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What's on your New Year's resolution list?
At the end of every year I promise myself that I'm not going to buy into the whole New Year's resolution thing. And every year, despite my best efforts not to, I always end up making at least one quiet resolution for myself....
Retailers want to talk to you, and they want you to talk back, writes Disneyrollergirl
Disneyrollergirl writes: A chat with a retail expert recently revealed that customers are super-cautious. They don't trust anyone at the moment, least of all anyone who is trying to sell them something. Banks? Forget...
Disneyrollergirl mulls over the marriage between menswear and womenswear
Disneyrollergirl writes: Each menswear season I take more and more interest. Is it me or is menswear and womenswear becoming ever converged? This season we saw candy-coloured suits at Wintle , drop-crotch floral...
Flying Saucer gives top tips to beat summer holiday boredom
Looks like Big Brother's Kayley could have used Flying Saucer's tips! You've spent months, maybe weeks, moaning about exams and looking forward to the summer holidays. Now they're finally here and you're bored! Apart...
Affordable luxury is the new black, writes Disneyrollergirl
Disneyrollergirl writes: "Wow, everything's suddenly so cheap, I'm quite loving this recession!" rejoiced a friend of mine recently, perusing the prices in the Selfridges sale. While I wouldn't quite put it like...
'It's not just clothes' Disneyrollergirl defends the fashion industry
Disneyrollergirl writes: If I hear one more person say "it's just clothes" when discussing fashion, the fashion industry or any drama therein, I think I'll explode in an eruption of Christopher-Kane-print-style...
Disneyrollergirl backs team Vogue in the size zero debate
Disneyrollergirl writes: The size zero debate is one that refuses to go away and this week it's back in fashion like a particularly stubborn slogan tee. This time it's to do with a letter penned by Vogue's Alexandra...
Disneyrollergirl contemplates summer's flowers-with-everything trend
Disneyrollergirl writes... Holy Obama, when did the fash-pack suddenly get into gardening? At a big birthday bash two weeks ago, the pre-clubbing chit-chat wasn't about Ibiza or Croatia but the merits of growing your...
Disneyrollergirl anticipates the high heel climb-down
The anti uber-heel trend is gaining pace. Initiated by MObama , it has polarised designers and high street. Kurt Geiger insists there is still mileage in Jenga-style platform shoes yet Rupert Sanderson does a...
Fur Coat Rachael tells us about her favourite metal fashion bloggers
Fur Coat, No Knickers ' Rachael writes... I love heavy metal. More than pugs or pizza or beer or fashion. You might not know it to look at me, but beneath the usually floral-decked exterior, lies a solid metal...
Mademoiselle Robot's dream Summer wardrobe
Summer dresses pick Around Christmas, I started thinking about what I would like to wear this Summer. I don't have any specific items in mind, just a few colours, fabrics & motifs. I am normally a black and grey with...
Disneyrollergirl is loving the new designer-high street love-in
When I got the memo that Ann-Sofie Back had signed up with Cheap Monday to head its design team in Sweden, I was so excited I nearly choked on my Dr Karg crispbread. After the previous appointments of Jil Sander at...
GFW competition: Win tickets to the Graduate Fashion Week Gala Show
Graduate Fashion Week fever has hit CQ towers, we can't wait to see the fruits of three of four years labour from students around the UK. We've also got something for you, dear readers, to get excited about. The GFW...
American Apparel take fashion extremism to a hole new level, geddit?
I spend more time than is probably advisable lurking around online fashion communities, and without a doubt the singular most boring (but recurring) topic is people picking up on some slightly 'different' item from Topshop...
The Week That Was: Cannes craziness, Beyoncé does a Gaga, Preen and Marios Schwab at LFW
Another week down and I am just about all Cannes'd out. Here is your weekly dose of fashion news, written in handy dot points for your reading pleasure. Cannes, Cannes, Cannes! I may not have been sunning myself...
Mademoiselle Robot: How to wear denim shorts
Today, Mademoiselle Robot gives us three ways to sport our denim shorts. Oooooh, denim shorts... We thought they would be a passing trend, a Daisy Duke kinda fad. For a while, they were in every single magazine, on...
Disneyrollergirl wants a taste of the high-low life
Having spent the last few years craving luxury, I've almost had my fill. I said almost . The Chanel flap bag and Hermes watch were both totally worth saving for and the novelty still hasn't worn off the Valextra...
Oasis Designer Collective: Flying Saucer says support graduates
Oasis have teamed up with university graduates to create a range of summer pieces at high street prices. The Oasis Designer Collective takes the work of three print graduates in a range of key pieces, the students...
Let your inner hippy guide you to high-fashion looks
The fine line between hipster and hippy has been softly blurring for a couple of years now, culminating with Martin Margiela's epic horse print tee last season. But why pay £600+ for a designer shirt when the real...
The Week That Was: Alexa Chung mania, Anna Friel to fill Audrey Hepburn's shoes, Carla Bruni eyes up YSL home
Let's get straight into it, shall we? Here is the best (and worst) of this week's fashion news... Flying the flag for us this week was Alexa Chung . On Thursday, she scored a mega write-up in Women's Wear Daily...
Flying Saucer thinks the Saturdays can save your weekend
Just in time for the weekend Flying Saucer brings you her dispatches from the high street: Across the UK there's a trend brewing in night clubs: girls in identcal LBDs, each with brightly coloured tights...
