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Monthly Archives: February 2010

A weekend discount special

I have a bit of a problem when it comes to tops, and it is this: I don’t love them. Unless they’re tucked into high-waisted skirts, or worn over really high-waisted jeans, they’re not my friend. (Apparently this is because …

Wild as a fox

Here’s the new campaign from American clothing company, Wildfox. You may recognise the red-haired model – none other than Nicole Fox, the winner of America’s Next Top Model‘s “short season”. I love this campaign because it’s everything a commercial label …

This is not a sponsored post

I’ve been reading a lot of blogs now for nigh on a year – my Google Reader coming to resemble some kind of ruling force that dictates how long a lunchbreak I can take – and something that keeps cropping …

Things that annoyed me about the fashion world this week

1. Asos‘s Barbie Lounge. Women are not dolls, folks; nor should they want to be. Stop holding up imaginary, nigh pornographic images of women as fashionable. They are neither fashion, nor fashionable. Enough, already. 2. Vogue‘s article on how women …

Fashionable bargains

On the last Sunday of every month, folks get together to hawk their wares at the Dublin Flea Market. They have a fancy new website, which is basically all I can contribute as I’ve never been. But I’ll be there …

A shoe by any other name . . . is another shoe

I am a strong believer in the fact that you can’t really have too many pairs of shoes (the honourable exception to this rule being trainers: in life you need one pair, for running, and that is it). So when …

Get stacked

It’s funny how trends come around – a year ago, I was very much anti rings, thinking that they made my stubby fingers look, well, even stubbier. Now, however, stubbiness be damned: all I want are legions of rings to …

The final nail in the coffin

This morning, buoyed by last night’s talk on Magazines are Dead: Long Live the Internet (starring Michael O’Doherty of VIP Publishing) at the Science Gallery, I went to get a manicure. Those two things are not necessarily related but, as …

Denim, denim, denim. . . OR Pixie, Pixie, Pixie. . .

Via Knightcat

Shorts and tights?

One of my most distinctive memories of primary school is of seeing a girl – who was the coolest girl in school, by far – wearing shorts and tights. Together. To my seven-year-old mind, this was a revolutionary act of …

Erdem A/W 2010 RTW

When I was in London this year, I went to the V&A to check out the regular exhibitions which, really, you can never get enough of. No matter how many times I’ve been there, I want to go again – …

Dressing – and buying – for your size

Us Irish people have long had a fraught relationship with Evans. While we’re willing to accept our average national size as being somewhere between 12 and 14, we continue (and I include myself in this “we”) to cross our fingers …

Inspiration on a Monday? Why not?

This is the lovely – and oh-so stylish – Audrey Leighton of Frassy (photograph copyright of Vanessa Jackman, who is quickly becoming my favourite street style photographer; she posts frequently, and a lot of the looks, crucially, are ones I …

Monday morning. . .

Having been without internet for the weekend, I’m just now catching up on what went on. I moved house, y’see, which is an ordeal in itself, although I have epic wardrobe space, which pleases me muchly. But back to you! …

The sun’s coming out, tomorrah!

But for a tip from a fashionable reader, I would have all but forgotten about Sonia Rykiel‘s latest H&M collaboration, launching tomorrow. This collection, moving on from her underwear collection of a few weeks back, will focus on Rykiel’s signature …

I’m on the wait list – wait, don’t you know who I am?!

Mulberry‘s Alexa tote, named after the “iconic” (yawn) Alexa Chung, arrives again in Brown Thomas in the first week in March. The large tote (above) in oak (also above) will cost €896. There’s a waiting list though, and the bag …

Reviving the 1970s. . .

. . . with a model who doesn’t remember life before email. Have you seen these ads yet? They’ve been gracing the premium spots in most of the glossies this month – Elle, Vogue, Marie-Claire – and I have to …

One little letter. . .

