If angels die when someone wears a pair of clumpy shoe boots on the red carpet, what happens when shoe designers attach socks to their shoes? It must be something bad, because honestly: WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?
We actually thought it had stopped. We thought our officers had successfully managed to see off all of the Footwear Impostors of the world (or jail is full to the brim with them, seriously), but then along comes Shelly’s London with this terrible example of a boot that’s pretending to be a shoe-and-sock.
Now, we’re not saying it’s ugly. Well, OK, we kind of ARE saying it’s ugly, to be honest. But as with all of these cases, it’s mostly the sheer impracticality of it that bothers us. Why would you want your socks to be attached to your shoes? Wouldn’t that get a bit boring? Do people buy shoes, and then always, ALWAYS wear the exact same pair of socks with them, and never want to wear anything different? Have these people never heard of REMIXING?
These socks are attached to the shoes. They will never be parted now. If you don’t like the socks, that’s too bad: they’re the only socks you’ll ever wear with these shoes. If you DO like the socks, you can click here to buy them: they’re $140.
Some of you may remember this game from way back in the day, when it used to be a regular feature, but for those who don’t, it’s simple: we provide you with a hard-to-style item (or sometimes an easy-to-style item, depending on your take on things, and how generous we feel like being), you create an outfit around it, using the wonder that is Polyvore.
As we’ve been speaking a lot about peep toe boots recently, we thought we’d make them our first challenge, so we’ve selected a pair of red, Alexander McQueen boots (click here to buy them), and it’s your job to style an outfit around them.
Want to play? Here are the rules…
Style Challenge: The Rules:
1. Log-in to Polyvore (you may need to create an account first, if you don’t already have one)
2. You’ll find the boots here. Build your outfit around it, save it and then…
3. Post a link to your completed outfit in the comments on this post.
4. Please note: you’re free to post links to as many outfits as you like, but please be aware that we’ll only post one entry per person. You can let us know which one you’d like us to use if you wish – if you don’t specify one, we’ll just choose the first one posted.
5. Once you’ve posted your link, please double check it to make sure it’s working properly – we get a lot of people posting links to the Polyvore home page, so we don’t get to see your outfit!
6. Comments on this entry will close on Monday, at around midday GMT. Once the comments are closed, we won’t be able to accept any further entries, so make sure you get yours in early!
As most of you know, Fashion’s Night Out is an evening at the start of every Fashion Week when people go to parties in stores and then post hundreds of photos of it on their Facebook and blogs, so you can feel bad about not going to a party in a store, too.
For the shoppers at Tiffany & Co this year, there was an added treat in store, in the shape of Leighton Meester, who occasionally likes to entertain ideas of being a singer (who could forget THIS look, from her first outing as a singer?), who performed in-store. She sang! She played guitar! She had a new haircut, featuring a fringe/bangs! She wore a long, flowy dress, all hippy chick (hippy chic?)! Blair Waldorf would’ve been appalled, but as she’s not actually a real person, that’s OK.
Leighton is our Little Girl With the Little Curl: her outfits tend to be either very, very good, or very, very bad. This time, we think she looks perfectly sweet, even if she is channelling Zooey Deschanel ever so slightly, and we really like the hair. What do you think?
Good news for those of you who like to wear your pyjamas in public, but are tired of being kicked out of supermarkets or told you’re not not respectably dressed: this Rag & Bone blouse gives you all the, er, style, of a PJ top, but costs $325, and is sold as daywear. So next time the security guard tries to escort you out of the supermarket, you can just toss your hair, stick your nose in the air, and utter the fashion victim‘s battle cry: “But it’s DESIGNER!”
Not even Shopbop are trying to pretend this looks like anything other than a pyjama top: it’s described on the website as a “PJ blouse”, which is a fair description, given that that’s exactly what it looks like.
Question: would you pay $325 to look like you’re out in your PJs?
If you answered yes, click here to buy one. Just don’t expect us to ever understand.
You’re all familiar with the Peep Toe Boot Rule, yes? It’s a Fashion Police rule of thumb which states that where peep toe boots are seen, another fashion crime will generally be occurring somewhere within the same outfit. It’s a handy guide for our officers on patrol, because it tells them which potential fashion criminals they need to be paying closer attention to. It doesn’t work every time, though, and these photos of Gwyneth Paltrow show.
Gwyneth has been crossing our radar more often than usual lately, due to the publicity she’s been doing for Contagion. We last saw her just a couple of days ago at the Venice Film Festival, and, at first glance, we thought she was wearing the same orange dress she wore on the red carpet in the photo on the left. It’s actually a different dress, though, so we’ll just have to assume Gwyneth is going through a bit of an orange phase: we’re sure many of you will prefer it to the pale pink…
Back to the boots, though. We’ve looked at the two photos closely, and we can detect no other obvious fashion crimes in either of these two outfits (although you may well disagree), so we’re going to declare Gwyneth the exception which proves the rule. She’s not off the hook entirely, though: while we don’t hate these red peep toe boots at all, we still think both outfits would’ve looked better with another pair of shoes. Mind you, we think ANY outfit would look better with something other than peep toe boots, so we’re speaking from a position of complete and utter bias here.
The designer, who claims not to remember the incidents, was given a suspended fine of €6,000: he was also ordered to pay €16,500 in court fees, as well as a symbolic euro to each of his targets, and to five anti-racism groups.
So, what now for Galliano? He’s already been sacked by Dior: can his career ever recover, or does his personal life and behaviour have no bearing on his standing as a fashion designer?
When it comes to colourblocking, one of the most popular combinations is one which used to be frowned on, back in the days before colourblocking became A Thing: we’re talking about red and pink. In fact, so popular has this particular combo become that we’re surprised the fashion press haven’t invented a compound word for it. “Ped”, maybe. Or “rink”. Anyway!
Here’s Sarah Jessica Parker making her way into the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York this week, to appear on “Late Show with David Letterman”. SJP is currently busy promoting her new movie, I Don’t Know How She Does It. How DOES SJP do it, though? Colourblocking, we mean. Does she do it well, or does she do it badly? Should she be arrested, or should she be awarded the Fashion Police Gold Star, for services to style? It’s up to you…
