Mad about Alice

Stella McCartney necklace and bracelet Clock studs

Cheshire cat ring

Rabbit ring

Drink me pendant

I can't wait for the release of Alice in Wonderland on the 5th of March. I've seen the trailer in 3-D and it's a visual masterpiece! With actors like Anne Hatheway and Johny Depp it's a guaranteed hit I think. Inspired by the Alice-mania there's been quite a lot of cute things produced by the designers, ranging from Alice bands, tea dresses and jewellery. Stella McCartney has designed a charm bracelet and necklace with little rabbits, hats and cards dangling down. The only thing NOT cute about it is the price, it starts at £235. However, Disney Couture has also launched an Alice range which I think is much cuter anyway. I love all things Alice in Wonderland ever since Gwen Stefani's video What you waiting for from baaaaack in the day. Go and check out the trailer on youtube if you haven't seen it yet.

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Moschino Cheap & Chic Fall 2010

I want ALL of Moschino's Cheap & Chic collection!! I love it love it love it! The collection is staying true to the brand and producing fun and easy to wear pieces. It's inspired by the opening of the Maison Moschino , the company's first hotel in Milan and each outfit represents the different types of women that one may see emerging from a hotel. There's the dressed-up lady, there's a posh lady with a Hermes Kelly bag on her head, there's a shopaholic etc. My favorite piece is the pink skirt with oversized black bows on the side, it's so Lolita. The shopping bag with the bold "FULL" print is an echo of the last season's shopper that said "Fashion is full of chic". Couldn't have put it better!

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Central St. Martin's MA Show

I was soooooo excited to see what the MA Fashion graduates from CSM come up with! I can only imagine what pressure they must all have felt because everyone has a certain expectation from a CSM graduate. Past alumni include Galliano, Stella McCartney, Christopher Kane, Alexander McQueen and Matthew Williamson just to name a few so basically if you graduate from St. Martin's, your career is half-made. The collection had a few interesting and original ideas, but truth must be said, I didn't like some of them. The ready-to-wear Fall 2010 collection included 207 different looks so posting all of them could potentially crash my humble little blog, so I've chosen my favorite designer, Tze Goh.

I have no idea what this designer is all about but i was amazed at the clothes that were shown. There are almost architectural, they don't look like they are made out of textile. How a textile can fall and create such perfect symmetrical creases is beyond me. What i really love is that the "less is more" theory is totally applicable in this case. The colour white is so clean and minimal that it gives the main emphasis on the actual folds, creases and volumes. It makes you look at the actual piece of clothing rather than the "look" it creates.

I think that this designer will be very big and if my prediction comes true, you read it here first!

Miaw.

Armani's costumes

This is just a little something I saw on one of Armani blogs. These are the costumes that Armani designed for Lady Gaga's tour. I love the quality of the actual drawing. So pretty and sexy and I can totally imagine them on Lady Gaga.

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Dior's Style

This is "The Little Dictionary Of Fashion" by Christian Dior that I bought the other day and reading it made me realize that some things just never go out of fashion. This little book is so cute and contains illustrations by the author. My favourite quotes are:

"Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money".

"I will only say now that elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension".

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French Connection Campaign

I was mesmerised by the French Connection S/S 2010 campaign "This is Woman". I just find it so beautiful. This might be because I still haven't recovered from the trauma of my dissertation on feminism which was about how women are always aware of the male gaze a

and do everything to feed male desire (I really need to snap out of it). The photographs are so stunning and are kind of reminiscent of Barbara Kruger's work with their bold graphic statements.. Ahhhh love it!


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Best of McQueen

I was browsing through the archives of Alexander McQueen's trying to pick out my favorite pieces to post on the blog but I realized that it would be impossible. Every piece had something really unique and special about it but the thing that they all had in common is the fact that it was created by a very talented and skilled designer. What a tragic loss. I've read that his label will still continue to exist even though the business was not doing very well from a financial point of view. Sadly, his death may be the ultimate marketing move that will make the sales soar. If you think about it, that's the case with all the famous people, just look at Michael Jackson... Karl Lagerfield has said: "Who knows, perhaps after flirting with death too often, death attracts you" which is kind of scary because looking back on all of his collections, there was always some kind of connotation or reference to death involved. Even looking at the skull-printed scarves (yes, the one you probably got from topshop/h&m/zara etc.well, he's the one who thought of it), it becomes obvious. May his soul rest in peace.

Miaw.