2019 Brand of Tomorrow: The Restory

It’s not hard to see why The Restory has been named by Walpole as one of their 2019 Brands of Tomorrow and by Farfetch as part of the inaugural cohort for its Dream Assembly programme. [...]
Fashion

Made in Mexico – The New Must-Watch Fashion Documentary

The ‘Peace Corps of fashion’, Remake, recently premiered their latest short film in London and anyone who buys clothes really should see it.’Made in Mexico’ follows Amanda Hearst, activist and co-founder of Maison de Mode, [...]