what will i wear today?

Why just shake it up a bit of course! These new shots/clips/videos (insert new-age appropriate word for this sort of thing) by Opening Ceremony, I believe, may just be…THE NEXT BIG THING (and cap locks is definitely appropriate here). What could be better than seeing how your clothes work and move on a real life [...]

A few months ago I posted some images from the Guardian magazine of the Gentlemen of the Bacongo. A selection of some very dapper looking men from the Congo, complete with spectacles, canes, bowler hats, and two-tone brogues in tow. The stunning, colour-rich photos, as it turned out, were by a Spanish photographer, Hector Mediavilla. The [...]

As I’m sure some of you may have gathered by now, every now and again we  like to post about things that are not necessarily (read AT ALL) related to fashion, but are just simply stylish, cool, random or humorous. A few months ago I wrote about Albert Exergian, and some very sexy posters he designed [...]

By know I’m sure you’re all familiar with Anna Dello Russo, fashion editor DU JOUR of Japan Vogue. It’s hard not to miss her really. Over the past few months her Gigantic, Soaring, Leaning, Protruding, Fluorescent clothing Contraptions have been snapped and papped by the fashion elite everywhere from here to Timbuktu. She has been described [...]

In this youth-hungry culture, where everyone worships at the alter of youth, fashion can be the cruel mistress in maintaining these youthful expectations. Fashion seems to stop at a certain age and the catwalk and the editorial deal specifically with nymph-like teens and wrinkle-free juvenescence. Hands up, if like me, you wish to be the [...]

Taking a bit of inspiration from Lorna’s post on Cher Lloyd last week, see here, we decided to have a bit of fun in our auld trackie bottoms and stripes in Cork last weekend. There’s nothing more satisfying than swanning around in your brightest tackiest hoody and ankle bashers and not giving two hoots what [...]

A friend stumbled on these photos published in the guardian last month, of some very dapper looking men in the slums of Brazzaville in the Congo. The ‘sapeurs’ have been making a name for themselves for yielding bowler hats, cravattes, tailored suits and pipes around a backdrop of poverty, making for some incredible photography. I [...]

For fashion photographers all over the world, yesterday was one of the biggest days of the year, as the 2011 Pirelli Calendar was unveiled. This year’s issue, and it was particularly anticipated – partially because it was photographed by Karl Lagerfield, an institution in himself, but also because this was the first ‘Cal’ to feature [...]

This week our Guest Blogger Yolanda Barker discusses the upcoming Pirelli Calender…catch her work on Barkers Bites November may not be good for many things, but believe it or not, it’s an exciting time in the fashion world.  Why?  Because on the 30th of November, a new Pirelli Calender is unveiled!

Now I probably like my interlocking-Cs as much as the next fashion victim but this ‘forehead branding’ is taking things to a whole new (and wholly insane) level. Some dude called Ryan McSorley who is graduating from Central Saint Martins has come up with a headband that can imprint the Chanel logo on your face. [...]

There’s a definite trend towards fashion film at the moment. It makes perfect sense to bring a collection to life through the medium of film; fashion photography has been exploiting the narrative potential of beautiful clothes and beautiful people for years. The next logical step is surely to showcase the clothing as a moving image. [...]

Could Alexander Wang actually get any cooler? Or New Yorker’s for that matter (they’re having their day with that Duck Sauce song). And now they have NY’s MOMa gallery to thank for giving me yet another reason to love the city that just seems to poop coolness all over the place. The gallery held a [...]

I just recently stumbled across these beautiful and stylish designs for TV posters by art director Albert Exergian. Exergian uses iconic images from each show to represent it’s identity in the most minimalistic way. The simplicity of the designs, combined with punchy colour palettes, make for super fashionable advertising. I especially love the added humour, here’s a [...]

Delighted to announce that Yolanda Barker is going to be our new Guest Blogger…all the way from Londontown! Yolanda is going to provide regular updates on all things fashion and art related from her perch in East London. First piece on Alex Box below. When I first came across the work of makeup artist Alex [...]

Ah yes Halloween is fast approaching yet again. Of course that means costume condundums a-plenty, with added bits of costume competition for good measure. If you’re going for your bog standard scary person (witch, vampire, devil etc) and don’t fancy putting that muck from the 2 euro shop on your face (that does NOT in [...]

New night Daddy or Chips at the Good Bits starts this Saturday and more coverage of the Dublin Festival of Fashion in le Cool by moi.

New label crush alert. Stolen Girlfriends Club – started in 2005, only on my radar in 2010.  (People, I am married to the computer already, I can’t catch everything…) Anyway, where to begin? The name is just inspired. I wanna be a stolen girlfriend, I wanna be part of that club. The look is insouciant, [...]

So I collected a print I had been admiring for a while. I’m on a bit of a print binge at the moment. It’s by an artist/ photographer called Rosco. I spied his work when he did some stuff for the Kings of Concrete this year. Trained in film photography, but a dab hand at [...]

Nicholas Kirkwood designed some shoesies for the Keith Haring Foundation. Haring was the 80′s pop artist extraordinaire – you’ll recognise the print instantly.  Kirkwood wanted to incorporate Haring’s graphics into his own shoe designs. I’m not digging it.

Coco Rocha was invited by ElleUK to do a 25-page shoot for it’s 25th birthday. I can honestly say it’s one of the most sexy, evocative, electrifying, want-inducing shoots I’ve seen in years. It’s an hommage to the Jane Fonda movie “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” which is all about a dance marathon held during the [...]