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A fashion/style blog from a fashion observer/consumer rather than an insider. Musings on everything from the art of sample sale-ing to making a bag out of old baby shoes. If you love Carine Roitfeld, vintage dresses, old Chanel bags, and also have an in
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Venturing Out
>> There's a few more days of staying put at home cosied up in my Gap knitted slippers but when January comes around, it will probably still be chilly chilly but I'll be out and about (travelling around the world to be precise...Paris...
Venturing Out
>> There's a few more days of staying put at home cosied up in my Gap knitted slippers but when January comes around, it will probably still be chilly chilly but I'll be out and about (travelling around the world to be precise...Paris...
Shack and Surf
>> This is the fake astroturf hill that I'd like to be rolling around in together with the swings that I'd like to be playing on... ...this is the customised floral DHL van that could hopefully take me and a selected few driving down...
Shack and Surf
>> This is the fake astroturf hill that I'd like to be rolling around in together with the swings that I'd like to be playing on... ...this is the customised floral DHL van that could hopefully take me and a selected few driving down...
Sample This
>> So I come home all poor, broke and happy and what do I find? A deluge of sample sale notices that starts this weekend and runs all the way through to mid-December...Christmas shopping...pah...I'm now having to rejig some funds to make...
Dresses You Would Want to Wear and Wear Some More Afterwards Too
>> Why the oh-so-long title? Because this post does exactly what it says on the tin and in like our reaally reaally goooood-looking friend Derek Zoolander who created his "Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Ot...
Crossing Seas
Oh most typical of all typicalities. I cross the Atlantic in a Westerly direction and guess who's crossing Eastbound over to the Big Smoke? It's only Angie Johnson, aka designer behind I Heart Norwegian Wood aka, my beloved cage collabo...
Edun da dun dun dun
>> I don't normally plug the work stuff too much, lest I get accused of "selling out" (most oft-misused phrase in the world, no?). But here I'm selling in the name of charideeeeeeeeeee...... namely War Child... and it also...
AnthroLONDONologie
This is going to be of no relevance to Americans/Canadians who've lived with Anthropologie practically all of their lives and are either sick of it or look upon it with as much reliance as say I do, with Topshop or erm...Marks & Spencers. ...
Ready for the Twin?
>> I've just come off a Skype chat yakking about the ye olde blogs vs. magazines argument (not sure why this old chestnut is STILL coming up and knocking about but there you go... read the latest installment on Tavi's blog) and what I...
Faun-tastic
>>I'm gutted that I missed out on Sadler's Wells' production of In the Spirit of Diaghilev, where Diaghilev's Ballet Russes is paid tribute to by four choreographers. I'm also patiently waiting for the Ballets Russes ...
Peering into Windows
I've been trawling through my inbox answering email interviews for mags and dissertations which is cause for reflection with regards to the blog. I also had a bit of a storming argument with Style Salvage Steve this morning about my......
Bleat that Pleat
>> Sometimes it takes some proper up-close fabric fondling to really geddit with a collection. Especially when you laden a collection with knife precise pleats (if there was a deets chart, pleats would surely be challenging for the number one......
Ra Ra Ra
I'm cheerleading chanting because a) I'm back in London (at least for a while...) and b) despite the manic timetable of the weekend, it ended on a roaring RA note in Antwerp. Dan Thawley of Dan the Scout contacted me......
Up, Up and Away
Sandra Backlund's in that middle stage of a young designer where she's had a ton of press and the name rings a vaguely familiar bell with those immersed in fashion yet she's not a household name yet due to a lack of stockists and (show...
Rodarte World
>> I haven't been to that many err launches, dos and you know, fashion week thingies because I'm appropriately boring like that. However, I did have to, have to drop by colette for Rodarte's curated gallery and shop that's...
Distilled Summer
>> I won't say too much because I think there are some deets here that need to be investigated in person. It's a smear of favouritism again as I'm once again, super psyched and super egg-cited about posting the new collection o...
Hear Ye Gentlewomen
>> I think I've said before that a magazine that I regularly read is Fantastic Man, given that the boyf buys every issue and ergo, I get to snarf through it without spending a penny. There's something about the dialogue......
Leathuuuuuuurrrr
>> I have calculated and this is based upon hardcore mathematical facts with err...calculators and everything... that if I carry this new YSL manifesto tote everyday from today onwards, travelling on about eight to-from work bus journey on weekdays, ...
Pedal to the Metal
When I first saw the Acne S/S 10 collection images with of course the show stopping metal-work pants catching everyone's eye, I was racking my brains thinking what it reminded me of other than the obvious...i.e. Balenciaga's robo leggings. No,......
Spot that Skull
I'm quite liking the number of S/S 10 previews are popping up, and though obviously none of the biggies are going to be giving up S/S 10 sneaky peeks anytime soon, I'm happy to see that smaller, younger designers don't......
The Wolf and the Badger
No, it's not an Animals of Farthing Wood live action re-enactment or a woodland sartorial tribute site. Wolf & Badger has a rather more meaningful purpose that will be fully unleashed in November. It WILL be a concept store in......
