One of the nice things about being a celebrity (we’d imagine) is that you get to wear trends that are “hot off the runway”. Don’t laugh, these things are important to some people.
Here, for instance, is Leighton Meester, dressed like a visitor from the future in a Marios Schwab Resort 2012 dress and Burberry Prorsum Spring 2012 shoes. She is so, er, NEXT season, you guys!
What do you think of this glimpse into the future of fashion, though? We’re particularly keen to hear what you think of the chunky, beaded shoes, because as soon as we opened the image, they were pretty much ALL we could look at, and we’re not sure whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing…
If you’re not loving the current trend for bright pants, we can only hope that you’ve made arrangements to move to somewhere without internet access and/or fashion victims for the foreseeable future. These things are EVERYWHERE. Red pants, blue pants, yellow, purple and green pants. It really doesn’t matter what colour they are: what matters is that they’re BRIGHT.
J Crew’s Café Capri trousers are just one example of the bright pant trend, and we think they’re a pretty good one: they’re tailored, they’re slim-cut, they hit, as the name suggests, right at the ankle, allowing them to be worn with a great pair of shoes without hiding them.
What do you think of them, though, that’s what we want to know? Do you love them, hate them, just not care? Tell us!
(These particular pants are £103 at J Crew, but if that sounds like a bit too much, don’t despair: we’ve spotted similar looks at most of the usual high street stores – check out ASOS and Topshop for starters…)
Kelly Osbourne and Lourdes Leon attended an event to celebrate the one year anniversary of Madonna’s Material Girl line in New York this week.
Material Girl managed to be nothing more than a blip on the Fashion Police radar – possibly because we’re not 14 any more – so we have only one observation to make about this: wow, but Lourdes is turning into quite the looker, isn’t she? It’s like looking at photos of a young, dark-haired Madonna, and we can’t wait to see how her fashion sense develops!
Even the least fashion-savvy amongst us would probably be able to tell these two dresses apart: there’s just no disguising a Roland Mouret, is there? Unfortunately for us, however, there’s just no way of paying for one either, so until our Fairy Godmother comes along to wave her magic wand, we’ll just have to content ourselves with this ASOS version of Mouret’s famous pleat neck dress. Well, the ASOS version is only £45, you see, and the Mouret is no longer available, and even if it was, it’s not like we’d be able to afford it on a police officer’s salary, so ASOS it is!
There’s one problem, though: the Mouret dress is from the Spring/Summer 2006 collection, so wearing it will probably cause fashion victims to look down their noses and declare it to be “SO last season!” Annoying fashion victims is one of our favourite hobbies, though, so we’d actually see that as a plus…
The ASOS dress is also available in blue and yellow: click here if you want to buy one.
Much to our amazement, last night we found out that we’ve been nominated for a Cosmo Blog Award, in the Established Fashion Blog category. Needless to say, we’re thrilled just to be nominated for this, as we’re short-listed alongside some of our favourite UK fashion bloggers, so first of all, we just want to say a huge thank you to those of you who took the time to nominate us: you’ve made us a very happy force!
We have just one more favour to ask, however. Now that we’ve been nominated, the voting starts in earnest, so we need your help once more! If you’d like to vote for us, just click here to visit the Cosmopolitan website, and follow the instructions in the graphic below to place your vote. And thank you: we really appreciate every single vote!
Is anyone else uncomfortably reminded of the awkward hug between Draco Malfoy and Voldemort in Harry Potter? Because we are. But moving on…
The Burberry Prorsum SS 2012 show at London Fashion Week this year was notable for one thing. Well, actually, it was notable for quite a few things, really, but there’s only one we’re choosing to focus on: EVERYONE WAS WEARING THE SAME TROUSERS. (Except Anna, obviously. AS IF Anna would wear trousers. Pah!)
