Words Fedora Abu

Aug 14, 2024 | port-magazine.com | Fedora Abu |Words Fedora Abu

Reinterpreting Dior’s classic cannage motifThere’s no official handbook for the fashion designer who suddenly finds themselves at the helm of a revered French haute couture house, and who must now navigate the tricky task of preserving its traditions while driving it into the future.

Jul 10, 2024 | port-magazine.com | Fedora Abu |Words Fedora Abu

Faithful new additions to the Coco Crush lineIt always goes back to Gabrielle. The notes of a fragrance. The shades of an eyeshadow quad. The way a tweed jacket falls. Look closely enough and you’ll notice how each Chanel creation bears some reference to its founder’s incredible life story, her deliciously witty maxims on style, her trailblazing work.

Jan 23, 2024 | port-magazine.com | Fedora Abu |Words Fedora Abu

A conversation with Harris Elliott, one of the curators behind The Missing Thread, Somerset House’s blockbuster exhibition on Black British fashionAs a seasoned curator, Harris Elliott is well aware that staging an exhibition typically means pouring months – sometimes years – of work into something that is ultimately transient. Still, when The Missing Thread, the show he helped mastermind for Somerset House last autumn, shut up shop in early January, it was an especially poignant moment.