Turn Me To Stone

Can we all please take a moment to appreciate the gloriousness of Damien Hirst's GQ cover?

1) You can never go wrong with Rihanna, a bonafide Goddess in my books
2) I have an obsession with snakes so you can see why this shoot got me all giddy
3) RiRi is channelling the one and only Medusa, the baddest babe in Greek Mythology. I mean the woman has hair of SNAKES and could turn people to stone just by looking at them, enough said.

The issue hits the stands on October 31st, on which I will be grabbing my copy from my local Co-Op and I couldn't care less if the old ladies buying their bread and milk stare at me because this shoot is simply perfection.

 

 

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Anarchy in the U.K

In the flare-wearing, platformed world of 1970's Britain, The Sex Pistols completely changed the way teenagers dressed and, with a little help from Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, have managed to create a style that crops up every few seasons to this day.

One stand out character from the punk invasion was Nancy Spungen, the brassy American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. I became obsessed with their volatile relationship after reading about their tragic deaths (Nancy was brutally murdered, and Vicious was the main suspect before he himself died of a heroin overdose) and even more obsessed with Nancy's radical style.

Nancy was the quintessential punk poster girl, rarely seen without some leather, leopard print, studs or ripped tights and with a head of bleach blonde hair.

 

 

 

One go-to place where you'll be guaranteed some edgy, tough items to become a 2013 version of Nancy is of course Topshop, and I've picked out some of my favourite pieces that's due to put the fear of God into people.





 

all images courtesy of Topshop

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Welcome to the Oasis

Outsider
noun

• a person who is not accepted by or who isolates themselves from society

I believe that the fashion industry is fuelled by the rise of the outsiders, those kids that rebelled against the clothes that society told them they should be wearing, wore what they wanted to and were gawped at by people in the street for doing so. 

 

Fashion would be stuck in it's own style rut if people didn't come along and shake it up a little bit. Where would our wardrobes be without the Greasers of the 1950s popularising the leather jacket, or the free spirited 1960s hippies giving us kaftans and maxi skirts? The rise of the punks in the 70s gave us rebellious music (The Sex Pistols, The Clash) and even more rebellious dress sense. Kurt Cobain led the 1990 grunge kids clad in their plaid shirts to take over mainstream fashion, with grunge-styled editorials quickly appearing in the top fashion bibles (think Vogue's 1992 'Grunge & Glory' shot by Steven Meisel and featuring glamour puss Naomi Campbell). All outsiders, all unbelievably influential in the way we dress today.

 

This blog will focus on the icons that broke the mould and the new designs and editorials that celebrate said icons. I'll also be throwing in some of my own outfits and posts about my life for good measure, that being said it will mostly be something to do with cats, or Harry Potter.

 

 

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