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I’ve been friends with Polly Bean for the past few months have fallen in love with her humour and attitude to fashion! You may have heard about the fashion week(s) scheduling nightmare (read about it in Grazia here), well while it’s causing much distress and frustration with fashion folk the world over, but particularly in London, Polly has managed to see the light side of things! See her blog on Vogue.com
On the street. In Paris. This is the most un-Paris outfit I’ve ever seen and I love her even more for that!
Photo via Glamour.co.uk
This season’s D&G show was the last of its kind as the designers plan to integrate this collection into their main Dolce & Gabanna line. So it was fitting that they went back to through the archives to dig out some old favourites. Based around the humble silk scarf, there was a hint of both Versace and Hermes throughout. The scarf was used as a base for shirts, dresses, skirts, shoes, bags and even hats.
I used to buy chunks of fabric and wrap them in different ways around my body to create cheap-ass, one-off outfits. They were such a hit that all my friends had be do them for them too. So if you don’t have D&G budget get to Hickeys or Murphy Sheehey’s or wherever you go to get fabric and make your own! No guarantee they’ll look like the above though x
Lana del Rey has that kind of smokey voice that stays with you all day. Kind of haunting, kind of sweet which is an unsettling combination. Although not a kid there’s a touch of Dominique Swain from Lolita about her. I adore how innocent and bad she looks at once-all hair, doe eyes and bee stung lips. I think she ROCKS, what do you reckon?
I’ve been a fan of the Isabel Marant Betty wedges, below, for donkies since I spotted them in Costume a couple of seasons back. What a perfect way to cheat at being tall and long limbed. They just look like the comfiest, bubbliest runners ever and then you put them on and, BAM, inside is a big old wedge to make you massive. They truly are a feat of engineering brilliance! The lego version above are from Marc by Marc for SS12 and would make you smile as soon as you slip your cheating foot inside. Just deadly…
I love Jeremy Scotts overt style of crazy. He looks like he’d be a good laugh to go drinking with. Wild and inappropriate, shouting things like “Hamish Blow-holes? Is that your name?”, speaking to Hamish Bowles, Vogues European Editor at Large, (true story, another day maybe!). He’d be wearing two-faced watches and s Jetson-style silver jacket, or a matador outfit in outrageous red. You couldn’t but laugh! The first Swatch collection was such a success (see here) that they even asked him back! New collection is available in stores now x
By the amazingly talented David Poole from Slashstroke. This is London Fashion Week in a perfect nutshell…
I didn’t say it, Minna Parikka did, although I kind of love it! I’m a total animal, I think if I actually were one I’d be Lion(ess) or a Dinosaur or maybe a really beautiful dog that gets rubbed and minded all day, everyday. And, ironically, would never have to wear heels again.
See collection here
