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Penelope Cruz for W Magazine August 08 issue

julia — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:55:25 +0000

Penelope Cruz is ready for her close-up and she’s never looked betterâ€¦

Green, pink, yellow, Posh. Victoria Beckham can’t get enough colour

julia — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:02:57 +0000

She’s bucked the fashionista’s true romance with black, instead opting for acid brights and floss pinks mixed in to sweeten the look.

Victoria Beckham’s jeans are unmissable in bold colours but more flattering to the drainpipe-lean leg than anything chunkier, alas.

Stick to traditional denim we suggestâ€¦ or buy bright shoes.

Try these shoes for sizeâ€¦

Christian Louboutin Privatita platform slingbacks, Â£420. Click here to shop the look.

Or flaming hot pink? Christian Louboutin Very Noeud slingbacks, Â£410. Click here to shop the look.

Katie Holmes and supersized shades

julia — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:28:16 +0000

It’s nighttime and all is dark but Katie Holmes perseveres with fashion-conscious enthusiasm and opts for oversized styling at Victoria Beckham’s birthday do.

Curious. The supersized sunglasses are all a bit Nicole Richie in her Zoe-styled moments. Note to Katie â€“ the sunglasses steal the limelight from a perfectly cute sixties-style gold dress.

Click here to see the look.

For similar gold-dress wow, think Michael Kors. Pebble brocade dress, Â£1,100. Click here to shopâ€¦

Nicole Kidman keeps in cool in Balenciaga but brings in the bling

julia — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:39:35 +0000

It was a look designed to draw attention away from her baby bump â€“ lashings of bling on the neckline. But Nicole Kidman overdazzled â€“ and not in a good way.
The dress was at its perfect best and needed no distractions. The diamonds-are-forever look was too Bond and not enough Balenciaga.

Bling this

Lindsay Lohan’s leggings hogging the limelight as ever on the fashion scene

julia — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:52:35 +0000

Lindsay Lohan’s leggings. These two go together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong. Remember forever as shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom. In other words, the girl can’t get enough of this look.

Has Lohan been surgically stitched inside them? Is she contracted to wear them for a fashion campaign we don’t know about? Lindsay Leggings Lohan is one of the bizarre trends of fashion that is set to run and run until the girl falls in love with jeans.

Mr Blackwell’s Worst-dressed List

julia — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:03:11 +0000

Hell hath no fury than a fashion man scorned. This week Blackwell released his 48th annual list of Ten Titans of Taste-Free Terrors.

Ouch. Here who comes under the fashion fire with Victoria Beckham at the top. The Ronald is not best pleased!!

1 Victoria Beckham: “Forget the fashion spice – wearing a skirt would suffice! In one skinny-mini monstrosity after another, pouty posh can really wreck-em.”

2 Amy Winehouse: “Exploding beehives aboveâ€¦tacky polka-dots belowâ€¦ sheâ€™s part 50â€™s car-hop horror.”

3 Mary Kate Olsen: “YIKES! In layers of cut-rate kitsch, Mary Kateâ€™s look is hard to explainâ€¦ she resembles a tattered toothpick-trapped in a hurricane!”

4 Fergie: “Another style-free â€™Fergieâ€™ in fashionâ€™s hall of shame? Yes, when it comes to couture chaos, guess itâ€™s all in a name!”

5 Kelly Clarkson: “Her heavenly voice soars above the restâ€¦ but those belly-baring bombs are hellish at best! She may be the queen of â€™Pro-Activeâ€™ â€“ but that wardrobe looks downright radioactive!”

6 Eva Green: “Stuck in neon nightmares not fit for the sane. Fashion this loud could give Bond a migraine! A profusion of confusion from toes to nose!”

7 Avril Lavigne: “Gothic make-up courtesy the mad spatula-Fashions provided by.. The house of Dracula!”

8 Jessica Simpson: “Forget the Cowboys. In prom queen screams, can it get any worse? Sheâ€™s a global fashion curse!”

9 Lindsay Lohan: “Lindsay the fashion frenzy strikes again! Lohan takes fashion to a new low.”

10 Alison Arngrim: “Little Nellie of the prairie, looks like a 1940â€™s fashion editor for the Farmers Almanac.”

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High-waisted look: love or not to love

julia — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 06:54:48 +0000

It’s a tricky one. High-waisted trousers are wowing fashion fans and can be a killer look if you work it right, but get it wrong and you’ll look lumpy and bumpy and all things not nice.

Good look: Earnest Sewn jeans

No-so good look: Mischa Barton working it wrong. See more here

Kate Moss works the animal print look with a leopard-print coat teamed with over-the-knee boots

julia — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:19:25 +0000

The Moss shrugs on some print to liven up a top-to-toe black look for party frolics. The old-faithful boots have been loved to death and could do with some time out. See here for details.

Fashion verdict? Not loving this look

We want Becky Newton for festive frolics even in yellow and schoolgirl grey

julia — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:20:57 +0000

Yes, we’ve special requested Ugly Betty Becky Newton to sit on our table for Christmas lunch frolics.

We are even prepared to overlook what she is wearing. We must be in a good mood.

We’re back in the fashion spotlight

julia — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:16:00 +0000

Possums, we’re back in action. Sorry to leave you stranded over the last few days but we had to lie down in a dark room after seeing Nicole Kidman in her tin-foil suit. Kidding!!!

No, we’ve had our head stuck in the Savoy Hotel catalogue (Â£30 we splashed out!!!!) checking out the 3,000 items going on sale at the grand auction. And you thought we were just fashion bunnies. We’ll keep you posted if we get our hands on the infinity mirrorsâ€¦ or not.

Shine on

Love or loathe the wrap dress: it is under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons

julia — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:35:17 +0000

Oh dear, what did the wrap dress do to deserve such backlash? DVF won’t like it. Diehard wrappers won’t like it.

Ok you do need to be stick thin and not get in a flap when the wind blows, but otherwise it is not the worst crime of fashion we can think ofâ€¦ Read it here and you decide.