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    • February
      • NYFW: And then some
        02/18/10
        Oh my post just got eaten so to recap:


        Proenza Schouler
        Why did everyone hate on Proenza Schouler? Alright, so it's not as magically delicious as last season, but it's still pretty fucking sweet. Those coats... Oi vey.


        Peter Jensen
        Tasteful and t

      • NYFW: Some more
        02/18/10

        Kimberly Ovitz
        I fucking loved every look at Kimberly Ovitz, even the bad stuff. Obviously here I've just selected my favourites, all of which I would just like to be wearing right now. The soft oversize leather over the maxi (obv), the asymmetric, drapey jersey, the cobwebby framewo

      • NYFW: # - C
        02/18/10
        Wel, whaddya know? Rain and old age stopped play so instead of celebrating Mardi Gras in the rain and cold, I'm at home with a mini bottle of Number 7 branded fizzy wine catching up on a week's worth of Style.com. Let's go!


        3.1 Philip Lim
        Let's talk double d

      • Crap
        02/18/10


        I had really good intentions to cover NYFW in suitably hardcore style. An empty house, a decent computer, plenty of shows I'm raging for... but then that little thing called work got in the way, there were birthdays, there were leaving dos... and now it's nearly over and we

      • Chicks go mental
        02/13/10


        Let's talk WAYNE. I had no idea until yesterday what WAYNE was, but now I'm kind of obsessed. In England I think the name probably gets a bad rap, largely due to the fact that most people still haven't got over Wayne and Waynetta. Wayne Rooney only adds to the problem. Way

      • The fortune faded, as fortunes often do
        02/13/10


        There are few words for how much I hate the hair at Jen Kao (and I'm a fan of a short fringe usually), but I did enjoy the collection itself so I guess the bad hair is forgiven.



        As a general rule I always think the Brits do knitwear better than anyone else. I

      • Some nights I'd surprise everybody
        02/13/10


        I don't care much for Charlotte Ronson, but I definitely liked the fetching long skirts swooshing along at her show. Regular readers will be aware that Iso and I are probably equally obsessed with maxi (mus Decimus Meridius) skirts, although I'm not convinced they'll ever

      • Her weapons were her crystal eyes
        02/12/10


        Coloured hair seems to be hanging around for yet another season. Hurrah! At Vena Cava yesterday the mighty Ted Gibson created scruffy ponies with chunky coloured extensions clipped through. I'm not so convinced on the neon pink but the purple looks great and when I get proper pics t

      • Don't try to touch me 'cos that's never going to happen again
        02/12/10


        It seems like only yesterday I was talking about the Shangri Las... Anyone with half a brain cell can see that the hair and makeup for John Patrick's Organic line (shown yesterday at NYFW) had a hint of Mary Weiss and co, but to my mind that whole first look could have come off the

      • Some of you mothers ought to lock up your daughters
        02/11/10


        I've spent most of this weird depressing evening tumblring pictures of Claudia Cardinale. Nice hair makes death less miserable? Along with every single member of the Shangri Las, she's something of an inspiration. I love this 60s cover. It's basically the inspiration for m

      • RIP, Lee
        02/11/10


        You made a difference.

      • Nobody brings me flowers, I'm just here for the operations
        02/10/10

        [Vintage gowns from here!]

        As a picture of health and vitality, I've never had the pleasure of a hospital visit. Still, I've seen enough daytime TV to know that hospital gowns are generally blue/gross/have a bum flap. Pretty démodé, so perhaps it makes sense that Ben de Li

      • I've been standing here waiting so patiently
        02/09/10


        I've been waiting for the YSL Y Mail Palette to land on my desk for what feels like for-fucking-ever so it was a bit of a special moment this morning when the jiffy bag of dreams actually arrived. Actually, it arrived last week and my esteemed colleague Charles hid it away in cupboa

      • Little monkeys with lots of money
        02/09/10


        If you can look beyond the bizarro world cluster fuck first outfit (2005? Yeah I thought it was you, I'm just about picking you up on my Motorola RAZR... right?), these pictures from the new Topshop look book are pretty nice. I love that Topso are so willing to fully embrace hair tr

      • Born from the dark
        02/09/10


        I've talked about Jennifer Behr on here before, but I just spotted her latest collection on Bleach Black so I've got to be predictable and mention it. There's not actually so much I love this time around, although there are two stand outs. Of course I'm not planning o

      • Meet me in the lab with your pen and pad
        02/09/10


        As Tavi-gate rolls on (this post in particular is incredible. I know subs are hard to come by but just email it to your mum or something and get her to proof it?), one statistic currently blowing my mind concerns the fact that today is me and my old man's anniversary. When we first

      • BRB
        02/05/10


        Pray for sunshine!

      • Moment of silence
        02/04/10


        Charles Blake Cochran was one of the great showmen of the early 1900s, starting life as an actor but making his career eventually as a publicist for other entertainers. His most famous client was Noel Coward but in one of the many hundreds of books about the 1920s that I've been rea

      • She's kinda jet set
        02/04/10
        A few hair and beauty bits of note;


        Carnaby Street are celebrating their 50th anniversary. How does one celebrate the anniversary of a street? A shit one at that IMO, Liberty aside? According to the Evening Standard you post pictures of topless girls in the 60s hanging out on Carnar

      • You're the one with the bleeding heart
        02/04/10


        New jingle jangle item from Topshop. How predictable, I know. They've got loads of these charm necklaces in at the moment and while I'm pretty sure they're not all unique, this was the only one of these I could find anywhere in store. Cute, cheap etc. All good. On the subj

      • Chocolate streams and ice cream dreams
        02/03/10


        I still love this picture. Tim Walker for Juicy Couture, the Giles and Proenza hair, that Lisa Shepherd image I just posted... Yesterday my favourite hairdresser emailed me about their new 'Ice Cream Sundae' service, offering slices of lilac and pink, lemon and blue... Next app

      • Knees start shaking and your fingers pop
        02/03/10


        Following on from those galaxy crotch trousers I wrote about ages ago... Today on Pipeline they posted these amazing Nebula shoes from Zazzle.com. Wow, only about 1000x nicer than any other trainers I've seen this year. I don't get how they manage to make these so awesome and t

      • The world's got some plans for me
        02/03/10


        I've always been pretty vocal about my love for Henry Rollins. I'm obsessed, I fantasise about how cool it would be if he was my dad, that kind of thing. I thought I had the monopoly on pictures of him but when I was Googling something the other day this sprang up out of the bl

      • Every cool guy needs a popular girl
        02/01/10

        [Not the world's biggest Olsen fan but this is essentially what I wear every Saturday morning to go and buy the paper with a hangover and it's in my top five best looks ever.]

        It's good to see that even though The Team are temporarily disbanded, everyone seems to be b

      • Let's get quizical
        02/01/10


        Disappointingly we've had to bail out on the Fashionable Pub Quiz this week owing to a selection of miserable reasons. Personally I'm currently swabbing out my eye on an hourly basis thanks to a nasty case of blepharitis. G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S, I know. Still, following our triumph

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