What is their to say about Christopher Kane’s resort collection that hasn’t been said already? It’s shit? That probably the only thing anyone hasn’t said, and, well… it’s an untruth.
I would wear every ounce of this collection, from the pink lamé ballgown to the Slimer shoes and that trademark Kane lace. It’s a triumph and a glory and all sorts of other hyperbolic adjectives.
JUST LOOK AT IT!
If you want to look more like Abbey Lee Kershaw – and let’s face it, who doesn’t? – you’ll be pleased to note that her Ksubi Bellatrix sunglasses are now available to purchase. I love a round spectacle, but some of them remind me too much of the rainbow mirrored lens ‘John Lennon’ glasses that I begged my my mum for as a a teenager. Worn my velvet bucket hat, cord waistcoat and floral maxi skirt, it’s safe to saw I looked pretty awful.
These glasses are chunky enough and dark enough to bypass that look entirely, and if you’res still not convinced the Carina model (above) is a chunky glittery plastic cat eye shape and no-one can argue with that.
See Eye Respect for more of Ksubi’s eyewear collection!
Hair supremo Daniel Hersheson has had a blow-dry bar in Topshop for a while now but his latest service for summer is something pretty neat. For £60 you’ll get your barnet washed, dried and styled with a clip-in pony to take away and treasure. Once sullied by a WAGgish reputation, clip-in ponytails these days are fantastic quality, last forever if you look after them (store them in a silk stocking!) and most importantly look realistic.
There’s a choice of short flirty 50s styles, plaited braids à la Wang and, my personal favourite, the Blake Lively-esque, Rapunzel-ish, long waved pony.
Just one complaint… Why the lack of red pieces? Having been in the hair biz for about five years now – five years which have seen red hair become massively popular – I still struggle to find red extensions in the same array of shades as blondes and brunettes. Harumph.
A matte black toothbrush.
This is EXACTLY the kind of shit I want to spend my money on, along with my Diptyque Baies Noire candles and Tom Ford Black Orchid.
From Oak, which is one of my favourite New York shops - via Refinery 29.
John Currin is a bit creepy at times, but this 2002 painting – which just so happens to be called Rachel in Fur, is pretty neat.
Shame he spelt Rachael wrong - embarrassing! – but I’ll let him off. I found this picture in a very similar post to this one which I wrote years ago. As I mentioned, I’ve been uploading all sorts of old posts — which you can see on the right. Unfortunately I forgot I deleted my entire ~Photobucket~ so lots of the posts made no sense and were deleted. But some worked, eh, and you can see them in the archives.
New Barbour Liddesdale jacket from the My-Wardrobe sale. I was having a bad day/It was £30/I wanted a new coat… ?
Really satisfied with the purple/pink colour combo, which is even extended to the secret pocket.
Feels a bit like I should be riding a pony decked out in Katie Price’s pink horse-gear, but there you go, that’s my taste.
Worn with old faithful H&M dress, old faithful M&S belt and Mawi necklace from Cocosa.
Love her or loathe her, I think most people working in the fashion and beauty industry are at least a teeny bit grateful to Lady Gaga.
Sure, she might be at saturation point, but before Gaga A-list celebrities had very much reached a plateau of beautiful beige blow-dries, bandage dresses and artful nude lip/smoky eye makeup combos.
On a professional level it is a bit tiring having to reference her in seemingly every article I write, but having someone colourful around has raised the game for everyone – and writing about blue wigs, telephone shaped hairpieces and clown makeup is definitely interesting.
The latest news from Gaga, as you all know, is that she will be wearing exclusively Versace for the next two months after Donatella opened up the label’s archives especially for her.
This outfit is slightly OTT I suppose, but is also timely following today’s news that Versace are set to release a line for H&M.
A lot of people seem entirely uninterested, but Gaga’s outfit here is like s capsule reminder of everything I love about Versace as a label and hope to see in the collaboration; print, gold and colour. To the power of ten.
Forget Joan, Betty and Peggy – and even Rachel – I think it’s safe to say that Sally Draper was the best female character in Mad Men. She might have to deal with a bitch of a mom, a creep of a boyfriend and an absentee father but she (pretty much) always had a happy smile and an awesome comeback to Betty’s bad attitude - e.g. “He left because you’re stupid and mean.”
The actress that plays Sally, Kiernan Shipka, doesn’t seem to have been too traumatised by her time on the show as this feature on the Covetuer shows. She may be 12-years-old, but her walk-in wardrobe of prom dresses and big hair accessories has universal appeal – well, amongst a certain sector of society that I include myself in, anyway.
Kiernan also wins points for her anal approach to wardrobe organisation – which actually suggests that perhaps Betty got to her slightly: “I organize things by clothing type and by season… I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can’t find anything. I like it to be as organised as can be.”
See the rest of the feature and loads more pictures at the Coveteur!
Considering the amount of things bloggers disagree on… I don’t think I’ve seen anyone yet that hasn’t been all over the Celine 2012 Resort collection.
For what it’s worth; sheer pleated midis, cerise, drop waists, big cuffs, gold chains, teenage hair, happy days.
In my ongoing bid to buy up all of the SS 2009 Luella collection, here’s a skirt I bought yesterday. Fucking love orange.
The observant amongst you may have noticed that I’m wearing it back to front. I think it looks better this way, more bow for your buck this way.
A couple of months ago a reader asked me for advice on vintage shopping in my hometown of Sheffield. I finally returned to the motherland this weekend and took the opportunity to do a bit of shopping… all in the name of research. Sorry for the shit pictures, people in Sheffield seemingly get weirded out [...]
Hi guys! This page got deleted when I moved over from my old blog but after some extraction work down at the coal face, it’s back in its rightful home. This guide is now… several years old so undoubtedly some stuff is out of date and I guess a lot of places will have closed. [...]
