Festival Fever

From Glastonbury to Bestival - what you should be wearing this festival season

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BEST OF THE WEEK

RACHEL BILSON IN SIWY JEANS

Mischa Barton gets a lot of press for being a style icon but if you ask me her OC co-star Rachel Bilson is always much better turned out. These candid shots (of her wearing a pair ofSiwy jeans) were taken outside the Four Season Hotel in LA are so good they could almost be from a photoshoot.

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Amy Winehouse — fashion icon?

EM NO! who thinks this?

Take at look at these outfits....

Ever wondered how to bag yourself some free clothes?

Simply get Victoria Beckham to mention your name toRobert Cavalli, and Bob's your uncle (well, he's your lifetime supplier of clothes anyway).

Apparently that's how singer/trainwreck Amy Winehousemanaged to score herself a 'lifetime of designs' from the fashion guru.

Apparently Robert doesn't want Amy to actually model the clothes on the catwalk, but he'd like her to be the 'face' of his upcoming season of designs.

So… he doesn't like her body, but he does like her face? I was just just wondering, has this guy seenAmy's face lately?

Amy's famous for a lot of things, but I didn't think fashion was one of them. Would you dress like her?

Interesting new designer - Nixia Varela LaMar

I was searching online through the fashion world and stumbled across this designer:  Nixia Varela LaMar her designs foster elegant self-expression by merging continuity of traditional style with subtle acknowledgments of current trend.

A bit about her:

Nixia's nascent acumen and innovative expertise were evident early. As a child, she sewed secret pockets into the kilts of her school uniforms—a practical alteration that sacrificed nothing of the aesthetic. Nixia continued

sketching and outlining concepts for years before formal study of fashion. Professionally, Nixia has done countless runway shows, given interviews in all media forums, dressed contestants in international pageants and been asked to teach seminars. Varela LaMar designs are available in Panama’s boutiques and she designs for a loyal, private clientele.

For Fashion Week Panama, Nixia will present a 35-piece Varela LaMar collection of women's evening and formal wear. She challenged herself to find a nexus between the artistic and engineering realms—a challenge she met successfully incorporating Panama Canal bridge design into her pieces.

Here are a few Pics from her current collection:

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Fashion Idols: The Pros and Cons

What can we learn from our fashion idols? Why do we have them? And why should we look a little deeper into their relevance?

If you’ve ever admired, desired, and acquired the look of another then read on…

The Pros

Channel your ideal look.

With all the appealing trends, access to worldwide style via the internet and more and more budget fashion stores popping up, it’s easy for your daily style to become a little wishy-washy. There’ll be a bit of gothic chic, a dash of boho babe and a drizzle of 1950’s pin-up thrown in for good measure.

This can be all well and good, and even bring about some interesting combinations, but if you want to consolidate your style, be memorable, consistent and make an impact with the way you look, the visual aid of a fashion idol can be indispensable in tying everything you love together effectively.

 Let them do the hard work for you.

If someone is rocking your ultimate look to a T then emulating them is easy. If you need a little inspiration one day, instead of trawling magazines, books, the TV, the net, or spending hours pounding the high street (as much as it’s fun to do this sometimes, we all have real lives too & its not always practical) you can just check out what your idols been wearing and get your fashion fix.

 Let them do the risky bits for you!

If they make a mistake (hello Pixie Geldof!) then you can avoid making that same fatal faux pas. Sure, you’ll make your own errors in judgement sometimes, but a fashion personality who can afford to take those risks regularly has a whole lot of history you can learn from.

 Wear your clothes with confidence.

If your idol is looking great in an ensemble, so can you, and when you know you look great the world is your oyster. Women in the public eye are there to be admired and the clothes we see in them can inspire us to aim for the same empowerment and success through fashion.

“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence – which, I believe, does make the woman.” – Mary Kay Ashe

The Cons

Typical Fashion Icons: 1. Sarah Jessica Parker, 2. Gwen Stefani, 3. The Olsen Twins, 4. Kate Moss, 5. Dita Von Teese, 6. Chloë Sevigny (Images from Style.com)

 Lack of Individuality.

The main issue with fashion idols is that they are dangerously tribal. Take a look at the above names and dare to tell me that at least one of them does not appear in nearly every girls list of fashion idols? And doesn’t this take all the fun out of having an idol? Aren’t we on a dodgy path to some horrific fashion middle ground where we all dress exactly the same?! Ok, perhaps I exaggerate, but what about if we wandered a little outside the box for our fashion idols?

