Listen up people, ignore what the weather tells you: it is Spring. At least in Fashionland it is. It has been spring there for a few months so technically we are way behind and should be ashamed of ourselves for doing things as passé as wearing “berry shades” instead of pastels or wearing gloves made of wool instead of delicate white lace.
Don’t worry, the Fashion Police are more like Fashion PCSOs – they look the part but they can’t arrest you. They can give you stink-eye* though, which is BRUTAL.
Thankfully, Bookish Brunette is here to help ease the transition from the drab cocoon of your winter coat to the dazzling, rainbow coloured summer butterfly that you truly are.
What the hell did I just type? Butterflies?! Cocoons?! Dazzling rainbow colours?! Too much Ting Soda does bad things to my brain…
What I meant to say was: Bookish Brunette is here to attempt to explain/mock this season’s biggest trends in a lighthearted and flippant manner. It will be ideal reading for people who don’t “get” fashion and regard it solely as a curious anthropological phenomenon. Expect at least one Zoolander reference.
Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be blogging about the five major fashion headlines for the season. By the time I’m done it will be Autumn in fashion land but only just Spring here. Think of it as a sartorial trip to the southern hemisphere or something like that.
Here’s a taste of what you can expect to read about:
1) Why I think Prada have got it a little bit wrong this season (OR: the one where Bookish Brunette declares something “a bit tacky” – yeah, I know, scoff away.)
2) The Muse: A Staedtler Text Surfer Highlighter Pen
3) OMG, PASTELS, PASTELS, PASTELS,<INSERT SUGAR/CANDY FLOSS REFERENCE HERE>, PASTELS, PASTELS, PASTELS ad nauseum
4) Print is not dead (unless you are a newspaper, in which case you are probably still screwed)
5) Trends are dead (if by dead you mean “slightly harder to pin down than they were before but I’m looking for an angle for this potentially ponderous blogpost so I’ll go with dead”)
I spoil you guys, eh?
BBXX
*Quaint Black Country phrase meaning “evil and judgemental glare that communicates hate, disdain and haughtiness”. Example usage: “that cow just gave me proper stink-eye”