PETA Finds an Animal Ally in Topshop

Topshop's Oxford Street store windows are a real jungle right now. Filled with stuffed animals that draw you in with their cuteness, this critters pack a powerful message: “Keep wildlife out of your wardrobe.” 

Topshop has teamed up with PETA for a campaign to advocate getting the fur and leather look without animal suffering. Faux is the new fur. Pleather and faked exotic skins are in. 

Personally, I used to say that even wearing faux fur promotes the bad cause, but now, submerged in the fashion world and acutely aware of fur's recent grand splash runway return, better to fake it then make it, in this case. The modern man and woman want the styles but without the suffering. And with major technological improvements, it's getting harder to tell the fake from the real thing anymore. 

Stella McCartney has been toeing the line of stylish and unreal specimens brilliantly for years and hers is now a successful business with profits increasing to $4.6 million during the fiscal year. Topshop is taking a leadership stance that will hopefully be the future of fashion. No longer will animals have to die to "get the look".

Printed Pants Still a Thing

(Calla, Fall 2012)

Those Resort 2012 Stella McCartney pants that are huge editorial darlings right now

(Stella McCartney Resort 2012, the touchstone of printed pants)

are having heavy influence on the Fall collections of New York Fashion week

(Derek Lam, Fall 2012)

(Erin Fetherston)                                                  Fall 2012                                                         (Timo Weiland)

My personal favorite was Thakoon's leaf print which really brings this trend into Autumn

Brrr... I Could Use This Stella McCartney Sweater Right Now

(Stella McCartney Spring 2012)

Cuz it be cold outside all of sudden! Damn! (Although not so sure why I'd want a knit in Summer?)

One ELLE of a Gal

"Fell in love with the girl, fell in love once and almost completely"

In a Yohji Yamamoto cage dress with polka dot Stella McCartney blouse and Sergio Rossi leather and suede boots, Emma Stone's ELLE magazine July 2011 subscriber cover is like a vision from "Barbarella" or Roman Coppola's "CQ" 


Take note, W, this is how you showcase an ingenue!

This Look was Never Really Burnin' Down the House, Stella

So why bring it back? 

Stella McCartney's Spring Ad Tarts it Up

Waking up to large snowflakes lazily falling outside my window, it's funny to be writing about Spring and warm, sunny citrus, but here goes.

In this Stella McCartney ad, shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, model Malgosia Bela is part billboard for citrus growers of America, part rockin' the famous Tropicana tunic. 


Which brings me to my point of the post: something has happened here, some part of the equation of this ad has made that a-line sheath go from sad sack cover up, to a 70's louche, hot mom feel. The kinda mom that smells of cocoa butter and YSL Opium and flirts with your friends when you bring them back home to your pool after school. 


Is it the lighting or does Malgosia fill the dress out better than Sasha Pivovarova did on the runway? Or is it that Malgosia is 33 and it takes a mature, confident sexuality to override the cuteness of the oranges and limes?


Whatever the sex factor is here, it's working. That dress will sell out, mark my words.

Weekend Work Wardrobe

Soho opening:  H+M raquet print shirt, dark jeans with knee stitching, Housing Works black with white top stitch belt, Margiela leather and suede sneakers, black "smarties" glasses, my grandfather's train print navy tie, freshly shaved

My sister's pink dress shirt from high school, dark jeans with knee stitching, Housing Works black with white top stitch belt,  Mr G's motorcycle boots with the mud of 7 countries, Stella McCartney black panther keychain as necklace, five o'clock shadow