 Convincing ourselves that they have something we don’t.

The only thing these women have that your average Josephine doesn’t is unlimited access to the most exclusive labels and personal stylists; there’s no magic element that makes a woman in the public eye any better at dressing than you.

If your reason for having fashion idols is that you think you lack your own personal style then you’re wrong, I don’t even know you and I’m flatly telling you that you’re wrong, you could be wearing canary yellow dungarees for all I’m aware. We all have personal style, it’s just that the collective might not necessarily “get” what we have to show them, or perhaps we are unwilling to show it to them.

“You know what? I don’t think it’s about wearing the right thing. It’s wearing what you want to wear, and either it works for whoever is judging you, or it doesn’t.” – Mary-Kate Olsen

If you want proof that what is quirky can be exquisite and what is unusual can be endearing you only have to check out alternative fashion sites like Painfully Hip.

 There are always limitations with an idol.

Don’t tie yourself down to one or two single fashion idols. Fashion inspiration should come from everywhere and anywhere. Don’t limit yourself to idols strictly within showbiz. What about fashion eras? Fashionable occupations? Art? Film? Literature? There’s inspiration everywhere if you look for it, not just on the cover ofVogue.

Outside-the-box Fashion Idols: 1. Amelia Earhart, 2. Cyndi Lauper, 3. Vivien Leigh as Scarlet O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, 4. Native American woman, 5. Frida Kahlo (Images from Google Images)

“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” – Coco Chanel

Rethinking Fashion

I think as far as we’ve come and as easy as it can now be to wear whatever you like, there are still a lot of people, myself included, who need consistently need to rethink the way they look at fashion.

In our current culture there is a distinct level of what I call the fashion ‘push’ – it begins in the media, strutting down the catwalk, and is then socially reinforced, strutting down the sidewalk, and it can be incredibly difficult to shrug off. We wear what we think we are supposed to wear.

Take a certain trend like Topshop’s oversize hair bows (pictured below) – would you have ever considered wearing one before they were advertised and socially imposed upon you? So what if you thought of a slightly more individual look now, for example wearing a bird in your hair – would you be too scared to try it out? Only you have the answer.

More thoughts on idols?

I guess the conclusion is that fashion idols can be a useful tool in the quest for great personal style but, like all things, should be used in moderation. What do you guys think? Do you live by the mantras of one specific idol? Or do you reject the whole idea?

Weekly Round-up | My Fashion Life

Weekly Round-up | My Fashion Life

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Peaches Geldof shows off her big pants (or did she just forget her bikini?)

Given her short-lived career as an underwear model, Peaches Geldof should know how to make a pair of pants look good.

But it's unlikely her latest look will be much in demand.

The 21-year-old daughter of Sir Bob Geldof wore this unflattering pair of gigantic knickers for a trip to a California water park at the weekend.

What happened? Peaches Geldof reveals her expanded waistline in a pair of unflattering high-waisted pants at the Raging Waters park in Los Angeles

They looked like a pair of control pants – an elasticated undergarment designed to hold in the stomach. But unfortunately, they weren't able to cover up the nasty gash on her leg.

It is not known where the painful-looking wound came from.

Miss Geldof also seemed a little more rounded than in her last pictures for Ultimo.

Enormously unflattering: Peaches’ look for summer 2010 is a far cry from her Ultimo shoot last year

Before: Peaches revealed the figure which won her a £100,000 lingerie contract which she has now lost

She was voted into FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World three years ago.

The 21-year-old looked a far cry from her slender Miss Ultimo modelling shots.

Bosses at the underwear firm last year insisted the pictures were not digitally enhanced.

She lost her £100,000-a-year contract with the firm after U.S. artist Ben Mills posted pictures of her naked on the internet.

He claimed to have had a heroin-fuelled, one-night stand with her last November, a claim she strenuously denies.

The 21-year old is currently dating 38 -year old horror film director Eli Roth.

Her past relationships include a brief marriage to rocker Max Drummey.

Miss Geldof is now trying to revive her career. She reportedly wants to become an actress.

Pants to Peaches: The underwear theme continued as Peaches posed in a pair of pants to promote legalising Gay marriage

Style Inheritance - Chic fashion at its best!

It all comes full circle!! 

Channel chic Seventies mums in high-waisted denim, blouses and maxi dresses. What trend do you look back on and love?

Take a look at these designers on the catwalk. Wounder what style trends will be taken from this day and age?!?

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Taylor Momsen Style

As much as the girl annoys me, she looks good here: