(Photography by Kate Rodgers for Dazed Digital)

>> I spend many a good period of time, poring over paper selections at Paperchase and then proceed to spend a fortune on a plethora of pretty papers only to find I can't actually do anything with them because of my lack of creativity.

I do realise that the title of this post sounds like a subject line in a spam email but bear with me.  Actually come to think of it, thanks for bearing with the irregular posting times (thanks to the GMT for closing the gap on the time difference...woohoo!) and the *hangs head in shame* dusty emptiness of the DIY category. 

>>... oh, right... that's it.  I should gather up my boxes and boxes of buttons, colour code them and then wack them on a collar shaped base to make some super cute shirt collars...

Ok, so I'm not about to venture into doing something like this but at the Vantan Tokyo designers presentation on Saturday in Paris, at the very least I found out about someone who has the itty bitty patience to do something like this.  The collecting, collating, sorting, arranging and sticking... makes my impatient brain whir with exhaustion already.  Kotsu Kotsu have that kind of time and patience and so these are the results...

>> Little did I know that from that talk I did at the London College of Fashion and through the magic of Twitter, the boyf and I would befriend a John Howard Little, a menswear grad from LCF that is on a mission to re-interpret the Chanel jacket.  After seeing the Coco Avant Chanel film together with our other halves, John has been researching the construction of the jacket and requested some samples from Linton Tweeds, the mill in Cumbria which has had a long standing relationship with Chanel ever since William Linton was introduced to Gabrielle Chanel in the 20s' (again, more of those kind of tidbits might have beefed up the film a bit more in my opinion...).