Hadley Freeman’s overly tongue-in-cheek articles in Guardian which seem to discourage people from ‘having fun’ with fashion used to grate me quite a bit but her writing for 10 magazine for which she is a regular contributor brings me joy everytime I buy an issue and as I cosy up on my bed to take… Continue reading Are you a Fashion Victim?!
Category: Rants and Raves
The Dangerous Discount
It’s not particularly chic or graceful but I’m a discount voucher hoarder. If there’s a voucher out and about in magazines, it’s gonna be cut out, kept in the wallet and then the buy-by date will come and go and it will still be crumpled up in my wallet. I can’t keep track of how… Continue reading The Dangerous Discount
Revive to Survive
Labels being brought back from the dead is something of a popular bandwagon that sparks major news flashes on all of the WWD/Vogue/FWD etc saying ‘XXX is back!’ with us bloggers following up with a SHOCK SHOCK HORROR HORROR post at the news. I’ll summarise with a Newsround-like factsheet…. Biba – Michael Pearce bought the… Continue reading Revive to Survive
The Far East Teen Stash
I must confess; whilst they were still in publication, I bought every issue of Ellegirl (both UK and US) editions and I still do succumb to Teen Vogue every month. Flawed as Teen Vogue is with its excessive advertising, skewed portrayal of the young privileged American teenager and overly sacharrine/energetic posing (a lot of laughing… Continue reading The Far East Teen Stash