The trousers in question are black, skinny leather trousers, presumably by Burberry Prorsum, and worn by every single person in our gallery. This could be a sign that leather trousers are coming back to the forefront of fashion once more (not that they’ve been anywhere, mind you, but there’s a particularly large selection of them available at the moment), or it could be a sign of the coming apocalypse, and the fact that Anna Wintour is smiling in the above photo seems to support that idea, so it’s the one we’re going to go with.
Before the apocalypse hits, however, do us a favour, take a look at the gallery, and tell us what you think of these celebrity outfits. Who wore the leather pants best?
This weekend poor Pippa Middleton was forced to relinquish her Daily Mail Girl of the Moment crown, when she managed to rile the tabloid by committing the cardinal sin of wearing green to a wedding: an act, which, the Fail points out, is “traditionally associated with bad luck”.
The Mail have charged Pippa with, not one, but TWO crimes of fashion:
1. Wearing green to a wedding: outlawed as described above
2. Wearing high heels to the same wedding. According to the Mail, “the aristocratic set consider heels unsightly at weddings. Only kitten-heeled shoes are deemed acceptable in the country.”
Our eyes are rolling so much right now they’re in danger of dropping right out of our heads.
To address the first point: we thought we’d heard all of the “bad luck” stories associated with colours and weddings, but “never wear green” somehow managed to pass us by. A quick Google search reveals that brides be crazy, there are all kinds of superstitions associated with weddings – so much so that we’re now REALLY glad we’re not superstitious, because it must be exhausting going through life like that, seriously. On the subject of wearing green, however, we learned that it’s considered bad luck for the BRIDE to wear green, unless it’s an Irish wedding, in which case it’s OK for the bride to wear green, but bad luck for anyone else to wear green. Are you following this? Some people, however, also believe it’s bad luck for ANYONE to wear green at a wedding, although opinions differ on whether it’s the newly wedded couple who will be cursed, or the person wearing the green. Or perhaps just passers-by, or the vicar’s cat, or something. Seriously, our brief journey into the world of weddings and superstitions has left our heads spinning, and NOTHING would surprise us now. NOTHING.
(The Chief of Police would just like to take a quick moment here to apologise to all of the couples whose marriages are now doomed because she wore green to their weddings. She is sorry. She is also now wearing a tinfoil helmet and living inside a special padded room, just in case it’s HERSELF she’s doomed in this way. Fashion: so much more dangerous and complicated than you might think!)
Anyway, our point here: we think Pippa’s probably fine. Unless it was the wedding of a particularly superstitious couple, we doubt they’re seriously upset by this so-called “faux pas”, so we’re not going to bother arresting Pippa for committing it. Whew!
On the “high heels are unsightly” thing: meh. Whatevs. We’re most definitely not aristocrats, so we have no idea whether they do, indeed, have a “only wear kitten heels in the country, dahlink,” rule, but we’ve never really considered kitten heels to be “sightly” anywhere, so we’re happy to completely ignore this one, too. (OK, we guess if you were “in the country” in the sense of “wading through fields”, then you won’t want to be wearing heels. But given that this is a wedding, we feel safe in assuming that it didn’t take place in a farmer’s field, and no heels were damaged.)
What do you think, though, jurors? Have you heard of the “never wear green to a wedding” rule? Would you obey it, if you have? What about high heels in the country? Fashion faux pas, or yet another ridiculous fashion rule which was made to be broken?
A long, long time ago, there lived a magical creature. Its fur was brown and grey… and also pink, and blue and green. It carried its magic in its shoulders: the biggest, most magical shoulders you can imagine! They had mystical powers, those shoulders. It’s said they could raise people from the dead, turn base metal into gold and make harem pants look good. It. Was. Amazeballs.
Then designers from KTZ found the magical creature, killed it, and turned it into this coat.
So that sucks.
It’s faux fur, of course. No magical creatures were ACTUALLY harmed in the making of this coat. Even although the fur is fake, though, it still looks like it’s been pre-sprayed by PETA, doesn’t it? And when you wear it, people will assume it’s real, and that animal activists have doused it in paint. That’ll be awesome.
