WHAT TO WAER 4 0 S

Because the 1940s is fab I have hunted down some of the best finds from designer to high st! 

STOCKISTS:

NET-A-PORTER

THE OUTNET.COM

MATCHES

ASOS

RIESS

TOPSHOP

MISS SELFRIDGE 

MY WARDROBE.COM

CHRISTIAN DIOR C O U T U R E

Let us not be so prosaic as to ask exactly what Joan of Arc, Siouxsie Sioux, Botticelli, and the forties French film actress Arletty may have to do with one another—we've arrived in the parallel universe known as John Galliano's Christian Dior. So, on with the show! It¿s a parade of medieval warrior-women in gilded chain mail, copper verdigris gowns, and glass diadems, each equipped with an armored sleeve. It's a bizarre troupe of goth-punks in outsize black-and-red folded 3-D shapes fashioned from trash-bag plastic. It's a mincing line of forties ladies in pea-green and magenta doublet-jacketed crepe suits sporting lobster parts for hats. And then it's a perambulating collection of Tuscan topiary, with pennants and trumpets poking out atop. All this—and, be assured, there was more—played out against the backdrop of a Renaissance garden underneath a sky that alternated between blood-red storm clouds and a spinning astrological wheel taken from an illuminated manuscript. Such historicist games, richly yet randomly referenced, are, of course, part of the perverse delight of any John Galliano presentation. This season, the connecting threads of his allusions even managed to make sense in places. He refined the dark-ages militarism that appeared earlier on Dior's ready-to-wear runway, explored the parallels between doublet and hose and tunics and leggings, and hinted at a surrealist subtext that seems a pretty apt response to the here and now. Between the theatrics, there were also some amazingly covetable draped gowns in sugarplum, white, and peach. These showed up just before the finale: Galliano dropping in to take his bow, dressed as a spaceman.

Images & Words By Sarah Mower STYLE.COM

THE D R E S S COLLECTION BY VICTORIA BECKHAM

THE DRESS COLLECTION BY VICTORIA BECKHAM

A range that encapsulates a new timeless style of dressing.

Each garment is a testament to a love of fashion and the female form.

Every dress has been hand made in the United Kingdom.

FOR STOCKISTS IN THE U.K.

HARRODS, SELFIDGES (LONDON), SELFIDGES (MANCHESTER) AND ONILNE AT NET-A-PORTER,COM

ALL HAIL MRS. B!

Weather you loath her or love her, Victoria Beckham has produced the most desirable A/W collection!  Often I'm not a fan of "celebrities" designing fashion collections because often than not they can be rather lame.  But the former Spice Girl has really soaked up how to produce a killer collection from her designer friends.  The 23 piece collection comprises of  sexy shift dresses, glamorous gowns and slick day wear dresses. I'm sure this collection will be what you want...what you really really want...(sorry I had to put it in)

MUST SEE'S...COCO BEFORE CHANEL & THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE.

If you haven't already heard or seen the new fashion films of the year do so NOW!  Coco Before Chanel starring the impeccable Audery Tautuo as the iconic designer.  

The MUST SEE film for all fashionista's, all budding fashion journalists, stylist, fashion photographers and basically every fashion junkie the world over!!  "The September Issue" is a documentary film following  the world's most powerful Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour and her counterparts putting together the most important issue of Vogue.

THE ERA THAT WAS...

A/W 09/10 sees the return of my personal favorite era...the 40s!  I love everything about this time  from the movies, to the lifestyle and of course the fashion!  To me women in the 40s were ever so chic, elegant, sassy and classy.

 

Above and below are the designers who have done the 40s era justice...