Young celebs have been spotted around town baring their backs in cut out or back-strap frocks recently. Something about the allusion to undergarments makes the look daring and very sexy.
If you’re ready to give this trend a try and aren’t afraid to show a little skin, then this Black Halo Cut-Out Back Shift Dress – recently donned by The Hills star, Audrina Patridge – would be a fabulous option for you.
“You’ve got to pick a pocket or two.” Such were the immortal words sung by the Artful Dodger (in ‘Oliver’, most famous of all orphan musicals) and suprisingly apt advice in these times of magpie-like fashion arrangements.
Apparently, Spring has sprung! Although the wild blizzard I had to navigate through this morning would beg to differ…..And so we launch into the difficult fashion territory that is the slow changing of the seasons.
Whilst I may long with all my heart to fling off my black opaques and frolick in bare legs and sunshine, my poor circulation and sub-zero body temperature is putting up rather a strong resistance to such whimsy.
Everywhere from magazine editorials to TV shows seem to be pointing towards the answer to all of our cross-seasonal/ saratorical problems - why, ankle socks of course.
Unlike clothing and hair trends that change from season to season, sunglasses styles seldom undergo any major seasonal changes. I mean look at the Rayban Wayfarers and Aviators that are still seen on tonnes of celebs from LA to London (The Olsens, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller to name but a few). But that doesn’t mean you can get away with just any old style this summer season.
Scrunchies died a long time before that classic episode of SATC when Carrie and Berger argue about the 80’s hair accessory and its place in fashion history. Or so I thought…
The last time I saw a scrunchy for purchase must’ve been circa early 90’s when there was no other option to put your hair up with besides the banana clip. However, while browsing Free People for some cute summer gear, I decided to scope out new hair accessories and came across their collection of…you guessed it, scrunchies.
Free People have modernized the scrunchy by making it a lot more sleek and trendy- using thin, colourful burnout fabric with a cool boho-feel.
With this new iteration of scrunchy, there’s definitely been some improvements made, but still, I don’t think I’d ever be able to muster up the courage to wear one again. It gives me chills just thinking about it.
Not usually one to idolise the style choices of fictional teenage girls (childhood ‘Clarissa‘ obsession aside…), I have decided to make an exception and appoint Cassie from hit TV show ‘Skins‘ as my new style crush.
The show, which chronicles the debaucherous antics of a group of Bristol based teens, is dressed up in the kind of stylised, nonchalant clothes that make me long for the days of my own teenage rebellion. I’m hooked on the entire cast, but it is Cassie’s offbeat eccentricity that has really got me thinking.
Collective muses of the season seem to be “Big Edie” and “Little Edie” of “Grey Gardens” fame. The cult documentary, which followed the squalar, isolation and faded eccentricities of Jackie O’s aunt and cousin in East Hampton, directly inspired Galliano’s S/S show and is currently being remade into a feature film starring Drew Barrymore.
I have always been an enthusiastic ambassador for the joys of coloured tights, so it is with a heavy heart that I announce my resignation. That is not to say that I am abandoning tights as a whole, it’s just that I’m a little bored of the block colour variety.
Contrary to what the magazines would have you believe, there is a way to float through Spring’s romance-spun reverie withough having to overload your garden with never-ending floral prints. A new production of ballerina chic is a vision of femininity restrained, of a restricted softness that can render its wearer an honoury member of the Ballet Russes.
Elle’s Fashion Director, Nina Garcia says “It’s all about the jacket this season” as she walks us through the comeback of the power suit for Spring 08…
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