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Archive for the ‘Columns & Opinions’ Category
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
The fashion world, like any other industry, is full of its own little phrases and buzzwords: in fact, there are so many of them that we had to start developing a glossary.
Of course, some of these terms are great, while others… aren’t. Some even start off sounding great, but gradually become irritating through sheer repetition. Here are five of the phrases that we currently wish we could send to jail*. Feel free to add your own in the comments box!
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
This guest post was written by Karen Buscemi. Karen writes…
With the prominence of the ‘80s resurgence on the fall runways, I’m thankful I had the good sense to save one key piece from that decade which will be relevant come September: my fingerless Madonna gloves, purchased specifically to wear to the Like a Virgin Tour, circa 1986.
You’ve probably witnessed trends you once loved and wore enthusiastically – then later cringed at when revisiting old photos of yourselves – come back into fashion. When harem pants reappeared this spring, I swore I would never allow that style to touch my body again. The same went for padded shoulders. I had nightmarish flashbacks of my childhood, remembering my family doubled over laughing while viewing slides of me in what appeared to be a homage to Boy George and David Bowie.
And yet, my closet is filling again with both trends. Why have I agreed to go back there?
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 This guest post was written by Emma Jane, who writes…
"As the great Coco Chanel once said ‘I don’t do fashion. I am fashion’
This little quote got me thinking about the world of fashion, and how it relates to me personally. I think that a person’s sense of style, the clothes they wear, and the way they shop can tell you a lot about them. It’s true that our sense of style is a major reflection of who we are. I always seem to notice that bright and happy people are always dressed super cute, and fun. And people who are really confident and outgoing, often make very bold fashion choices too.
Which made me wonder, just how much is fashion connected to other areas of our lives?
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
 By Chief of Police, Amber…
I love online shopping. Love it. I love it because … well, because I’m lazy, basically, and when you’re as lazy as I am, what’s not to love about having new clothes and shoes delivered right to your door, all on the click of a mouse?
Well, I’ll tell you what’s not to love about it: not actually being able to buy anything, because the online stores you frequent seem to sell out of everything in your size almost instantly, that’s what. And this situation has really started to infuriate me.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
 As 2008 draws to a close, it’s time for us all to sit back, take stock, and decide just what exactly we want to do with this shiny new year that’s just around the corner.
Now, The Fashion Police would be the first to admit that in the final months of 2008, we got a little bit… spendy. And clearly it’s our job to obsess over clothes and accessories, so we do have a little bit of an excuse, but sometimes things can get a little out of hand, so we’re taking a few moments before slipping into our party dresses to make some fashion-related New Year’s Resolutions.
Feel free to share yours with us in the comments!
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Now, we know many of our US readers will be too busy enjoying the holiday to be fretting over crimes of fashion, but for those of you who’ve found the time to check in with The Fashion Police, we thought we’d give some thanks of our own. Fashion-related thanks, natch. So, right now The Fashion Police are thankful for:
1. The fact that Crocs seem to be losing popularity.
It’s not happening quite quickly enough for us, of course, but our eyeballs aren’t being assaulted by Crocs quite as often as they were last year, and if that’s not a reason to be thankful, we don’t know what is.
2. Skinny jeans
People have been predicting their demise for years now, but they’re still around, and even although we know many of our readers would like to feed us to the sharks for continuing to love skinnies, we don’t care, because you’ll be prising them off our cold, dead legs.
3. Christian Louboutin, Roland Mouret & Vivienne Westwood.
Because they make the world a prettier place.
4. The British high street
Because it gives us budget versions of designer fashions we couldn’t otherwise afford, plus some little gems of its own. Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Primark, River Island, Dorothy Perkins, Warehouse, Oasis, French Connection, ASOS, New Look – we salute you. And the rest of the stores we’ve neglected to mention here, too.
5. Net-a-Porter
Best. Online. Store. Ever. FACT.
6. Our readers
We don’t want to get all mushy and embarrass you, and we are tough cops after all, but you guys are great, you know that? * Group hug *
Your turn, readers: what fashion-related (or what the hell, non-fashion related if you want) things are you feeling grateful for?
