Our resident website's fashion expert Holly from fashion blog Never Love You More brings you weekly advice about how to recreate the look for this week's Frock Me. This time it's Slogans...
Ed Hardy
Where did this one come from, I'l tell you where, America and I'll tell you why, Madonna, Britney and Kanye LOVE this stuff. Don Ed Hardy is known as the "godfather of the modern tattoo" and prints his tattoo designs on t-shirts, jackets, well anything he can get his hands on. I saw an 'Ed Hardy couple' walking through the London the other day both adorned with Ed's easily recognisable sailor designs. His and hers, love it. I'd maybe go for a less is more approach with Ed Hardy, one stunning pieces will attract more attention than fourteen slogans emblazoned incongruously across your body.
House of Holland
Henry's ace slogan filled t-shirts are a sight to behold, not only are they funny but they certainly make people look at your chest. This may of may not be a good thing depending on your disposition, however, go for the less is more look if you want to pull of a slogan t shirt these days. Make like Alice Dellal and choose one attention-grabbing garment and shape your outfit around that. HoH t-shirt with the thickest tights you can find and some DMs will give you instant style appeal.
Chanel
The thing with Chanel is that it is really expensive and yet with a bit of bad styling you can end up looking like you have bought your pieces from the local market. The logo is one of the coolest in the fash world and signifies sophistication, luxury and style. The logo emblazoned jewellery looks fantastic at the moment, remember Lily Allen's long Chanel chain? Its subtle and looks so good, instantly pepping up any outfit. My favourite piece of Chanel apparel? Its got to be the two tone ballet pump with the logo on the toe, these give any outfit instant Audrey Hepburn appeal. Chanel have just brought out perhaps the most perfect pair of two tone tights with the logo at each ankle - logos don't have to be massive and sometimes small is so much more sophisticated.
Designer pieces
One thing I love about designers is the fact that you can instantly recognise their work whether it is being copied in the high street or worn at parties. Take for example Roland Mouret, the daddy of the red carpet outfit, and his Galaxy dress. It lead to Victoria Beckham buying his whole RM range and was worn to high profile events by Sienna Miller, Cameron Diaz and Demi Moore to name but a few. Another recent trend has been floral, summer floral was everywhere this year and now darker floral is settling in for winter. This is all down to one lady, Miss Luella Bartley, the UK based designer brought out a range of micro floral designs for her S/S 08 collection, furthermore this look was patronised by the likes of Lily Allen and voila you have yourself a style phenomenon. Proving you don't have to emblazon yourself with logos to give a hint to your favourite designers, sometimes subtlety is the most fash policy (ok, not very often!)
Lets get political
Love Obama? Feel strongly about oil? Got beef with someone? Then don't just say it, wear it, preferably across your chest in full view of the world. At designer Sonia Rykiel's fortieth anniversary in Paris last week Rodarte designed a sweater dress in the style of the great SR emblazoned with the word 'Obama'. What better way to air your political views that at Paris Fashion Week when the eyes of the fashion world are on you? Canny. Viktor and Rolf were more subtle (a bit) in their Fall 2008 Ready to Wear collection, they said NO to fashion throughout the collection. Models had NO painted on their faces, belt buckles emblazoned with the word and garments had 3D words coming out of them. Finally, the UK's first lady of fashion herself, Vivienne Westwood, brought out her 'I Am Not A Terrorist' charity t-shirt and raised shed loads of money for Liberty, the civil rights group. The t shirts were designed in protest to new anti terror laws, Viv, controversial and brilliant as ever!
Where did this one come from, I'l tell you where, America and I'll tell you why, Madonna, Britney and Kanye LOVE this stuff. Don Ed Hardy is known as the "godfather of the modern tattoo" and prints his tattoo designs on t-shirts, jackets, well anything he can get his hands on. I saw an 'Ed Hardy couple' walking through the London the other day both adorned with Ed's easily recognisable sailor designs. His and hers, love it. I'd maybe go for a less is more approach with Ed Hardy, one stunning pieces will attract more attention than fourteen slogans emblazoned incongruously across your body.
House of Holland
Henry's ace slogan filled t-shirts are a sight to behold, not only are they funny but they certainly make people look at your chest. This may of may not be a good thing depending on your disposition, however, go for the less is more look if you want to pull of a slogan t shirt these days. Make like Alice Dellal and choose one attention-grabbing garment and shape your outfit around that. HoH t-shirt with the thickest tights you can find and some DMs will give you instant style appeal.
Chanel
The thing with Chanel is that it is really expensive and yet with a bit of bad styling you can end up looking like you have bought your pieces from the local market. The logo is one of the coolest in the fash world and signifies sophistication, luxury and style. The logo emblazoned jewellery looks fantastic at the moment, remember Lily Allen's long Chanel chain? Its subtle and looks so good, instantly pepping up any outfit. My favourite piece of Chanel apparel? Its got to be the two tone ballet pump with the logo on the toe, these give any outfit instant Audrey Hepburn appeal. Chanel have just brought out perhaps the most perfect pair of two tone tights with the logo at each ankle - logos don't have to be massive and sometimes small is so much more sophisticated.
Designer pieces
One thing I love about designers is the fact that you can instantly recognise their work whether it is being copied in the high street or worn at parties. Take for example Roland Mouret, the daddy of the red carpet outfit, and his Galaxy dress. It lead to Victoria Beckham buying his whole RM range and was worn to high profile events by Sienna Miller, Cameron Diaz and Demi Moore to name but a few. Another recent trend has been floral, summer floral was everywhere this year and now darker floral is settling in for winter. This is all down to one lady, Miss Luella Bartley, the UK based designer brought out a range of micro floral designs for her S/S 08 collection, furthermore this look was patronised by the likes of Lily Allen and voila you have yourself a style phenomenon. Proving you don't have to emblazon yourself with logos to give a hint to your favourite designers, sometimes subtlety is the most fash policy (ok, not very often!)
Lets get political
Love Obama? Feel strongly about oil? Got beef with someone? Then don't just say it, wear it, preferably across your chest in full view of the world. At designer Sonia Rykiel's fortieth anniversary in Paris last week Rodarte designed a sweater dress in the style of the great SR emblazoned with the word 'Obama'. What better way to air your political views that at Paris Fashion Week when the eyes of the fashion world are on you? Canny. Viktor and Rolf were more subtle (a bit) in their Fall 2008 Ready to Wear collection, they said NO to fashion throughout the collection. Models had NO painted on their faces, belt buckles emblazoned with the word and garments had 3D words coming out of them. Finally, the UK's first lady of fashion herself, Vivienne Westwood, brought out her 'I Am Not A Terrorist' charity t-shirt and raised shed loads of money for Liberty, the civil rights group. The t shirts were designed in protest to new anti terror laws, Viv, controversial and brilliant as ever!