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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Mary-Kate, nomadic goddess

Mary-Kate channelling this season’s hottest trends via Fashion Is

Could this be the most beautiful T-shirt in the world?

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Another blogger’s brainwave . . . Subbacouture in Cork city

I could wax lyrical about how great Style at Set was and how brilliant Subbacouture looks, but you might as well go and see what Blaubushka has to say about it – I love fancy club nights, I love bloggers, …

On the Rocks – Vogue Paris

Via Models.com, here’s a great shoot from Vogue Paris, starring Isabeli Fontana. The shoot, photographed by Mikael Jansson and styled by Anastasia Barbieri, is a really beautiful homage to decadent summers and the supermodels of the 1980s – all strong …

Sex and the really great prize

For the weekend that’s in it, I have, in association with The Beauty Spot at Dakota (which is on tonight, from 7pm, with no cover charge and a SATC theme) and courtesy of Warner, a really great prize for one …

Shutterbug, part deux

So the crew at Shutterbug, who, yes, I blogged about before, have uploaded some new photographs to their site, some makeovers they’ve done, and a wedding . . . and I felt like sharing. If you’re in Kilkenny and in …

Kling / Skunkfunk sample sale

Another Dublin city update – there’s a sample sale in Dublin this Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the Italian quarter by Jervis St Luas stop. I did a post a few months ago on their spring/summer press day and I …

The Elle team hits Ireland

Yesterday morning I headed along to Urban Outfitters in Temple Bar to meet the Elle magazine team, who were in Ireland for the day to scout for their From Shopgirl to Stylist competition. The idea behind the competition is to …

Now this is worth throwing a phone over

I try not to do celebrity posts, (a) because I don’t think there’s anything that interesting about someone’s fashion choices when they haven’t made them themselves and (b) because so many other people do it better, namely the fug girls, …

Zuku by Kso at The Attic in A|Wear

If you’ve been in A|Wear on Henry St in, oh, the last year, you may have noticed the space upstairs – called The Attic – dedicated to brands from Zuku by Kso. It’s a small space in the upstairs of …

Stylish slacks

via Facehunter I truly, honestly believe that trousers are one of the most difficult items of clothing to wear well – with shorts coming in a close second. While dresses are the easy one-item-makes-an-outfit failsafe, trousers need to be accessorised, …

Do you want to be a stylist? Elle hits Dublin

When I was younger, I put in some serious retail time as I considered what avenue in fashion I wanted to go down. I worked in Urban Outfitters (where you get a 40% discount but, in Temple Bar at least, …

Some Tuesday inspiration . . .

Via Maser’s Facebook page, here’s a great piece of graffiti by the man himself. Whatever you have to say about graffiti as vandalism, here it is at its ideal: as a piece of artistic expression to the people, for the people. …

Irish talent – Lili Forberg and Angela Scanlon

This is a shoot that fashion photographer Lili Forberg recently did, with stylist Angela Scanlon. The shoot has a lovely, grungy feel to it, which I think Irish fashion heads do really well, rather than just sticking to tried and …

Rihanna and Roy Lichtenstein – really
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  • May 24, 2010, 14:30

This isn’t anything new, but it is an interesting music video, aesthetically speaking, from Rihanna. Whatever one thinks about the song (me? I say ‘nyeh’, add a bit of ‘I could dance to it’ and then bop my head enthusiastically), …

Irish photographer spotlight: Sarah Kavanagh

Sometimes, reading fashion magazines (mostly international, I’ll admit) and watching US television shows and documentaries makes one forget all about the talent that we have here in Ireland – talent that, in certain artistic fields, just doesn’t get the chance …

Hot damn, summer in the city

On Friday last, the Dublin City Business Association invited a group of fashion bloggers, journalists and general media types to a lunch to launch Dublin’s summer fashion programme, in an old Georgian home adjacent to the National Gallery. I could …

All for the love of florals

Once upon a time, I counselled against signing up to mailing lists from clothing companies. I was going through what was, in hindsight, a phase – an ill-advised one, during which I pledged not to buy a single consumer item …

Wonder gear or gimmick?

