Loving Miu Miu’s quirky cat and swallow print designs this season? Hating Miu Miu’s traditionally super-high prices? Don’t worry: once again, Zara has come to the rescue with a couple of designer-inspired pieces at a slightly more wallet-friendly price. This little cat-print dress retails for $40 (although it’s selling on eBay for much more, which suggests you may have your work cut-out finding it in store), and our officers also spotted some swallow-print pieces at the Spanish chain this weekend: bird-print body-suit anyone? If the answer to that was a resounding “yes”, you can take a look at the items at Zara’s website, although there’s still no sign of that much-anticipated online store. Come on Zara, what are we waiting for?
This poor, unsuspecting model turned her back for five minutes and look what has happened. The Clothes Ripper has struck and slashed the entire back of her top to ribbons.
We hope the idea of this top is that you wear something underneath it (unlike the way ASOS have styled it here). If not then think of the tan lines! Think of the bra exposure! It’s the kind of thing to which your gran would say “what’s happened to your top, dear? It’s all falling apart at the back”.
If you like this top and wish to save it from the clutches of the Clothes Ripper before any further damage can be done, it has been reduced to £12 in the sale and you can buy it here.
Wow, Adriana Karembeu could fit the entire Fashion Police staff under that dress, couldn’t she? Um, that sounded a little weird, didn’t it? Let’s move on, and look at some more dresses from the Cannes red carpet. These shots are from the ‘Beautiful’ premiere, and with headline writers around the world looking for a snappy way to match the picture to the words, we have to ask: do the dresses live up to the name of the movie? Take a look at our gallery to find out…
They’ve hidden it very slightly better than some of their partners in crime, but The Fashion Police aren’t fooled. We accuse these Marsèll ankle boots of being Footwear Impostors, because you see that flesh coloured insert over the bridge of the foot? That’s pretending to be your foot. Not only that, but it’s pretending to be your DEAD foot, that has been clumsily stitched together with a shoelace, perhaps by some insane horror-movie type super-villain. We really wish we hadn’t had that extra doughnut at lunch now.
The fleshy upper, however, isn’t our only concern with these. Witness the strangely saggy heel:
We don’t know about you, but we think it’s bad enough we have to deal with wrinkles on our face and sometimes in our stockings: we really don’t need to be dealing with wrinkles on our heels.
We hereby find these shoes guilty on two counts: being impostors and, er, being wrinkly. Bail is set at £280, and is payable to Yoox.com.
We know many of our readers are big fans of feathered fashion, but what do you think of this Libertine jacket, we wonder?
We think it would be a bit like walking around clutching a couple of big, feathery pom poms all the time, like some kind of half businesswoman/half showgirl hybrid. And about the “businesswoman” bit: there’s a strange disconnect here between the all-business look of the tailored suit jacket and the extravagant, feathery sleeves. Who would wear an item like this? A lawyer who likes to make her closing arguments real show-stoppers? A company executive just desperate to let her colleagues see her “fun” side. You, perhaps?
Tell us, then: would you wear this jacket, and if so, where would you wear it? And would you be willing to pay $2,693 for it?
As this is Lady Gaga we’re talking about, the main question here isn’t “why?”. It’s HOW? As in “How on earth is she managing to walk in those things?” These are by Noritaka Tatehana, and are a little bit reminiscent of the Antonio Berardi heel-less boots which Victoria Beckham wore a couple of years ago, but while Victoria’s boots did look like they contained some kind of built-in arch support, we’re not getting that impression from Gaga’s, although we guess they must be more rigid/supportive than they actually look. Close-up of the strange shoes under the jump…
Loving Miu Miu’s quirky cat and swallow print designs this season? Hating Miu Miu’s traditionally super-high prices? Don’t worry: once again, Zara has come to the rescue with a couple of designer-inspired pieces at a slightly more wallet-friendly price. This little cat-print dress retails for $40 (although it’s selling on eBay for much more, which suggests you may have your work cut-out finding it in store), and our officers also spotted some swallow-print pieces at the Spanish chain this weekend: bird-print body-suit anyone? If the answer to that was a resounding “yes”, you can take a look at the items at Zara’s website, although there’s still no sign of that much-anticipated online store. Come on Zara, what are we waiting for? 
Daisy print prom dress
