Oh, here we go…. This happens every summer: the sun comes out and suddenly women start walking around in shorts so tiny that the lining of the pockets dangles below the chopped-off hems. Yes, Britney, we are looking at you here…
Now, admittedly, some of these women have fantastic figures, and good for them. We still don't want to see the inside of their clothes, though: or, indeed, the back of their butt cheeks dangling below the shorts – and if the front is tiny enough for the pockets to hang down, the back is normally tiny enough to let the butt hang down, too. Which just isn't nice, is it?
To be fair, these particular shorts are by Free People and we suspect the pockets have been deliberately elongated to create the illusion of too short shorts, without the actual… shortness. They may not actually look indecent on, in that case, but they're doing a pretty good job of faking it. They're also of the "expensively pre-ripped" variety too, which means you'll pay $198 for something that looks like it's about to fall off you at any moment. Which is presumably the whole point.
We'd probably give these a pass if they were worn at the beach, say, but anywhere else and we'd be inclined to view it as a sure sign the shorts in question are just too damn short. What do you think?
We've had a couple of sunny days here at Fashion Police HQ recently, and while we wouldn't want to tempt fate, we thought we'd celebrate by featuring Nanette Lepore's appropriately named 'Sunny Day' dress as our Dress of the Day.
This comes in the coral pink we've been seeing rather a lot of lately, and while it doesn't look particularly "sunny" in itself, it is very pretty, and that's good enough for us. It's $375 at Shopbop.
Almost every time we post photos of some crazy catwalk look or other, we'll get comments from people saying "Duh! It's ART! It's not like people will actually WEAR it!"
All we can say to those people is that they've clearly never heard of Phoebe Price, because here she is, running around Beverly Hills a couple of weeks ago, looking for all the world as if she's channeling an Alexander McQueen model from his S/S 09 show. No, we don't know why. We think/hope she was either doing it as a joke, or for a bet.
As for Alexander McQueen – well, we have no idea what his excuse is…
A dress made totally from zips. Well, it's an interesting idea, sure, but when Fashion Police reader Amber filed this report with us, having found it on this site, she said: "Giving some people this much freedom to bare all could go horribly wrong."
Here's what she meant:
Ah.
Because the site it comes from isn't in English, we're not sure if this dress is available to buy anywhere, or if it's just a concept. Under the circumstances, we're hoping for the latter…
Despite appearances to the contrary, here at The Fashion Police, we’ve always believed fashion is a lighthearted thing that shouldn’t really be taken too seriously. Sure, we have lots of fun discussing what we consider to be Crimes of Fashion, but we don’t think it’s worth getting seriously upset about, or, indeed, threatening to kill someone over.
So we were just a little bit disturbed, needless to say, when we learnt that fashion designer Peter Jensen has apparently been receiving death threats since he included some floral print kamik boots in his London Fashion Week show this February.
The boots in question were inspired by original Greendlandic boots, and apparently the people of Greenland have taken their appearance in the Jensen show very badly indeed, staging a protest yesterday, and even sending Jensen death threats.
Jensen says: “In paying homage to my aunt Jytte, who was made so welcome by the people of Nuuk in the late Sixties, we hoped to bring the world’s attention to the beauty of the Greenlandic national costume. Here at Peter Jensen we are shocked and outraged that our loving tribute to their kamik boots could be construed as in any way exploitative. We hoped that, as the Japanese with the kimono and the Scots with tartan, the people of Greenland would embrace the attention their heritage has received, in the form of our re-worked kamik boots.
” … The collection and the boots were made out of pure love and meant as a celebration from the trip which we went on in November. That I am now getting death threats is really taking this thing out of proportion.”
He’ll get no argument from us on that one. Leave Peter Jensen alone, folks: they’re just boots, no one needs to die over them, surely?
Remember those Cristian Louboutin fringed ankle boots we threw in the slammer not so long ago? As shocked as we were at the time to feel anything less than absolute love for a shoe by The Master, our one comfort was that at least no one would try to copy them.
Which just goes to show what we know, really, because here's Dune's startlingly similar pair, which retail for £110 to Louboutin's £1,095. If you love this style, these are certainly a whole lot cheaper than the Louboutins, and they're also available in bright blue and black.
As much as we hate to be the bearers of bad fashion news, today we bring the sad tidings that hat/bag hybrids appear to be on the increase. We're not sure if the item shown above is better or worse than the one we showed you back in February, but we can say with some certainty that we're not going to be the ones to find out what it looks like on.
If you fancy giving it a go, though, it's £122 and you can buy it here.
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