So the latest in a long line of toning footwear are Reebok’s Reetone runners – runners that claim to tone your butt (how very American) and calves with every step you take, increasing the effectivity of your workout. The patented …

Asos comes up trumps with NW3 by Hobbs

This is exactly the kind of preppy attire I would dress myself in, if I weren’t entirely committed to wearing dresses and floral fabrics 24/7 – something I am trying to change, although the next post today hasn’t convinced me …

The Beauty Spot at Dakota

You may already have seen this touted around and about, because we’re all talking about the new collaboration between Dakota and Style Nation: The Beauty Spot. A themed night, it’ll be taking place every Thursday from 7pm to 1am in …

Evans spring/summer catalogue

This is the front cover of the very snazzy summer 2010 catalogue from plus-sized UK retailer, Evans. I’ve often wondered why retailers didn’t come out with their own magazines – Asos is particularly good at presenting its weekly newsletter in …

One for the boys – the Southern Threat

Every few days, The Ones 2 Watch release an email update with new faces or new editorials; this one is the latest, a menswear spread entitled The Southern Threat. You may have noticed that menswear doesn’t feature too highly on …

Chocolate dreams

No, I’m not talking about those nights you wake up salivating, having dreamt of a bar of Cadbury’s (because, God knows, that never happens to me) – I’m talking about chocolate, delicious, creamy chocolate, in the form of a lip …

New tattoos . . .

Here’s the gorgeous Blanaid Hennessy, in an amazing shoot in Shutterbug, the new Kilkenny studio she’s set up with her brother, photographer Eoin Hennessy. The pictures were taken by the super-talented Ciuin Tracey, with post-production by Blanaid, where she ‘shopped …

Another running-related fashion post

Who’d have thought that one could get this much leverage out of running? Not me, that’s who. I have long been a believer that there is no possible way of making sportswear fashionable, but gear does fall into the “attire” …

McQueen’s address . . .

These shots of those now famous McQueen prints are from the second issue of Twin magazine, which I would love to get my hands on (anyone know of Dublin stockists) and is styled by Celestine Cooney, ONE OF OUR OWN. …

Food for (morning) thought . . .

Here’s an excellent post from Damien Mulley on how PR companies can connect with bloggers. It might be interesting for those of you who neither blog nor work in PR, too – to see how things work from the other …

Let’s compare and contrast, shall we?

As Jim does busy himself with the real music, allow me to take a moment to compare and contrast two artists, who perhaps are now one artist as they are becoming quite difficult to distinguish . . . Lady Gaga: …

If the shoe fits . . .

There’s a problem with high heels, one that women have recognised ever since society dictated that we should (le sigh) want to elongate our legs at the expense of our backs and, often, our ability to walk. (If this line …

Body to Body (shop)

Last week, The Body Shop ran a blogger event in their Grafton St store; we came in our droves (well, not droves, per se, but there were a few of us) and we quaffed champagne while taking a look at …

More to fashion blogging than meets the eye

These images are from The Cherry Blossom Girl, one of my favourite fashion blogs. At first, it may seem as if it’s from the same narcissistic “here’s what I wore today” ouevre as all of the rest, but the images …

Garance Doré – top fashion photographer of the future?

The past few years have shown a slow, subtle but undeniable shift in how fashion is consumed, and how fashion photography inspires people from ground level up. With the rise in prominence of photographers like The Sartorialist, street style bloggers …

If you buy these runners, your life will be better

Behold! It is Helena Christensen, the supermodel! She is wearing Reebok’s new Easy Tone trainers, and this photograph should be proof not only of the fact that age ain’t nothin’ but a numba if you’ve got good genes, but of …

Urgent news about Sex and the City 2: Flogging a Dead Horse

Poster via Screencrave No, the urgent news is not that the SATC girls have all had plastic surgery and now vaguely resemble menopausal Barbies – it is, in fact, that Sex and the City 2: The Sequel That Should Never …

Wardrobe mistresses – Julie Feeney

There are two types of chaos. There is organised chaos, in which items are haphazardly thrown around, in a pattern known only to the auteur of its destruction. Then there is disorganised chaos, a more pure, organic form of chaos …