Rosemary Mac Cabe

• reviews
• July 30, 2010, 15:30

I love it when you get unexpected little emails informing you of some new salon or service that you then get an intense desire to try out, despite impending bankruptcy . . . yes, I’m being sarcastic. But this is …

• high street
• July 30, 2010, 12:30

Ah, Coast, that old stalwart of the Irish mammy, cousin or sister going to an Irish wedding. It used to be that Coast dresses were instantly recognisable and, while in the case of Roland Mouret or Christian Louboutin, that turns …

• online shopping
• July 30, 2010, 10:30

Ever wondered how one of the biggest online high-fashion empires works? Well, wonder no more, because not only does this month’s Vogue have an interview with founder of Net-a-Porter and entrepreneur extraordinaire Natalie Massenet, but Business of Fashion has done a …

• high street
• July 29, 2010, 16:55

I want it all.

• celebrity
• July 29, 2010, 12:37

Sometimes, I dream of the day I write my own book. I get slightly angry when other people I know do it, like Shane Hegarty, Conor Pope and (soon) Orla Tinsley. I imagine it’s going to be a really moving …

• celebrity online shopping
• July 28, 2010, 12:30

My-wardrobe.com has come over all magazine on us, with this feature in their weekly mailout: they pick a celebrity, this week that celebrity being Dree Hemingway, with whom anyone who’s anyone has a justifiable obsession, and given you the opportunity …

• models
• July 28, 2010, 10:30

It’s when you start quoting Jessica Simpson songs that you know something is missing from your life. Something crucial, something vital, something that would take the pain away and numb the horrors of seeing grown women – grown women – …

• designers haute couture
• July 26, 2010, 15:30

via Sycophant Fashion This is just one of the most beautiful couture presentations I’ve seen in the past few years; not only are the items wearable, they’re simultaneously otherworldly and the detailing is exquisite. I think these are the types …

• shoes and boots
• July 26, 2010, 12:30

I know that neither of these pairs of shoes is particularly flattering or ladylike . . . but Acne seems to have taken over the blogging airwaves to the point that its shoes should have a place in some kind …

• celebrity street style
• July 26, 2010, 10:30

No, this isn’t a column written by Nicole Richie telling you how to dress for the most in-between of seasons. Instead, it is a short, pithy intro from me, and a photograph: via Because I’m Addicted And really, what more …

• online shopping
• July 23, 2010, 10:20

Logging onto Topshop the other day for some elicit late-night shopping, I was surprised. What is this? What new sorcery has turned my tried and trusted shopping haven into something, well, slicker and, initially at least, slightly more difficult to …

• advertising models
• July 21, 2010, 15:21

This year, Italian label Roberto Cavalli celebrates its 40th birthday and, fittingly, does so with Gisele Bundchen, who just celebrated her 30th. I would like to imagine that Tyra would be none too pleased with the unladylike angle of Gisele’s …

• designers magazines shoes and boots underwear weddings
• July 21, 2010, 11:06

Last night I attended a fashion table quiz in Odessa – which I have on good authority does the best brunch in Dublin – off Exchequer St, in association with West Coast Cooler‘s new “Hello Night” campaign and the lovely ladies (and …

• advertising
• July 20, 2010, 14:10

Madonna’s newest turn for Dolce & Gabanna involves, allegedly, her posing in a series of “real Italian housewife” poses. Now, we could question the likelihood of any Italian housewife wearing see-through trousers around the home, we could baulk at the …

• advertising
• July 20, 2010, 10:30

Garance Doré has brought her inimitable line of street style photography to Moschino‘s F/W 2010 campaign imagery. I love her stuff; I love the paparazzi-style photography, I love that it’s not all glossy backdrops and blown-out hair. I realise that campaign …

• music photography
• July 19, 2010, 16:16

LOVE this photograph. Via Ffffound I really think, if you’re going to be out there, be way out there – and ain’t Bjork just way out there?

• celebrity magazines
• July 19, 2010, 14:09

German GQ has really won the media lottery with this shoot, planned way before Lindsay was sent down, of La Lohan wearing not a whole lot for their August 2010 issue. I have to say, all problems with actresses in …

• advertising celebrity
• July 19, 2010, 10:00

  Via Design Scene Sometimes, my desire to make puns related to Gone with the Wind whenever I talk of ScarJo takes over my every vestige of being and I can do little else but repeat, over and over, “frankly, …

• advertising film & TV
• July 15, 2010, 12:30

The other night, I watched Avatar for the second time. I enjoyed the FernGully-esque multicolour of Pandora for the second time; I enjoyed Sam Worthington; I worshipped Zoe Saldana that little bit more, and I thought of how nice life …

• music shoes and boots
• July 15, 2010, 10:10

A bit of Manu Chao in the morning, accompanied by a low Cuban heel from Acne? Well, what’s wrong with that? I love a good brogue-style flat shoe, but I’ve been tiring of beige and brown – so these violent, …

• menswear shoes and boots
• July 14, 2010, 12:00

These are slick. I can’t think of too many more words to describe them, although “extortionate” might be thrown in there for good measure. At between $600 and $700 a pop at “Converse speciality stores” (read: not Office), they’re not …

• magazines photography
• July 14, 2010, 10:00

I feel as if there’s a new Vogue out every three minutes these days, but really, who cares when the editorials are this delicious? Photography by Josh Olins

• magazines
• July 13, 2010, 14:36

Garance Doré has just put up a post about the words her friend Violaine told her were banned at the magazine she works for, Velour. Genius idea, genius. I’d like to add two of my own personal pet peeves: feminine …

• street style
• July 13, 2010, 10:26

You may have seen these in yesterday’s paper, which also contained a roundup of the weekend’s gigs from various Irish Times journos – check ‘em out on the website – but the fashion spread didn’t fit in all of the …

• music
• July 8, 2010, 13:48

So this weekend is, of course, the festival we’ve all been waiting for (ahem, no, not Electric Picnic), Oxegen. I’ll be there seeing who catches my eye, sartorially speaking of course, and taking in some daycent music to boot. While …

• advertising
• July 7, 2010, 11:45

Behold! Uncle Karl has spoken, and the word of the moment is “consumption” or, failing that, “opulence”. Pepper that with some “gay abandon” and a little whimsy, and you have Chanel’s latest bag campaign, starring Dree Hemingway(how opulent!) and Abbey …

• what I wore
• July 5, 2010, 14:30

In the last post I wrote about summer boots, I mentioned that I’m pretty much always to be found in floral dresses. I may have mentioned this before (ahem), although, looking down at myself today, I realise it’s not entirely …

• dresses
• July 5, 2010, 10:00

So, my Ghanaian warriors may be out of the World Cup, but look at this: a fashion label inspired by the West African country. It’s a sartorial light in an otherwise dim tunnel, I would say. This dress (now sold …

• shoes and boots
• July 2, 2010, 10:30

Around July of every year, I start looking for my winter flat boots; I scour the stores, high and low, for boots that will (a) look good with the floral dresses I seem to live in, come September and (b) …