house envy.

many of you are fellow french voguettes and so will have already leafed through these pages. but for the rest of you, i wanted to post these clippings with a peek into vanessa traina's home. there is something so fascinating about having a poke around someone else's home, and this is particularly the case when the occupant in question styled that Row video. this feature came just at the right time; i'm preparing to move rooms and am collecting lots of interiors ideas. perfecte.

pics: the fashion spot

mr dope

person 1:"your trousers are pretty cool."

jeddd: "yeah i got them from this store..god it's such a funny story.. you should have been there.. i was so fucked when i got them and they were like $380."

person 1: "sounds hilarious."

jeddd: "i really like that they just give me this dope look, you know like back in the day. nyc 90s grunge."

person 1: "even though you were like 5 then.."

jeddd: "uhh..right. and with a cigarette in my hand the look is complete."

person 1:"are you going to smoke that thing?"

jeddd: "what this? no. it tastes like shit. but if i look like i'm about to, all the street photographers come up to me."

pic: kathyisyourfriend

all things aside, they really are nice trousers.

to swoon.

i'm so very glad of roisin murphy's existence. sometimes i wander who else could possess her fearless power to rock the more difficult ensembles from a designer's collection to such an "undoubtable tee."

gareth pugh on a bus. viktor and rolf stage lit dress on a street corner. martin margiela to a premiere..

she can always be relied upon to satisfy our senses; fusing perfectly sound and visuals and the bloody marvelous music video for "you know me better" is living proof.

i stumbled across some rather sacred text; Claire Edmondson, who styled the video with roisin shares the love and the ideas behind the outfits. and "fyi", she put Feist in that blue sequined jumpsuit in her music video for "1, 2, 3, 4", so clearly she's good news.

Claire Edmondson “Roisin is really inspiring, she brings so much to the table. Usually at a fitting you pull out things and everyone gets really scared. But I’d show Roisin something and she’d say ‘yeah its amazing, and what about this?’ She was embracing everything I had and wanting to push it further."

“The green dress and pink hotpants, that’s a vintage look. There were so many costume changes you can’t really plan them ahead of time. I just did a massive, massive shop basically and then you start building outfits from there. That green dress I knew would be great somewhere, I just didn’t know in what context, but it would end up in the video. And it turned out to be a really strong look, I really like that one. And the ruff again is by a local designer."

i'm a real nerd when it comes to stylists and their thought processes. especially when it has something to do with such an exciting and innovative artist. click here for more breakdown of the costumes, fellow nerds.

mrs JONES

pics:tFs

she's been dubbed the "black paris hilton" purely for her socialite status, but take no notice, for her uniform consists of roitfeld-esque mini and killer heels combos and miu miu collars with not a pink hoodie in sight.

born into a middle class family, she's a "self-made" socialite; you know, the type to name herself an "interior designer". not usually a role model i would be hasty to advocate but i love the fact that she wasn't born into a long family line of oil heirs. to me, this just gives the finger to the rothchilds and mortimers

and her BFFs are julia roitfeld-restoin and anouke lepore. i rest my case.

now playing: universal traveller by air

a little bird told me.

more quote scavenging for your pleasure. what have the darlings of fashion been chattering on about of late?

giles deacon on a common misconception: "That I'm a millionaire. That always makes me laugh when I read it in magazines. I don't know where they get it from because in fact I'm a billionaire."

smug, much? roisin murphy's beauty tip: "Be in love. I sound like Joan Collins, but you become quite beautiful when you're in love."

pierre hardy on his own designs "it's the biggest compliment when i see girls in my shoes. I don't go up to them- I just stare at the shoes until they talk to me."

pamela anderson asks herself the same thing, lara stone "I find it strange that people are so obsessed with my boobs. they're just breasts."

