Monthly Archives: February 2011

phillip lim

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if i hadn’t just bought a new imac yesterday – and in the process seen my savings account dwindle to almost $0, not that i’m complaining – i would totally buy all of these 3.1 phillip lim pieces (starting with the bag and the spotted jumper).

okay, so i wouldn’t really buy them – hey anne, don’t forget you only work part-time! – but still.

all pictures from la garconne.

fluorescent pink

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some super-charged colours for a gloomy monday morning…

i actually quite love these sass & bide looks, though they’re not very wintry (they are, however – dare i say – very sydney).

i bought a neon orange sass & bide scarf on a whim last season which has fast become a wardrobe staple. i plan to continue wearing it as the days shorten; these items above would similarly brighten even the darkest day and mood.

details

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the first of the stella mccartney kids spring / summer range is out, and it is gorgeous. like the first collection, i would seriously wear most of these clothes myself.

look at the details: the all-over horse print, the pintucks in the dress, the split waistband of the stripey jumper and – my favourite – the shirt-style cuffs of the grey hoodie. and in typically admirable form, everything is made from luxurious natural fibres like linen and organic cotton.

why can’t more adult clothes be like this? of course they can be, and are, but you really have to pay for the ‘privilege’. the ethics involved in the textile and fashion industries are multi-layered and murky (and probably not that interesting for people not as fibre obsessed as me). yet even at a consumer level the ‘dumbing down’ and regression (or anti-evolution) of products – and this is most prevalent in high street garments – is incredibly frustrating.

yes, you get what you pay for. but too often that means spending a lot of money just to buy something nice.

inexpensive doesn’t have to mean shit.

i’m not sure when it became ‘acceptable’ for brands to produce – and for consumers to buy – acrylic jumpers that make you feel clammy, not warm, and that crease and pill after two wears. or ‘pleather’ shoes with soles so thin that holes start appearing after a week of normal wear, and t-shirts that stretch and twist after the first wash. and unfortunately these problems cannot be avoided by simply spending more money: a shabbily made dress is a shabbily made dress, whether it is made from polyester or silk.

apparently disposable ‘fast-fashion’ is beginning to fall out of favour (though the racks and racks of almost unwearable – yet almost unworn – clothes at my local charity shops suggest otherwise). it would be nice if, in this new spirit of thriftiness / environmental or ethical concern / less materialistic mood / whatever, we saw a return to well designed and good quality items, like from the good old days. and like these kids clothes above.