“I feel like I have a responsibility to my community and other young girls to help redefine what it looks like to be a woman. I don’t believe in men’s wear or women’s wear, I just like what I like. And I think we should just be respected for being an individual… I’ve been in Vogue, now, and different publications, which is cool, because I think that it just shows a different perspective of how women can dress.”
Janelle Monae
When I used to work in an office, I was routinely ridiculed for two things. My Do Not Disturb hat (a paper hat with, duh, Do Not Disturb scrawled on it for when I was deep in thought reading Easy Living doing fashion trip budgets) and sitting on a ball. Yep, I had an exercise ball as my chair. Sure it used to roll around the department crashing into the interns but it was super comfy. And now I have one at home as my office chair. But what I’d really love is a fun ball like Sarah Lerfel’s – maybe an Eley Kishimoto ball or a Mariko Mori polka dot ball. Or a psychedelic Patternity ball. Are there other snazzy exercise balls out there? And if not, why not…?
OMG, Mary Portas is gonna freak. Blogs are agush at news of the imminent arrival of Anna Dello Russo’s fragrance, Beyond. The scent (which contains notes of vanilla and almond) will be packaged in a bejewelled glass shoe. Rather similar I notice, to the glass perfume receptacle ridiculed featured on one of the best episodes of Mary Queen of Shops. In the gift-slash-interiors shop that Mary famously suggested should be renamed ‘Utter Shite, Come And Get It’, the retail guru took particular umbrage to one decorative shoe-shaped perfume dispenser…
What do you think? Could ADR possibly make the shoe-bottle cool?
Hey look, Cooperative Designs have set up an online shop! May I say how much I like their bonkers creative merchandising? I may? Thank you.
www.shop.cooperative-designs.com
