Labour of Love

Have you seen the Lady GaGa Bad Romance video yet? Needless to say it is awesome. Plus she is wearing the Alexander McQueen antediluvian sea monster shoes in it.

What's not to love?

Coo Coo Ka Choo

I was in Hennes yesterday (buying a tuxedo babygro for the nephew, obviously) and saw the Jimmy Choo stuff. I can't say I was that impressed.

The whole thing was summed up by a girl in front of me who was chastising her friend by saying "I don't know why you would want to spend so much money on something so gross." I couldn't agree more.

If loving Chloe is wrong... I don't wanna be right!

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Origa, Me?

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I think she wore that to try and hide the fact that she was reading her speech off some concertina'd paper.

I don't like it at ALL.

Hot Spot

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Doesn't Ashley look the very most in her coat?


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Do you think I could carry off a leopard print coat? If I accessorised it with lots of black cat's eye liner, leather gloves and a touch of class?

A La Mode

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Rihanna looks like an edgy baked Alaska.

Antediluvian Sea Monster

In the context of the catwalk I don't hate these boots so much.





Partly because I think this collection is so weird and beautiful.







And partly because I am utterly in love with the lovely Sarah Mower from Style.com's description of it:

Then the models came out, dressed in short, reptile-patterned, digitally printed dresses, their gangly legs sunk in grotesque shoes that looked like the armored heads of a fantastical breed of antediluvian sea monster. McQueen, according to an internal logic detailed in a press release, was casting an apocalyptic forecast of the future ecological meltdown of the world: Humankind is made up of creatures that evolved from the sea, and we may be heading back to an underwater future as the ice cap dissolves.




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Motley Kruger

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I think this dress is dreamy. I wonder if she is blessed with a very perky bosom or if there are some kind of reinforcements under there. Beautiful colour, print and shape.

Miss Kruger really has entered her own sphere of fabulousness this year, wouldn't you agree? Congratulations, say I!

Boot Camp

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Since seeing that picture of Julianne Moore looking splendid in a pair of ankle boots I have become obsessed with finding a similar pair. But apparently wanting is not enough, the damn things have to already exist and you have to hunt them down.

This is easier said than done. A flat ankle boot that is fitted at the ankle and comes up a reasonable distance is a rare beast. The slouchy ankle boot? The flat shoe boot? The heeled fitted ankle boot? All frightfully common, I'm afraid. But the thing I want? Non-existant, supposedly.

This is as close as I have come to what I want, but I am not entirely convinced. Does it look too much like something a spivvy boy might wear? Is it too shiny? Have I used up my quota of questions? Are you bored with me yet? Yes? Oh.

Ugliest Items of 2009

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Holy mackerel! I love Alexander McQueen, but there are limits. These shoes are the most heinous, barbaric injustice in the cause of fashion that I have ever had the grave misfortune to cast my eyes upon.

How Unforgivably Rude

Darflinf, fi fant fafologif fenouf... pleugh! Sorry, excuse me while I take my foot out of my mouth.

I cannot apologise enough dearest heart.It was an utter, utter attack of amnesia. And now that you remind me of course I recall your delicious waistcoats and how much you rocked them. Can I retract? Will you ever speak to me again...?

Belt Up!

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I love a suspender belt and stockings. I think they are incredibly feminine and old fashioned and somehow prim while also being awfully sexy. There is something so unspeakably delightful about a flash of soft milky flesh exposed in that way. And thighs really are secretly one of the sexiest parts of a woman's body, in my mind. Much more subtle than a flaunted, jutting bosom. The thought that hidden beneath a demure little dress is something naughty and slightly titillating is enough to make most people blush, I'm sure. However, the key word is hidden.

The whole effect is rather ruined and laboured when it's all on show like that. So, ladies, please put it away, won't you?



On another note did you ever see those pictures of Maggie Gyllenhaal for Agent Provocateur? Yowza! She looks amazing!

Derring-Do

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I love Ben Fogle too! In fact I adore him! He is the proof that sincere niceness doesn't always go in hand with dullness, and that makes me happy.

Although having spent some time on his lovely website I am also terribly, terribly jealous. Man, he has done some stuff! You know? He has been some places and seen some things.

But if I carry on at the rate that I am currently going then I might just catch him up in ten to twenty years... I'll certainly give it a damn good go. Maybe I should try and get on tv too, to fund my adventures. I'm charming, right? Right?!

Anyway, this is really just an excuse to post another picture of the delightful boy on a rocky outcrop. And to say I honestly couldn't be more flattered to be put (even in the vaguest way) in the same group as Mr. Fogle, as people who, like, do stuff!

So in honour of that I will shamelessly, if not brazenly, buy some Oakleys and wear them with pride. So there!

Burning The Midnight Oil

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Look! It's Erin Wasson! Poster girl for ladies who don't fancy brushing their hair and like leather and very thin t-shirts tucked haphazardly in to denim etc.

She looks like as sort of oil slicked mermaid doesn't she? And when I say that I mean it in a good way.

Suspend Your Disbelief

All this business...

(All images via The Daily Mail)

...this suspender-on-show business...

...have they all taken leave of their senses?

It looks terrible.  TERRIBLE!