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Motherfuckers! I know I am about three months late, but humour me. What did y’all think about AW09 collections? Favourites? Were you repulsed by anything? I only just got around to having a squiz around some collections… pathetic, I know. 

Personally, I loved some of the detailing in the Comme des Garcons collection. The slightly drawn in waists in the huge layered coats? The collars? Mmmm. And I don’t think I need to go on about how much I love muted colour palettes – yet another reason to love winter. 

The Chloe collection was amazing too. Elegant, classic, refined (although I don’t think I’m ever going to love bunched cuff trousers, no matter how often they are in the Sartorialist).

Balmain jackets omg. The whole tuxedo jacket trend is something I am hugely fond of (I think I’ll always love a cuffed blazer or tuxedo sleeve.)

Jil Sander’s collection was amazingly elegant, and although I found many of the clothes fairly uninspiring, I thought the use of colour was fantastic. The muted tones then BLAM, yellow motherfuckers!  (This was pretty cool in Prada too, the muted greys and browns with crazy reds, the whole thing looked like sepia or B+W then toned with vibrant reds afterwards. I loved some of the Prada knits too, but seriously, thigh-high waders? I’m all for gumboots but…really?!).

Missoni’s layering of powder blue tuxedos and dusty pinks with muted yellow accessories was pretty great. Got me all happy. The pastels worked well as a contrast to so many greys and blacks, but didn’t offend my winter loving, muted colour sensibilities… snort chuckle.

Although I didn’t fall in love with a lot of the Fendi pieces, the overall aesthetic was something I can appreciate and relate to. Christopher Kane didn’t make me all gooey-eyed like last year but I did love the use of the sheer neutral tones with black detailing. 

There was a huge amount of architectural folding around. Good? I like it when it’s more fitted (like the Balenciaga skirts) but I am totally not into the great big folds I’ve seen all over the place for a while now (a la Lanvin, Victor + Rolf, Miu Miu… frankly, big ugly folds: do not want)

RODARTE: NO! I did not like you at all.

GALLIANO: I am sorry, some of your skirts may have flowed very nicely but you were a hot tranny mess. 

ANNE VALERIE HASH: I am sorry but no.

I am sure there is more. Please tell me opinions!

Photos via Scout Holiday.

-Sally

I am sorry La Rare! I am sorry, but I do not like your heeled cutout brogues! 

Brogues, I like. Heeled brogues, I like. But these heeled cutout brogues that I’ve been seeing freaking everywhere for probably the last year, I do not like.

I even mentioned to dearest mother that I was looking to invest (yes, invest) in a nice pair of brogues, she immediately starts pointing out these abhorrences* whilst I recoil in disgust:

“No, mother. Not like that.”

In other news…

Dear block heels: I do not like you either.

PS: Baptiste Viry, I get you are going for that whole androgynous thing. I get it. You are all about the waistcoats: I am into that too. I am into what you are doing. However, the model in your lookbook, she looks like a man. I really had to consider for some time whether or not she was in fact a she. Perhaps this is what you are going for, but I do not like it. I do like your waistcoats though.

PPS: If only I had seen the neon leopard print Christopher Kane cardy sooner: I would have bought the cheap leopard print jumper (which was walking the precarious line between awful and fantastic) down at the local shops. Unfortunately, I am not quite cool enough to carry things like that off without some kind of trend to back me up. Yes, I am the lamest person I know.

Also: I stumbled onto the Alex and Chloe site and fucking wept that I couldn’t have pretty much most things.

And lastly: Wearing black does not make me a goddamn Goth. Frankly, if you think I look like a Goth you are a fucking idiot because I really, really don’t. So you can stop now, Mother and also boy who studies podiatry who I don’t really know.

I know I haven’t posted in months or whatever but that is all I have to say.

- Sally

*I had so many issues trying to find out if this was a real word or not. I think, yes?