READ THIS COOL INTERVIEW I DID!

For me and Charlotte's new magazine The Mushpit. Check out our TUMBLR (ech) and email themushpit@gmail.com for your own copy. MWAH x

VICE INTERVIEW

WOOHOO

Thankyou TSE for sending me a replacement belt for my coat, you guys rock! And it's two tone! I love it xxxx THANKS! x

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JOTS

Billie looking sweet in a couple of my things we picked out for her to wear in series two of Joy of Teen Sex. Both coat and cardigan by Hobbs NW3 x

SNEAKY

Get a sneak peek of The Mushpit issue one HERE, and then come and get your own copy tomorrow night at the Alibi! XXX

SpriNg HaS sPrUnG!!

Ohhh swoon how beautiful is this Paul Smith top?!

SPEND SPEND SPEND

Today I bought this secondhand dress which I'm wearing with a TSE jumper and See By Chloe boots. It's so long and floaty I feel like a nun! I dig the little side slits at the bottom so hard x

UR A VIRGIN WHO CAN'T DRIVE

WATCH THIS!

If you like music, hot girls, dancing girls, men, males, females, sand, the elements, phone conversations, films, religious iconography, hands, and HUGE OIL ASS. You should watch this. Also I'M IN IT so try and spot me. Here's a clue: I have bony arms like uncooked spaghetti. Please comment with a mark out of 10 of how hot you think GABRIEL BRUCE is. If you don't include this, your comment will be deleted. I'm so dead serious.

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HULLO

I'm sorry this is an absolutely terrible picture but I thought I'd start doing more WHATAMIWEARING posts because otherwise my blog becomes a bit impersonal and makes me yawn. Today I'm wearing (no not a big black blur) my TSE coat, a TSE black jumper, Topshop trousers (over leggings and tights) and my Palladiums and my BANKROBBER BEANIE. Also that small pink and white smudge on my jumper is a sticker which says PROTECT THE HUMAN. I got accosted by a tall woman and signed something and she gave me this lovely sticker! Isn't life confusing!! X

WHEN YOU GET COMFORTABLE - YOU NEVER GET THE LOOK

Jesus Anna I love you.

HAT SUCKS

Aw Emma you are kind of adorable especially since you cut your hair all 'serious' in order for people to take you all seriously. But Girl come on you gotta know about the hats, lipstick AND short hair thing. It's just a bit too much! It's a bit Claire from Steps, a bit Cheeky Cheeky, a bit.. Well.. Lulu. Don't get me wrong, I've seen Annie Hall, but I've also seen Black Books and I'm pretty certain you've just unintentionally made an 'all the things I wish I'd ever done condensed into one moment' montage for Fran. You're pretty, heck you did Burberry so you must be (into cocaine) good at modelling or whatever. Seriously, you're better than this Emma, next you'll be getting butterfly tattoos on your neck and wearing flares with stilettos. Believe in yourself okay?! And please for the LOVE OF GOD don't ever ever wear a trilby again. For everyone's sake.
Love,
Le Bert x

NEW MUSHPIT FLYER ! IT'S NEXT WEEK ! EEEK !

WINTER WARMERS

So I thought I would combine two outfit posts because what's winter dressing all about if it's not LAYERING (seriously.. what). I love layering so much that during the hottest spells of summer I panic frequently because I don't have any sleeves to pull over my hands, or any jumpers to tuck my hair into. It's no secret that I love to lay-er (HEY MOM!), and what better to layer with than my beautiful new Tse jumpers and coat which I scored in the sample sale last week. Today I'm wearing a grey cashmere TSE jumper with a Topshop dotty Kate skirt and my brand new Palladiums which Palladium and Vice sent me just this evening (!!!). Thanks guys! In the second picture I'm still wearing all that stuff but underneath a big warm delicious dressing gown coat from TSE. I think I'm fully converted to the soft lazy coat because they don't give me the big shoulder fear which lets face it we're all privy to at least once. A day. What winter shoes/coats are you all leaning towards as we enter the icebox that is December? XX

VICE HAS SO MUCH AMAZING STUFF RIGHT NOW

I'm learning from THIS

Taking tips from THIS

And just feeling generally overwhelmed with love for Dalston Superstars

 

ENDLESS LOVE

BIG THINKIN

"Fashion is one of the few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don't think it's an accident that it's typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for their looks, encouraged to make themselves beautiful and ornamental and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it's a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that's inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a woman's art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial."

Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina 

I just stumbled upon this quote from Greta Christina's blog and thought I would share it with you. Her ideas about the origin of the association between fashion and triviality are interesting, particularly to me coming from a liberal and progressive background, who has never seriously considered my position as being restricted by gender stereotypes. I often feel ridiculed for my interest in fashion, not least by myself. I am frequently torn between fashion and a 'real career', and struggle to justify my fascination with how women choose to dress. Evidently the superficiality which Christina highlights is something I am both familiar with and hounded by, however why fashion provokes this reaction is perhaps more complex than she argues. 

Certainly there is a stigma attached to fashion, and certainly it is one of the frivolous. Undeniably there is a similar stigma attached to women by the prehistoric sexist. There is however, the problem of money to complicate this theory. Fashion is expensive; there is no question of that. The ever multiplying ‘seasons’ spit in the face of Vivaldi. From the buy-wear-bye mentality of Primark shoppers, to the highest darlings of couture, fashion is a culture of spending, and it knows. The ‘it-bag’, the ‘season must-have’ and even the ‘timeless classic’ are all examples of a scrupulous rhetoric designed to infiltrate the consumer. It begs the question, are we really expressing ourselves through fashion? Or are we allowing ourselves to be homogenized by an industry with the annual revenue of $20 billion. So the problem of triviality arises again, but in a rather different context. Perhaps it is this identification of fashion with waste, which leaves people with such a strong distaste for it. I would love to know what you think. 

 AVOIDING SCHOOLWORK AS EVER. XX 

HEY THANKS!

Uniqlo sent me a deliciously soft cashmere scarf! Thanks! It's so pretty and folded up in tissue paper I almost think I should leave it until christmas so I really deserve it. But I'm not going to, I'm going to wrap it around my face and dribble into it instead. xx It's quite hard to take pictures of scarves? Sorry about this pathetic attempt.

EASY TO LOVE (SO HARD TO GET)

ARE THESE A BIT STREETWEAR FOR MY BLOG?

I don't know if it's a good idea for me to start posting loads of sick old-school creps ft. Disney characters on this blog because I've only recently accepted my identity as *zany 21 year old blogger liked by other zany female bloggers* but I walked into this shop on Wilton Way today in a moment of confusion after seeing a man with the worlds most glossy and glorious hair and it had loads of old Vans which were like £100 so I thought I'd share with you (hey zany readers). I do love the green velour pair with a black sole but thank god they weren't my size because I would literally have never worn them. Other than to pose in a photobooth picture to put on here, obviously. Hurl.

ATTENTION

ONE ITEM : TWO TRENDSETTERS

WHO WORE IT BETTER >>>> YOU DECIDE!

ASHISH UR SNOW KOOL !

The Ashish X Topshop skiwear collection hit stores today in a SNOWSTORM of leopard print, badmouth sweaters and the best backpack I've seen in MONTHS. I can't find it online but you better believe I'm going to buy the hell outta that stormin bag when it crosses my path. Did anyone see this stuff today? Did it actually arrive? Ashish, B MINE.x

VERSACE X HM

As expected, looks like the inside of a table dancers suitcase on holiday in Miami. I do quite like this skirt in a bloggers paradise airbrushed pictures of myself with shiny hair and a grabbed ipad case clutch purse kind of way. :( I don't want it anymore.

SMART N THRIFTY

I got loads of bitchin stuff at the pound shop today. I feel like a bonafide real life East London based student/creative. Just gothing up my room a bit. NO BIG DEAL.

my nails are so XMAS today.

IS THIS GUYS VOICE FOR REAL?!

The Olsen Trolls emerge from underneath their multi-billion dollar bridge, I mean empire, to explain why they make stupid modern clothes which look like they're made from the really intense origami kit I got in my stocking last year. They also discuss their style inspirations but are reluctant to mention their beauty muse Iggy Pop for fear every socialite in Manhattan will jump on the blonde, haggard bandwagon. If you are interested in knowing the varying time periods Mary-Kate will wear a 'silhouette' until she's 'over it' then this interview will have you gripping the edge of your seat in anticipation. If not, I suggest you go out to your local Blockbuster and rent Troll Hunters instead. Or just go out. Or just don't click play. Whatever.

