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• An update from casa Karl

  May 16, 2012 @ 1:30 pm | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  So, in case you’ve been hiding from the world for the past week, I’m here to tell you that Kaiser Karl has, indeed, been most busy, between showing Chanel’s 2013 Cruise collection in Versailles to shooting the lookbook for Cruise starring Cara Delevingne and coming out with a sumptuous, maharajah-themed advertising campaign for pre-Fall 2012. First? The lookbook:

  

  

  

  

  

  I’m really unsure how I feel about this – while I love the interlocking C motif facial appliqué (so very noughties Marilyn) and the metallic shoes, I’m kind of over the candyfloss hair and I dislike the whole dolly vibe. How about you?

  On the other hand, I am all about the advertising campaign, which is just gorgeous.

  

  

  

• H&M’s A/W 2012 lookbook

  May 15, 2012 @ 10:30 am | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  

  The H&M A/W 2012 lookbook has arrived online, and it is a serious corker. I’ve had a feeling that, between designer collaborations, H&M had kind of lost its own aesthetic along the way, but this selection of A/W duds places it firmly back in the running. It can’t help, of course, that Zara has been cornering the high fashion-inspired segment of the high-street market for the past six seasons or so – but the folks at Inditex should be worried if these pics are indicative of what is coming down H&M’s line.

  

  Of course, we’ll have to wait and see if Ireland will get these designs – and then, which stores will get them. You can guarantee that not all stores will, and that Dundrum or South King Street may be the only stores to stock the higher end items. This wouldn’t be a new departure for H&M – their designer collaborations rarely reach outside the city limits, and the red carpet collection as part of its Conscious line didn’t even make it to the Republic. I wonder if coming to Ireland was even worthwhile for H&M? I feel like it hasn’t done quite as well as perhaps the Swedish bigwigs thought it would.

  

  I really hope this is a new direction H&M is heading in – pared-back separates in slick fabrics with sleek silhouettes and a lot of attention to detail, without overwhelming us with said detail. More pics after the jump. (more…)

• Chloe Green launches her new shoe line for Topshop

  May 11, 2012 @ 10:30 am | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  

  There are times I really wish I lived in London – when Wimbledon is on, for example, or during the summer when everyone in Big Brother is sunbathing outside, or when Chloe Green holds a press launch for her hotly anticipated line of green-soled shoes for Topshop. I’ve been keeping an eye out for Green’s footwear since I saw a preview on the Telegraph, and these pics from Topshop’s blog have done nothing to sate my appetite for Green’s shoes, despite her horrific turn in my favourite TV show, Made in Chelsea.

  

  

  Don’t her shoes look really great? I think sneering at celebrity lines, at this stage, is so 2000 – Victoria Beckham has taught us all an important lesson – so I don’t much care that these shoes were designed by an heiress who was, let’s face it, only ever going to do something within the Topshop family.

   

• Mango A/W 2012

  May 8, 2012 @ 1:30 pm | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  

  Mango has produced its A/W 2012 lookbook, starring Anna Selezneva and looking really quite brilliant – I’d have pegged this for an editorial in Glamour or Elle if I hadn’t seen it headlined as a Mango lookbook. My only problem with it – and yes, I’m being picky – is that I feel like the items are a little too current. Will I still want beige flared jeans in autumn? Who knows; my heart is as fickle as the fashion calendar.

  

  

  

  

  

  I find myself, of late, with several questions playing on my mind. (I was going to say “conundrums” because I really like the word “conundrum” but then I thought: is it “conundrums” or “conundra?” Answers on a postcard.) Reproducing fashion shoots has become almost moot; with Pinterest, I can merely pin the photographs I like and direct other people to explore them more fully via the link created by the pin (I know, head spinning …). So I find myself pinning far more often than I save images – whereas, in the past, I used to frequently save images and reproduce entire shoots.

  But what do you, my loyal readers, want? Do you want shoots? Do you want news? Do you want lookbooks, such as this one? (Although it will surely have been forgotten by the time autumn/winter rolls around and I will have to do a Mango refresher course.) Are you on Pinterest? Or Twitter? Or Facebook? Would you rather have one place for everything (I’m hoping that, if you say yes, you mean this blog)?

• Warehouse – an A/W preview

  May 6, 2012 @ 7:30 am | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  

  Warehouse held its A/W 2012 preview recently and, although I missed it, I caught up on its press site and I am really excited about this upcoming collection. Along with Oasis, Warehouse is one of my favourite high-street stores for the simple reason that it seems to suit my shape (apple-ish) and it produces consistently good, trend-led designs that don’t fall apart at the drop of a hat (take some tips, Zara and, to a lesser extent, Topshop).

  

  These are seriously cool, casual Etoile Isabel Marant inspired looks (I suspect) – and I would honestly wear each and every one of them. In fact, these outfits remind me of those “what our staff were wearing” pages in Elle and Glamour magazines (how do they look so effortlessly cool all the time?!)* – there seems to be a look for everyone!

  

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• Terry Richardson shoots H&M’s Conscious collection

  April 16, 2012 @ 10:30 am | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  

  You can’t swing a cat these days without bumping into Terry Richardson – now the man with the devillish plan has turned his hand to H&M‘s Conscious collection, starring Constance Jablonski, Edita Villeviciute, Toni Garrn and Karmen Pedarru. See the rest of the shots here.

  

  

  

• Arizona Muse for Next

  April 13, 2012 @ 7:30 am | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  

  You must have seen these images – of Arizona Muse for Next‘s S/S ad campaign – cropping up in magazines over the past few weeks. More sun-saturated Miami-themed imagery, because God knows we need it. Still, isn’t it a nice balm for the wet, windy afternoons we’ve been having lately? Do summery campaign images make you feel like holidaying or like committing homicide? (I, personally, veer towards the latter, though I do appreciate a good tanned leg.)

  

  

  

  

• Zara man April lookbook

  April 9, 2012 @ 7:30 am | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  

  The men in Zara‘s April lookbook are a vision of suited, booted sleekness – all slim fit trousers and fitted shirts, with single breasted blazers and James Dean-inspired hair. I’m not quite sure I can see the Spanish retailer’s vision of male fashion catching on on our shores, mind you; I’ve witnessed many an Irish man’s horror at the idea of wearing trousers without socks, for one, so this slick-living suiting might not be up their alley.

  

  Click through for more shots from the lookbook – and shop it over on Zara.com!

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• Dreams of denim

  March 20, 2012 @ 2:00 pm | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  

  In love with this Car Mar lookbook, featuring Alexandra Spencer of 4th and Bleeker (who I have yet to see look bad once – once!). Who would have thought that dip-dyed denim would make such a striking comeback? Then again, I guess there’s just nothing new to be done …

  I hope you all had a nice Bank Holiday weekend, by the way – I was busy live blogging the St Patrick’s Day festivities, then I sank into a stupor of reading approximately five Sookie Stackhouse novels, back to back.

  

• Kate Moss for Mango spring/summer 2012

  March 13, 2012 @ 4:30 pm | by Rosemary Mac Cabe

  I just came across this video and imagery of Kate Moss in Mango‘s latest campaign – while I like it, there’s something so lazy in Kate Moss’s eyes that just makes me feel sleepy. Like when you look at a sleeping cat and feel like napping … And don’t act like that’s just me, I know y’all want to nap when you see snoozing kitties.

  

  And then, I don’t know if I am naturally predisposed to be bored by this clothing because they are being worn by La Moss, or because they are boring … would I like them if they were of my beloved Zara? Who knows?

  Are you a Kate Moss fan? Are you a Mango fan? (Can you be one without the other?) The universe throws up so many unexpected questions.

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