Out & About : The real heroes of the Hermès Leather Forever exhibition

Unless you where hiding under a rock or were out of town, I’m sure you are aware of the Hermès Leather Forever exhibition that is currently taking place until December 13 at the ArtScience Museum. If you have not already been, I would encourage you to gallop on over to it!

THE FIFTH COLLECTION decided to make a team outing of it seeing as so many of us were chomping at the bit to go, so last Wednesday the team gathered in the morning at the Asian Civilisations Museum to start by the Little Room of Wanders

Issue 73Nejla Matam-Finn6 November 2015Culture, Leather Forever Exhibition, art, museumComment

Out & About: Savage Beauty at the Victoria & Albert Museum

I wished I could say that I have always loved Alexander McQueen. The fact of the matter is, I didn't know his work very well to have an opinion. While I do know that he was (and still is) an influential designer, I never properly understood why.

When news broke that he was found hanging in the closet of his London home many years ago, I was just a rookie fashion journalist. I knew that, like the many fashion lovers, I was to feel sad about the passing of a design genius. But why?