Before Gareth Pugh was Gareth Pugh, he was faced with a choice: to study sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art or enter the legendary fashion program at Central Saint Martins. As you know, Pugh chose fashion. But in the years since, the designer has made a routine of conflating art and fashion, to [...]

“Classical music has been a long-time passion of mine, and it’s struggling to survive,” concert pianist Sugar Vendil told us last night after a sold-out concert at the Nabi Gallery in Chelsea. “I wanted to find a way to promote it to a hip, downtown crowd.” Vendil’s resulting brainchild, the Nouveau Classical Project, brings music [...]

Spadgermatazz? That’s the name Annalisa Dunn and Dorothee Hagemann gave to their Fall ‘09 Cooperative Designs collection. But what on earth does “spadgermatazz” mean? “Our friend Amy Gwatkin, ’spadgermatazz’ is the name of her blog,” explained Hagemann after the Cooperative Designs show at the Vauxhall Fashion Scout space in London’s Chelsea on Tuesday. “But it’s [...]

Central Saint Martins has developed some of the world’s great talents—Alexander McQueen, Phoebe Philo, and John Galliano, to name a few. But its runway show—one of the hottest tickets of the week—doesn’t do things traditionally. All that talent comes with a lot of noisy fans, which has turned the show into one of London’s most [...]

Since her graduation in 2007 from Central Saint Martins, a.k.a. the world’s finest fashion talent factory, Maria Francesca Pepe has inaugurated an eponymous line of jewelry that blurs the line between clothing and accessories. Her Fall 2008 lookbook features Br-”It” girl Alice Dellal in a series of seductive necklaces that play off handbag silhouettes. The [...]