Spring, spring it’s a marvelous thing. Because long skirts are in!
Goodbye for now short skirts.
This spring season we want midi, maxi and half n’ half (dipped hem).
And here are my picks, modelled by makeshift Photoshop mannequins.
I have already grabbed myself the New Look skirt and the Topshop skirt is now calling my name.
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Marc Jacob’s catwalk for New York Fashion Week yesterday was a show of large proportions. As the video below shows, the models were transformed into a marching parade of bag-ladies.
The 48-year-old designer has said to have been inspired by Jamiroquai, which I won’t argue with. But perhaps the Mad Hatter and pimps had an influence too.
The hat collection has certainly brought some hilarity to Fashion Week. I doubt it was fun for the models though. Their faces were muffled with oversized structured scarves and floppy hat brims.
It is people dressed like this that I try to avoid on the bus incase they start showing me photos of their cats. I am not sure Marc Jacob’s couture bag-lady will change my opinion.
You got to love New York Fashion Week when it produces the likes of this.
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It’s the day to impress your valentine. Not the day to freak them out so that you end up crying yourself to sleep, watching The Notebook, while clutching the dribbly remains of Ben & Jerry’s cookie dough and are lonely forever and ever, amen.
Ok, it won’t be that tragic but I am trying to match the exaggeration of Valentine’s Day.
So, as this is a blog of the fashion variety, to help you on the way to greatness I (with help from Shelley‘s face) will give you the perhaps obvious pointers of what NOT to wear on Valentine’s Day.
Clothing Item #1
Nothing says ‘I love you’ quite like a wedding dress.
But if you wear it on any day other than your wedding day, it screams LOVE ME! and I am psychotic! Imagine what would happen if you turned up to a date like this…
… Imagine no longer…
…Later that day
Clothing Item #2
It’s the perfect theme for Valentine’s right? Regrettably, no.
Cupid is so full of love on Valentine’s day that he loses all bladder and bowl control. That is the only explanation I can think of for why he is depicted in a nappy.
Oh yeah he is supposed to be a toddler. Shouldn’t he be more concerned with other things like, I don’t know, potty training?
Clothes item #3
You should wear the prettiest dress you have. Maybe something special that you don’t get to wear often.
“Hiiiii, I’m ready for my special day!”
Oh come on, it’s the most expensive piece I have ever owned and I only got to wear it ONCE! Where is the justice?
I know this guide has helped you immensely, I can see you putting your prom dress away now. You’re welcome.
Happy Valentine’s Day
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The scarflace brings two worlds of neckwear together.
Barcelona-based designers, Saako, made this fusion happen with a promising outcome in their 2011 designs. A scarflace can bring a burst of colour and layers, and let’s face it originality, to a summer outfit.
But when Saako designed their 2012 scarflace as evening wear, it got weird. It would sure enough be a statement piece.
Maybe I am being too narrow-minded, but I am not loving the new evening scarflace.
Reasons for having an evening scarflace:
1. You need to hide a hideous top.
2. You need to hide a massive stain.
I’m interested to know your thoughts?
Is the scarflace the next big thing?
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Lynx, with a number of adverts banned for degrading women, are releasing its first ever Lynx women’s deodorant in limited edition, as a marketing ploy for the launch of ‘Lynx Attract’.
The Lynx brand is associated with “getting the girl”. And now the girls can “get the guy” for a limited time only – the time it takes to successfully promote the men’s version of the deodorant at least.
The teaser TV advert released today on YouTube depicts opposites attract, as a policewoman and a male robber cause havoc through the streets to get to each other, thanks to their nifty deodorant.
Selina Sykes, Lynx marketing manager, told Marketing Magazine that the women’s fragrance is being sold to promote consumers to engage with Lynx Attract.
While the Lynx Attract for Her is limited edition, Lynx Attract for Him, the main product, will be permanent.
Later last year, a Lynx outdoor advert and a series of online adverts were banned on the grounds of causing widespread offence, as they could be seen as degrading to women.
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Let’s be honest, hardly any Lynx advert makes women feel liberated. So how will the new women’s fragrance go down with female consumers? I admit I am curious to see (or smell) what the fragrance is like, but I most certainly will not be buying it. Sorry Lynx.
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I’m feeling a little blue.
Blue because my shoe collection lacks blue.
Blue also because my shoe collection really has a pitiful amount of shoes.
Blue because now I am now questioning whether it can be called a collection.
I seem to wear the same pair of safe black heels on nights out and this is not on! My blue lace River Island dress and green Chelsea Girl shift dress are in need of some pals in the shade and shape of blue heels.
As much as I love the look of court shoes, I simply cannot seem to wear them without one foot escaping – my right foot is slightly smaller than the left…
Because of my special feet I need strappy heels to hold the buggers in.
Does anyone else have this problem?
Here are the high street contenders. I am drawn to the New Look and Topshop ones.
What do you guys reckon?
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I’m no psychic but we Brits are not going to be able to escape this.
London 2012 has managed to get incorporated in every small way into TV ads already. This is just the beginning, which is devastating for those who do not like athletics.
Athletics, for me, was a time of relief back in school. Because it involved sports that were not team games. It was the PE lessons that came by once a year where I wasn’t sat with some other loser while we faced two team captains who had to choose between us.
After a tumbleweed roled by, the girl with no arms, legs or face was chosen before me. So I would sluggishly greet the pissed off faces of my new team mates.
Those were the days.
So yes, we should look forward to London 2012. All those girls who were the team rejects, this is our chance to say thank you to the one sport where we did not have to worry about scoring an own goal or throwing a rounders ball in the opposite direction of which was intended. Followed by angry competative girls shouting: “There’s no ‘I’ in team!”
Well in athletics, I was the long-lost ‘I’ in team! Team-i. I win or lose for myself.
Then again, no one should take sporting advice from me. I was more like the ‘I’ in terrible. No wonder those team captains didn’t want to pick me. I wouldn’t pick me!
Well here’s some sporty bits and pieces for the memories. And for the Olympics. Bring on London 2012!
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