So, Tibi’s leather-trimmed satin-twill tuxedo jacket is kinda nice, no? Great with black skinnies, pencil dresses, jeans… an easy way to dress-up an outfit, just by throwing on a jacket. Awesome!
“But Fashion Police,” we hear you cry, “It’s $495! How can we be expected to pay $495 for a jacket? We will have to starve, or make ourselves homeless because we spent our rent money on a designer blazer, woe is us!”
Don’t worry, though, help is at hand! You SHALL have a white tuxedo blazer, Cinders! You shall have one from…
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.
Well, it’s defininitley cute, we’ll give it that. And probably quite practical, especially taking into consideration the amount of rain we’ve had here at Fashion Police HQ over the last couple of weeks.
Is it £795 / $1315 worth of cute and practical, though?
Oh, hell to the no! Or not for those of us on a police officer’s salary, anyway, because we’re pretty sure that if we give it a few weeks, we’ll be able to pick up something similar at Topshop/H&M/insert other retailer anyway.
What about you, though? Would you pay £1315 for a plastic cape, even if it DOES have the Burberry Prorsum label attached to it?
Well, you wouldn’t want to mess with THIS model, would you? Look at the expression on her face! She’s almost daring us to laugh at her high-collared Rick Owens jacket:
For some reason we’re reminded of Darth Vader. Like we say, wouldn’t want to mess with her…
About the jacket, though. Folded down, the collar looks fine:
Standing up, though:
Just a tad higher than we’re used to.
Ah, we don’t know, though. We’re in a pretty good mood today, so we’re actually thinking we might turn a blind eye to this one. After all, at $1,690, it’s not like there’s going to be whole armies of people wearing them, as amusing as that mental image is.
What do you think: send it to jail or set it free?
Crystal Carrington called, Betsey. She said she wants… actually, to be honest, she DIDN’T say she wants her jacket back. Nope, she said, “What are you thinking, woman? Not even I would wear this now!” Because it’s 2011, not 1983. Do you copy that, Betsey?
(Still love you, though.)
(Click here if you want to buy it and promise to be really careful not to knock people over in crowds.)
You may be experiencing some gorgeous Spring weather right now, but here at Fashion Police HQ, April showers don’t give way to May flowers. In fact, they usually don’t give way at all. That’s not the only reason we love trench coats, though. They’re a style staple, but they’re also available in more than enough different styles and prints to keep things interesting.
Here are just a few of our current favourites, in no particular order:
Ringspun polka dot trench coat, £40, TK Maxx The asymmetric collar and polka print help breathe new life into an old classic.
ASOS green trench coat, £55 A bright colour makes everything better.
Gryphon skirt trench, $425 Business in front, party at the back. Sort of.
Tulip print trench coat, £55, Topshop It’s summer. Some kind of floral print is compulsory.
Burberry studded trench jacket. Well, you can’t mention trenches without mentioning Burberry…
This jacket is £12,095 (no, that’s not a typo) and it is sold out. You could buy two small cars for that price! Yet there are enough people willing to buy this to clean out Net-a-Porter’s stock of it. We can’t really comprehend that.
If you are willing to wait (and have a second mortgage in order to pay for it), you can click here to be alerted should more come in to stock.
Many of the items that appear on the “New In” page of the Topshop website seem to sell out within a couple of weeks: sometimes even within a couple of days.
Not these ones.
No, these two items first appeared several weeks ago, and, at the time of writing, were still available in almost every size.
We’re going to call this a triumph of sense over fashion. Long may it continue.
(Click here to make fashion triumphant once more…)
Penneys, €25 
Next, £55
M&Co, £49
