An Ode to the Beloved

That’s it – it’s been found.   I will procure it with a beaming smug face.  It will stay with me.  It will travel with me.  I will wear it to death.  It will be my unopinionated, unbiased best friend.  I will pass it on to whoever wants my rags when I leave this world. It’s… Continue reading An Ode to the Beloved

The Print Reminder

There will be another LFW loss for next season and as I was browsing through the Fashion East sample sale yesterday, it struck me that the cluster of labels that were hanging on the rails were like a nucleus London fashion collective, each designer contributing completely different things to the scene but it seems right… Continue reading The Print Reminder

The Predictable PVC Pants

Raise your hands if you glanced at Topshop’s website last week and came across these PVC skinny trousers and thought to yourself ‘Susie Bubble is so going to be buying those….’.  Well you’d be right and I suppose there are times when you just have to say ‘Yup…I’ve become hideously predictable…’.  First it was the… Continue reading The Predictable PVC Pants

On the fringe

The name of the post refers both to the location of the store and the purchase at the store.  It was arduous getting to C Madeleine’s, a vintage store that a couple of readers recommended on 13702 Biscayne Blvd in Miami but it was well worth the grotty bus ride up there and the feeling… Continue reading On the fringe