McEwan is the man

"Was being Cecilia just as vivid an affair as being Briony? Did her sister also have a real self concealed behind a breaking wave, and did she spend all her time thinking about it... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's claim of life was intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance."


From Atonement, a novel by Ian McEwan.

Future of Fashion

Last week I checked out Future of Fashion, an exhibition showcasing designs by upcoming British talent. It is sponsored by Japanese fastening manufacturer YKK, a brand which is undoubtedly printed on many of the zippers in your wardrobe. The good old zipper was creatively reinterpreted by some designers.

YKK's designer Kei Kegami

 Kei Kegami

A few of my favourites

Post-Fashion apocalypse

 Urban camouflage

And the winner is

So London innit

Tinie Tempah - Pass Out

Ms Dynamite & DJ Zinc - Wile Out

A painful Howl

Watched Howl last night, a biopic about Allen Ginsberg, the Beatnik poet who helped fund Jack Kerouac's famous book On the Road. Even though the film features James Franco kissing boys and what not, I really didn't like it. Half the movie is animated recitals of Ginsberg's poems and the plot is sparse - unless you're a massively into poetry, I would say don't even bother.

Mind altering substances under the microscope

Online mag Flamingo have posted a review I wrote about the Wellcome Collection's 'High Society' exhibiton, an exploration of drugs and our twisting relationship with them through history. It is the first writing I've done for these guys and I love their site, so I'm super happy.

Check. It. Out.