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It’s a boot that’s also a scarf. Or a scarf that’s also a boot, we’re not sure which. Either way, it’s a Footwear Impostor. It’s also completely sold out, which is a shame, really, because look what you can do with it:
The good news here is that if you really want this look, you could always just, you know, buy a scarf. And tie it to your legs. The bad news, of course, is that you will look like someone who has tied a scarf to their legs. But it’s up to you.
Do you like the scarf boot? Click here if you want to see more images - or if you’re hoping it will be magically re-stocked.
[Thanks to Petrona for the report!]
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A simple, but cute, shape, and a bright pop of red combined to persuade us to name this River Island frame bag our Handbag of the Week. Although it’s not a carpet bag, there’s just something a bit ‘Mary Poppins’ about it – in fact, it looks like you could keep everything including the kitchen sink in there, doesn’t it? Well, OK, maybe not the kitchen sink. There’s definitely room for your wallet, phone, sunglasses, and all of the other things that tend to end up in handbags, though. (In ours? Handcuffs and tasers, to help us catch fashion criminals. And red lipstick.)
This is also available in tan, and is £59.99: click here to buy it.
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OK, we take back everything we’ve said about feathers on dresses. Feathers, you may go forth and do your thang, as long as you do it as nicely as you have on this dress, as seen on Uma Thurman at the opening ceremony for the Cannes Film Festival. This is by Versace, and it looks graceful and swan-like: but in a GOOD way, not in a Bjork-at-the-Oscars kind of way. We didn’t actually think there was a good way for dresses to remind us of birds, but we stand corrected. Onwards!
Rachel McAdams, meanwhile, wore Marchesa, and we’re not quite sure what to make of it. In this photo, she’s looking over her shoulder at us, all, “Yeah, I’m wearing a dress that looks a bit like a paper doily. SO? You wanna make something of it?” Actually, Rachel, we’re not sure we do. On anyone else this could so easily have been an Ugly Prom Dress of the Day. On you, though… we don’t hate it. Although we do want to rip off the train.
Salma Hayek wore Gucci. We approve.
Finally, this is Fan Bing Bing:
She’s our new favourite person. Isn’t that dress amazing?
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It takes a special kind of skill to make a skirt look worse than a pair of harem pants.
Rick Owens has that special kind of skill.
Rick, we name you the Fashion Frankenstein.
But what shall we call the Monster? What DO you call a cross between a skirt and harem pants? Skarem pants? We think so.
And what would you charge for a skarem pant, we wonder?
Oh, probably about £219, don’t you think? If that sounds reasonable to you, click here to buy this.
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This is not a carrier bag.
We repeat: this is NOT a carrier bag.
It just looks like one. And we don’t know about you, but if we’re paying £445 for a bag, we’d rather it didn’t look like it came from the local market.
Daylight Robbery? The fashion world having a good old laugh at fashion victims? Or a delightfully ironic statement, which you’d be happy to pay for? Which is it?
(Click here for the product page)
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It is one thing to design a pretty slip dress, but quite another to design (what we think is) a pretty slip dress and then put an ugly sheer outer layer over the top of it. So you have a slip dress stuck to…another slip dress. And what’s with the ruffles on the shoulders and around the hem, Proenza Schouler? If you are trying to pass this off as an ordinary dress, we’re not fooled. Even the poor model is slightly embarrassed, taking a shifty look around to see whether anyone is watching her being photographed in her underwear.
What do you think though? Have you embraced the whole ‘underwear as outerwear trend’ and think that this would make the perfect addition to your wardrobe? If so, you can buy it for $1225 (that’s expensive under/outerwear!) at Saks Fifth Avenue.
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