Archive: March 2009

Earth Hour: lights out for darker skies

Turn to the dark side tomorrow for WWF’s Earth Hour.  At 8.30pm on Saturday March 28th, people, businesses and iconic landmarks around the world (including Nelson’s Column, Canary Wharf and the Royal Albert Hall) are set go back to black for 60 minutes as they switch off their lights.
The event marks the start of the [...]

Interview: Julia Smith

Julia Smith is an up and coming designer on the British fashion scene and a Future 100 young entrepreneur.  She showcased her autumn/winter 09/10 collection with Vauxhall Fashion Scout at London Fashion Week 2009.  Her capsule collection, Made in Africa, is currently in Topshop’s Oxford Circus Store.

How was your first show at London Fashion Week?
It [...]

Building a green future

I wasn’t expecting Ecobuild to be quite so large.  Ecobuild is a whole Earl’s Court-full exhibition devoted to green building.  And a surprising amount of it was about windows.
I was hoping that I would be blown away by some new developments, but I can’t say I was.  However, there was a lot of practical and [...]