Fashionista.com update
November 4, 2011 by Martin Smith
Filed under Fashion, Featured
The original super models, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova, Helena Christensen, and Yasmin Le Bon are channeling Duran Duran. Drop on over to Fashionista.com and discover why. Plus features and beauty editor Cheryl Wischover has a few things to say about the dubious emerging trend of fashion companies capitalising on the Occupy Wall Street phenomena. This ought to [...]
Ralph Lauren and the City of Shadows
September 11, 2011 by Martin Smith
Filed under Fashion, Featured
I happened to be looking over the Autumn-Winter collection at Double RL (or RRL, named after the man Ralph Lauren’s ranch in Colorado) when I noticed they’d created a near facsimile of more than one photo from the ‘City of Shadows’ Sydney police mugshot collection. The image below was taken directly from the RRL site, [...]
GANT by Michael Bastian – Spring 2011
January 6, 2011 by Martin Smith
Filed under Fashion
Inspired by the husbands of Marilyn Monroe, specifically Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio, NYC designer Michael Bastian has produced a new Spring line for GANT. For once I have a snowflake’s chance in hell of wearing something remotely chic, just as long as my post-holiday fitness regime holds out till April. I’ve trawled his menswear [...]
Vibram FiveFingers
May 14, 2010 by Martin Smith
Filed under Design, Fashion
This blog writer’s sexy foot + Vibram FiveFingers. Steering away from auto related topics, I thought I’d focus attention back onto feet, or more precisely, how we protect and adorn them. Cheryl Wischhover’s piece on extreme footwear has been a very popular contribution to this blog. This time however, I’m not aiming for high fashion, [...]
Extreme Footwear
December 3, 2009 by Martin Smith
Filed under Fashion
Contributor Cheryl Wischhover is based in New York and has much to say on the subject of shoes: ____________________________________________________________ My obsession with shoes began in quite an unlikely place: my mother’s closet. While she is an ardent feminist, a political junkie, and an unrepentent atheist, she is most decidedly NOT fashionable, nor the least bit [...]
The Sartorialist
June 24, 2009 by Martin Smith
Filed under Fashion
Envy is not a positive force in anyone’s life. As I browse the photographs of Scott Schuman’s popular street-fashion blog I am inevitably consumed by it. Scott originally started The Sartorialist to share photos of fashionable people he saw on the streets of NYC. The scope of his attentions later extended to fashion hotspots around [...]
Beauty
May 8, 2009 by Martin Smith
Filed under Fashion, Music
A very beautiful advertisement. Gucci “Flora” The model is Australian Abbey Lee Kershaw, the commercial by British video & film director Chris Cunningham.
London Cycle Chic
February 4, 2009 by Martin Smith
Filed under Fashion
Keeping to a theme – London cycling fashions – this blog and online store came to me courtesy of Justine (again!). Time to start your own blog Knotty! Stylish city ladies not satisfied with the de rigeur lycra cycling gear now have an excellent alternative fashion resource. Lots of retro chic, tips on buying bikes, [...]
LFGSS – London Fixed Gear and Single Speed
February 2, 2009 by Martin Smith
Filed under Fashion, Photography
What Ho! Captured so authentically in B&W (Yashica Twin Lens Reflex) by Adam Scott, some photos of the LFGSS forum guys and gals on their recent ‘Tweed Run’. Starting from Saville Row, they took a very civilised route to Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, with a short stop at Tourdeville bike store along the way [...]
Designer Sex Toy – Little Chroma Vanitas
January 28, 2009 by Martin Smith
Filed under Design, Fashion
For the fashion concious woman it simply won’t do to have any old vibrator – certainly not some cheap, plastic toy stamped out of a third world sweatshop. Jimmyjane have produced a luxury anodized aluminium vibrator that some gals wouldn’t be afraid to show off to staff at airport security. I’m guessing @violetblue could be [...]