2023-09-01
49 分钟As September arrives and the leaves begin to turn gold, we cosy up at Manzi’s, a revived icon in Soho, London. We also pay a visit to the studio of fashion label Elliss, known for its graphic prints, unique silhouettes and sustainable credentials, and meet author Kelechi Okafor to talk about her debut book ‘Edge of Here’. Plus: a love letter to figs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
There's a new pencil case feeling to this edition of Confect Corner.
As the leaves turn from green to brown and a chill creeps into the air.
We're back from the beach and discussing the plans and projects that will define autumn.
We'll debut a new novel for you to read by the fire.
We'll pull up a chair in a new restaurant in London, Soho, that is a revival of a much loved seafood gem that indulged indulgence guests with an interior that embraces sumptuous maximalism.
We'll speak to a fashion designer about creating sustainable pieces that will become cornerstone of your wardrobe and not your carbon footprint.
And we'll celebrate the humble fig as the unsung hero of autumn.
This is Confect Corner, and I'm your host, Sophie Grove.
I started creating these kind of silk transparent dresses, kind of using figurative elements.
I was cutting them at the bias, which means you basically cut the fabric at a diagonal to give it a really beautiful dress.
But also I wanted to include a lot of panels to the pattern cutter's display.
I like the idea that you would pull the different figurative elements into these different panels and you could use the panels as this kind of canvas for a piece of art.
It was quite a colorful space, you know, in more ways than one, in so much as it was full of very sort of whimsical, playful, chintzy designs, you know, from red gingham tablecloths to fishing net stripes over the walls to a gold Poseidon statue in there.
And it would encourage and attract everybody from passing tourists to local media executives having power lunches to people having sort of, you know, illicit affairs.
Societally speaking, sci fi has seemed like a domain for men.
But then I think to somebody like Octavia Butler, who was very much a science fiction author, a black woman, and my favorite book of all time, wild Seed.
She plays with so many different things and so many different stories as we go through this world with her.
And I think I kind of took the lead from there that the story is very much like my myself.
You can't really categorize me.
I'm worldly and otherworldly all at the same time.