This season, Victoria Beckham is attending New York Fashion Week as a designer, rather than as simply a front-row celebrity, and trust us, we’re just as surprised as you probably are about that. Actually, though, we have a confession to make: we love almost everything about this collection of dresses, which Mrs Beckham is showing at the Waldorf Astoria, by appointment only. Sure, the simple, sheath-like shapes will be familiar to anyone who’s ever seen Victoria Beckham herself, but as with her last collection, we wouldn’t kick any of them out of the closet. Would you?
(More images under the jump, via Style.com, plus one of Victoria herself looking…interesting.)
So far, The Fashion Police haven't exactly been run off our feet thanks to New York Fashion Week: in fact, the whole event has been surprisingly bereft of crimes of fashion. With many designers doing their best to appear respectful of the current economic situation, it's all been a little bit restrained, but the Wear or Die show must go on, and so we managed to dig up these outfits from VPL and Threeasfour to taunt you with.
Imagine, then, readers, that we're holding a gun to your head.We're telling you that if you don't choose one of these outfits to wear – and you must wear it exactly as it's shown in the picture – you must die.
If you're a Martin Margiela fan, this top will probably delight you, because at just £88, it's definitely one of the cheaper ways to own one of his pieces.
If even that sounds like a little too much for you, though, don't worry, because The Fashion Police have put together these helpful guidelines to allow you to make a "sleeve top" of your very own. You are welcome.
1. Find an old sweater that you no longer wear.
2. Cut off the sleeves.
3. Sew them together.
4. Er, that's it…
And there you go! We may be in the middle of a recession, but you can still look like you're wearing designer clothes. Isn't fashion wonderful?
When it comes to sunglasses, we’ve admitted before that, given that we wear them so often (due to light-sensitive eyes, not Anna-Wintouritis, we hasten to add) we’re generally willing to look on them as an investment and pay a little bit extra.
We’d have happily paid a little bit extra for Prada’s butterfly framed sunglasses, too (£175 from NET-A-PORTER ) – until, that is, we found these looky-likies from ASOS which, colour aside, are pretty similar, but only £11.75 to Prada’s £175.
It was the back view of this dress that won us over, and while we’re still not quite ready to embrace the lure of the white dress yet (and won’t be for a good few months), we think this would be a pretty little summer number, which would work equally well with either bright shoes and accessories, or something more like the gladiator sandals shown with it here.
Of course, $1,795 isn’t a price we’d normally tend to associate with “pretty little summer dresses”, but if you would, you can get this one at Shopbop.
We interrupt this broadcast to bring you news of a terrible attack on this Haider Ackermann top. As you can see, the top was barely recognisable as a top after being shredded by a mystery attacker or attackers. What's perhaps even more worrying, however, is the fact that some people will apparently pay £154 / $219.73 for items like this: if you're one of them, you can buy it at Yoox.com.
Late last week, we stumbled upon this little green sundress on Topshop.com. Now, granted, it's nothing particularly out of the ordinary, but it's a colour and cut we love, and so we instantly started to covet it. The problem? Well, it's a summer dress: not only is it 100% cotton, and probably not very warm, it has a cut-out detail at the back (which we could actually do without, to be honest), which adds to the "summery" feel. Sure, we could probably try to "winter" it up with boots, cardis and other warmer items, but we just know in our hearts that we'd not get any use out of it until the warmer weather arrives (if it ever does), and while we're sitting in the HQ with piles of snow outside the window, we have to admit that sundresses are the last thing we feel like buying.
This isn't the first time this has happened either: right now the stores are full of lovely summer dresses, open-toed sandals, pretty bikinis and little tops that we know we'd have to buy and then stash away for a few months before wearing them. The sensible thing to do, of course, would be to just wait, and buy them when we're more likely to wear them, but of course, as we've observed before, to do that is to run the risk of the coveted items selling out altogether – and we just KNOW that when the summer finally does arrive, the shops will be full of sale stock and the beginnings of the Autumn/Winter lines. Gah.
Our question to you today, then, is this: do you actually shop like this? Do you buy your summer clothes in February, and your winter ones in August, or do you prefer to buy your clothes when you're actually going to be able to wear them? Are you starting to stock up for summer, or are you still shopping for winter woolies?
And before you all go jumping down our throats, no, that's not a bow on the back, it's a… thing. Like a kinda winged-type thing. Hell, we don't know what it is, but we do know we like it, and that's good enough for us.
