Friday, April 3, 2009

Kate Moss for Topshop

Liberty Poppy Bandeau Dress, £65

Now that's a pretty horrible Photoshop work there (if anyone can prove to me it was intentional, I will make it my personal holy mission to go spank some sense into the author of the idea - be it Kate Moss herself or some poor sod from Topshop) but I have to admit that I am quite particular to the dress which with ease is the staple of the whole collection for me. In short, the whole collection is full of things either average or items just plain ugly on their own. I don't want to look at it through the filter of Salvador Dali's sheer fabulous either because as interesting these clothes may appear first they aren't very original or...

Well, as with most celebrity and non-designer 'designer' fashions it always seems like you have seen it on the person herself before. Same thing with Victoria Beckham. Posh tends to wear very figure-hugging and often almost rigid clothes. So she makes her collections the same kind. The problem is that the dresses she wore herself were not made by herself and designing dresses by those dresses is, simply put, remaking ideas someone else had before her.

Kate Moss's creations are... very Kate Moss. There isn't much that shines out to me except the metallic leather trousers (metal leather? leathered metal? in any case - :D ). There are a few nice pieces, the aforementioned pretty good dress and some that might make the stomaches of the mildest of us turn (snakeskin hotpants anyone? Then how about a dead bird laid around your shoulders?). Also worth of note are the 'floral and tea' dresses. One quite similar to the number over which everyone went bananas last time. I don't expect the same reaction.
Jacquard vest. £40
Snakeskin hotpant. Feels good to say and I bet it feels good against your skin. £50
I don't know why but I think Kate Moss's grandma didn't die in her sleep. Clover Heart Print Cardi £48

Something about this Printed Smock Dress seemed appealing. But then I remembered I have to do the dishes. £100

By the way, in other news, I was in Norway for a week and caught some nasty illness. I'm still not very well, so I'm sorry if there won't be any news of me or that the only news there will be look like they have been written by a drunk on laxatives. (Why am I talking like someone is reading this?)