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Buchanan Galleries shopping centre is in the middle of Glasgow city centre, and the heart of a city which loves to shop. We’re home to around 90 of the best retail names, including stores which aren’t found anywhere else in Glasgow – or even Scotland.
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In the Know - October
This season black is the new black. Well, if we’re going to get pernickity, black ON black is the new black – that means, in laymans terms, layering shades and textures of black.
Once, fashion editors told us all that brown was the new black. Since then, every colour has had it’s day. This Autumn/Winter, regal purple reigns once more as the colour to be seen in – when not wearing black on black, obviously.
Back in the early part of this decade, as a rookie fashion reporter I was discpatched to London Fashion Week to report the trends. As I sat in the press room at the computer, after around four shows that morning, I prepared to send my first report back to my paper. Orange, it seemed, was up there as one of the colours from the Spring/Summer collections. But was it? Could I really be so bold as to predict this as a major trend for the new season?
Predicting a trend that will happen six months in the future is galling. As I hit the send button on my emailed report, I began my panic. What if I was completely wrong? More shows that day took my mind off it, and the following morning I rushed to the newsagents to see if I had got it right. Imagine my relief at the reports of an ‘orange’ trend in respected Fashion Editors columns in the dailies. Colour and I have always had a strange relationship.
Back in 2003, yellow was hot. By now Fashion Editor of a national daily, I appeared on Scotland Today to comment on London Fashion Week, and at the end of my slot, the lovely Louise White caught me off guard, and unprepared. It was a Patsy from Ab Fab moment. "Any final fashion tips for our viewers?" she said. "Yellow," I replied, firmly, to camera. "Everyone should wear yellow.”
Later that year, with yellow still in vogue I headed off to New York for a series of fashion shoots. One had, what else, but a Carrie Bradshaw theme. It was my chance to clash colours and really create. One shot featured a gorgeous bright yellow short coat. Back in the newsroom, my new Editor, a fan of quite horrific turquoise shirts and clashing ties, was hugely offended by yellow and insisted no matter the fashion, I do not feature it again. Since leaving said paper, I have glanced through the pages, and I have to say there isn’t much yellow to be seen – even when it’s bang on trend. But I’d bet your bottom dollar my old Editor is still wearing a fetching line in turquoise shirts...even though they’re never on trend.