Boxing Project on Leica blog 24.01.12
Selvedge 24.12.11
Harris Tweed on the Leica Blog 21.12.11
My love affair with Leica continues……… I have a guest spot on their blog…….
Click on photos to see the post….
……I love Leica I really do….. xx
Rizzoli Bookstore 15.12.11
Really happy to see that my book is listed on the Rizzoli Bookstore catalogue!
Ironing Board Collective 11.12.11
Ironing Board Collective mentions Harris Tweed from land to street
The celebrated Harris Tweed orb was first used in 1911, meaning that this year officially marks the fabric’s 100th birthday. Harris tweed has been my obsession for the past few weeks, probably ever since I saw that fabulous couple in Whole Foods. And the obsession won’t stop, now that I know about Lara Platman’s new book Harris Tweed: From Land To Street.
Patrick Grant took time out from his crushingly handsome day to write the book’s foreword.
Platman spent seven months in the Outer Hebrides, photographing everyone involved in the process of making the fabric, from the sheep themselves to the spinners, weavers, and even the wool inspectors.
Manufacture & Industry 8.12.11
Boxing Bassano 5th December 2011
Here are 2 videos I have received from the OperaEstate in Bassano del Grappa. The two videos feature the Boxing Project and of course, the work that I have contributed towards it. Enjoy x
Boxing Project 29.11.11
The exhibition is now on at Leica Store Mayfair.
Contact me if you would like to come and visit the show.
Lara
Click on the photo to see full event details.
Please see www.boxingproject.wordpress.com for further information.
A suitable Wardrobe 14.11.11
Extracts from the extended review by -Réginald-Jérôme de Mans
http://asuitablewardrobe.dynend.com/2011/11/book-review-harris-tweed.html
Everything old is new again. The harrowing experiences of the past three years of economic uncertainty have reminded us of the values of the classic, of quality and heritage brands and makers. So we are told, and so we were told during the last crises in 2001. Will it last? As before, likely only as long as it takes the inexorable tide of fashion to wash back out again. And each time, this tide carries away a little bit of knowledge, of quality, it erodes the essence of what it holds dear. However, the formerly evergreen woolen Harris Tweed really has undergone a renewal against the backdrop of our reeling world. Lara Platman’s new book Harris Tweed: From Land to Street illustrates what remains of a menswear staple whose continued existence once seemed as bulletproof, unyielding and predictable as the material itself.
The Atlantic Newspaper–15.11.11
‘Harris Tweed’: The Story of the Greatest Cloth, From Land to Street
I have just seen that my book is reviewed in a newspaper over on the other side of the Atlantic
click the photos to go to see newspaper article in full
Veteran Car Run Girl Racer 9.11.11
BBC on the road with Genevieve 7.11.11
The Veteran Car run 2011 London to Brighton, Lara reports for BBC Pictures
GQ Patrick Grant 7.11.11 Harris Tweed
Today a lovely write up by Patrick Grant a contributor for GQ and the lovely chap that wrote the Foreword for my book Harris Tweed.
Read it here in GQ
Harris Tweed -Brainpickings 4.11.11
Once again the book gets a lovely review on Brainpickings. Click on the photo to see review:
GirlRacer 4.11.11 Veteran Car Run
Lara reports for Girl Racer on the preparations for the Veteran Car Run this weekend London to Brighton 2011
