Lust of the week: Topshop Floral Print Corset
I try and I try and I try to be good and save my pennies but Topshop is a bad place. A bad, bad place that wants to see me fail. For, why else would it throw such a physical incarnation of temptation into my otherwise thrifty gaze? Alas, Topshop knows that I am weak and defenceless and so there is nothing left but to succumb…
Falling from grace is worth it when you have a top that is not only a homage to Balenciaga S/S08, but looks an awful lot like Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony. And really, £35 is not a steep price to pay for an item that manages to play with florals, structure and body-con as well as being the perfect way to channel the sun-drenched and slightly tacky small town American vibe I have been lusting after.
It was made to be worn with my super pale ankle-grazing jeans and gold charms; a combination which was made for the fictional road trip I am undertaking in my head. And, of course, when I stop of at my fictional festival it will make perfect dancing fodder with my denim cut-offs and twirling skirts. Time, I think, to stop frantically justifying my new purchase and begin a summer clad in corseted florals….
Author: Katy Smail
a Illustration graduate from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007, and has spent the past year in a world of words, pictures, fashion and stories.
She works as a freelance fashion writer, while her illustrations 'like candyfloss sticking to wind blown lips' are found in publications like 'The Talent' and 'Curvy Annual 08', and are sold in 'Luna and Curious', Brick Lane, London.