PRETTY GIRL BULLSH*T

I just stumbled across this Net-a-Porter interview with Erin Wasson who waxes on about how important it is to have something to say while simultaneously having, you guessed it, absolutely nothing to say. She implores women to step away from the hairspray and try a new 'nonchalant look' which she (frequently) likes to refer to as undone. BUT HOW ERIN?! The only advice she actually gives is to have not-quite-perfect hair. Stupid. Annoying. She also says it's important to undo your buttons so that they're undone and therefore you look undone and everyone can bask in your undone cool chic aura (is anyone else thinking Derelicte right now?). She then tacks on a big dribbly suck up to Net-a-Porter which totally undermines her entire ethos. Women who want to be individual should buy stuff (mostly Alexander Wang) from Net-a-Porter, because they pick the good stuff so you don't have to. SO YOU DON'T PICK YOUR OWN SHIT. I think the main problem with this interview is the fact that nobody wants to hear a supermodel bitching them out about getting dressed up for parties when she could go out wearing a bin bag and herpes and she'd still get shot for like eight street style blogs. Oh wait.

BB I WOULD DYE 4 U

My blog is so boring at the moment I'm sorry. I have literally too much work to pretend I'm doing so I've just been flat out ignoring my computer and doing weird stuff like laundry and cooking. Anyway I appear to have become obsessed with the colour green this week and dyed a pair of Trash and Vaudeville jeans (which cost £99 in Notting Hill now... Um they're like $25). I also can't stop wearing my mouthwash jumper. TOMORROW IS THE TSE SALE. I'm freakin with excitement. It's gonna be bitchin. Bitchin is such a brilliant description. That shirt is bitchin. Your nails are bitchin. I'm going now . BYE!

J.W ANDERSON

I LUV IT

SLOUCH BEANIE

Just call me Brad.

PURE KATE

So it turns out that Kate Middleton reads my blog because she bought the green Topshop pencil skirt which I got AGES ago and everyone reckons she made it sell-out nationwide but that's just because no one properly understands the power of my website. So that happened. In homage to Kate I have designed an outfit around this skirt, I think it ticks pretty much every box that a royal outfit should, and would certainly get her some well deserved column inches.

1. T-shirt from Sick. Whether or not the numerous riots in 2011 were directly motivated by Kate's wedding make-up we can't be certain, but either way Kate needs to show her support for the disgruntled underclass. By donning a slogan tee young offenders will be able to identify with her, and the camouflage fabric implies a ruthless mission to the heart of the problem.
2. Union Jack socks, Tottenham Court Road. These are a cute nod to her big day when everyone in the country was forced out of work to eat Mr Kipling snacks and pretend like they gave a shit.
3. Velvet Reeboks, Reebok (duh). The juxtaposition of this classic sport shoe with a luxury fabric is really symbolic of Kate's transformation from St Andrews pleb to Demure Duchess. She's classy but she'll have a cheeky Mayfair outside the palace when the Queen's not in.

What do YOU think Kate should wear with her skirt?
Do you think Kate should get a dip-dye?
Do you think we're all princesses on the inside?

SORRY I FORGOT YOUR BIRTHDAY WINONA

BUT YOU FORGOT TO PAY FOR ALL THAT STUFF AT SAKS THAT TIME SO I'M SURE YOU UNDERSTAND. PS I LOVE YOU SO MUCH MORE THAN THIS LOSER EVER DID.

N.E.R.D.Y

You might think that if Palladium sent Pharrell to Toyko to make a mini-series it would end up being a set of awkward interviews with Japanese DJ's in rooms filled with obscure be@rbrick dolls. Well I'm not going to lie to you, there is that. There are plenty of mirrored sunglasses, bro's shouting "PARDY PEOPULLL" into diamante microphones and asian chicks just wearing diamante microphones, hold the microphone. There's also a moment at the end of episode 1 where Pharrell throws on his philosophy cap and implores us all to start "Poking holes through the bullshit reality that we're just stuck in." Is reality bullshit? Have you been reading Burroughs babes?

Okay okay let's stop being mean guys (well YOU thought it). The first film focuses on the aftermath of the 3/11 tsunami and earthquake so it's necessary to be a bit serious. All the DJs and fashion designers and Pharrell's friends and whatever talk about how it felt like the apocalypse, and if you manage to ignore all the drop crotch jeans and Alife t-shirts, it's pretty fascinating. There's some creepy footage of supermarkets with totally empty shelves, and a twitter usage chart which puts east London to shame. Also it's funny to see how everyone's wearing Palladium boots but nobody mentions them because it's NOT AN ADVERT. I'm yet to watch all six episodes because I have a life. But you probably don't, so go mad.

CHAR DID MY SNAILS!

Check out her amazing new tumblr BRASH N SASSY x