Windhill Journal
a fashion writer's fantasy musings
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A review of Citizen Sleeper, by Jump Over The Age
Humanity’s struggling against a hostile world that hates them stretches back to the dawn of time, further than steel, oil and machines. “Survival of the fittest,” they say, and in Citizen Sleeper’s intergalactic cyberpunk world, humans are not the only sitting on the gift of sentience. Do digital copies of human consciousnesses dream of pixel…
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A review of SIGNALIS, by rose-engine
When it comes to the polygonal PlayStation aesthetic, my rose-colored glasses are my favourite accessory, ones I’ve carried with me since my childhood JRPG experiences. Nostalgia is a powerful thing, carrying my credit card information all the way through a call to action by YouTube essayist Jacob Geller, into an assault by a PlayStation purchase…
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A review of Louis Vuitton SS2023
Creatives, be it in literature, film, videogame or fashion space, have an impossible trove of inspiration in the trenches and plains of our oceans. Classic lit writers like Herman Melville (Moby Dick) and Ernest Hemingway (The Old Man and the Sea) wax poetic on loneliness and the resolute man at sea.
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A review of Secret by Ayumi Hamasaki
By 2006, eight albums into an already illustrious career as the “Empress of J-pop,” Ayumi Hamasaki would be a priestess to the art of theatre and production value, in all its campy glory. Even Secret was initially announced to be a seven-track EP, eventually emerging as a full-length album and a well-packaged cornerstone of mid-2000’s…
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A review of We Live Inside Your Eyes by Kealan Patrick Burke
Visitations to Trinity Bellwoods’ Little Ghosts bookstore leave my wallet a little lighter, but with new literature, interred in budding a personal horror library.
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A review of Christian Dior SS2023
Maria Grazia Chiuri’s inspirations for Christian Dior’s spring/summer 2023 explores the sartorial senses of Catherine de’ Medici, an Italian-born orphan whose life took an extraordinary turn, eventually reigning as regent queen of France in the mid-1500’s and becoming the most influential woman in 16th century French politics and history.
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A review of The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
I first read Lauren Weisberger’s debut The Devil Wears Prada, published in 2003, around the time of the film adaptation’s apex in popularity. I’m fairly certain I saw the film first, then read the Weisberger’s fictionalized Vogue experience.
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A review of First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
The simian cover artwork theme in acclaimed Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s short stories collection “First Person Singular” kicked my funny bone; how ridiculous, to have a snow monkey, displaced from the hot springs it adorably frequents, look like it had forgotten one of its grocery bags back at the superstore.
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A review of BORN PINK by BLACKPINK
The main draw for me in K-Pop phenomenon BLACKPINK’s second full-length album BORN PINK is that one song that samples classical music. Franz Liszt’s “La Campanella,” famously known to be one of the hardest pieces of classical piano music around, is sampled to winsome pop effect in main single “Shut Down”.
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A review of Drakes, Menace in Venice
The debut Drakes runway show opens with a lonesome lap by a black hoodied, black Conversed apparition in Rick Genest-esque makeup, staring daggers and poised to pounce on an unsuspecting fornt row influencer.
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A review of Charles Lu, collection [1.]
Ubiquitous is the use of black and white as a medium for chic, and designer Charles Lu heeds that ubiquity in spades, as he debuts his eponymous brand’s first runway collection.
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