FIFTIES BIKER CHIC

Not long ago, I fell in love with this sheer colour block shirt, so much that I had to have it right away, along with a couple of things I thought would do it justice, namely the skinny wetlook biker jeans and the simplest kitten heel courts to create my (totally false) 50s biker chick look with a slight twist.

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DAKS: AND MAKE A SPLASH

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ORLA KIELY: JUMP IN WITH ME

Softly faded holiday snaps come alive in Orla Kiely’s spring collection, as a gang of retro kitsch rebels take a trip down mum’s memory lane, shaking their backsides in a sun-drenched forest, on the beach or by the pool.

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CORRIE NIELSEN: "THERE WAS SOMETHING FASCINATING IN THIS SON OF LOVE AND DEATH"

Gothic art calls for a gothic review."[B]eauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins." Now, shall we talk about modular origami, fashion history, a Japanese twist? 

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PAUL COSTELLOE: KISS YOUR SIXTIES FLICK GOODBYE

In his spring/summer 2012 collection, brimming with the same opulence in jacquard and soft pearly metallics as the ones before, bigger, balloon-like shapes take centre stage. A sadness at first glimpse - our beloved designer moves away from the A-lined, big buttoned dresses and coats of his own feisty 1960s flick chicks (sporting 1970s colours), and dives into a sea of peach fuzz and sugar syrup.

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