Author: Arch Copy

• July 31, 2020

  Ballet

  I started dancing as a sturdy little thing with an intolerance for baby ballet. I’d been imagining arabesques; I got skipping with scarves. I didn’t like children even when I was one. But I stayed with ballet for over a decade. I’ve loved it and hated it, but it’s in me. A couple of years…
• July 16, 2020

  My coven

  There are some amazing women in my life. They are doing things they didn’t think they could, making the world better and investing in themselves. Wow. Can I just? Wow. OK, so Becca has been asked to judge the D&AD entries for Graphic Design, which is MENTAL. I’ve been to D&AD several times and I…
• July 14, 2020

  Face fashion

  Masks. Are. Cool. From 24 July, we’ll all be wearing them in shops. All the silly British reluctance to do something a bit funny will be moot. You could have been wearing them all along, getting used to it and building up a facial wardrobe – but no. You had to sniff and mutter about…
• June 27, 2020

  Sartorial power

  Since lockdown, one of my best things has been two special women: Chloe, who is a long-time copybuddy, and Becca, who I’ve got close to since the world turned upside down. We are three very different women, but have so much in common and seem perfectly harmonised for a supportive circle. Triangle, I suppose. I…
• June 26, 2020

  DOING strategy

  When I started the strategy course I’ve been doing, I associated the word with complicated diagrams and a vague image of intimidating men in suits. I had always, ALWAYS got (been given) the feeling that I wasn’t the ‘right’ kind of clever for strategy. Too fluffy, too emotional – too female, basically. And that kept…