Let's have a look at world fashion podiums. What we see is jeans. Jeans pants, jackets, skirts, dresses, swimsuits, catsuits from Chanel are very fashionable this season. Blue loose-fitting denim is not only good looking and fashionable but comfortable as well. The best world famous designers and modellers tell us so. Such as Karl Lagerfeld, Christofer Kane, Donna Karan and Giles, D&G, Lacoste, Vivien Westwood, Alexander Wang, Christopher Kane and Martin Margiela. They are sure that blue denim is the wear of future... At least for the nex a couple af seasons.
Plaid or Tartan may be considered as a trend for fall season but over the past few days celebrities seemed to enjoy plaids more than ever before. Dresses, skirts, shirts, and even accessories were available in this pattern.
There are many ways to wear it but everyone can make it modern by sporting a swingy plaid skirt, a fitted jacket, a great cape or a sexy silk blouse.
I am always on the look out for interesting street style sites and have been impressed by the combinations and choice of subjects over on Stockholm Street Style recently... it might just have something to do with some girl I know being featured. Stockhom StreetS tyle offer some great men's street style as well, just look at this chap below...
Robin was recently featured looking very much like he stumbled of a slightly more causual Lanvin runway... but pretty much wearing a Stockholm uniform with a twist - "I have a shirt from acne, coat from Whyred, shoes from acne, trousers from Whyred, and a cap from Propp." For me the look has been transformed by the flower and it reminded me of EJ's Valentines Day suggestion. It is such an easy accessory and one most of us (me included) just don't do enough. I challenge you all to take a flower from your garden (if you don't have one try one of your neighbours - beware of dogs) or even from your Mum's vase at home and pin the finest bloom you can find to your lapel. Let us know how you get on! I will upload my shots on Monday.
Minus the shoes, which seem like a necessity since Glastonbury's apparently the muddiest place on earth next to George Bush's brain, I love Lily Allen's fun rainbow one-piece. I have no clue who it's by, but it looks it vintage. And with the exception of her pointlessly pink hair, I love the whole outfit.
Not all rainbow items deserve love, though. Example:
I saw this several months ago on Fashion Addict Diary, and then just the other on Smith Street, I saw a girl carrying a similar Betsey Johnson telephone bag, and I almost chased her down and asked her for her number just to call her to see if the bag itself rings. I know it's absurdly gauche (consider the source), but I have little problem with over-the-top bags.
I say RIP both because I wore mine into the ground and because the top had an unfortunate incident with a lit cigarette in Las Vegas (err... not that I was on the filtered end of that cigarette, nor that I, nor alcohol, had anything to do with the events of that evening... remember, what happens in Vegas... happened, as I like to say), which melted the plastic zipper, rendering the bag zipperless and unusable. I had the zipper replaced, but the bag had just seen better days. It is available again at Paul's Boutique, but I'm holding out in hopes that A CERTAIN SOMEONE READS THIS, IN CASE HE'S WONDERING WHAT TO GET ME FOR MY BIRTHDAY, WHICH IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY, AND ALSO ASOS.COM HAS REALLY GOOD, FAST, RELIABLE SHIPPING TO THE US, MATT!
Annnnnnyway, my willingness to carry garish handbags does NOT extend to Betsey's cute but overly literal telephone bag:
Cute, sure, but a little too kawaii for my likings. Also, a direct reference to those '60s novelty telephone bags, which, again, are cute, but are best left to the '60s:
Lastly, an appropriate vintage video to go along with Betsey's "Call Me" bags:
And, speaking of calling, listen to this guy completely unravel into a downward spiral into the deepest, darkest recesses of loserdom in this series of depressing phone messages:
(Thanks to Las Vegas Pam -- who had nothing to do with the Paul's Boutique bag incident -- for the chicken bag and depressing phone messages link! Airkissesloveyameanitnoyouarenoyoudoseriously!)
How the fuck is this belt $185? Does that include yacht club membership? And what kind of a name is Smathers and Branson? It even sounds like an uptight law firm. And how is C. Orrico "Where Palm Beach Comes to Play" (ew!) so blatantly ripping off Henri Bendel's signature brown and white likeness?
Gag me with this $595 men's Lilly Pulitzer blazer: Actually, the type of man who'd wear that blazer AND fluorescent green pants probably WOULD spend $185 on an embroidered sailboat belt and probably WOULD wear it with the aforementioned parade of gaud. Money can't buy taste, people.
And by the way, I'm not totally opposed to the idea of the prepster belt by any means. But $185? Huh? Observe:
Five years ago, Vanity Fair featured the "Hollywood's Teen Titans of 2003" that include Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, Olsen Twins, Brittany Snow, Aaron Meeks, and other rising teen stars.
For the August Issue, Vanity Fair will present the "Hollywood's Next Wave" for 2008. On the cover, we will see the four Gossip Girl starlets: Blake Lively, Amanda Seyfried, Emma Roberts and Kristen Stewart.
They will also be in the center page together with the other cast of "Gossip Girl."
The magazine will also feature entertainment whiz kids such as Zoe Kravitz, Olivia Thirlby of "Juno", the Jonas Brothers and more TV teens in a glam photo shoot by Mark Seliger.
Robin was recently featured looking very much like he stumbled of a slightly more causual Lanvin runway... but pretty much wearing a Stockholm uniform with a twist - "I have a shirt from acne, coat from Whyred, shoes from acne, trousers from Whyred, and a cap from Propp." For me the look has been transformed by the flower and it reminded me of EJ's Valentines Day suggestion. It is such an easy accessory and one most of us (me included) just don't do enough. I challenge you all to take a flower from your garden (if you don't have one try one of your neighbours - beware of dogs) or even from your Mum's vase at home and pin the finest bloom you can find to your lapel. Let us know how you get on! I will upload my shots on Monday.
Shudder.
($118, Paul's Boutique, Asos.com)
($65, Betsey Johnson)
($29, Whatonearthcatalog.com)
($185, Smathers & Branson, C.Orrico)
Actually, the type of man who'd wear that blazer AND fluorescent green pants probably WOULD spend $185 on an embroidered sailboat belt and probably WOULD wear it with the aforementioned parade of gaud. Money can't buy taste, people.
($20, Chesapeake Ribbons)
($49.50, Vineyardvines.com)
($39.50, Vineyard Vines, Fireflyoutfitters.com)
