Be you a dynasty dame or a disco diva, it’s time to make for the return of the era of excess. Yes, it’s time to tune into the glamour of the Eighties with cocktail extravaganzas in flamboyant silks and metallics.
This season, nostaliga...
12th August 2009 1:00 am / no comments
The fashion gods have spoken: This autumn, the sartorial spotlight is on the hard shoulder.
This new focus on a well-defined shoulder represents the season’s biggest shift in silhouette. Structured pieces such as coats and jackets came...
11th August 2009 6:42 am / 2 comments
Elegant and sophisticated are terms not often associated with leather… Until now.
Soft, pliable and beautifully cut in feminine, luxurious and bourgeois silhouettes, leather takes on a fresh character this season.
Tough looks get a ladylike...
11th August 2009 1:00 am / 1 comment
As the economic downturn bites, designers understand that you might not be hankering after glitz and glamour ,at least not all the time , and are going back to basics. So it is that an understated classic , the classic camel coat , has been...
10th August 2009 1:49 am / no comments
Powerful, sexy, and slightly hard-core, the thigh-high boot makes a fierce and unexpected statement for Autumn. This bondagesque trend debuted—ever so briefly though unforgettably—on the Givenchy Spring runway and has since made...
9th August 2009 8:09 pm / 2 comments
Coquettish, frivolous and a total vamp after dark, this season, fashion’s darling, la Parisienne, makes an uber-glamorous return. Yes, ready-to-wear meets couture this season as the Parisienne look brings glamorous and dramatic silhouettes...
9th August 2009 7:59 pm / no comments
God I’m hungry. On the count-down to bikini-gate, and that one thought keeps dancing around in my brain waving beef burgers and two chocolate fingers at me.
Despite the crop tops and the very short shorts the shops are taunting me with,...
9th June 2009 3:00 am / 5 comments