Halloween, or Oíche Shamhna in Irish, is the eve before the day of the dead when a fissure opens between their world and ours ––if you’re very lucky you can even get a photo of them: caught this one in the garden this morning ––said she was an accountant in our world, but now that she’s dead she’s decided to let her hair down ––you go girl!!!
FOUNDATION FASHION AWARD 2001 20 years ago today I won the Foundation Fashion Award. It was created to help designers get a leg up in the fashion industry. The theme was a poem by Patrick Kavanagh: An d over that potato-field A lazy veil of woven sun, Dandelions growing on headlands, showing Their unloved hearts to everyone. It was judged by Peter O’Brien who said: “The winner is the person who most thought about every aspect of the design process: from the labels, to how they presented the poem to the judges, to accessories they used on the catwalk...” With the proceeds I set up “Joanna London” and in case you were wondering ––yes, I was extremely happy to have won...