The designer’s quest for timelessness

06.12.2023/06.47

In the editorial to one of our print publications—not yet at liberty to say which—I show a 2004 cover of Lucire featuring Jennifer Siebel inset in the text. It got me thinking how, when I first designed the cover, with Jon Moe’s photograph, I was aiming for a classical timelessness. Now nearly 20 years on—in […]

My 10 favourite Don Black lyrics

21.05.2021/03.50

I’ve bought Don Black’s The Sanest Guy in the Room, which is a great read—you know that it’s piqued your interest if you can do 110 pages in a single sitting. There’s more to go, and it’s entertaining learning a bit about the backgrounds to his songs, ‘Born Free’ arguably his best known. (I […]

I can finally identify with the main character in a New Zealand TV show

31.03.2021/08.36

While I care much more about when John Simm will grace our screens again (pun intended), it was hard to avoid the reality TV that gets beamed into our living rooms during prime-time. There is the disgusting Married at First Sight Australia, where I am speechless with shock that fellow Scots alumnus John Aiken appears […]

My John Barry top 10: ready when you are, J. B.

01.02.2011/03.59

What are my top 10 John Barry picks? The man had done such a variety of compositions that it’s hard to pick them out without qualifying a top 10 with genres. But for me, these stick in my mind as being the most signiﬁcant, often because they are tied to important moments in my life. […]

The music of goodbye: farewell John Barry

31.01.2011/10.47

It was with great sadness that I wrote an obit about my favourite composer, John Barry, today, and published it on the Lucire website. While Barry didn’t have to do with fashion per se, his music was often ﬁtting themes to each era. Who can write a complete history of 1960s’ music without some […]

How MG Rover mirrored the developments at Lada

02.11.2010/09.57

I still have Adam Curtis’s The Mayfair Set, a TV series charting the decline of British power and the rise of the technocracy, recorded on video cassette somewhere. I consider him someone who can see through the emperor having no clothes, and in The Mayfair Set, he certainly saw through the Empire having no clothes. […]