She's talking don't know if I want to listen

Akiko of both Comanechi and PRE fame now hasher own fashion blog over on vice. She looks very much like the insane girl from a band that she is, it's very cool London but definitely interesting to gander at. And unlike many bands that look cool their music is actually good too (possibly only if you're in the mood for something a liitle chaotic and loud). So I bet you're asking what's your problem Lil why wouldn't you just listen to her? Well unfortunately we didn't get on so well when she was here a while back playing for our old club night and I can't seem to shake the fact that I really just don't like her but that shouldn't stop you reading all her fashion musings.
Also their band tshirt is the only one I've wanted in a while but I think i's a little bit inappropriate and I just don't have enough tude to pull it off.

Very impressed by:

Kanye West at Paris Fashion week. If i ever achieve anything noteworthy in life i would be happy if it involved being part of an entourage this fabulous.

Cat

Madmen

This is the show all fashion kids should know about...apparently. Smart 60's suits=très chic. Series two is on BBC at the moment at the utterly ridiculous time of 00:55 on Sundays. Some people have to get up on a Monday, silly silly people at BBC.

Cat

Sexy Shoe Lust

Love love love Jak & Jill for such amazing, voyeuristic shoe shots from fashion week. And have been seeing quite a few of these lovely Nicholas Kirkwood platforms. It's a pity conspicuous consumption is so not cool anymore. A friend once got out one of those Ulster bank €600 loans to buy a pair of Louboutins and hey if you're gonna be splashing out you might as well do it interest free. Im sure i have a tin of red paint in the shed though...recession busting chic.

Nicholas Kirkwood SS09



Kirkwood for Belstaff...aaaaamazing
from Jak & Jil

Then there is this crazy new trend. A "trying on" trip to Brown Thomas is definitely in order. Will they be even more ridiculously uncomfortable than regular sky high heels? I am quite excited to find out.

Dolce & Gabbana SS09

More insane shoes. Antonio Berardi from last year.
This isn't fashion, it's physics.

Cat

Please excuse the short rant

but I'm somewhat of an angry person, not in a I punch the walls for release way but in a mah I get frustrated with stupidity easily way  usually this sort of anger is kept for particularly bad bands, MGMT in particular but today its being channeled towards the most ridiculous of the new trends for spring sumer. I'm looking forward to everyone running around wearing blocks of bright colours, flowers prints and clashing to their hearts content, however one thing I'm dreading is the sight of is the belly top. It's never been cool and it never will be cool, no matter how toned your stomach is its still not going to look good, in fact it's going to look trashy (and not in the good way).  If Carrie Bradshaw couldn't pull it off then no one else can and hopefully they'll have enough sense not to try. Thankfully Cheryl Cole was silly enough to try and so stands as a shinning example of what a horrible idea this stupid trend is. 

Spring Cleaning

I know it isn't really Spring until the 20th but by then ill be so worried about my dissertation that there will simply be no more time for cleaning.

Unfortunately I do not have sufficient storage for all my lovely clothes as my mom has taken over three wardrobes in our house. Or perhaps the problem is that i have too many clothes..? ha ha, of course not!

Anyway, turns out i have more than 40 pairs of shoes. Although others might think that is excessive, but i think that it's pretty impressive. They were all piled together at the bottom of my wardrobe so i did a bit of rearranging and now i can actually see them.

I also recently invested in a very nifty space saving device. It's basically just a coat rack that hangs off the back of your door. Lil has one too and they are just genius. Fantastic use of space altogether.

€15 in Argos, wonderful.

I used to keep my bags on a hanger. All, gosh 30 something of them, but then the hanger broke under the strain (not surprising really) so i had to find a solution for that too. It's amazing how much crap i had kept from when i was young, like my collection of Where's Wally? magazines and my collection of animal soaps. So, they're gone now and on their former shelf are my lovely bags.

So, when the bags were gone there was a whole extra rail in my wardrobe. Brilliant. Space to separate skirts and dresses. Ok, so it's not as good as Alicia Silverstone's wardrobe in Clueless but it'll do for now.

For those of you who havn't seen Clueless, ill have to explain about the wardrobe. It was controlled by a computer so Cher would pick out her outfit, or have the computer choose it and then her mechanical wardrobe would bring the items she needed to the very front. Genius.

Cat

Well that's just pants!

I don't generally do trousers. I find them quite uncomfortable and i also think they're much less versatile than a skirt or a dress. I do however have two pairs that i really love, even though i almost never wear them.

These are my brothers old trousers that he used to wear when he worked in a pub about 5 years ago. They fit me perfectly.

White shoes from Bershka, belt stolen from mam, white top Free 'P' Star.

Then there are these amazing trousers. I bought these for €25 at the Toe Jam carboot sale during the summer from a designer called Heidi Walsh. She won the DIT Young Designer of the Year competition in 2005. Worn with my bowler hat they remind me a little of Charlie Chaplin.

White shoes as above and dress worn as top from H&M.

Cat