el 05/09/2026 el 05/09/2026

resources for sustainability in fashion

Celebrating emotional connections to clothes

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SHORTFORM

This article about the magic of curation in a world of resellers growing by 3 times all over the world.

https://fashionjournal.com.au/pre-loved/pre-loved-fashion-curation/

LONGFORM

LISTEN TO

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eileen-fisher-reflects-on-35-years-of-implementing/id1225204588?i=1000459521126

el 20/10/2025 el 20/10/2025

Anais Nin

The Anais Thong. Delicate. Sensual. Un-tie them and enjoy.

Anais Nin is the key to sensuality.

She is the answer when you no longer feel erotic.

In a world where SEX SELLS and is quite literally everywhere - the erotic gets lost. I know I need words to tap into the erotic and that’s where Anais comes in. Her short stories are beautiful. And her erotica is smutty. She had a long love affair with Henry Miller, another writer, and their letters to one another circulate instagram posts about passion. If it’s not Henry Miller love note level obsession, I don’t want it.

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.”

— Anais Nin

I encourage you to read some Anais. There is a short story about a mouse in Under a Glass Bell that I adore. Henry and June is sexy and steamy. Her diaries feel naughty to read but so inspiring. Little Birds was adapted to quite a bad Sky Atlantic show with Juno Temple in it. The only redeeming quality was the performance by Yumna Marwan who is so hot playing a Berber sex worker with traditional tattoos and gold teeth.

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ELI-ROSE in the Cubs bra in black bamboo and the Anais Thong

INSPO FOR MONDAY MORNING AND SOME FURTHER READING ON DESIRE: SUBSTACK CALLED ASK A SUB: **Thirst Inventory #6: Femcel**

el 01/10/2025 el 01/10/2025

The macfies from colonsay

KILTS KILTS KILTS ! COME GET YOUR BESPOKE KILTS! NOT A SINGLE ONE IS THE SAME!

THEY ARE TIMELESS. A CLASSIC. LOOK CHIC WHEN YOU ARE 5 OR 55. AGE IS NO PROBLEM.

NOT A PROBLEM WHATEVER SIZE YOUR BUM IS. OR YOUR LEGS (WE CAN HEM IT TO THE CORRECT SIZE).

AND AS A COLD PERSON - THEY CAN BE USEFUL TO DOUBLE UP AS A BLANKET SO YOU DON’T FREEZE YOUR BUM OFF WHILE SITTING IN THE PUB GARDEN…

I would feel as though I was colonising the kilt if I didn’t come from Scottish lineage. The Macfies were from Colonsay, an island in the inner hebrides.

Their clan tartan is a bit christmassy for my liking. Red with green running through it. I wish it were more glamourous - or just less trad.

But maybe that’s what I get for being a festive-born Capricorn.

MY FAMILY CAME FROM COLONSAY DOWN TO GLASGOW THEN DOWN TO LONDON THEN DOWN TO BRIGHTON.

THE ROUTES ARE CONFUSING BUT I DO FEEL A LITTLE CONNECTED TO MY SCOTTISH ROOTS.

I’VE BEEN TO THE HEBRIDES ONCE - SO BEAUTY - MUCH SPACE FOR THOUGHTS TO ROAM.

WATCH THIS REEL IF YOU WANNA SMILE AND LEARN ABOUT HOW THE OG’S WORE THEIR KILTS.

HEAD OVER TO THE SHOP TO ENQUIRE ABOUT A CUTOM KILT IF YOU WANT MWAH KISS. THIS COULD BE YOU >>>

el 23/09/2025 el 23/09/2025

“ I’m a woman except for the days when i’m a man ”

Lorde’s style inspiration for my summer looks.

At the beginning of the summer I saw Lorde’s image completely rebranded. I don’t know if it was even a rebrand, I just felt the vibe was different to what I knew of her before - which was a curly haired teen pop star singing *Royals*. I was hooked. This was different. White shirt - this made me think of my school uniform ( *hello romantic nostalgia brain* ). We would wear funky bras or slutty bikinis underneath our school shirts so that in the summer we could whip them off and go straight to Tooting Common to smoke cigs and flirt with boys. Or we’d go and jump in at the deep end of the Lido. Running down the multi-coloured wooden slatted changing rooms in our Primark ballet pumps and spine altering book filled shoulder bags. School skirts rolled up. Big sunnies. **Coming of age movie soundtrack** playing through the iPod classic but *specifically* set in South London.
The jeans the jeans lordey Lorde they are good. They remind me of the kind of jeans my dad would bring back from the charity shop every week (I know where I get my second hand shopping habits from…). 90s blue wash. Perfect for hanging your trinkets on.
Anyway I just saw these pictures and was like, yeah, somethings different, I like what I seeeeee. Then I started digging. Listening to all the interviews and reading all the Lorde segments. I must admit I only listened to the album once. I’ll give it another go. Sue me i’m, culturally, a bad gay. Pop has never been my yum. But, what I rate about Lorde, is how she’s brought gender expression nuance into the public realm. Obviously she’s not the first queer person in pop. And she’s still a skinny, white, cis woman (*groundbreaking*), but there is something quite magic about how she talks about gender - especially in her interview with Bella Freud.

In the interview on Fashion Neurosis (which has some really great interviews on it - some favourites being Honey Dijon, Alex Consani and John Cooper Clark) - Lorde talks a lot about her relationship to her body, especially her journey post ED through MDMA therapy and a lot of spiritual deep diving into how we can become embodied.

