Oh, 'ello sunshine

Finally, I have proof that the sun does indeed shine from Kate Moss' youknowhat!
The one-off image of La Moss, along with those of other slebs, is to be auctioned off on Thursday at Liberty department store to raise money for Everyman male cancer care.

Image credit: Terry Richardson via Liberty Men Only Art

Great google-y moogley!

Winona at Daddy Likey is not only one stylish lady, she is also very funny. I especially love her "don't showcha your chocha" and my favourite, Inadvertently Ask Daddy Likey. In fact I love it so much that I am now going to shamelessly copy it.


I too have been getting a few google keyword searches that make you go "wha?" lately. Though none can quite match the brilliance (and total randomness) of is stegosaurus capitalized, I would still like to answer these:

money off at topshop
Trust me, we've all tried looking for that one and it's just not gonna happen. Unless your a student. And you go to the store.

HOW TO WEAR LONG JUMPERS IN WINTER 2007
It's cold. You put one on. You wrap up warm. That is all.

SEQUINS WONDER
Look here. Nuff said.

men at work pencil skirts
Now, is it just me or can you all see the building site, the men in hard hats and tight pencil skirts that ride down their arse cracks when they bend over? Does it make you throw up in your mouth a little? Me too.

D&G beenie
Please tell me that you just wanted to have a good look at it to remind you of what happens when good designers go bad.

shoes made in heaven website
Where?! Where??!

"wear tights"
Okay.

men dressed in tights, men wearing pencil skirts
I... Just. Don't. Get. It.

models bikinis skirts dresses cardboard cutouts
I'm not sure what you're looking for here but whatever it is, it's bound to be wrong.

burberry prorsum high street
Heh! Hahaha! Hahaha HAAAAA! *sigh*

kate moss pressed against shop window star dress
See directly above. And also, I'd pay good money to see that.

purple dress to wear with grey socks
Is such a good idea!

would wearing a spiky hat be cool
Maybe... but wouldn't it also just really, really hurt?

Note: These google keywords have come straight from my stat counting thingy (I am so techni-cal!) and haven't been changed or tampered with in anyway, which is even more worrying.

Outfit of the week 27/10/07

Shock! Horror! I think may have found something in the Kate Moss for Topshop collection that I might actually consider wearing. Of course, I've only seen it online so far, so I'm reserving judgement on quality, until I've seen said garment in real life. So far, the signs are poor as it is advertised as a Viscose/Elastane mix (yeuch!)

Quality notwithstanding, the look is cute. I like the monochrome stripes, cleverly used so the horizontals slim the torso while the verticals add some curve to the bottom. (Pear shaped girls, be ye not afraid, the ruching detail will flatter ample hips and bottom.)

When it comes to monochrome the temptation for me is to load up on coloured accessories. So, maybe a blue bag, yellow shoes and pink tights. But for full on glamour nothing quite works like touches of red.

Click on image to enlarge.

62% of you thought this outfit was a glamorous Do, the rest of you thought it was a boring Don't.

Dress, Kate Moss at Topshop, £60
Deco pendant necklace and black opaque tights, Accessorize £12 and £5 respectively
Red belt, Mango, £15
Patent bag, Linea at House of Fraser, £45
Shoes, Bertie , £99

The obligatory note on the Kate Moss collection for Topshop

They look good on kate: items from the collection

So, as predicted by everyone on planet fashion, the Kate Moss collection for Topshop caused the expected frenzy. The queues were long, the press was out, the bloggers blogged, yada, yada.

Sadly, no one died in a stampede because Topshop averted disaster by being organised to the point of anally retentive (Bah, killjoys!).

I was staying well away from that particular nightmare but still managed to take drive-by pictures of the queues from a bus on my way home.

And what about the clothes? Well according to the wire, the verdict is: not that great, actually. Complaints range from overpriced, flimsy, cheap looking items to not being able to find anything you actually wanted because it's... not on sale yet (way to go, Topshop! Make a noise, then don't deliver, why don't you?)

Anyway, here's my ten pence worth:

• Yes, there are some pieces that have caught my eye like the navy-blue maxidress with the little attached waistcoat and the one shoulder, pleated prom dress. Good luck finding these anywhere else but on ebay.


• I had look on the website and - plus ca change - there's nothing worth buying available


• Buying anything from this collection will not miraculously make you look like Kate Moss. In fact, all it will do is highlight the fact that you look nothing like Kate Moss.


• You can buy all the clothes you want but you can't buy style. Style is special and personal. It's not what you buy, it's what you do with it. That is what Kate Moss is good at; and what Kate-alikes, in general, are not.


• The clothes that appear in this collection, with a few notable exceptions, exist on the high street right now for a lot less. See my list.

Basically this collection is for the mindless sheep who consume celebrity gossip without irony, who think that Victoria Beckham has a perfect body and that Jordan is a role model of note.

If you're that kind of person, good luck to you. If you're not, avoid the hype and just enjoy the fine art of dressing up.

Where to go to get those "unique" Kate Moss designs

Why shell out loads more money - and possibly lose an eye - when you can just get the same thing elsewhere?

Waistcoats - head down to New Look, Morgan or charity shops like TRAID

Maxi Dresses - Wallis, H&M, Miss Selfridge, Debenhams. See more ideas here.

Pretty summer dresses - Zara, Bershka, Mango

Red skinnies (and other far more interesting colours) - Topshop

Celebrity wannabe on a budget - ASOS

Shorts, tees and vests - Every-freakin-where!

Pics of those queues

Not the best photos I've ever taken, seeing as I was taking them from inside a bus!

Look whose talking about Kate's collection

Everyone's talking about the Kate Moss collection at Topshop.

Read all about it:

Catwalk Queen - They did live on site reports. Their ten things we discovered... made me laugh like a drain

Maureen Callahan @ New York Post - Subtle vitriol. Ms Callahan, I salute you.

Hilary Alexander @ The Telegraph - A champion of La Moss

The Guardian

BBC

Reuters

Digital spy

Ebay's doing brisk business