Maybe it is because it is the season of fashion weeks (Fashion Month?) and maybe because I just submitted some scribblings to a fashion mag’s writing competition (in the hope of winning shoes!) but I have of late, found myself musing about the mad, bad and dangerous to know world of fashion. Of course, ten [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘shoes’
Thursday 2 July 2009
Rampant anti-hipsterism
I have been having a lot of fun in recent weeks taking the mickey out of the hipper inhabitants of my neighbourhood. Ripping them for their lack of irony, helping a friend to surreptitiously take pictures of overly sincere straw boater-wearing, which may end up on here soon. And I am not the only one. [...]
Friday 22 May 2009
The eternal catwalk of life
The girls cross at the lights, weaving in and out of the cars diagonally over the road. Their heels are vertiginous, six inches at least; they walk as if en pointe. Mostly they stride, as if born to walk on tiptoes, but there is one, tripping along after her friends, who already looks sunk. It [...]
Sunday 3 May 2009
Anarchy in the UK
From fashion magazine Plastique comes news that: Ever present bold costume jewellery and statement shoes are paired this season with an anarchic attitude and the desire for change. Take a stand. Be counted. I’m a woman. A woman who likes clothes. A woman who sometimes looks good in clothes. Yet I read the above and, [...]