"when i'm shopping i don't even look at the price, i'm ashamed of myself, i just sign the credit card." haven't heard of the recession, then donatella versace?

catherine mcneil on french vogue and carine roitfeld "the best place i've shot was in brazil, when i did the cover for French Vogue... shooting with carine roitfeld was fantastic, and you know she always looks a-may-zing too!"

quotes from thefashionspot, i-D magazine, and independant online. pics roisinmurphy.blogspot and nytimes

something i've been meaning to tell you

i-Do like summer

ohh the sun is shining in england!

for those not familiar with the happy chaos that ensues when the sun shines over here, i shall (ahem) enlighten you.

the suncream comes out so that we can pretend that we are on holiday. sandals, sunglasses, teeny hemlines (take your pick..shorts or skirt.) are all standard because we all know that this could be the last day of sun we see..until next year. and everyone is happy and remarking on the weather even more than usual, which, yes is saying something.

so i have returned home from an easy day of college with a spring in my step and have dragged a recliner out into my 4 metre square of a city garden, stripped down to a lame american apparel bikini top and some old shorts and withstack of magazines and lee scratch perry blaring from the stereo inside the house, am fully understanding the word "bliss".

a look through my pile of magazines has lead me to the conclusion that glossies are like a good cheese; becoming more deliciously flavoursome with time and i-D's april issue is no exception. i shall support this..

ps, just had a click through the style MET archive, which wasn't up when i posted yesterday, and have now noticed that infact nicolas et al did attend and that the outfits aren't quite as non-descript as i had first though. the saving graces were the models who all looked fahhbulous.

pics: from anuva at thefashionspot

and a little announcement

The most common predictions:

Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham

what would everyone have made of that? i'm divided but also kind of pleased that marc didn't let down his origo-muse, and discotheque confusion favourite ms coppola.

thanks to everyone who sent in your entries, it was fun, non?

check out their blogs;

tala

emsie

elizabeth

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I woke up this morning, all fidgety and eager, counting down the minutes until I could find out who wore what at the MET costume gala.

A mixed bag. And I know there are a lot of varying reactions solely by the sheer amount of pages clocked up on the fashion spot thread.

sticking to the theme proved difficult; Anna Wintour, Rachel Bilson and Naomi Watts all took risks that didn't pay off, while Christina Ricci, Kate Bosworth and Kate Moss all incorporated subtle superhero touches with belts and comic book inspired palettes. others looked fantastic despite deeming it unneccesary to pay attention to the dress code.

NOTE: You'll have to hold tight until tomorrow to find out who has won the MET costume gala competition. Hold tight!

christina ricci, michelle trachenberg, kate moss, jessica stam, kate bosworth, scarlett johansson

zac posen and kate mara

amanda peet, kimora lee simmons, mischa "resurrect me" barton, katie holmes, anna wintour

still time

missed the rules? check back here.
worried you won't win? it could be worse..Rachel Zoe got uninvited from the event by Wintour. Ouch!

MET costume gala competition.

the MET costume institute gala is just around the corner...

and it's competition time.

forget being awarded with "the honour"; if you can correctly predict who the designers will be arriving with, and who'll be wearing what, i'll send the winner a little discotheque confusion prize package through the post as well as giving runners up fashion spot invites.

have a read through the poster above to find out how to go about entering (it's easyy!) and send your answers in an email to lasvegasdolly@hotmail.co.uk by SUNDAY 4TH MAY.

I'll announce the winners asap and contact them for mailing details. Your details will be kept completely confidential and are in safe hands.

Hopefully this is all pretty straight-forward and remember, it's all for fun!

Below is a template if you want to know how to layout the answers in the email.

hot under the collar

"What if you don't want to wear a skinny jean? It's time to go back to a product that has a dream to it."

Oh my. Tell me it isn't true.

Alber is sick of skinnies too? thank god!

And what is this? Mr Elbaz is teaming up with ACNE?

i can feel a sweat coming on..

and i got a hernia when I heard about Alexander Wang and Uniqlo, so who knows what this is going to do to me.

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The Vogue Daily article follows:

DENIM devotees rejoice: Alber Elbaz has revealed that Lanvin is working with cult label Acne on its first line of jeans. "I want to bring Lanvin into their know-how," the designer tells The Daily. "What if you don't want to wear a skinny jean? It's time to go back to a product that has a dream to it. I asked myself, 'What kind of jeans can I bring that will be a Lanvin jean and Acne spirit infused in one?'" While no official contract between the two labels has been signed, Elbaz confirms the project is going full steam ahead, with 2009 in mind for launch. And it doesn't stop there. "It's being created out of a need, like how we don't do an entire bridal line but instead have a few pieces," he added. "It's the first of several niches I'd like to build."

altogether now, "eeeeee!"