Tat presents the glorious detail of thrown away graphic ephemera
A treasure trove for any creative, Andy Altmann’s book is “a visual rollercoaster” through his collection of tat.
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Designer Andy Altmann is a big fan of tat. Throughout his career – notably as one of the founders of Why Not Associates, an agency which closed its doors just before the pandemic – collecting bits and bobs of graphic ephemera has been a consistent part of his practice. In fact, he can trace filing clippings all the way back to his interview for the then-named Saint Martins School of Art, choosing to present a scrapbook of his growing tat collection rather than a traditional sketchbook.
She has dressed everyone from royalty to red carpet A-listers, working her sartorial magic on high-profile figures from the Duchess of Cambridge to Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift, Gigi Hadid, Adele and Kate Winslet.
So it s unsurprising that fashion designer Jenny Packham, best known for her crystal and sequin-embellished glamorous evening wear and wedding dresses, hasn t embraced the loungewear habit during lockdown. I m not enjoying it, says the London-based designer. I like to feel quite smart. I do dress up for work every day. I don t love loungewear or casual dressing. In the summer I found it very easy. I love prints - jeans with nice shirts. In winter, I still make an effort. It s important. You have to keep things quite smart in the workplace.
Designer Jenny Packham on the return of glamour
Updated / Tuesday, 9 Mar 2021
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Designer Jenny Packham
She has dressed everyone from royalty to red carpet A-listers, working her sartorial magic on high-profile figures from the Duchess of Cambridge to Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift, Gigi Hadid, Adele and Kate Winslet.
So it’s unsurprising that fashion designer Jenny Packham, best known for her crystal and sequin-embellished glamorous evening wear and wedding dresses, hasn’t embraced the loungewear habit during lockdown. I’m not enjoying it, says the London-based designer. I like to feel quite smart. I do dress up for work every day. I don’t love loungewear or casual dressing. In the summer I found it very easy. I love prints – jeans with nice shirts. In winter, I still make an effort. It’s important. You have to keep things quite smart in the workplace.
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eÌjaÌ Vu (Iâve Been Here Before). The 1979 track by the soulful singer-songwriter Teena Marie that my husband Joe Casely-Hayford and I loved and played during late nights working in our studio says much about our life experiences with the question of race.
I wonder what Joe, who died at the beginning of 2019, would have made of this yearâs traumatic events and the subsequent demands for racial justice and systemic change. Joe was a compulsive follower of politics and current affairs, and would have been profoundly affected by the racial tragedies and the societal changes hurriedly put in place as a consequence. He would have wondered, like me, if Black people are now truly able to hope for the meaningful transitions we have waited centuries for.