"Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” - Coco Chanel

Tuesday 26 October 2010

Street Style


With thanks to the lovely Helena for allowing me to take her photograph.

Helena is wearing a vintage grandad style cardigan with suede elbow patches - purchased from Godiva Vintage on Grassmarket. She has teamed this with an oversized grey slouched top, black jersey mini and vintage brown boots. She carries a vintage handbag and Barbour quilted jacket.

Student Discount at ASOS.com

Just a quick update as I noticed yesterday that ASOS is now offering a 20% student discount on all products with the use of an NUS Extra card.

Personally, I don't have an NUS Extra Card but with the amount of money I spend of clothes from ASOS, I think it's a worthwhile investment :-)

Happy Shopping.

Tuesday 19 October 2010

Designer vs High Street

After buying a lovely little vintage aviator style leather jacket a few years ago I was glad to see the return of this trend for Autumn/Winter.

I've been coveting these Burberry Aviation style boots ever since I saw the photos of Caroline Sieber wearing them to the Burberry show at London Fashion Week recently. I love the fact that they can be worn with multidues of different items and I really could wear them now! Unfortunately the £695 price tag is slightly out of my budget at the minute.. so instead I've just ordered these little babies from ASOS.

I admit they are completely inferior compared to the gorgeous leather buckled beauties from Burberry.. but at £55 I really can't complain, we are in a recession after all..


Photo from net-a-porter

Photo from asos

Can you rent happiness?

So some of you might remember the scene from the Sex and the City movie where Carrie's assistant (played by the lovely Jennifer Hudson) confesses that she rents her designer handbags from a website online, much to Carrie's confusion.

The site is Bag Borrow or Steal for those of you interested.

Whilst being a brilliant endorsement for the popular rent-a-bag site which already has a section dedicated to different Sex and the City characters, it also brought to the masses the fact that you could actually rent a designer handbag.

However, more recently there has been the launch of similar websites, this offering designer dresses for rental. Sites such as My Celebrity Dress and Girl Meets Dress offer dresses from multitudes of designers from French Connection and Philip Lim to Hervé Léger and Dolce & Gabanna.

Perusing through Girl Meets Dress I came across this grey bandage stress from Leger's Spring/Summer 2009 line that I had been slightly obsessed with at the time. 8 days rental would set me back £115 - a fraction of the £900 price tag it came with. However, the calculations don't really add up for me to make it worthwhile.

I would certainly consider this option if the dress was something I would never purchase - for example, something that isn't classic and wouldn't last me a lifetime. Something extravagently expensive that I would maybe only wear once - for that sort of item, I think it's something I would consider.

As for the beautiful Leger dress.. I think I would have rather own it for myself, and preferably not a year after its release.

Monday 18 October 2010

"What was I thinking...?"


There it was right in front of me. That red and blue tartan jacket that I just had to have. Granted, it was a few years ago now and thankfully, my tastes have evolved somewhat since the purchase of that rather garish number.

But we've all had those moments. You see an old picture of yourself, or you find the item itself hidden in the back of your wardrobe. All you can think is "What was I thinking?." Yeah. You know precisely what I mean.

At the time of the tartan jacket incident, I genuinely believed that my life would be enhanced by owning and subsequently wearing, said jacket. Was it fashionable at the time? Of course it was, I wasn't the only person sporting it, that's for sure. (No, it didn’t escape me the fact that I was a Scot, living in Scotland and wearing a tartan jacket, either)

Anyway, when I came across this jacket the other day - it got me thinking about these little trends that appear all the time. Where do they come from? Who made the decision to sell countless numbers of tartan jackets to young women all over the UK?

Well, fashion trends are usually predicted a few years in advance.. Right? So they had been plotting this for some time.

Sneaky.

I actually remember teaming that jacket with a striped shirt that held a massive bow on the front of it. Luckily the shirt is no where to be found..

But I do always laugh to myself a little when I see people merging trends together for an "original" look. I do it all the time. But am I actually just creating an unattractive mesh of themes and items? Will we look back on today’s fashion and shake our heads in miserable disdain?

Or should we just chalk it down to being truly original?

I’m not sure.. All I know is that I have just spotted and incredible satin jumpsuit that I must have…

Oh and, for my sins… here is the jacket in question.