How to solve the problem of the harsh bulkiness of the ‘big shoulder’? Construct them in softy soft organza mixed with sharply creased origami folds as Anne Valerie Hash’s haute couture SS08 collection demonstrates here. A clear example of trends flowing seamlessly through from one season to the next with the sharpened shoulders reincarnated here… Continue reading Oxymoronic Shoulders
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Clowning Around
I did say that the circus was coming to town and I’m fully convinced that I’m going to have to confront one of my biggest childhood fears full-on in order to proceed with my current love affair with the circus. Yes, it’s the clown. I don’t like to quote Carrie Bradshaw in a misty-eyed, fan-adoring… Continue reading Clowning Around
Pyjama Rainy Days
It isn’t a horrid rainy day but a misty hazy grey rainy day. As soon as that sort of light wispy rain falls where you don’t actually need an umbrella but rather you, walk through and it feels like those Evian spray mists are constantly on you, I think about wanting to re-watch my ultimate… Continue reading Pyjama Rainy Days
Circus, coming near you!
I promise I will stop quoting from Hadley Freeman’s new book ‘The Meaning of Sunglasses’ (yes…the review IS in prgoress….) but I had to snort at this excerpt on the subject of make-up: ‘With its emphasis on coloured eyelids, unnaturally lashes, pink cheeks and big red lips one cannot help but trace a very obvious… Continue reading Circus, coming near you!