Future Sentiments

Sometimes fashion encompasses other art forms and at other times, art may encompass fashion. But often inspiration will emerge from one starting point and end up in a completely different place. Take experimental brand, Future Sentiments, for example. The line was started in Amsterdam by two architects with the objective to create smaller scale projects that could be more easily accessible to people on a personal level. The collection combines an architectural perspective with today’s onslaught of visual culture. Simple, unisex basics are designed to be interchangeable for gender and include bold visual statements such as a soft, detailed textiled carpet print on a long lamé t-shirt or a single toned gradient shift.

Different textures come into play in several of the pieces such as the Tailored Mirror T-Shirt or the Shiny Black T-Shirt which features texture blocking of black patent leather-like material on the top half and soft cotton on the bottom. Future Sentiments has also come out with issue #1 of an online magazine available for viewing on their website, Future Sentiments.

Text Tienlyn Jacobson
Source: Future Sentiments

The Only Way is Vintage

There were no promises broken, or lies told, when the good people of Clerkenwell Vintage Fashion Fair guaranteed a beautiful selection of vintage clothes, shoes, handbags, hats, gloves, textiles & jewellery this Sunday. Housing all these wonderful pieces and their fabulous collectors was the equally glorious Old Finsbury Town Hall. The charm of this setting and all of its 1885 Art Noveau charm was enough alone to justify any trek through London Town on the greyest Sunday of the wonderful winter season. Given that the vintage artifacts were as impressive as their surroundings decorative features, made for a lovely and very atmospheric glimpse at the less commercial and genuinely honest side of vintage fashions, and its lovers. Think shift dresses, floral prints, hate it or love it fur fur fur, pea collars, lace trims and golden treasure. It did indeed feel only what I can imagine opening a treasure chest in a very old attic might have felt like. For those who fancied a cuppa and also suffered sweet tooth syndrome the tea rooms were the ultimate school hall experience.  For those who may have over indulged at the cake counter the alterations room was the next stop. With the most charming hairdressing set up just on the edge of the hallway the up do's being created and cemented with hairspray indeed ensured that the starlets and gentlemen at the Clerkenwell Vintage Fair received the ultimate experience. This was the last of these fairs before the end of the year, it certainly leaves something to look forward to in the new year.  

Text Katriona Flynn