Whether you’re an after-hours ballet pumps, brogues or trainers girl, once the office heels (super high white ones, naturally) are kicked under the desk late afternoon, ANYTHING FLAT, vaguely padded or semi supportive is a slice of footwear heaven. Such is the glamorous life of attending shoots or running between departments all day that SOMETIMES […]
Start burning the incense and stacking some heavy silver now. Our fave jewellery designer, Pamela Love has made her first fashion film starring Crystal Renn as an over-accessorised woodland nymph. The video, to promote the Love’s SS13 collection, has been created with only the most ethereal references in mind. Renn, in a nude slip and […]
As we trundle soberly towards mid-January it’s easy to feel a bit over the high street. Same old tired looking clearances and (at first glance) nothing but a sea of humbug monochrome stripes on the ‘New In’ rails. Here’s a few ways to starve off boredom until February… Embrace Men’s Fashion Week Sibling, McQueen and […]
Loosely defined as the influence of Japanese art on the West and more specifically in France, where Japanese wood-block prints inspired European impressionist painters (bear with me) Japonisme is a MAJOR reference buzz word for SS13. So what does this mean for us dedicated followers of fashion? It means that if Christopher Kane, Miuccia Prada […]
WAR. WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Well, OK, something. Camouflage. It’s good for camo. And while that whole face-painted-as-leaves look never QUITE worked for me (although I have rocked a similar look stumbling out of Faces nightclub at 3am), grunge is BACK in fashion. *Licks purple lipstick off teeth. Squints through round mirrored […]
It was the 1980s and I was the first girl in my class to get Clarks Magic Steps shoes. The ones with the key in the sole. They are perhaps responsible for many things: The start of my shoe obsession. My flexibility. I always had my foot up in the air showing off the soles. […]
Crop tops, knicker shorts and cut-out dresses. I thought the most figure punishing of summer trends had peaked already until I noticed a sneaky little separate called the bloomer. Slowly taking old on the high street, bloomers are a micro trend for the slim of limb who want to push this season’s girly vibe to […]
My romantic notion of bowling shoes is of Moddish ’60s sorts, Ocean Colour Scenesters and Lucy Van Pelt from the Peanuts cartoon. The reality is stinky, sweaty ‘corrective’ style shoes at the bowling alley, usually a men’s style thanks to my size 7s. But there’s just something about the two-toned, lace-up bowling shoe that’s deliciously […]
Brace yourselves ladies, a Gallic invasion is afoot and the girls are as sexy as hell. Look to Clémence Poésy at Fashion week, Joséphine de La Baume (AKA ‘Mrs Mark Ronson’ in Westwood or Léa Seydoux cast in Woody Allen’s latest hit Midnight in Paris for typical joie de vivre. Of course, gap-toothed French allure is nothing […]
This week I’m well in lust with UNIQLO’s Laura Ashley limited archive collection for spring/summer 2012. Here at Le Blow HQ, our penchant for chintz is growing in tandem with the height of our beehives, so when we heard about the LA x UNIQLO collab? Why, we almost dropped our pastel lipsticks and fell off […]
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