While trawling through fashion blogs, I came across Heist Jewellery on What I Wore. I’m all about the necklace layering – although currently, as I have a day off and am up to my eyes in packing and sorting and …

To T-shirt, or not to T-shirt?

I’ve always been firmly in the anti T-shirt camp, but sometimes we have to rethink our own ideas of fashion. Today it was an email from DailyCandy that made me sit up and listen, and take a look at these babies: …

I don’t need a parachute, baby if I’ve got you. . .

Whatever else is going on in Cheryl Cole‘s life, and however she appeared at the Brits (warning: that link is to the Daily Mail, so click at your own peril - I didn’t see her Brit performance, but I did see what Twitter …

Music, hip kids and Marina

A few months ago, I went down (images not available online, unfortunately) to Crawdaddy with super-photog Fionn Kidney to photograph “the kids” getting down to the choons and other such hideously clichéd phrases. We wanted to get a snapshot of what “the kids” …

Wardrobe Mayhem – number two

Hi, I’m getting married soon in a white, knee-length 1950s-style dress. I’d love these shoes in green to go with it, and I know they used to come in green. Any ideas on a replacement pair or where I could get …

Are you feeling the Love?

Love magazine is the brainchild of Katie Grand, the “most-wanted” editor in fashion who once held the reins at Pop, before moving to this new venture. Now at issue number 3, Love, to my mind, doesn’t seem to have settled into any kind of …

Abbey Lee Kershaw for Vogue Australia

This shoot has already been everywhere, but as I’ve just watched this interview, I thought I’d repost it. There’s a bit that I have to say about her interview, even though it’s only 4 minutes and 30 seconds long (watch it, …

Stinkin’ love-ly

Last week, I got to try out The Body Shop‘s latest fragrance offering in the form of a gift set of Love Etc, the store’s new fragrance, retailing at €30 for the set. When I was younger, I was the frequent recipient of …

Best foot forward

My picks of the best of Sam Edelman’s new collection - thoughts? I especially love the gold mock croc brogues; I have two pairs of brogues and I think there’s space in my life for at least another four pairs because, no …

A good vintage

I was reading through one of my regular reads, Second Skin, and she was saying that, while in New York, she didn’t really feel the shopping buzz, because looking through racks of the same items can’t possibly hold the same allure …

Valentine’s Sunday inspiration

I LOVE this. Love the colours, love the shoes, love the heart-print tights. The skirt is just unbelievable, where can I get it?! Via This Chick’s Got Style.

A new bohemia

This is from March 2010′s Vogue Italia. If you’re passing through an airport in weeks to come – or through a particularly well-stocked Eason’s, even – pick up a copy. Vogue Italia is heavy on really beautiful shoots which, I suppose, you …

From FCUK to advertising genius

These ads are really something. French Connection has turned itself around, from the grungy FCUK ads to these, which really could be for a high-end, kooky fashion brand – I’m thinking Miu Miu, just because of the colours, although it could be anything …

My dreams are bursting at the seams

If anyone picked up Vogue UK this month (well, the March issue), you could be forgiven for thinking it was going to be about not washing your hair (can anyone find a link to that awful article Chung wrote in Vogue about how the …

Oh, Rosie – don’t you do that to the boys

I’ve never been that crazy about underwear. Sure, I wear it, and I see its necessity most of the time, but I’m not one to advocate spending crazy amounts of money on tiny pieces of fabric. There are two arguments for …

McQueen is dead; long live McQueen

The news has been announced today of the death of Alexander McQueen, who, along with John Galliano, to me epitomises the idea of theatrical fashion. His shows have always been at the cutting edge of avant garde couture, and his aesthetic is one …

Like a horse and carriage

Image via Erin hearts Court Say what you like about the Americans – they’re relentlessly positive,  they don’t understand sarcasm (those two points may be related), and they often wear very badly fitting jeans – but when it comes to weddings, …

In the name of love. . .

Now don’t say I never give you nuffink. . .

