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Last week we took a a look at Winter 2011′s fashion trends, courtesy of Primark’s 2011 winter collection. Today, it’s the turn of River Island, and, unsurprisingly, you’ll only have to take a quick look at our gallery to see the same kind of story, and the same kind of items, namely…
We were pretty impressed with River Island’s 2011 summer collection, which managed to incorporate a lot of the season’s big trends, without too much of the usual clubwear and blinged-up denim the brand is often associated with. Of course, we’ve always had a soft spot for River Island shoes, so we’re a bit biased. What do you think of this winter collection, though? Will you be buying any of it?
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Now, we don’t know about you, but when a wedding invitation drops through the door of the Fashion Police HQ, we’ve generally started the hunt for something to wear before we’ve even posted our RSVP.
This is partly because we’re shopaholics, of course: but for us there’s something about a wedding that seems to demand a new outfit (or at least part of one), especially if the wedding in question involves roughly the same group of people that were at the last eleventy-one weddings we attended: and let’s face it, it normally does.
Not so with Kate Middleton, however.
Last weekend, the Duchess of Cambridge was in Edinburgh, along with the rest of the Royal Family, to attend the wedding of Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall. Did she buy a new outfit for the occasion? Pshaw! Not our frugal Duchess. Instead of rushing out to Coast, like the rest of us, Kate did a little something fashion bloggers like to call “shopping your own closet” and the rest of us like to call “wearing your clothes”.
First came the “remixing” of the green Diane Von Furstenberg dress Kate wore on her trip to Canada last month:
(Aside: Doesn’t she look particularly drop-dread-gorgeous here? We want to cut off her hair and attach it to our own heads.)
For the wedding itself, meanwhile, the Duchess “remixed” the gold dress coat she wore to the last Royal Wedding she attended: that of Laura Parker-Bowles and Harry Lopes.
Kate also wore the LK Bennett pumps which are rarely off her feet, and which the owners of LK Bennett must surely thank the Lord for every night before they go to bed.
Theories abound as to why the Duchess of Cambridge decided to wear more or less the same outfit to two Royal weddings. They can basically be summed up as:
a) She’s just not that into fashion. And, indeed, why should she be? Marrying the future King does not, after all, come with the condition that one must instantly turn into a clothes horse (although that seems to have happened anyway in this case, with everything Kate wears selling out instantly.).
b) She likes to be frugal and can’t see the point in spending money on clothes she’ll only wear once. Or twice. (“Frugal”, is obviously a comparative term here: most of us probably don’t consider the act of buying designer clothes and then wearing them twice to be particularly thrifty, but then, she is the Duchess of Cambridge, she’s hardly going to be shopping in Primark, is she?) If this is the case, we applaud her: we’ve always hated this idea that it’s a major crime of fashion to – OMG! – be seen in the same thing twice, when actually, that’s the way most people live their lives. Who can afford to buy a brand new outfit for every single day of the year, after all?
Regardless of Kate’s reasons for wearing the same wedding outfit twice, we find it quite endearing:it’s nice to finally find a celebrity who doesn’t feel under pressure to constantly parade brand new clothes, and who’s happy to wear the same thing twice – it’s what most of the rest of us do, after all!
What we want to know, though, is whether you’d do the same thing?
Would you wear the same thing to two different weddings?
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Maroon and teal: should they ever meet?A few days ago, we re-opened our Formspring account, which means we’re preparing ourselves for the usual barrage of questions from people who: a) Think we’re a shop and b) Think we’re Joan Rivers.(Note: we are not Joan Rivers.) We do tend to get some serious style-related questions, though, and here is the first of them:
Q: Can I wear maroon and teal together? I have a maroon shirt and teal shoes that I’d like to wear together, but I’ve heard it’s a bad combination. . .
Well, the good news here is that, thanks to the ongoing trend for colourblocking, you can wear pretty much ANY two colours together and call it FASHUN. If people look at you funny, simply put you nose in the air, toss your hair, and tell them it’s DESIGNER and they obviously DON’T UNDERSTAND.
If you dont want to be a fashion victim, however, we think you could still make this work, although personally we probably wouldn’t: it’s an unusual combination, and not the most natural of colour pairings. Where there’s a will, there’s (probably) a way, though, so if you really want to wear the two together, what will help in this case is the fact that the items in question are a shirt and shoes, so they won’t be right next to each other and will, instead, be separated by whatever you’re wearing in between, be it skirt, pants or shorts. If you make that middle item neutral enough, the teal shoes could just provide an interesting contrast, although we’d still be tempted to just wear them both with something else.
We’ve no idea what the items under discussion actually look like, of course, so we tried to just imagine what an outfit consisting of a maroon shirt and teal shoes might look like:
Hmmm.
Well, we wouldn’t arrest you for it, but we don’t love it either, and we can’t help but think that both of those items would look an awful lot better worn with some other colour.
We don’t want you to take our word for it, though, so we’re opening out the question to the ladies and gentlemen of the Fashion Police jury:
Click on the thumbnails to view the products features in this post:
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