{"id":3724,"date":"2011-12-08T10:19:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T10:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2011-12-08T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:43:28","slug":"designer-interview-james-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2011\/12\/08\/designer-interview-james-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Interview: James Long"},"content":{"rendered":"
We pin down James Long, a designer who made his name under Virginia Wates in New York City. Starting his own label after graduating from the Royal College of Art, Long has since developed a distinctive brand, which he has described as “strong, bold directional menswear.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We pin down James Long, a designer who made his name under Virginia Wates in New York City. Starting his own label after graduating from the Royal College of Art, Long has since developed a distinctive brand, which he has described as “strong, bold directional menswear.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9418],"tags":[550,1370,1368,1226,1373,1369,1372,1371],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nWho<\/strong>: James Long
\nLabel<\/strong>: James Long
\nHow did your fashion career start<\/strong>: Lulu Kennedy’s Fashion East Man show.
\nWhat are you most excited about at the moment<\/strong>: Kamodo dragons and John
\nMaus.
\nDo you have a daily uniform<\/strong>: I love to wear a cozy cashmere jumper, a
\nsparkly sock and my moscot sunglasses.
\nWho is your right hand wo\/man<\/strong>: Charlotte Long my sister and Samantha
\nTwyford – I have two right arms.
\nWhat could you not live without<\/strong>: Friends, documentaries about animals,
\nand New York.
\nIf you hadn’t become a designer what do you think you’d be doing now?<\/strong> I’m not sure what else I would do, but it would be somewhere warm and sunny.<\/p>\n