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
 When it comes to fashion seasons, we’re inclined to think summer is the worst for flushing out the fashion criminals. Too-short shorts, underwear-as-outerwear, Crocs – they all seem to be more prevalent than usual during the summer months, but that doesn’t mean winter is a fashion crime-free zone. Far from it, in fact.
Here’s a short, and totally subjective list of what we consider to be the worst fashion crimes commonly spotted in winter. Feel free to add to it…
1. Holiday themed clothing and accessories
Yes, we know you’re looking forward to Christmas. So are we. Christmas is fun! But holiday sweaters, novelty socks and Christmas tree earrings? Not so much, really. The first two belong on children and only on children. The third belong only on office Christmas party attendees who’ve had a few too many glasses of the free punch. And the scary snowman pictured above? Belongs on no-one…
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
 Guest author Anna writes…
Being a teenager, I think that the fashion police would probably heavily disagree with most of my fashion choices, especially because I’m one of those crazy 16-year-olds who dress partially to get a rise out of people. I take a lot of pride in my style, though, and even though my clunky black boots, miniskirts, fishnet tights and brightly colored knee-socks won’t be appearing in fashion magazines anytime soon, I take pride in my unique style, and often get compliments. Of course, these compliments tend to be from other wacky teenagers, but whatever. I think that people can pull of most anything if they carry themselves with confidence.
Some things, however, no one can pull off. Some clothing just should not be worn. I love looking through alternative clothing sites online, even though being 16, I usually can’t afford to buy very much. Even though it’s lame, I like to fantasize about the clothes and what I would wear them with. I think that most of my findings are adorable, even though they would probably make all of you grown-up fashionistas squirm, but even I have to draw the line somewhere. Even though I love them, alternative clothing stores are to me where the very, very good meets the horrifyingly bad.
Take this top for instance [pictured left]. The obvious issue here is the amount of skin this model is showing, but even if you can get past that, there’s another problem with it. The way the sheer fabric crinkles makes the model look like she has little rolls, even though we know that that’s not possible or they wouldn’t have had her model it in the first place. My point: If it makes a model look flabby, what is it going to do to the average woman?
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Nikki Smith writes…
I have to admit that after spending a good while on www.vogue.com I was less than inspired, until I came across Anna Sui’s latest eclectic Spring/Summer collection, with her mix of crazy colours, styles and patterns. It was very exciting for me, the non-typical girl who hates wearing what everyone else wears and is usually bored to tears just looking through collections from such so-called fabulous designers who can’t come up with a unique idea between them.
Cleverly Miss Sui had even incorporated the colours in various hairstyles of the models. From blue, to pink to red depending on the outfit the model was wearing. Fabulous indeed.
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Danielle writes…
I hate skinny jeans with an unreasonable passion. When they first came out, I thought to myself, “There is absolutely no way that you will get me into a pair of those. I am having trouble breathing just looking at those pants.” I am a curvy girl. I’ve got so much junk in the trunk, it’s hard to drive the car over a speed bump for fear of jostling everything around back there.
You will never see me in a pair of skinny jeans because I look like a clown. Who declared it fashionable for curvy girls to wear skinny jeans and flats? Has anyone noticed that it makes us look like clowns? I’ve done a (I think) rather accurate portrayal above. You won’t catch me in a pair of those death traps unless I’ve got a red nose on and insist on being called “Bobo”.
Now skinny jeans on skinny girls? Fabulous. It makes me a little jealous that they can wear skinny jeans, but I think I rather like the junk in my trunk.
The next question brings us to skinny jeans on…men? Personally, I have to ask how they manage to stuff their junk into those itty bitty pants legs and then (gulp) zip it up. Does it hurt? Does it have room to.. um.. (blush) breathe? Is there a lot of rearranging necessary? Has anyone ever asked a male friend who wears skinny jeans how they cope with this?
What do you think of skinny jeans? Do you wear them? Prefer them on anyone?
(This was a Fashion Police guest post by Danielle. If you’d like to submit a post to The Fashion Police, click here to find out how.)
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