Posts Tagged ‘Fashion’
Legendary designer Katharine Hamnett backs Oxfam’s Secondhand September campaign
Hamnett visited her local branch in Dalston to support the charity’s #SecondHandSeptember drive
Read More‘You take the highs with the lows’: London’s ‘only Black-led high street vintage shop’ celebrates 10 years in Hackney
The Citizen catches up with Rekindled owner Jackie Dacres as she looks back at a decade on Well Street
Read More‘What we create has consequences’: Teenagers to be trained up in sustainable fashion as studio launches workshops in East London
CQ Studio to run programme in Poplar to prepare young people for jobs in eco-friendly fashion
Read MoreNatural dye studio in Hackney teams up with underwear firm to create ‘soil to soil’ pants – with crowdfunder to start soon
Wick-based Cordwainers Grow is working with Little Black Pants Club to roll out sustainable knickers across the UK
Read MoreOne month until Africa Utopia comes to the Southbank Centre – check out the full programme
The festival runs from 19 – 22 July, features music, talks, food and fashion, and is headlined by Malian husband-and-wife hitmakers Amadou & Mariam
Read MorePawnography: Hackney Chess Club turn unlikely fashion icons for Korean clothing brand CHANCECHANCE
Photographer Wendy Huynh decked the club out in coats and tops from the Seoul-based company’s Winter collection, for a Stoke Newington fashion shoot
Read MoreWear the Walk in Hackney Central offers blockbuster fashion – to rent
Seconds from the behemoth fashion brands of Hackney Walk lies a new, subscription-based kind of clothing outlet, masterminded by 26-year-old entrepreneur Zoe Partridge
Read MoreLondon Queer Fashion Show to serve looks ‘for the people that believe in unique identity’
Six designers will be showing off collections at Hackney Showroom this time next week, Wednesday 20 September
Read MoreMeet the man monkeying around with 1970s T-shirt transfers
Andrew Rutland runs Let It Gibbon, a stall that allows people to cut and paste their selection of authentically retro decals onto their own unique shirt
Read MoreShed: Haggerston’s home of creativity opens its doors
Offering affordable desk space, photography studios and event spaces, Shed houses some of East London’s most exciting businesses
Read More‘Designer fashion hub’ to open in Hackney Walk
Development under railway arches will house leading brands Nike and Joseph and provide 450 local retail jobs
Read MoreJean Paul Gaultier exhibition to open at the Barbican
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk is the first major exhibition to focus on the cult couturier and fashion icon
Read MoreNew styles for the new year at London Fashion Week
East End brands are top of the class yet again
Read MoreEerily well dressed men
Interview with designer and Hackney resident Katie Eary – a rising star in men’s fashion
Read MoreFun and feminine – London Fashion Week autumn / winter 2013
East London designers stood out in the run up to autumn/winter 2013 at London Fashion Week
Read MoreNasir Mazhar – Eastern peaks
The Hackney Citizen speaks to East London milliner and king of re-worked sportswear, Nasir Mazhar
Read MoreEast London gets set for creative Christmas
East London advances towards Christmas with a flourish of inventive shopping opportunities
Read MoreDalston Darlings to hold fashion fundraiser for women’s anti-violence charity
Dalston branch of Women’s Institute to host chic clothing sale at Brithdays in aid of the nia project
Read MorePaper Dress to celebrate boutique birthday with charity bash
Vintage retailer plans paper clothes auction to celebrate five years in business
Read MoreHackney designers are toast of London Fashion Week
The borough basks in the success of another inspiring London Fashion Week as East End designers set the bar high
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