Frock Candy - 16.7.10

Yesterday, St Swithin's Day, it lashed. Like proper biblical Noahs Ark type rain. That's what we can expect for the next 40 days if legend be true. When it's raining like that, there is nothing better than being indoors, cuppa tae in one hand, chocolate in the other, and a loverly film on the box. I watched Romeo and Juliet. The one with Leonardo Di Caprio. Always hated how they set it in the modern day. This bit always wins me over though.

Anyway, back to fashion. Let's have a look, an envy and a bit of a ridicule at what people have been wearing where it isn't pouring from above.

Best

SJP. THOSE SHOES. I love. Only she would walk around like this and that is why we love her. The dress, the bag, it's all so Sarah Jessica. Perfection. I love how she's holding a little pink jacket. It just a reminder that she's a mother of three who dresses like this. A mother with hired help, I grant you, but still. I also love how the steps to her home are like Carries. I just love it all.

First of two 90210 stars today. It's her hair and those shoes that win this for me. It's simple but simply beautiful. The bit of the bag you see is nice, like the loose laid back quality to the shirt. Plus I love all black on a sunny day. I wore all black yesterday, it wasn't the same.

I promise I won't put her in next week. Birkin. Skirt, Top. All winners. Would have prefered to see this with heels but, I understand my feet like a rest too.

Fair to Middlin' Sure

Like her hair, make up and Aldo shoes.Tan is dodge. Is is just me or are her pins way darker than the rest of her? That dress is just like that topshop dress that everyone had last Christmas. You know the one. I can't find a picture. I'm sure one of your friends had it.

'This is not a photo opportunity' No AnnaLynne, no-one will want to photograph you sneaking out of your hot boyfriends house. Not at all. No shoes, perfect for creepin'. I like the fit of these jeans but not the fraying. Don't like the bag. T-shirt is just a statement. Hat and scarf are unnecessary but grand. Don't like the belt.

Worst

Oh. dear. God. Her lips. That is most definitely not her colour. Overly straightened, fake looking hair. That dress was purchased on Stacey Slaters market stall. As was the hideous crop jacket. Shoes look alright from this angle, aside from the colour. Oh it's bad. I mean she was never stylish but at least in a velour tracksuit we could excuse her as effortless.

Images via celebrity-gossip.net

So you made it start, can you make it stop?

Hi, Hi! Apologies for the absence, places to go, people to see, lazying to be done!

Nicole Richie has launched her Fall Collection while I've been away. I must say I'm a fan of Nicoles designer endeavours. She does boho chic like no other and you can envisage her in every piece in the collection.

Sometimes I disapprove of celebrities being handed fashion lines because of their name and not their talents. I mean imagine having wanted to design your whole life, spending night after night sketching, stitching and dreaming only to lose out to Heidi Montag? Is there a more cruel fate imaginable?

In this world of celebrity a name is all you need. However, even some of the biggest names get it very, very wrong.

Beyonces House of Dereon is shocking. It's just Marc Jacobs, Cavalli and Marchesa knock offs, made with cheaper materials, terrible cuts and generally bleuch. The one thing celebrity lines do have going for them is that they can be the face of their own line and essentially design what they wear. Beyonce doesn't even look good in her own designs. To me, that speaks volumes.

You would think Kimora Lee with all her years in the industry would know a thing or two about designing. You'd be wrong. Yuck, yuck, terrible, yuck.

Lauren Conrad, here's an American Apparel t-shirt. I've cut off the label and replaced it with one with my name on. I'm going to charge you $150 for it. That cool with you? Lazy and uncreative, Lauren.

Just because it's offered to you doesn't mean you should. Unless you are Olsen or Richie put the sketch pad down!

Images via Mamasarollingstone.com

Such a smiling sweetheart

Lauren Conrad,

You are all wise, all-knowing, too trusting and consistently burned. Please don't add to your mountain of trivial problems by wearing unflattering shades of lipstick.

A pale lip is your friend Lauren

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Suckle on the hope in lite brassiere

Happy New Year my darlings!

Thought I'd use my first few posts of the new year to commemorate those who have really impacted the style and musical output of the last decade, and those I hope will come into focus in 2010.

Firstly we're going to have a look at the stylistas of a decade that I will not refer to with that horrible media word that has been fashioned for the year 2000-2009. Blah. Anyway...

2000's - Style

Emma Watson

I can't help it her dress from the rainy Harry Potter première in London began an infatuation that shows no sign of going anywhere.

Kate Moss

Queen of the catwalk, queen of the models, queen of trends- style queen.

Alexa Chung

I love her. Was once told by someone that I remind them of her. Made my year. The Mulberry Alexa bag has a place on my wishlist, I want it more than the Ostrich Bayswater!

Sienna Miller

She beat the designers in her trend-setting ways. Takes a true fashion wonder to do that. Oh and Twenty8Twelve is, in my opinion, one of the most credible celebrity fashion labels due to its association with Ms Miller.

The Olsens

Not loved by all but, credible in the fashion world and iconic to me!

The Gossip Girls

All the designer clobber one could dream of. Four girls with completely different style, all the drama you could want. It's Chanel bags at dawn, love it.

The Sex and the City ladies.

As above, just replace 'drama' with 'melodrama' and 'Chanel handbags at dawn' with 'Manolo Blahniks all day long'

Victoria Beckham

Classy bird, I shake my head in pity at those who determine Posh Spice a chav. Pur-lease she's Jackie O with more embellishment. I allow a lapse of judgement on the Burberry hats and his and hers outfits all was forgiven with her new line. Uh-mazing.

Rachel Zoe

There is scarcely a look in hollywood that doesn't have a little of the Rachel Zoe magic behind it. Ledgebag.

The MTV generation of reality tv girls

Lauren, Whitney, Olivia &co. Unfortunately can't include Stephanie Pratt, Audrina Patridge, Kristen Cavallari, Heidi Montag, Lo Bowsworth or Stacey and Roxy. No offense intended you just didn't make the cut, close though...not really.

Nicole Richie

A champion of Rachel Zoe and the size Zero movement. Thankfully now she has had a couple of babies and is looking a little healthier these times. Her House of Harlow range is to die for. I love, love, love it. She has that free and effortless style that seems to be trickier to achieve than it looks but, the lovely Nicole attains it spectacularly. Also, she looks gorgeous while pregnant and not in that oh so fake 'you're glooowing' kind of way, like literally hot. Fair play.

That's it for now, pretty good decade fashion wise. My Trilby hat off to you ladies.

Images via style.com, elle.co.uk, cwtv.com, hbo.com, justjared.buzznet.com