Today, The Fashion Police are pleased to announce that the World’s Worst Jumpsuit has been located, and is now safely in TFP custody. This follows a long search for the sheer, animal print monstrosity, which was finally tracked down to the Louisa Via Roma website, where it had been hiding out for some time.
“The general public can sleep easy tonight,” a Fashion Police spokeswoman said, “for this dangerous fashion criminal can terrorise the world no more!”
Bail has been set at £3512/ $5777, payable to Louisa Via Roma. Lawyers acting for the jumpsuit say they’re hoping either Lady Gaga or Rihanna will come to its aid…
Take a look at our gallery of this winter’s offerings from Miss Selfridge, featuring our old favourites: colour-blocking, 70s-style, and some very bright tights…
Sure, there are a few skirts here which are knee-length or lower, and if you want midis, well, some of the other retailers we’ve previewed recently will be more than happy to oblige with that. But at Miss Selfridge, hemlines are much, much shorter, with a selection of mini skirts and dresses, and some items that look suspiciously like tops to TFP, but which are being worn as dresses anyway, as if the good people at Miss S are sticking two fingers up at the rest of the fashion world and saying, “Screw, you, fashion: if you want to persist with this ‘midi’ nonsense, we’re going to make our models wear tops and tights: see what you make of THAT!”
2. Colourblocking is giving way to monoblocking
While the other brands we’ve looked at so far this winter have gone for a “every colour we can find, all worn at the same time” approach, Miss S have, once again, gone their own way on this one, and are using an approach we’re going to refer to as “monoblocking”. You know, like in the driveways? This involves wearing just one colour, or different shades of one colour. The colour in question can be anything, as long as it’s BRIGHT. So, in the image above, for instance, we have a bright yellow “dress” worn with bright yellow tights, a bright yellow headband and… is that a CAPE? Because that looks like a cape to us. Are capes going to big in winter 2011? Will we be able to stand it if they are. (*makes note to put a detective on this asap* ). Similarly, we have a tomato red dress worn with tomato red tights, and a pink dress worn with pinkish/purple tights and red shoes. OK, so that one is more like the colourblocking we know and love, but still.
3. 70s style, blah, blah, blah
You know the drill with this by now, don’t you? The 70s will be big in winter 2011. And there’s not a thing any of us can do about it.
We’ve provided more items from Miss Selfridges Winter 2011 Lookbook in the gallery below, some of which are already available to buy – click here to do it.
What do you think of these looks, though? Are you ready to monoblock your closet?
We know it’s possibly a little early in the day and the week to be playing drinking games, but honestly, sometimes it’s the only way the fashion world makes sense, no?
Anyway, we’ve devised this simple drinking game for you, to be played while reading fashion magazines, fashion blogs, or even right here on The Fashion Police, when reading comments by the various people who like to swing by sometimes to tell us that harem pants are, indeed, the very height of style (“Because I saw them on the runway, so they MUST be nice!”) and that if we don’t like it, we surely deserve to die.
Take one shot any time you come across one of the following words or phrases:
Bang on trend
Edgy
Unexpected
“But it’s designer!”
“These were on aaaaaalllll the runways this season…”
“You just don’t understaaaaannndd!”
BUT IT’S ART!
Colorblocking
Pop of colour
Real woman
Rocking
Taking risks
Fierce
“Toughen up” the look (generally by adding studs or leather)
Remix
“You’re obviously just too fat/old/frumpy to wear it!”
“You don’t know ANYTHING about fashion!” (Said to anyone who doesn’t blindly follow trends or dares to express an opinion which fails to contain the requisite amount of drooling/fawning over the item in question.)
If you ever find yourself using one or more of these phrases, there’s a good chance you’re a Fashion Victim. We’re so sorry.
Feel free to add any others we may have forgotten: we may have started playing the game while we were writing this…
When The Fashion Police first learned that there was going to be a collaboration between two of the most frequent inhabitants of our cells, MM6 Maison Martin Margiela and Opening Ceremony, we instantly knew that we would, once again, have to call on reinforcements.
We were right.
Let’s just take a closer look at the evidence here, shall we?
It’s been a while since we had a Rogues’ Gallery for you to cast your votes on, so let’s round off the week with a look at some celebrity fashion, shall we?
Are these celebrities guilty or innocent of committing crimes of fashion?
This really shouldn’t have to be said, but apparently it does, so allow us to be the ones to say it: pets are not fashion accessories. They’re just not. They do not need to be dressed in human clothes, have ribbons tied in their hair, or HAVE THEIR FUR DYED PINK.
This is apparently the latest thing, though. The dogs shown above have all been “fur-jazzled” by a company called Cute Cuts Grooming of Essex, England, who say it’s the canine equivalent of vajazzling. Because the world was just crying out for a canine equivalent of vajazzling, obviously: how we have lived without it so long, we will never know.
We should stress that no animals are harmed during the process of fur-jazzling, which can include dying the fur, attaching “fairy wings”, or adding a bit of “bling” to the animal’s nether regions:
Fashion cliché though it may be, The Fashion Police are big fans of Mad Men. And, it goes without saying that we’re also big fans of Mad Men’s fashion, from Betty Draper’s prom dresses and capri’s, to Joan’s wiggle dresses, and everything in between. So we we were naturally pleased to learn that the show’s costume designer, Janie Bryan, was working with Banana Republic, to create a Mad Men inspired collection, which goes on sale today.
As you’d expect (and probably hope) from a collection designed to be worn by women living in 2011, rather than in the 1960s, the clothes are a much less literal interpretation of the styles seen on the show, so you shouldn’t feel too much like you’re in costume when you’re wearing them. In fact, take away the 60s styling in the images, and you’re left with items that don’t actually look too different from the kind of things we’re used to seeing in stores anyway.
Prices start at around $50 for a top, rising to $150 for dresses, and up to $200 for coats, so it’s not exactly bargain basement, although, then again, we’ve never exactly considered Banana Republic to be a “budget” store, anyway.
At the moment, the collection is only available on the brand’s US website, with no word on whether it’ll filter through to the European site. It’s limited edition, though, so we’re going to guess “no”, although we’d be happy to discover otherwise.
What do you think of this collection? Will you be buying anything?
It’s been a while since we had a Rogues’ Gallery for you to cast your votes on, so let’s round off the week with a look at some celebrity fashion, shall we?
