Cover Lover



How delicious does the April issue of UK ELLE look? Their covers never ever disappoint, and Chloe Sevigny is a wonderful choice of cover star - doesn't she look adorable in Miu Miu S/S 10?
Also note how the masthead has Miu Miu's quirky dog print all over it? I love that touch.
Cannot wait to read this issue, which is out on Friday, and officially launches the Shopgirl to Stylist campaign.

Are you loving Chloe's cover too? And which magazine covers have stood out for you so far this year?

image from thefashionspot.com

PFW: Dries Van Noten

This post could easily be titled Clothes Women Want to Wear. As flicking through the images of Dries Van Noten's A/W 2010 collection on style.com there were countless pauses, where I was thinking "that skirt/dress/coat/jacket/pair of pants is just what I need."
I guess that is a sign of a fantastic collection. Another sign of a good collection? When you look through it thinking of women like Carine Roitfeld, Sofia Coppola, and Diane Keaton in Annie Hall. The pin-up girls for enviable casual style.



Who else is melting over this collection?

images from style.com

LFW: Charlotte Taylor

What's this? Jumping all the way back to London Fashion Week? If this is hurting your brain I do apologise, but before the Paris shows really get under way and the Oscars take place (I'm oddly not that excited) I wanted to write about Charlotte Taylor's A/W 2010 collection.
It was her first season showing in London, and with a collection inspired by "grannies" and "penguins" it was full of quirky, cute and wearable pieces - I'm very keen on the trousers.




As a new designer Charlotte is also documenting everything (from showing at fashion week to the making of the lookbook) on her blog charlotte-taylor.blogspot.com.
Check it out to view the rest of her collection.

And the lack of posts today is down to a very annoying headache that will not go away - I will be back properly tomorrow.

Keira's Comeback

It feels like Keira Knightley has been hiding from the public eye for the last year or so, and I honestly think it's the smartest move she's made. I like Keira, but there was a point when she was so overexposed I wanted to bang my head against the wall everytime I saw another magazine cover with her beautiful face on it.



But absence really does make the heart grow fonder, because after seeing these images of her wearing Miu Miu's S/S 2010 collection at the Laurence Olivier Awards Nominees Luncheon I actually want to see more of Keira! And that is a sentence I didn't think I'd ever be writing. I think it's time for her comeback.

Have you missed Keira? And what do you think of her Miu Miu look?

images from justjared.buzznet.com and style.com

Handbag Junk

I just tipped the contents of my bag onto the floor, in search of something, and was shocked to see how much junk I carry around everyday. The junk included used up pens, old train tickets, empty packets of gum, and oddly a few buttons (why, I do not know). My bag is always way too heavy - I do not travel light - and this has resulted in me having to use the lightest bag I own, a Marc by Marc canvas shopper, everyday just to stop my arm from falling off. In an ideal world the Alexander Wang Rocco would be my current handbag, and the contents would look something like this:


Classic Missoni scarf from My-Wardrobe.com; Linda Farrow Luxe sunglasses from Net-A-Porter.com; Lanvin sneakers from Matchesfashion.com; Marc by Marc Jacobs watch from My-Warobe.com; Roberto Cavalli keyring from Net-A-Porter.com; If You Have To Cry Go Outside by Kelly Cutrone from Amazon.com.

What does the contents of your bag currently look like? And what would you rather be carrying around?

Alice in Versaceland

Imagine what would have happened if Alice had landed in the Versace atelier when she fell down that rabbit hole... I think she'd end up looking like this.


Look four; Versus A/W 2010

So far I'm loving Christopher Kane's work for Versus. This season I actually prefer the Versus collection to both Kane and Versace's. And I think we'll be seeing a lot of Versus on the red carpet this year too.
Who would you like to see rock a Versus number? It sounds a little random, but I'm thinking Emma Watson.

image from vogue.co.uk

I'm Moving to Italy



Looking at the Dolce & Gabbana A/W collection you would be surprised to even hear the word 'winter' used by the Italian duo. The only thing Anja Rubik has to do to update her bra and knickers for winter is add pair of socks and a chunkier knit. If this is how it goes in Italy* then I am definitely moving there - cold weather is sooo last season.

You can view the entire Dolce & Gabbana collection here - it's a goodie. And am I the only person out there who has to do an impression of Anne Hathway's "can you please spell Gabbana?" from The Devil Wears Prada every time I even think about D&G?

*note that this is more of an example of how fashion has little to do with practicality than Italy's good weather

images from style.com