Fur Coat, No Knickers

I know you’ll have seen these already if you a) have eyes and b) have been near a computer in the last week, but seeing as they’re THE BEST THINGS I’VE EVER SEEN, here they are again.

Opening Ceremony has teamed up with director Spike Jonze to create a faux-fur-heavy capsule collection inspired by his upcoming adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. Max and all his pals are represented in the range with dresses, skirts, jackets and, obv, a Max playsuit. Ideally I’ll receive the entire collection in time for the film’s UK release, but if not I can hang on ’til Christmas. Quite like the idea of wearing a woolly wolf suit while stuffing myself with pigs in blankets and mash. Actually, I’d like that more than anything in the world.

Where The Wild Things Are x Opening Ceremony is available to buy online and in store now. Alas, the range starts at $220, but if you work that out into years of sheer joy per wear, it basically costs a quid.

(L-R: Isabelle T, Kate Doodles)

I know you’ll have all seen this already – the internet is a small place, right? Still, if one person sees this that hasn’t already, that’s a bonus boner. What I Wore Today: The Drawn Edition, is about ten billion times better than WIWT, photo snoresville. WIWT has always been fun (and still is), but these days (oh get me, old timer) there’s soooooooooooooooooo much bumf to filter through.

What I Wore Today in drawn form is amazing and perfect for those who don’t feel so confident balancing their camera atop their dresser, standing on their bed, and hoping for the best. Creator Gemma Correll has a great style – both in fashion and illustration – and I hope her dream of turning the Flickr pool into a book comes to fruition. Oh and it goes without saying that there are obviously bonus points for pug inclusion. Awesome skillz Gemma!

If anything was gonna tempt me back to the now alien world of trousers, it would be these. They balance perilously on the fine line between awesome and yoga teacher called Bridget (hiya Twin) at climate camp wearing a pendant and some of these.

I like how you have a cosmos just casually bursting out of your crotch.

Risto, Silk Galaxy Pants, $684 @ Assembly New York via knightcat

Archive Vintage has long been one of my favourite sites to while away lunchtimes. Doing vintage online tends to fall into one of two categories: C&A bumf from the 90s or amazing high end stuff that costs so much you might as well just buy it new. Archive manages to straddle the two really well with a well curated selection of designer bits and bobs at reasonable rates and cheaper pieces that aren’t made out of 150% polyester. Top of my pretend wishlist right now are the Moschino smiley purse ($325) and Chanel dress ($1,050) which I’m convinced is the most perfect frock I’ve seen in months.

Anyway, the point of all this was to tell you that Archive have a new addition to the site… The Back Room. Oooooh. Aaaaah. The pieces on offer here are just as nice as the main site but waaaaaay way cheaper. It’s still not charity shop cheap, but TBH I find it pretty rare to find any vintage online that’s actually reasonable priced and still appealing. My two favourite things are this KISS bandana ($22) which would be a welcome addition to my collection and this totally awesome devil charm bracelet ($22) which I would be buying right about now if I wore bracelets. I have one studded gold band that I wear every day pretty much, but other than that I’m not a bracelet wearer. I find they get in the way of my typing and, let’s be honest, typing is the most important thing in my day to day life.

Shop ARCHIVE VINTAGE NOW… I actively encourage it.

I haven’t really had chance to reflect properly (I think that means ‘blog’) on the sad loss of Ellie Greenwich yet. I have had time to write about dresses and hair and stuff obv but not this… ugh I know, I know. I just hate doing these entries because you kind of think, ‘what’s the point?’ but then… I was just Wikipedia-ing Ellie to see how old she was when she passed and the opening paragraph of the entry made me smile;

“She wrote or co-wrote “Be My Baby”, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”, “Da Doo Ron Ron”, “Leader of the Pack”, and “River Deep, Mountain High”, among many others.”

Those five songs are all in my top ten tunes ever, so I guess it’s only right I say how sad I am about this news. I love Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) so much that I listen to it year-round (shh). The whole Greenwich/Barry/Spector era is just so important to me that I do feel the need to put something down, even if it is just a small rambling paragraph and a badass pictures.

You can read a list of her song-writing credits here – it’s pretty spectacular.