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'You only work in a shop you know. You can drop the attitude." EDINA MONSOON

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

PLACES: FUCK YEAH! SHOES!

I hate how women are supposed to have an ingrained lust of shoes. It's like we're supposed to have part of our brain proportioned off especially for shoe pondering. Because ya know, nothing actually important goes on in a woman's head. KMT. I blame SATC. They made it perfectly acceptable for women to aim for two things in life: 1. A husband  2. A shoe wardrobe to put our many pairs of over priced shoes.  It's like yes, Emily Davison threw herself under a horse just so us birds could get the right to own as many pair of Manolo Blahniks we can squeeeeeze into a wardrobe. We come kicking and screaming into this world just to shove out feet straight into a pair of Jimmy Choos. LUDICROUS. Rant. Over.

Now I am going to massively contradict myself and show you some pretty pictures of some pretty awesome shoes. YEAH! SHOES!

Detail: Christian Dior, Spring 2008

Christian Dior, Spring 2008

Terry de Hallivand 'Sweetheart' for Ghost, 1990s
Nicholas Kirkwood


Nicholas Kirkwood

Christian Louboutin for Rodarte

Detail: Christian Louboutin for Rodarte

Detail: Christian Louboutin for Rodarte

Vintage Christian Dior, 1957

Vintage 1957 Christian Dior

Vivienne Westwood Rocking Horse Golf Shoe, 1987

Mini McQueen Armadillo


Close up: Mini McQueen Armadillo 

Detail: Terry de Hallivand 

Terry de Hallivand for Agent Provocateur 



Katie Eary for Nike, 2010

Katie Eary for Nike, 2010

Chau Har Lee, 2009

Chau Har Lee, 2009

Chau Har Lee, 2009

Sophia Grace Webster, Manolo Blahnik, 'Babylon' Project
































STREETSTYLE: SUPER SUPER






J A N A
Stylist for Super Super. I Love Love her Neon Neon accessories. 

STREETSTYLE: RAAW GIRL CRUSH










As soon as Micah walked into my store she demanded attention by being such a god damn babe. Some people have that knack. Her Givenchy bag literally turned me green with envy. Add into the mix a genuinely sunny, friendly personality and layered textures of black and a new girl crush was born (you can probably guess that from the number of portraits...). Check Micah's blog of all things fashion here

Thursday, 3 November 2011

SHOPPING: FRIDA KAHLO HOT SOX SOCKS

So you know how I was posting about preposterous socks and how I was getting slightly obsessed with them... well... DADA!!! Here are the most amazing/ridiculous socks in the world... FRIDA KAHLO socks! So absurd that I simply had to buy them in not one, not two but THREE! Yes three! Different colours. It's sad that my life has come to this. But what's probably even sadder is that I felt the need to blog about them. Gotta be something slightly wrong about that...





* Don't you just love the incredibly 80s holographic brand name and font... HOT SOX. I bet they spent ages thinking that up.