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Holiday Shopping: The Dressy Pump
These days it all seems to be about the impending holidays, from my friends’ dreading opening the “Christmas List” on Facebook, to stores and malls already decked out in Christmas displays, to signs everywhere telling me its time to shop, shop, SHOP! Not that I need my arm twisted to do the latter, but it’s [...]
Continue reading...The Tulip Skirt Trend: How To Buy and Wear One
13. November 2008
Given the choice between skinny jeans and a skirt, I’ll always take the skirt. No matter how many times I tried, wearing skinny, nearly painted-on jeans always made me feel incredibly uncomfortable and not very feminine. More Jim Morrison than Audrey Hepburn. So anyway, when the latest skirt trend this autumn came in the form of [...]
Continue reading...Election Night Fashion
6. November 2008
With the election come and gone and Barack Obama the new President-elect, it’s obvious that the trendsetters in 2009 is the Obama family, with no less than 3 women to watch out for. On their night of victory, all eyes were on the First Lady-elect in her Narciso Rodriguez red and black scoop neck dress which [...]
Continue reading...Halloween 2008 Fashion Trends
25. October 2008
Halloween is upon us, and as everyone knows, the best thing about the spooky holiday is dressing up. On the street, fashion pundits are predicting that the trends for 2008 are the characters who stood out this year, mostly from t.v and film. For the youngerlings, everyone’s favourite tween popstar, Hannah Montana; the High School Musical gang [...]
Continue reading...The New Depression-Era Look
20. October 2008
With the world in economic turmoil, the buzzwords these days of “bailout”, “recession”, “credit crunch”, “cost conscious” and so on, have now also hit the fashion world. The look is very much reminiscent of the depression era of the 30’s - tweeds, hats, waistcoats and grey, grey, grey, which is actually perfect for the autumn. [...]
Continue reading...Donna Karan’s Zodiac Bags: Do We Want One?
7. October 2008
Has Donna Karan shown her creative flair, taking a chance in what could very well be a naff concept, turning it into something on every gal’s “I Gotta Have it!” list? or is it an attempt to salvage her handbag reputation by this “astrological” marketing cliche? The Zodiac collection, which features, yes, bags inspired by the [...]
Continue reading...Gucci? Pucci? Dukki?
7. August 2008
The decision between buying an original and a fake implies that one actually has the power or financial clout to buy a designer handbag if they wish. There are some times during the year when this is true. In the January sales quite a few designer bags are reduced to the price of ordinary top-end, [...]
Continue reading...Which decade are you? The 70’s!
16. July 2008
1970s: Where do I start? How about I make a list of the words that come to mind: Hot pants! Platform shoes, jeans, bell bottoms, polyester, mini skirts, maxi skirts, Yves Saint Laurent, Charlie’s Angels, disco fever, cat suits, trouser suits, custom t-shirts, three piece suits, and the list can go on… This is the decade in [...]
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18. November 2008
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