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Amelia’s Compendium of Fashion Illustration launch party photos: meet Liz Johnson-Artur

We've worked together since way before the dawn of Amelia's Magazine. Meet Liz Johnson-Artur: a fabulous photographer who still shoots on film. She's answered a quick Q&A alongside the last photos from my ACOFI launch party.

Written by Amelia Gregory

Tamara Cincik and Amelia Gregory at the ACOFI launch by Liz Johnson-Artur.
Liz Johnson-Artur and myself go back a loooong way. In the days when I was interning at Arena Magazine …

Amelia’s Compendium of Fashion Illustration launch party illustrations: meet Naomi Law

Naomi Law, also known as NimLawDraws, created wonderful images of Jessica Bumpus from Vogue, Fiona of Save Our Shoes, photographer Liz Johnson-Artur, Michelle Urvall Nyren, 6 Day Riot, and Amelia's Mag fashion editors Jonno Ovans, Matt Bramford and Sally Mumby-Croft. All from images taken at the ACOFI launch.

Written by Amelia Gregory

Jessica Bumpus of Vogue gets the Naomi Law treatment. Here’s her blog in case you missed it previously.
Naomi Law has taken a rather circuitous route towards the land of fashion …

London Fashion Week S/S 2011: What’s Hot… and What’s Not.

C'mon, what will you remember from this fashion week? Liquorice ice cream? Unending bottles of Vitamin Water? Men wearing big statement jewellery? Here's my run down of what was hot... and not.

Written by Amelia Gregory

All photography by Amelia Gregory.
Every London Fashion Week has it’s own particular foibles, it’s own idiosyncrasies – and this September was no exception. So I thought I’d write up a …

London Fashion Week S/S 2011: Best of the Fashion East Menswear Installations

From Katie Eary to Christopher Raeburn, Morgan Allen Oliver to Matthew Millar - the menswear designers were out in force in the white sheds behind Somerset House on Menswear Day. Here's a little round up of my favourites…

Written by Matt Bramford

Illustration by Antonia Parker
Well, they’d really gone to town with this season’s menswear installations. Menswear Day is great, but it’s bloody hard work – you get five days to absorb …

Graduate Fashion Week: Ravensbourne

It's back to Graduate Fashion Week for a moment with a look at the Ravensbourne show - featuring a winning menswear collection and Dame Viv…

Written by Jonno Ovans

Vivienne Westwood, illustrated by Kerry Lemon
While things like free booze and miniature pies are thoroughly good perks of a fashion week, it is also completely inevitable that you somehow manage …

Graduate Fashion Week: Birmingham and Salisbury

Teddy bears and cartoon characters feature in this nostalgic penultimate show report from Graduate Fashion Week, at Birmingham and Salisbury, on Tuesday 8 June 2010

Written by Jonno Ovans

After trying to rid myself of the triffid-like water bottles by drinking them, after the Ravensbourne show, I spent most of the Birmingham and Salisbury-shared show needing the loo but …

Alexander McQueen: Genius of a Generation Book Launch

Florence Massey speaks to Kristin Knox, author of a new book which pays tribute to the late Alexander McQueen, at the signing at Material bookstore, Kingly Court

Written by Florence Massey

Illustration by Katie Harnett
After attending the Susie Bubble talk at Sketchbook’s pop up shop, I headed to Kristin Knox’s book signing, who coincidently is the magazine’s resident fashion editor. Held …

Blow Presents… An Indian Fashion Show

Blow PR present a hand-picked selection of the hottest fashion design talent from India, showcased at The Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 8th April, 2010

Written by Jonno Ovans

Little Shilpa illustration by Aniela Murphy
The first glorious day of sunshine in about a million years unavoidably lent itself to the presupposed exotic atmosphere conjured by Blow’s presentation of five …

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London Fashion Week A/W 2010 Catwalk Review: Pam Hogg

Amelia's Magazine piles into On|Off at Victoria Place, Bloomsbury Square for the Pam Hogg show, chockablock with celebrities...

Written by Jonno Ovans

We’re telling you, this Pam Hogg review nearly didn’t happen. The tickets were hierarchically graded in insidiously gradual decline from two gold stars, one gold star, silver, bronze, green, red …

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Alexander McQueen

A previous fashion editor at Amelia's magazine reflects back on his time interning at the designer's eponymous label

Written by Jonno Ovans

Alexander McQueen in 2005. Image courtesy of The Guardian, photographed by Martin Godwin
My first steps into the fashion world could not be described as tentative: in every sense I was …

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LFW 09 – Christopher Shannon – Scallies

MAN, September 23rd 2009, Somerset House

Written by Jonno Ovans

Lastly were some more home-grown designs from Christopher Shannon, who in keeping with previous collections sent out more “refined scallyism” (as he describes it) sportswear in a fresh, monochromatic colour …

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LFW 09 – JW Anderson S/S 2010 – Warriors

MAN, Somerset House, September 23rd 2009

Written by Jonno Ovans

Jonathan Anderson continued the exotic references under his label JW Anderson, who looked to the masculine arenas of basketball uniforms, New York street culture from the 70s and tribal warriors …

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LFW 09 – Katie Eary S/S 2010:  Skeletons

MAN, Somerset House, Wednesday 23rd September 2009.

Written by Jonno Ovans

Most regular joes can barely get their heads round a manbag – well, they better get ready to accessorise to within an inch of their lives because that’s what the …

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LFW 09 – Jeremy Scott S/S2010: YABBA-DABBA-DOO!

Somerset House, Tuesday 22nd 2009

Written by Jonno Ovans

Man hunt. Man kill. Man make fire. Man make… mankinis?
Well Jeremy Scott does at any rate. The pounding drums that blared out of the speakers at Scott’s S/S10 show at …

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LFW 09 Blow Presents S/S2010 : Attack of the Fembots

Royal Festival Hall, London

Written by Jonno Ovans

After witnessing a whole lot of jolly sensible fashion trends being bandied about – think short, sleek, sophisticated and feminine – we were thrilled to see a total vision of …

LFW 09 – Danielle Scutt – Big Fun

Topshop Space, Baker Street

Written by Jonno Ovans

Having bundled onto the tube being slowly crushed under the weight of my large and ancient laptop, water bottles and other accumulated fashion week paraphernalia all piled into a gargantuan …

LFW 09 – Eun Jeong – Funk Brides

Somerset House, London

Written by Jonno Ovans

So it’s the first day of London Fashion Week 2009 and beady-eyed Amelia’s Magazine have already spotted Joan Collins at the top of a ramp doing a royal wave, Boris …

Teenage Kicks

Interview: Millie Cockton

Written by Jonno Ovans

While most of us at the tender age of 19 rooted our existence in smacking down vodka jelly shots at the bar with kebabs at four in the morning and …

The Clothes Off Your Back

Make a Bag Tutorial

Written by Jonno Ovans

Amelia’s Magazine have been pals with Finnish crafty-fan Outi from brilliant trashion blog Outsapop for a while now, and Outi has sent us over a piece which is an example …

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Interview: Petra Storrs

Written by Jonno Ovans

Usually I’m loathe to talk in breathy, hero-worship tones but let’s make no bones about it, I absolutely gawked when I first encountered the work of art director Petra Storrs …