Archive for July, 2009
Daily eBay: vintage Seventies jumpsuit
With jumpsuits still going strong on plenty of a/w09 catwalks, now is the time to get your hands on one and make the trend work for you. This slouchy black Seventies one is particularly fabulous and easy to style.
Lady Day remembered: the life of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday, also affectionately known as Lady Day, was an icon of a changing America, memorable for a whole lot more than the blues so often bound to her name. Besides the expertly delivered, harrowingly sad jazz staples such as ‘Strange Fruit’, Billie rather epitomized a sensational lifestyle between extreme hedonism and extreme suffering. Merry [...]
Top 10 iconic Chanel designs
Coco Chanel’s designs still continue to fascinate us today and have lost nothing of their appeal, simply because they have both a timeless look and iconic fashion status. Chanel, always the innovator and never the fashion follower, has left behind her legacy of quilted bags, little black dresses and famous CC logo for generations of [...]
Influential style: Coco Chanel’s English lovers
Of all the well known Chanel designs, the tweed jacket is one of the most iconic. The definition of chic to the modern woman, the little tweed jacket has its origin in British country menswear. Valerie Eldenmalm explores why the Chanel look owes so much to traditional British style and, to be more precise, to Coco’s English lovers.
The LBD – a Chanel classic
Many of us are victims to putting our life savings into the latest fashion must-haves. Now a woman can resist anything, except perhaps temptation and the problem is there are so many things to be tempted by! At a time of the shopaholic’s worst fear, the recession should be all about those closet classics that [...]
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