Zing Tsjeng is a journalist and the author of the Forgotten Women book series, and host of the podcast United Kingdom where she explores British identity. This month to mark London Fashion Week we have been celebrating British style on Who What Wear, from our favourite designers to little-known brands. Here Zing writes about how moving to London from Singapore over a decade ago impacted how she gets dressed and what London style means to her.
The first month I moved to London aged 16, I visited Camden Market and wound up trying on a latex nurse costume. “Look!” I said triumphantly to my uncle, who was chaperoning me around London as a kind of sexagenarian tour guide, yanking aside the changing room curtain of a grotty Camden clothes shop. It was the kind of all-come all-served place that sells army boots to gabber fans, fingerless lace gloves to goths and patchouli incense sticks to hippies. “It fits great!”
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Limerick s Hunt Museum celebrates the centenary of fashion designer Sybil Connolly
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Born on the January 24 1921, Sybil Connolly was an innovator, an influencer, an entrepreneur in the world of fashion and design and in this centenary year of her birth the Hunt Museum will release a series of Instagram stories looking at her techniques, colours, patterns, entrepreneurism and influencer skills. We will add to the sum of knowledge about her via our wiki-commons contributions, hold kids clubs to make her wallpapers and textiles, and have some open conservation sessions 2 on some of design pieces we hold in our Sybil Connolly Collection, the largest in the world, bequeathed to us by her nephew, John Connolly.