Lover SS09

I have ‘prominent’ front teeth, beginning to crowd, and I blame my childhood dentist. I wonder if that’s why I have a thing about gap-tooth women. Particularly blondes.

All I can remember about Highlander:

Has this become more prominent??

Gallic gap:

Newcomers Jennifer Pugh and Lara Stone:

The most famous of all:

And finally, the woman who strarted it all off for me: Donna Jordan, model, muse to Antonio Lopez, Warhol superstar and actress.

Whatta gal!

(Donna pics from Blitz Kids, Lauren Hutton’s smile via Tom Munro)

Hooray!! Somebody else collects small wooden spoons!!

Ebay is awash with Comme for H&M - how many of those things did they produce for God’s sake!! I lost interest immediately. Consoling myself with trawling the ever-reliable Regan for alternatives.

Jodphurs in the softest moleskine, breeches in gabardine. And paisley lederhosen?? Oh yeah….

I did find the blogging hoo-ha around the launch of CDG for H&M a mite tedious. But probably just because I usually find those designer hook-ups leave me feeling really let down. It’s either the fabric or the finish or the cut - there’s always a casualty to the hype.

In this case I did pop in for a look the next day out of idle curiosity. I expected a crater with a few remaining spots. I got to see the remnants of the collection, minus the piece I may have been tempted to buy - the crotch-drop trouser.

Since a travel stint in asia I have cherished two pairs of softest cotton cropped fisherman’s pants, and they form a serious component of my working at home uniform. Alone in summer and with wrinkled-at-ankle long-johns in winter. That’s where I thought the CDG may slot in, being as they are in wool gabardine.

Obviously the churidar styling is a tough one to pull of for the curvier lady, but these images from Max Tilke’s Oriental Costumes: Their Designs and Colors should serve as inspiration.

To ebay it is then…

How delicious it is to spend all day lounging.

Via Les carnets du design.

“We see ourselves as a London brand, the store is based in London and the essence of the collection has always had an English ideology and references very English things.”

Mathew Murphy of b Store interviewed on Ponystep.

I LOVE girls who dress like boys.

Irina Lazarenu via (I think) Garance Dore…

Brown leather spats lined in black patent leather - the public sphere on the outer and the domestic within.

I like them.

From Posso the Spat via Sea of Shoes.

Vintage photographs from an album found by Anja.