what will i wear today?

Happy New Year guapas! I’m already in Jaysus-I-Need-A-New-Wardrobe mode. This video doesn’t help. Above is an outfit I chose last year when RTE asked myself Jennie and Sarah to come up with something for Two Tube‘s Today I’m Wearing. I think I mention how snakeprint isn’t something you usually see, and cowl necks are having [...]

New Years Eve. The final blow-out. The full stop to the party calendar of the year. The night of hi-jinks and debauchery, mayhem, madness and merriment. It is all of that yes; but it is also the night of desperate lunges, inappropriate confessionals and dubious dialling. My NYE memories are littered with taxi queues and [...]

I know Christmas is much more than the commercial, saccharine, tinsel-filled, hyperactive extravaganza it has now become, but there is one element of this I hold dear to my heart. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than buying people presents. I am definitely more of the giving than receiving strain; I relish all those hours spent [...]

So last week we featured the savagely cool Atto Ludwig multibag. In a nutshell, this bag is hanging, swinging folding, baggage perfection. Arm-porn for hard-core bagistas and sheer practical and design brilliance for just about everyone else. Check out their Ludwig and their Hero gym weekend bag here. So, you can win yourself one of [...]

Any smuggers out there starting their New Year’s Resolutions in advance? FYI, Caggie, of the Made in Chelsea school of acting, is boot-camping her way through early December in order to pre-empt the mince-pie binge. Although, in fairness, it’s more likely so she can release her own fitness DVD and become a panelist on Loose [...]

Every so often, something truly magical happens. You encounter an item, a majestic item, an item so capable in it’s multi-functionality, so elegant in it’s design, so inclusive in it’s useage policy, so practical in it’s application, you wonder if it is a gift from the future. And when that item happens to be a [...]

Ah the sexy, elongated flick of black eyeliner. Come hither, it says, let me welcome you into my world of mystery and excitement. That teasing, seductive lick of black paint above the lash line has been reducing men to quivering wrecks for aeons now. It transforms the eye into something exotic, something powerful, something entrancing. [...]

Well this may seem like an obvious enough statement. Who wouldn’t want the perfect winter dress? All sparkles and sequins and fantastically fitted and beautiful and classy and delicate and magnificent and lovely. Just lovely. But where to find the right one?  That one dress that you will wear to so many Christmas parties…and by February (yes, I do [...]

I know we’re like a fashion blog n’all, and sposed to be making like lists of hyper-inflated fashion garments and unethical jewels ‘n stuff, but I’m just not diggin’ that vibe this Christmas. Lordy, what’s wrong with me, but all I want for Christmas are ridiculous, kitschy, naff and over-priced kitchen appliances. Rubik’s Cubes salt [...]

Have you given in to an Advent Calender? Will you dress in red with subtle shades of green for the whole month? Will you tinsify your jumpers? Speak only in Christmas Carols until December 25th? Cycle in on your reindeer to work? Or perhaps you might sport a pair of these; the most unforgivably ugly [...]

Diet Coke Light asked myself, Angela Scanlon, Suzanne Jackson and Liz Greehy to write about Irish style over the Winter and this is the second of my posts (the first you can catch here). Ah, the jumper. Me ‘aul mucker. Similar to a cup of tea, in terms of it’s warm embrace, reliability and timelessness, [...]

Life can be so cruel. I mean you get up every morning, work for the man, pay your rent on time, donate to charity, separate your recycling, eat quietly in the cinema, dock your Dublin Bike near to the paystation, eat your 5 portions of fruit and veg a day…the list of virtuosity is endless. [...]

I love shoes. A lot. And handbags. And necklaces. I love edgy little labels from the far corners of the earth; I love indigenous Irish labels. I love the high-octane glamour of designer labels, I love the versatility and immediacy of the high-street. I love shopping for me and I love shopping for others. And [...]

There’s a sizeable queue outside H&M on South King Street in Dublin this morning. Presumably it’s for the Versace collection being released today. (Great photos on the Daily Mail this morning btw). I. Don’t. Do. Queuing. For anything. Those saps queuing for iPhones? I laugh scornfully. Those plebs queuing overnight for Justin Bieber tickets? I [...]

Is it ok to use a sports-bag? Not in the true essence of sports-bag parlance; not as an accompaniment to the gym, or a prop for climbing mountains, not in-transit on a round-the-world trip. No; not using it for it’s true functionality – is it ok to use it as your day-to-day handbag? As a [...]

Afternoon Tea beckons this weekend. Ah, clotted cream and triangle shapes, slivers of delicacy and indulgent sugary puffs of loveliness. I can’t tell you how much I love Afternoon Tea. In one tiered blink of an eye, you are transported back to a bygone era of manners and time-keeping and ritual and idle gossip. I [...]

HIDE Shield your eyes from those chest-baring t-shirts. Recoil in horror from those low-slung, skinny jeans (why are his legs skinnier than mine?) Duck from that anti-gravity bouffant. The man jewellery! The guyliner! The garish shirts! The hipster bum! Noel Fielding in a hipster run-off with Justin Bieber. I don’t watch the X-Factor, but I [...]

So, like the entire nation, I have no money. Not a scheckle. I have some natty receipts from various bike punctures, car services, doctor appointments, NTL bills, phonebills, replacement bin bags (the glamour!), cotton ear-buds, dry-cleaning (the decadence!), emergency umbrella purchases and a sneaky 6 Chicken Mc Nuggets here and there. But not an iota [...]

OOOoooh, look at Riri. So cutesy in her likkle onesie. All toasty and schnuggly and innocent. And have you seen those socks? WANTSIES. Riri: all wrapped up and just focused on the music. Thanking God for her creative flow, letting all her positive energy and love for the world spill out onto her music-sheet. She [...]

A dashing suit has been knocking around the annals of fashion since Marlene Dietrich and the YSL blazer ‘n slacks combo. Power dressing was big and brash in the 80’s; shoulder pads and hairspray were key. Balmain reinstated the iconic shoulder, albeit softer, and Commes des Garcons made their imprint on the fashion world by [...]