Just a quick heads up folks…………..
Ex-Indie queen Pearl Lowe has designed a very cool range of dresses for clothes retailer Peacocks (modelled by her daughter Daisy). They have been on the website for a couple of days and are selling fast.
Therefore, we would advise a speedy purchase, as this range won’t last long!
Hi everyone – hope you liked the snappy post title, here’s a few interesting fashion stories of the last few weeks:
Thanks for reading.
Guys, forget about elaborate layers, fancy fabrics and meticulously planning your look for the summer ahead – you simply cannot go wrong with a good T-Shirt.
Here’s our top 5 T-Shirts of summer 2009……………..
Budget Classic!
Peacocks Cheap Menswear – Black Beatles T-Shirt
The Beatles are back (again) this summer, mainly due to the launch of The Beatles Rock Band Video Game. This White Logo T-Shirt has been around for years but our friends at Peacocks have this great version for a tenner.
The Beatles T over at Peacocks Menswear
Retro fun from 8 Ball
It’s fathers day on Sunday, and it’s not too late to visit 8ball.co.uk and grab some great shirts for your old boy. This Dad’ll fix it T-Shirt is our best bet.
8ball.co.uk - dad'll fix it t-shirt
The Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt on Amazon
Instantly prove that your down with internet humour with this now notorious Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt from Amazon. Read the reviews, hilarious stuff.
Amazon's legendary Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt
Classic Mid Range Value
You can’t go wrong with a good, old fashioned solid Polo Shirt – they can be worn with virtually every type of bottoms in any situation. A classic Fred Perry should see you right – although personally we’d keep it pretty simple, avoiding big stripes and logos.
Classic Fred Perry Polo
Im sorry, how much!!!??
Billionaire Boys Club is probably one of the most sought after labels on earth right now. Set up by the impossibly cool combo of Pharell Willams from NERD and Bathing Ape founder Nigo, BBC have a superb range of streetwear, at a price! For example, this T-Shirt will set you back £70, but it is pretty awesome. Money well spent.
Billionaire Boys Club T-Shirt - Costly but Cool
There we go, five of our mens t-shirt selections for summer 2009! Any of your suggestions are welcomed – cheers!!
With June approaching fast, there are probably several hundred websites and blogs with this title vying for your intention on the internet. The reason being, that the writer has read that list articles are a popular, easily scannable type of post which due to the nature of peoples attention span on the web is more likely to get featured in Digg or Reddit and the like – which is fair enough.
However, here are at CCR we are only interersterd in the clothes and if anyone reads our posts its a great bonus (and a big thanks to all that do!).
We proclaim no qualifications or real expertise – just a deep enthusiasm for fashion and a nose for what we feel people are going to be into this summer. We have nothing too shocking or revolutionary to say here, trends are very difficult to predict and sometimes can emerge from nowhere. Many of the Summer 2009 fashion trends were predicted by the major magazines and blogs in February/March – they have their reasons but its only now as we come closer to the actual summer that trends begin to emerge. What they still don’t understand fully is that the main players in trend setting is YOU. The real power to influence lies with YOU – YOU define summer fashion, YOUR choices influence someone, who tells their friends and the effect ripples around the streets.
Anyway, slight rant over – let’s have a look at some clothes! Five fashion trends of Summer 2009:
1 – Denim – Will jeans ever go out of fashion? A perrenial winner, summer 2009 is no different. As well as classic cropped, skinnys and boyfriend jeans, weve seen some pretty cool Denim Skirt and dresses combinations. Peacocks as always have a great range of Denim shorts and skirts, illustrating that you rarely have to break to bank for this look.
Denim Skirts from Peacocks - cool but cheap, great!
2 – The single shouldered dress and top – wow, tops and dresses with this look can be so sleek and sexy if done right – we’re so glad to see this style blasting back onto the high street. We would have one formal (like the Jane Norman top below) and one informal one-shouldered top, just to cover every occassion!
One shoulder class from Jane Norman
3 – Trousers – there is alot of trouser action on the streets already this year. Jumpsuits, harem, high-waisted and hugely bright colours are what weve come across so far. Fashion chicks have some great examples.
Harem Trousers - big, baggy and back!
4 – Transparency – light and airy transparent tops are definitely a big mover in summer 2009 – a great, versatile style that can look fantastic as a component of a layered ensemble – just be careful with transparent-only layers!
Great chiffon at Urban Outfitters
5 – High heels – the coolest shoes of the summer – literally. We would chuck our cheap clothes sensibiblities out of the window and invest in a pair of top class heels. Some great advice here on making heels comfortable.
High heels - the skys the limit
What are you going to wear this summer? – let us know your thoughts on whats going to be big in Summer 2009!
Well, that’s almost one-quarter of 2009 down already – how quick was that? – i haven’t even managed to get round to spending my Christmas gift vouchers yet! Anyway, i don’t know about you, but i feel that its been quite a tame start to the year in fashion terms, with very little standout stories, events or styles.
That said, there have been a few standout moments so far in quarter one of 2009 – here are our five favourites…..
There we go – that’s our top five ‘things’ of this year so far – what has caught your eye?
Michelle Obama is probably the most photographed woman on the planet. For a woman that only a few of us would admit to having heard of this time last year, her ascent to style icon has been impressive. The 45 year-old first lady has cut a dignified and confident figure throughout the presidential campaign and short term in the presidency.
Obviously, being in a privileged position, Michelle Obama has access to the top designer fashion labels - she isn’t exactly operating in the same levels of clothes shopping than most of us here in the real world. Her fashion portfolio so far, at most major events has included Jason Wu, Thakoon, Isabel Toledo and Jimmy Choo. However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t take some general inspiration from the First Ladies style. As she told Vouge:
“If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.”
Read on for some Michelle Obama style rules:
There is never a shortage of bizarre and beautiful happenings in the world of fashion.
We thought that it would be fun to compile some of our favourite stories of the last few months.
Chinese fashion designer Jiang Zhou uses UFO sightings as fashion inspiration – There are some extremely quirky fashions displayed at almost every catwalk show, but this has to be one of the most bizarre. These clothes wouldn’t look out of place in Mos Eisley Cantina.
Paris Fashion Week 2009 Epilogue – after slating catwalks in the previous paragraoh, we have to rain our tails in a little. Some of the designs from Paris 2009 looked stunning.
Victoria Beckham vows never to sing again YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS – NO! Please dont do it Becks, we love you! – Great little story from Blackbook, if only for their astute analysis of Mrs Beckham, ‘the most self actualized member of the celebrity class’.
Bruno the Movie is on the way! – Yes Sasha Baron Cohen (Ali G, Borat creator) is about to unleash his gay Austrian Fashion Reporter on the movie world soon – there are already Bruno sites popping up all over the web apparently. Should be hilarious, we’ll have more on Bruno soon.
Japanese Robot Fashion Model - are words really necessary here?
Fashion Tips on Denim – Great post from ChicStories on Denims styles, black skinny jeans still seem to be leading the way for us.
Ok, thats just a few of our best stories from recent times – what fashion stories have you came across recently?, let us know……….
