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Archive for the ‘Outerwear’ Category
Friday, October 30th, 2009
This is described as a silk blazer with “sleeve twist”. The “twist” is that someone has chopped off the elbows. Because, honestly! Elbows! Who has elbows in their jackets any more? Elbows are just, like, SO last season! But this: this is edgy. it is creative. It does not, in any way, look like the designer was desperate to do something, anything, to be different, and thought, “I know, I’ll just chop the elbows off! And everyone will think it’s edgy!” Oh God, no.
It’ll cost you £502 to wear a jacket without elbows. If you wear it Lady Gaga style, as shown, with just a giant pair of knickers, it’ll possibly cost you considerably more, because The Fashion Police will catch you and fine you. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Dion Lee silk blazer with sleeve twist, £502
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Animal print is one of those things you have to be really careful with. Too much, or the wrong type of garment, and you can end up looking like the legendary Bet Lynch, of Coronation Street fame:
Which is to say: it can be tacky.
Done right, though, we think a little bit of leopard can add a glamorous touch to an outfit, and we have to admit, we’re quite partial to it, in small doses. It’s definitely not a look for everyone, though, which is why today we want to solicit your opinions on one of this winter’s biggest trends: the faux fur, animal print coat. Now, faux fur and animal print are both fairly big this year independently of each other, but it’s when they come together, in the form of outerwear, that we’ve really been noticing them. And we’ve been noticing a LOT of them. We’ve pictured just five animal print jackets above, but if you like them, you won’t have to look too hard to find more. If you hate them, though, well, sorry to hear that, because you’re going to have a hard time avoiding them.
Which is it, though? Love, hate, or something in between? Tell us!
L-R Faux fur coat, £50, New Look; Alice & Olivia faux fur shawl collar jacket, $385; leopard fau fur coat, £90, Topshop; leopard print long swing coat, £90, Miss Selfridge; Belted faux fur jacket, $34.80, Forever 21
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Yeah, OK, fashion designers, the joke’s over: all of this 80s-inspired crap we’ve been putting up with for the past few years has GOT TO STOP. Especially now that a batwing denim jacket has been allowed to come into existence. Seriously, a BATWING DENIM JACKET. They wouldn’t even have allowed that in the actual 80s, never mind these pseudo 80s we’re living through now.
Oh, and while we’re on the subject of the 80s:
Now, the pink cropped sweater is… not our kinda thing, granted. But holy crap, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SHE’S WEARING WITH IT? Is that an acid-wash diaper? Because it sure looks like one:
*Shudder* Guess we know what our nightmares will be about tonight, then…
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
…this one from Topshop is probably the one we’d buy. Not that we’re actually considering buying it, you understand, but we think our eyes have started to adjust to all of the sequins that are around right now, and they don’t look half so bad as they might have done a few weeks/months ago.
We think this jacket would look good worn casually with jeans, but if you have a big night out planned, it could also be good over a dress, for a very Blair Waldorf/society heiress kinda look.
It’s £95 from Topshop.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
“Look! No hands!”
Well, it may be a crime of fashion, but at least it’s totally ‘armless, eh? Geddit? “Armless?” Oh, never mind…
We arrested this Marni jacket yesterday evening, although we must admit, it took the officers in charge quite some time to get the cuffs on it, because:
a) they were laughing so hard
and
b) it’s got NO ARMS to attach them to
Now that we’ve confiscated it, we’re going to put it to good use in the Fashion Police jail, where it’ll come in handy as a straight jacket. It was actually quite tempting to let this one walk free, though, if only so we could have the chance to see hordes of people all walking around shaped like giant, armless balls. Hee! In the end, though, we thought it was wise to bring it in on safety grounds alone: imagine, if you will, a slippery, icy path, a person walking down it with their arms trapped inside their “balloon” jacket, unable to break their fall… OUCH.
Marni balloon jacket, £370
Monday, October 12th, 2009
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Bought your winter coat yet? If not, may we recommend this cocoon coat from Forever 21: not only is it a bargain at just $34.80, it’s very Jackie O – just add a pair of dark glasses and some elbow length gloves to keep your arms warm under those 3/4 sleeves for a chic, 60s look.
Forever 21 brisk tweed jacket, $34.80
Monday, August 24th, 2009
 These jackets have a bit of a Photoshopped feel to them, but rest assured, if they have been ’shopped, it wasn’t done by us: The Fashion Police don’t like to tamper with the evidence, and even if we did, we don’t think we could make these any uglier if we tried. Or any more expensive, actually: these are $1,777 each, which means we can convict them on three counts:
Count 1: Offences to the eyeballs
Count 2: Cruelty to animals
Count 3: Possible Daylight Robbery
Three strikes means you’re out in our world: or rather you’re IN the Fashion Police jail, so we have no hesitation in convicting these jackets of Crimes of Fashion. Bail is set at the aforementioned $1,777, payable to Colette.
[Bless fox fur jackets]
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Feathers have been popping up on dresses for a while now, but Jason Wu has decided to take feathers out of the dress closet and attach them to this coat.
Now, clearly this is an "evening wear only" kind of coat, rather than one you'd wear every day (Can you IMAGINE the mess it'd get into on public transport?), but what do you think of it? Chic and a little bit different, or are there too many "Big Bird" overtones to this one for you? Perhaps the £5,400 price tag changes your opinion? Either way, tell us about it!
Jason Wu collarless feather coat, £5,400, Browns
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Remember all of the back vent dresses we've been arresting recently? It would be a shame to buy one of these and then have to hide their, er, unique feature underneath an ordinary old jacket, wouldn't it? You know, one that actually had a BACK? Anyway, as all good fashionistas know, covering your back is, like, SO 2008, and that's why so many items of clothing have been appearing in stores lately with either partial backs or no backs at all.
Luckily for those of you who're buying the back vent dresses like they're about to go out of fashion (And actually? We really hope they are.), Charlotte Ronson is on the case, with her cutout tuxedo jacket, which comes with a back vent of its very own. So now you can wear something over your dress, but still be able to flash the flesh on that all-important section of your lower back. Genius.
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
We've been loving blazers this year. Us and everyone else, obviously: they've been all over the high street, worn with everything from wet-look leggings to little floral dresses.
Now, though, the blazers are branching out. Not content to be the classic piece of outerwear they always have been, the blazers want to take centre stage, be the life and soul of the party, make the outfit all about THEM. and they want to do this with floral print. LOUD floral print. The kind of floral print that has us reaching for our sunglasses because it's just so! damn! bright!
To say we're not fans of this look would be like saying that Lady Gaga can look a little bit eccentric sometimes. So yeah, we hate it. Although, to be fair, we'd probably say that about any double-breasted blazer, because they're just not our thing.
Topshop had lots of this style in stock just last month, however, so someone out there must like them. Mustn't they? That's why these are up On Trial. What do you think of them? Are they the Crimes of Fashion we think they are, or is there a way to wear them and avoid arrest?
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