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Post by CM I love this time of year, when the big movies garnering for last minute Oscar attention or pre-Christmas box office sales are being premiered. The biggest one on the block at the moment (with The Hunger Games and Star Wars movies hot on its tail) is the latest Bond movie, Spectre, and […]
MorePost by CM Forget Andy Warhol and his soup cans – on canvas? So passé. Jeremy Scott has tapped into 21st century pop culture and splashed McDonald’s and Hersheys logos, Spongebob Squarepants and Nutritional Information images all over the runway at his debut show for Moschino for AW14. But that’s not where it starts or finishes, oh […]
MorePost by CM Men’s Fashion seems to be coming to the fore. Where once they were the sex leading the way sartorially – think Louis XVI’s natty heels and enormous wig, brooches adorning the cloaks of powerful Bronze Age chieftains and ancient Romans’ tunics, not to mention the pomp and circumstance of religious figures throughout […]
MorePost by T.M. We’re well and truly back into it, aren’t we? Real life I mean. Some might be suffering, others accepting (like me, I’ve been back in active service since last Monday, like in 2013.) and maybe some of you are glad to be back to reality but it’s sadly safe to say that a lot […]
MorePost by T.M. This Saturday just gone CM and I attended a great trio of fashion talks organised by http://www.coldlilies.com and held in the absolutely perfect location for the occasion, the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) in Dublin city centre. I really, really love that space and am going to take this brief opportunity to recommend you check it out […]
MorePost by C.M. Despite my love of dressing up; stomping around in my mother’s stilettos, sellotaping hula-hoops under wide skirts to create a Victorian era look, using a pair of tights to simulate long Rapunzel hair, a myriad of other perfectly reasonable costume innovations; as a small child I secretly loved my school uniform. It was brown. […]
MorePost by C.M. I spent an hour and a half trying to shoo a blue-bottle out of my room last night. No matter how much I tried it to wave it in the direction of the wide open window it easy and breezily flew through earlier, it zig-zagged buzzily in every direction but that one. […]
MorePost by C.M. Hey, you know when you’re around three years old, and you’re given your cousin’s old tracksuit, and you don’t want to wear it – not because it’s a hand-me-down, but because you don’t quite understand the concept, and you’re afraid said cousin will want said tracksuit back? Because you recognize the tracksuit […]
MorePost by T.M. The Dublin Writer’s Festival ended yesterday. Because of a number of unforeseen circumstances I couldn’t attend any of the events that I had wanted to but the festival got me thinking about literature and its style connection. Aside from books about fashion (I read a great one on Coco Chanel recently, by Justine […]
MorePost by C.M. It happened quite casually at first. A mix here, a match there, nothing special. You’d hardly notice it. It was mostly accessories or shoes, maybe a prettily patterned bag, nothing too attention seeking, too daring. Then I saw my leopard print pumps stink-eying a floral skirt so I put them together to […]
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