Dress for success

New job starting on Monday hurray, being unemployed was getting to me, the hours are fabulous but the money sucks. Problem is that mooching around the house and walking the dog as an occupation has made me lazy in terms of dressing. Now I have to look professional and no, I do not mean like a night stalker. I need to appear business like and reliable. I am looking for something fashionable yet demure, long sleeves to cover the track marks and cut wrists will be a starting point. Revealing a predisposition to self harm can sometimes be a real ice breaker but it rarely inspires confidence in an employer....

The fall of the house of Chloe

One must not be too resistant to change I suppose but in the case of the fashion house Chloe I do think ‘out with the new in with the old’. I loved the Karl Lagerfeld seventies Chloe vision – full length floral prints, fantastic models with long hair and huge eyes. Misty golden hued advertisements for the divine house fragrance with its notes of honeysuckle, Jasmin and Tuberose. Phoebe Philo did an amazing job creating the most desirable feminine looks season after season I wanted one of everything she ever designed, the company should never have let her go. The designs of her successor Paulo Melim Anderson do nothing for me and nothing for anyone who wears them either. The company ruined the clothing line the day they employed him and then not satisfied with that they ruined the perfume as well. The new re-launched Chloe perfume has none of the subtlety of the first. Made up of notes magnolia & rose over an amber and cedar wood base, the perfume seems to marketed women who shop in Debenhams and buy fake Chloe handbags from the street vendors outside. The aroma is common and over powering – eau de high street.

Getting away with it

The ever lovely Kate Moss features on the cover of the new Vogue Paris, looking impossibly lovely after an evening heavy on the booze and fags. Don’t you just love how that magazine affiliates itself with one city not the whole country – “Paris is fashion Cherie but the rest of France - Pah! - its full of peasants!”

Prada Trembled Blossoms

Loving this beautiful animation commissioned by Prada for the Spring/Summer 08 collection , it reminds me very much of the work of Japanese artist Mariko Mori and the fantasy scenes from Pans Labyrinth. Click on title to view