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Anna Piaggi 

Steak, Swede & Mustard Pasties

I love Dan Lepard’s recipes and when I was looking for some savoury inspiration to feature on the blog, his book [amazon_textlink asin=’0007391439′ text=’Short and Sweet’ template=’ProductLink’ store=’patimakeperf-21′ marketplace=’UK’ link_id=’a40ac730-5529-11e8-97b5-f7de68690741′] called to me from the book shelf.

It is full of so many recipes, along with different flavour suggestions for…

Matsuda

design by Itsuko ‘87 ‘88 fall & winter

design by Itsuko Nakashima, photographs by Dan Lepard

Nicole Times Publisher Mitsuhiro Matsuda vol.17 August 25th 1987

Nicole Co.Ltd, Tokyo1987

euro 90,00*n/a

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location Isle of Skye 1987

models Martine, Claire, Samantha

hair by Tim Crespin, make up by Dan Lepard

Mitsuhiro (or Hiromitsu as he is often referred to) Matsuda was born in Tokyo in 1934, to a family who owned a company that made kimonos. Matsuda followed his initial studies at Waseda University, Tokyo, with a degree in fashion design at Bunka College of Fashion, graduating in 1961.

From 1961 to 1967, Matsuda designed ready-to-wear collections for the Sanai Company, Japan, during which he spent some time traveling. In 1964 he visited Paris with university peer and fellow designer Kenzo Takada, who decided to settle in the city and build his fashion label there. Matsuda launched his own brand in 1967. Although Matsuda showed in Paris in 1970, his base was Japan, where he launched Nicole Ltd. in 1971—which became one of the most prominent brands in Japan throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1974 Matsuda became one of the founders of TD6 (Tokyo Designer Six), Tokyo, which was concerned with establishing Tokyo as a center for fashion creativity, and created Tokyo’s first official fashion week. That decade he also introduced divisions of the Nicole label: Monsieur Nicole (1974), Madame Nicole (1976), and Chambre de Nicole (1978).

While Matsuda’s romantic, often whimsical collections evoked a sense of history and explored his interest in travel and traditional textiles, there was also a practical and structural element to his designs borrowed from menswear, which reiterated the practical aesthetic of late twentieth-century clothing. The relationship between architecture and fashion would become prevalent in his subsequent fashion designs.

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Cakes & Bakes: Cornmeal loaf

Dan Lepard is probably my favourite bread & pastry baker. I’ve cut out and kept some of his recipes that were published in his long-running (now sadly ended) column in the Guardian Weekend Magazine. Luckily, they’re all still available in the Guardian’s online archive.

I’ve had his tasty cornmeal baps recipe bookmarked for a few weeks, planning to give them a go. Instead of baps,I decided to…