claire elizabeth seah

Ursa Minor Apparel is an independent clothes shop found in Cobden Chambers (next to Bodega) in the Hockley area of the Nottingham City Centre. Impact Style chatted with the shop’s owner, Claire. Could you tell me when and why you decided to open Ursa Minor Apparel? I opened Ursa...

In this series, Impact writer, Claire Elizabeth Seah, will consider the nature of fashion in relation to other subjects. In this article, she examines the technical aspect of fashion and hypothesizes on the changes that fashion will undergo in our increasingly tech-savvy world. “The use of machines in high...

In this series, Impact writer, Claire Elizabeth Seah, will consider the nature of fashion in relation to other subjects. Beginning with politics, she shares her opinions on whether fashion and politics are really as disparate as one might assume them to be. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands recently caused...

*update: since this article has been published, it has been announced that Anthony Vaccarello will be replacing Hedi Slimane as the creative director at Saint Laurent* Hedi Slimane is leaving Saint Laurent, as officially confirmed by Kering. After four years as creative and image director of the French luxury...

Trend. It reflects the concept of being “in the moment”, temporary, fleeting. It is the antonym of timeless. Which is why it is ironic, that the word itself seems to have a permanent longevity and is unlikely to be rendered obsolete any time soon. “The very nature of trends...

  The inspiration behind this shoot was to honour my love for colours, prints and clashes. Being the first shoot I styled, I turned to the classics. The Who’s, Baba O’Riley and My Generation, The Clash’s Rock the Casbah...

Anagnorisis is the moment when a character in a play or artistic work makes a critical discovery. This would be the equivalent of a turning point or more colloquially, an “ah-ha moment”. I experienced one such moment at the end of the last term as I sat in room...