“i’m gonna be in this body for the rest of my life.. .”

I’ve been lucky that during my lifetime of getting dressed myself, my gender, and using clothes to express that, has been a site of joy. When I was a kid I refused to wear the dresses my mum made for me and my sister because I wanted to look like a little sk8r (thanks to the influence of Avril Lavigne and perhaps a deep inner queerness). As a grown woman my femininity has been something that I play with - often mirroring ways of dressing shown to me by my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother - a kind of style that is timeless and lives in reference pictures from our family albums. Even when I dip into trends or my masculinity, I try and mix it with something timeless and innate to the women that have paved the way for me.

I mean, sometimes i’m like eurgh this outfit would look so much better if I didn’t have boobs but I think thats poison from high fashion rather than my brain….

For many people I love, dressing can be frustrating. And I watch as I see a battle often of gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. It brings up stress and self doubt and I wish I could fix it with a plaster and a magic spell and show them how the beauty radiates from within. But sometimes clothes aren’t as easy for everyone, and I know as a skinny woman things are a lot simpler unfortunately for me. The world is built for (some feminist literature would say controlled and monitored) small bodies. I kind of agree with some of these feminist theories - if i’m small and weak and hungry I cannot revolt against the injustices.

Anyway - off topic but I know that when I was depressed and a bit aimless after my dad died when I was in my early twenties, what I found empowering was getting dressed in clothes that made me feel powerful and consequently learning to make them. Experimenting, cutting things up, having fun with your clothes ultimately makes every day far less monotonous.

EL BRAS LORDE BIKINI

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In a piece about her in Dazed it sites some of the writers that she took great influence. Books like Annie Ernaux’s The Years (which I’ve written about in my substack), Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom (I highly recommend any queer woman to read The Argonauts and Bluets) and Joan Didion (obvs) have all influenced Lorde’s way of thinking about her relationship to her body and I feel like it comes out in her fashion sense.

She also talks about watching Stop Making Sense and the affect David Byrne has on her. I remember the first time I saw Stop Making Sense. It was in my ex’s room and he was showing me and his housemate - a drummer from Ibiza - the iconic film repeatedly saying ‘I can’t believe you’ve never seen this!!!” . We sat on his bed smoking weed and staring up at David Byrne’s spot-lit face. For an hour and a half I remember feeling like I was having a religious experience. Lorde talks about this feeling. David Byrne’s purity. His soul that shines through his box-y shoulder pads and frantic dance movements. We all need to connect to the soul that shines through ourselves and adorn ourselves in whatever our iconic suit equivalent is…

Watch the full interview here and watch STOP MAKING SENSE anywhere! Do it do it! A gig from the comfort of your own home, yes please.

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el 19/06/2019 el 19/06/2019

Pippy’s All Grown Up - The Making of the COCO Collection

The making and inspiration behind the COCO COLLECTION in collaboration with Fai West.

When I first started making my garter tops, there was something so playful about them. When I went out dancing wearing it, the metal clips bouncing around my hips gave me a little buzz. I immediately thought what ELSE can I hang off these metal rings. Then I took to instagram to find some indi keyrings makers and hence Fai came into my life!

When I saw Fai’s keychains (Fai’s from the US so keychains only feels right) - but they are so much more than that…. each key chain is a little world, a story of it’s own. I fell in LOVE. The perfect accompaniment to idle hands that need something to twist and bop and flick hehe.

I’'m a collector of trinkets. They live on doorframes and adorn every empty surface in my flat. They live on shells and in tiny boxes. Fai’s creations made from found objects, recycled toys and various locks and keys felt like the perfect accompaniment to my mission of using dead stock fabrics and making magic out of what already exists.

The inspiration for the new collection was part grunge - part Pippy Longstocking. I wanted it to be playful and silly, while also continuing the themes of punk, DIY culture, and community. My mood board is a lot of trinkets and toys, safety pins, stripes, Chloe (obvs), punk, fishnets, knits and general bits and bobs.

Another big influence is my silly parents who I don’t stop banging on about (in my Substack). They met in Brighton when they were teenagers. My dad was an Elm Grove boy and my mum a Ditchling Road girl. Mum was a child genius. And a rebel. And apparently a little devil child when she was a babe- laughing herself to sleep at night. She’s always done things her own way - maybe why I am like I am today. When she was at Cambridge studying medicine she decided to have a baby at 21. Dad was at Lancaster University. He’d come down and push my sister over the cobbled streets to make her stop her own devilish wails. They were punks, but of the folk variety. My dad strumming all manor of strings for the Southern folk rock bands : Levellers, The Sheep Are Nervous, many others that aren’t in my 9am brain. Rebels and anarchists having a baby at that time is quite punk.

My dad’s uniform - tiny Addidas shorts and band tees. My mums pink stripes and a lot of black. My daily uniform is a lot of black - as is my core collectionso I thought with this new collection I’d take inspiration from these images of my parents (and my mums extensive sock collection today).

So please enjoy the COCO collection - my mums nickname [short for Claudine - but pronounced kuh-kuh]. Full of stripes and playfulness and childhood fantasy. I’m feeling nostalgic right now, maybe it’s the season? So I give you bodysuits for layering and shorts for lounging, paired with keychains by Fai for playing with!