Dilemma
Is it so wrong that I prefer the new SS09 Mulberry mens totes (utterly understated in luxe canvas/leather mixes) to the ladylike squashy Bayswater clutch?
London Loves Anthropologie
At last – a joyous announcement! The Evening Standard reports that US fashion chain Anthropologie is pencilled for a UK launch this summer, setting up shop in the former Wedgwood china store in London’s Regent Street. Yippee – more accessories, notebooks, and homesy knick-knacks for us!
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Spring-Summer 2009: the no-trend season?
Until today I hadn’t bought a magazine for over a week and the magazine-withdrawal side-effects was starting to get to me (damn you Grazia for doing a Christmas/New Year double issue and thus denying me my fix last Tuesday). So thank God I found the new Elle on the news-stand today, complete with its excellent Spring-Summer Runway Edit supplement mag.
The introduction acknowledges that this season is less focussed on new trends and more about updating classics and wearing them with things you already own. How refreshing. Much better than pretending that florals, stripes and boho for Spring are something new. The magazine itself continues with this theme. As the editor’s letter proclaims; “This is the ‘NO TREND’ season. There are some amazing pieces out there – forever pieces – but no significant big trends to follow.” Yay to that. If more magazines follow the lead of many a seasoned blogger and show readers how to be imaginitive and Use What They’ve Got instead of buying one-season-wonders and copying celebrity looks (snore), fashion will naturally progress to its next phase of creativity. One certainly hopes so anyway.
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Computer Love
I know the *insert R word here* is the biggest thing to happen to the western world since global warming but having to read references to it in every newspaper and magazine article I pick up is starting to grate. It’s boring! Inconspicuous consumption may be the new black but it will take me longer than a few months to shake myself out of the ‘I want that’ mindset that’s been ingrained in me ever since, well, birth. So even though I was fortunate enough to be gifted a new LG Netbook for Christmas, it’s not enough, I now need something for the poor darling to wear! I like a shopping challenge so the good thing is this will be something of a project, not simply a matter of walking into Selfridges and slapping down my Mastercard. What I don’t want is a bog standard laptop case. Ew no. I want something chic and sexy and possibly not even designed for the job. (E.G. my Panasonic Lumix lives in a Comme zippy purse not a camera case, it looks better and is a good disguise in places where Cameras Are Not Allowed.)
Enter the Goyard St Marie MM Pouchette ($830 in this month’s US Vogue). I slightly went off Goyard when Vicky Beckham discovered it but the good thing about this is it has double usage – computer case for work, clutch for play. How chiconomic!
[Pic: US Vogue]
