Imagine...

...you've got a really important business meeting that you're totally unprepared for. There's good reasons for your lack of preparations, mostly involving vodka, but you are petrified that you're going to crash and burn in the boardroom. The solution? Wear an outfit that is hypnotic. This creation from Basso&Brooke will draw the attention away from whatever rubbish you're spouting and leave your fellow suits mesmerised by your fabulous taste in clothing, and ability to match (shoes and jacket, very classy, very businesslike).

...your super-hot male friend asks you to help him to move house. You need to look alluring but also be able to move about - he has a load of junk that needs boxing up and moving out. Peter Pilotto has the solution, shorts and a shirt is a simple combination but will make you look cool and show that you really are there to help. Plus short-shorts show off your legs, although pumps might be better than these heels when you're helping to lug a piano up four flights of stairs.

...you've been invited to a "bad taste party" at uni. You don't actually want to look totally hideous because, well you would be completely ashamed. This is what Henry Holland is for. You'd have to be brave to wear this outfit on a normal night out, but under the guise of "bad taste" you can show off this wonderful ensemble.

...you've been asked out by a cowboy. In the 90s. I am so in love with this from Sienna Miller's Twenty8Twelve that I'm currently developing a time machine to ensure I do find myself in that situation.

...it's your first lecture at uni, you want to look cute and clever. I would suggest that you remember to dry your hair though, you don't want to catch a chill. I love how this outfit is demure and scholarly without being drab. And the socks/legwarmers match the coat - cute as!

...you just want to look super hot! Burberry Prorsum is all you need.

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A hat fit for Icarus

When I'm looking to buy a hat top of my list of requirements is that by wearing it I could potentially blind someone close by. Luckily for me, Maria Francesca Pepe has designed a piece of headwear perfect for that very cause.



Although I am perplexed about the wearability factor of that particular piece, the rest of Pepe's collection is simple yet effective. I like clean lines, I like block colours and I like clothing with shape. This collection has all three. Inspiration is supposed to have come from 19th century French prostitutes, but I'm sure there must have been more ruffles involved back then. The seductive fabrics are due to Pepe's Italian roots, which is lucky really since the velvets and silks stop the cuts from being overly harsh.




I'm not so sure about the lilac lipstick - it's a bit Peaches Geldof for my liking - but the combination of the simple dress and geometric brooch makes for an interesting outfit. Effortlessly cool rather than being too showy.



This season is all about the shoulder, dahling. There's still a part of me that screams "Dynasty" everytime I see a shoulder pad, but as I personally am lacking in the shoulder-department I do feel myself drawn to the sillouette - just so long as big hair and dream sequences aren't coming back too!




C for Ciara...

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Check Out Anna Dello Russo's Crazy Fashion Week 'Fits

Imagine packing for Fashion Week in Milan and Paris. What would you stick in your suitcase? Lots of black, skinny jeans, killer heels, and some statement jewellery? Or how about a cherry hat, fur, and couture outfits that don't look like they even fit in a suitcase? So fascinated are we by the peerless Vogue Nippon editor Anna Dello Russo that we started tracking her outfits. She takes more fashion risks in one week than we will in our entire lifetime, which is why we love her.

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Thrusting Cheryl Cole's raunchy dancing

This was a while ago but thought worth a post!

Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole performs in a revealing outfit at the Brighton Centre as part of their Tangled Up tour.

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Israeli designer made shoes, imitating the female body

The famous Israeli designer Kobi Levy has a very different point of view when it comes to shoes, he is fully convinced that they can take any form as long as it can be worn. 

From female bodies to market baskets, dogs or bananas, the shoes designed by the eccentric designer priced on 500 pounds, are real jewelry that you would fear to wear.

The designer has contracts worldwide and is currently working on footwear collection for men, because he is very curious how would he feel in shoes created by him.

Photos: http://kobilevidesign.blogspot.com

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Eat what you wear with fashion student’s edible clothes

Most fashion students keep their finished design pieces in a wardrobe, but 22-year old Emily Crane has to use a freezer.

Kingston University fashion student created Haute Edible Couture fashion series – new strain of edible “clothing”. The young designer lives by the expression “you are what you eat” and creates intricate designs, all of which are edible. Emily Crane uses gelatin, seaweed and food dyes to form her beautiful garments and accessories.

Crane’s work will be displayed September 17th at London Fashion Week’sVauxhall Fashion Scout in Covent Garden, but even the designer herself can’t be certain of what she’ll be showing.

“I never know exactly what something is going to turn out like in advance because the processes are still very experimental,” she says.

Check out the photos of her garments and watch video of Emily at work here.

Edible Clothing by Emily Crane from Jasmin Chua on Vimeo.

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Save Your Shoes, Wreck Your Style With Odd Looking Heel Protector

Heels Above

Im not into gimmicks-- but this is awesome

Here is a product that in some strange way does make sense.

I'm not sure if this thing resembles the nipple on a baby bottle, a golf tee, or ananalytical funnel but a plastic whositwhat that looks like it should be autoclaved does NOT make for a fashion accessory!


We bring you Heels Above...

"Discreet, recyclable plastic feet molded to easily slip over your shoe's heel," the discreet part is what's giving us the giggle.

It's press release continues to say it better than our words can express, "Thismind numbinglysimple concept was born of necessity after inventor Nicole Grossman took ONE too many steps off-road in her Manolos. Mother-daughter duo Nicole & Susie have joined forces to create the ONE accessory that every woman has wished for since the dawn of the high heeled shoe."

What is "mind numbing" is that the glaringly obvious plastic contraption with the flying saucer base is photographed on a shoe with a red sole. In our collective opinion and random survey, we can say that no stylish woman willing to shell out mega bucks on a pair of Loubs would be caught dead adorning them with a device that looks like it's part of Jiffy Lube change.

BTW: There are other high heel protectors out there which are less obtrusive. There were even ones back in the 1960's to save your spikes from the evils of an escalator. Sweeties, can you TRY to design one that a stylish woman would want to wear if she felt the need?

Helpful Hints:
Wedge shoes or a thicker heel will not sink into the ground at an outdoor affair.
Look before you walk on pavement to avoid getting stuck in sidewalk cracks.

Sold at heelsabove.com, of course!

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