Kling a song of sixpence

Honestly, you have no idea that headline took me to come up with. I was trying to think of something that rhymes with “Kling”, in that it has an L in it and really, I’m stumped. Fling? But, like, what …

Another Topshop collaboration dawns

Well, almost. February 13th marks the launch of the S/S 2010 Richard Nicoll collection at Topshop. It’s all suitably girly, for the season that’s in it (aren’t we all supposed to wear reds and pinks, braid our hair and giggle helplessly for the …

I’m bored of cheap and cheerful. I want expensive sadness

Nothing could actually be further from the truth. I never get bored with cheap (yet cheerful!) things, and the only expensive things I’m interested in are made of leather (or some kind of faux leather fabric, Stella) and go on my feet. …

Howl at the moon

A belated inspiration post via Stella Wants to Die, a Spanish fashion blog that I have on my reader. It’s kind of funny that those wolf teachers blew up last year in a nerdy online media way, having been serious relics of …

Wardrobe mayhem – number one

Any recommendations for good leggings? I wear them all the time and am looking for a decent pair at a good price – they have to be long (I’m tall) and good quality cotton. Any suggestions? First thing’s first: finding …

Super chunky candy delights

Lately, I can’t get enough of chunky heels. If it’s not the Miu Miu babies in the current ad campaign, it’s super-chunky 1990s stack heeled boots, as modelled by a colleague of mine, who rooted them out in her mother’s wardrobe, had …

For one weekend, and one weekend only…

Alila Boutique in Dublin 2 is having a huge sale, to get rid of last season’s stock and get ready for the season to come. (Out with the old and in with the new, and so on.) But I really don’t see …

Paris in springtime. . .

Well, not quite, as it is only February, after all. But I am here! In gay Paris!The first thing that strikes you about Paris is that everybody is very stylish; it’s a cliché, but most clichés have a small element …

Slugs, snails, puppy dog’s tails – and snakes?

Alexander McQueen, via Natasha’s Soiree

The silence of the lambs

I’ll admit that I’m quite enjoying this shoot with Anja Rubik, for Vogue Nippon shot by Camilla Akrans, but there are a few poses that very closely resemble late-night movies. That small issue aside:   Images via Fashion Copious (some may be NSFW, but I guess …

A little heavy metal for a sunny afternoon

I might be a bit late on this one, as everyone – and I mean everyone – has covered the whole ring-heavy hands trend, but when I saw these on Maria Nilsdotter, I had to do something. And, surprise, surprise, that …

Fashionable ways to stay tech savvy

I remember the first time I went to Amsterdam, I went to the Waterlooplein market to scout around for essential goodies. It was the year the keffiyeh was the real “in” thing, and I bought myself one in multicoloured tie-dye which, to me, was the …

Dipping a toe in the inkwell

I make no secret of the fact that I’m quite partial to a bit of ink. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea – as Brendan O’Connor couldn’t have made clearer during the television travesty that was The Saturday Night Show - but …

These streets will make you feel brand new

Whatever you think about blogging, there’s no doubt that it has changed how fashion and season collections are received and absorbed into the mainstream – blogging has an immediacy that no glossy magazine can ever hope to replicate, and its …

Playing hard and fast with my emotions

At the end of 2006, Jane Shepherdson left her post as brand director of Topshop and absconded to Whistles, the ailing British high street label, to work her mojo on their somewhat stale and uninteresting designs. And magick them into something new she did, churning …

Let’s make shapes

Viktor & Rolf‘s most recent creations have definitely been some of the most theatrical and artistic that the fashion world has seen. Taking the pastel theme (and running with it), combined with strong silhouettes, delicious taffeta and those oh-so-important awkward …

You just make me see red

  Proof, if it was needed, that red hair is gorgeous, and that fashion shoots don’t need to be breaking major new ground in order to be really beautiful. I would put these photographs on my wall in a heartbeat, …