Rogue’s Gallery: Holey clothes

Seamless holes leggings, $18. Wet Seal

As most of our readers will have realised by now, that dastardly criminal known only as Jack the Fashion Ripper has been busy lately. REALLY busy. In fact, we've now reached a stage of critical mass with the holey clothes that have resulted from his vicious attacks, and we've had to open a whole new wing in our jail for them. (Don't worry, it's the hospital wing. We see these unfortunate items as victims, not criminals).

Of course, while we tend to view the holey clothes epidemic as a crime, we're sure some of you have other ideas: this look is so prevalent at the moment that SOME of you must be wearing it, so if you are, you'll love what we have for you under the jump…

Continue reading →

Posted on August 21, 2009

Fashion Fraud Squad: Wet Seal’s version of Christian Louboutin’s ‘Miss Fortune’ platforms

Pin it

Kudos to Officer Lauren for catching Wet Seal in the act of impersonating Christian Louboutin's Miss Fortune platforms with their own lace-up slingbacks. What puzzles us about this one is that, with a whole world of Louboutin loveliness to choose from, Wet Seal chose these particular shoes which, er, aren't so lovely, as their "inspiration", but of course, ours is not to question why. No, ours is simply to call in the Fraud Squad and move on.

The Wet Seal shoes are $24.60, the Louboutins $956. So Wet Seal definitely have the nicer price, anyway.

Posted on August 21, 2009

Daylight Robbery: Balenciaga’s £500 furry mittens

Pin it

Now, if only these came in black, they’d be the ideal companion piece to the Tibetan goat boots we showed you earlier, don’t you think? No? But…but… don’t you WANT to look like you have a hairy ape body underneath your clothes? Oh.

These are by Balenciaga, and that’s the only reason we can think of for the £515 / $852 price tag. We’re not saying it’s a GOOD reason, but if you do feel like dropping £500 on some furry mittens, you can buy these ones at Browns.

Posted on August 21, 2009

Handbag of the Week: Valentino Bow Hobo

Pin it

Valentino's dedication to the bow is almost as legendary as our own.

This soft leather hobohas a pretty huge bow attached to the front of it, but the neutral colour and floppiness of the design stops it being too prissy. This is also available in black, for the really quite staggering amount of $1,895.

Posted on August 21, 2009

Around our blogs this week: Bridal shoes, studded shoes,

Pin it

Shoeperwoman rounds up some beautiful bridal shoes.

Dollface has a free shipping code for Benefit's new Matterial Girl powder.

Keeping It Realtor has a question for you…

Grumpy Old Bloggers bring news of eyelash transplants.

And Forever Amber has been buying shoes again.

Posted on August 21, 2009

Remember to update your bookmarks – we’re moving!

Pin it

Apologies for last night's unscheduled downtime, folks: we were hoping that wouldn't happen, but apparently luck wasn't on our side. The bad news is that the downtime yesterday doesn't mean that the move has already happened: no, that won't be going ahead until the weekend, as planned, so please make sure that you're reading us via www.thefashionpolice.net, and not through any other URL.

We can't promise there'll be no more outages, but we're doing our very best, so thanks again for bearing with us, and keep on fighting those crimes of fashion!

Posted on August 20, 2009