Category: Trends

Fashion at the moment is making me feel my years.  No really – all of the weight of 23 years which relatively speaking is barely old at all.  Yet there it is.  I don’t like to say that fashion is ageist as I believe that it’s the attitude not the age that dictates what you… Continue reading Are we pop-ing for fun and hoping for youth?

I never went through the stage of thinking wearing skulls and crossbones were nice.  There’s something too obvious and gimmicky about it that really puts me off.  Those Alexander McQueen a-like scarves that every store copied and everyone was wearing (with the frayed denim mini, distressed ‘rock chick’ vest and cowboy boots – seriously, it… Continue reading Pretty Skulls

Trends for fall/winter 2007-8 still aren’t 100% clear but I’ve picked up on something that I didn’t quite expect to see – thats right folks, it’s folk!  It’s not quite widespread on the catwalk but it has emerged and I have varying opinions on the various guises of folk.  At Mina Perhonen, it was rural… Continue reading Different Strokes of Folk