Reasons To Be Cheerful

After a massively stressful day I have taken refuge at home and turned to a novelty Hello Kitty Pot Noodle (yes really) and the internet to cheer me up. I didn’t think it would be possible, but I have now returned to a normal mood level due to the online (and real world) marvels described below.
The [...]

On Being A Good Girl

Annoyingly, my computer is refusing to allow me to play the Style.com slideshows of any of the New York spring shows, so instead of being super-organised and looking at (and commenting on) them as they happen, I’m going to have to wait and glut myself on them all at once. This also means that I have [...]

Other French Purchases

I have made other acquisitions françaises. On Monday I went to the brocante or antiques market in Nice. As well as a lot of vintage lace and an odd amount of antique dolls (every market seems to be full of them) one stall had a pile of 1950s fashion magazines at 2 euros each. I bought two [...]

Swimwear panic inspires hypocrisy

In the past, I’ve made my opinions about FrostFrench abundantly clear. I’ve mocked, I’ve jeered and I’ve name-called. No need to go into detail here, but I’ve never exactly championed them. Oh dear. In the style of my slow admission that Stella McCartney is actually a decent designer, I might have to take some of the cruel words back. During my usual internet wanderings [...]

Orange make-up

Isn’t it awful when a look that you thought was your personal style quirk suddenly becomes a huge trend? It happens so often but I always get embarasssingly annoyed and tantrum-ish. At the moment I’m suffering most over the popularity of orange or coral toned make-up. It’s no so much that I mind that it is fashionable, I just mind that people [...]

FrostFrench fascism?

I have been following with interest coverage of the Frostfrench racism trial, in which a sales assistant is suing the brand for racial discrimination, believing that she was fired for being black.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if she was. Not because I dislike Frostfrench and want a better reason to dislike [...]

War on Wayfarers

I’m going to come right out and say it. I don’t like Wayfarers. I particularly hate the coloured ones.
Though I admit they are a design classic, I don’t like the way that for the last two years they’ve been shorthand for “indie cool”. They used to be cool because the people who wore them made them cool, but now they have [...]