You're nothing but a pack of cards.

Alice Dellal is queen of all that is cool, so it's nice to see that several Australian designers have referenced her trademark coiffe in their shows at fashion week:
Marnie Skillings

Ellery

Arnsdorf

Antipodium

Australian Fashion Week. Wooooot?

Though I'm generally quite psyched for Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, I was pretty bummed to see camilla and marc's offering:

Camilla and Marc

Admittedly I have no real reason to have high expectations of the label. I think I just want them to be good because I find the idea of a brother/ sister design team really sweet.

Nevertheless, and the cuteness of sibling creativity aside, it must be said that to take Balmain's Fall 09 collection as loose inspiration is one thing (and pretty much everyone is doing it at the mo.) To rip off pointy shoulders, metallics and distressed denim, however, seems a little schmucky:

Balmain

Cue the Hot Cops.

In 2009 Cue has been celebrating its 40th anniversary. That probably isn't a good enough reason for me to splurge on this vintage dress from the label, being sold by ebay store Cops In Jeans for $149:

I've picked up a few really awesome vintage Cue pieces over the years, which makes me think that it would be pretty cool if they did some re-releases of certain designs. Raid the archives, dudes.

Do not tell me who killed Laura Palmer.

I've just finished season one of Twin Peaks and am well on my way to becoming obsessed. Plus, how steaming 90s-hot is this Rolling Stone cover?:
And Audrey's retro costumes are pretty beautiful, definitely worth a look (though these pictures don't do them justice):

Uffie is a Ed Banger

I hadn't heard anything about Uffie for about a year when I decided to google her the other day, and it seems she's dropped the ingenue look in favour of something a little more sexed up (perhaps appropriately, given the nature of her lyrics.)
I love her, but I think the image revamp might work a little better if she actually had some new songs to accompany it.

Love the Bomb.

Etsy store Glitter Paradise is selling this gem of a necklace, based on Banksy's Love Bomb design.

I wouldn't mind one of the little diver:

Did you know there were two of the little dudes in Australia, one on Swanston street in Melbourne and the other in Enmore, and BOTH have been vandalised!? Booo! Hisss!

the dolls come alive behind my back

I am deeply in love with this crochet dress, currently being auctioned by the ebay seller Dolly Dagger Vintage.I don't think contemporary fashion labels ever get crochet quite right but judging by how much dresses like this tend to go for on ebay, there's definitely a market for it.

Barbier is French for pretty.

For a while I was so obsessed with Georges Barbier's illustrations that I wanted to have one painted as a mural on my bedroom wall, an idea that now strikes me as the height of retardation.


I still think they're pretty but, you know, not that pretty..

I'm so shocked, I could just die.

Here is an ad for Yves Saint Laurent's Elle Shocking perfume, photographed by Terry Richardson:And here is accompanying video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWXrk4aQCzI

The ad isn't so much shocking as unbelievably embarrassing - if one were trying to make a spoof segment on the high-fashion industry trying to look bad-ass, it would be difficult to better this campaign.

Here are some more scandalous advertisements (a good many of which were also photographed by Richardson.)

Sisley (Who are to be forgiven for their idiotic ads on account of the fact that any distraction from their bland designs must be seen as a savvy business move):





Dolce & Gabbana (Complete assholes who will not be forgiven this monstrosity of a campaign.)

Gucci (I adore this. Tom Ford is God.)

Spin me right round

I can't wait to start seeing girls wearing round sunnies - there's an awesome blue and white pair at Zoo Emporium in Surry Hills at the moment, and Karen Walker has been doing them for aaages:

Puños rosas

Are you feeling this? Yayoi Kusama and Michael Kors are, but only one of them is cool.

BYT

This guy is wearing some sort of necklace/ beaded-collar. On top of a black t-shirt.

What a Dude.

Oh, little Rachel, oh.

Every time I go to write a new post I end up looking at Fur Coat, No Knickers instead.
Oy vey.

Miuccia Prada is a monkey genius.

Where are your historical frames of reference, woman?

Happiness is a Warm Bun

I'm gonna be a man and admit that I don't give two shits about the hair in Stefano Pilati's Fall 09 collection for Yves Saint Laurent.
That's a damn good post title though.

Claire, If ever a moment so rare...

Claire Incorruptible is defs one of the best Australian ebay sellers of vintage clothing. Don't believe me? Well Ch-Ch-Check it out:Escada Dress $315
Christian Dior Bathing Suit $165

It ain't cheap, but who needs money when you're swimming in a sea of awesomeness?

Just because it's cool, doesn't mean it's right.

Next time you're considering buying something from Urban Outfitters, bear in mind that it's CEO, Richard Hayne is a Grade-A douche. The dude is known to support senators who are against gay marriage, and accordingly pulled this t-shirt from the store's shelves:And despite Hayne being such a full-on right-wing Republican, UO perplexingly still stocks buttloads of Obama stuff. Laaaaame.

Read more about it here

A Consummate Costumer.

"Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool... It's the awkwardness that's nice."

Marc Jacobs

Things that used to be cool but aren't any more make me sad.

Upon reading a Vanity Fair article on Esquire magazine in the late 1960s, and being blown away especially by the cover design, I began to wonder why I had never considered reading the publication as it exists today.
Then I realised that it was probably because nowadays they put out bullshit covers like this:
And again:

Guys, it was cool when Angie Dickinson did it:
But have you ever heard of beating a dead horse?
Oh, and they also recreated the sensational Virna Lisi shaving shot (above) using Jessica Simpson, but I'm not letting it anywhere near my blog.