Net-A-Porter introduce exclusive holiday sweaters

We're all familiar with the horror of the seasonal Christmas sweater, from the office colleague who turns up at work as a 'jape' to just about every TV comedy series during the Christmas period featuring one. Even the movies aren't  free of Christmas sweater jibes - Remember 'Bridget Jones Diary' and the Bridget & Mark Darcy coordinating sweaters scene at the toe-curlingly awful Christmas family

Chutzpah's Weekly Barometer

A light hearted look back over the past week’s good, bad and indifferent including the “don’t even go there’s”.
LOVING 
London’s Art Renaissance – White Cube Bermondsey goes head-to-head with the Zaha Hadid-designed Roca London and London is the winner.
The Louis Vuitton fragrance – Ooh, can't wait for this one! Respected “nose” Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud is rumoured to be developing Vuitton’s

Get set for Vogue's Fashion Night Out: Fashion's Best Night of the Year

Readers, if you really want to see and experience how the fashion industry parties when they put on their Louboutin and Charlotte Olympia heels then you can. 
Vogue's Fashion Night Out is a tremendous global celebration of the fashion industry that has a serious message - it announces the launch of new season in store boosting attention and sales in an industry that has a £21 billion turnover in

Jeweller Katie Hillier collaborates with luxurious Loewe

Loewe's luxury and subtle sophistication is what has always drawn me in. Never flash, just understated quality and distinction when some 'other' label reinventions are all bells and whistles and 'it' bags aplenty.  
As a long time fan of the Spanish label, I'm more than impressed. Stuart Vevers has imposed his supreme taste level onto an already classic brand since joining as lead designer in

Kiss Me Kate - The Vogue Wedding Pics

Jamie and Kate wearing Tom Ford channel Mick and Bianca Jagger's

wedding pic the back of the Rolls

Finally! The fabulous pics of Kate Moss's wedding by Mario Testino in the September Issue of Vogue US.

Kate in Rodarte & Jamie in Lanvin and Charvet cotton shirt.

Kate and Lila Grace

Mr Moss, Kate and Lila

Lila helps Mum exit the Rolls

Flower girls (and page boys)

Bridesmaids and flower girls

Kate's boudoir

The garden party

Anita Pallenberg

Naomi Campbell & Marc Jacobs

Stella McCartney and daughter Reiley

Marianne Faithfull, Karen Elson and Nick Knight

Daphnee Guinness

Joséphine de la Baume and Mark Ronson

Lara Stone & David Walliams

Jack White & Philip Treacy

The champagne tower

Kelly Osbourne

Carine Roitfeld & Terry Richardson.

Kate & her matrons of honor Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, Jess Hallett,

Kate, Rosemary Ferguson, Sadie Frost & Lucie de la Falaise

For more see Vogue US here

Stella McCartney launches beautifully packaged Stella fragrance

Stella sure has style.  That cannot be denied.  Her dedication to minimalist femininity with sharp shoulders is unabridged.  Mixing modernism with a hint of feminine wiles, Stella's designs appeal to the intellectual in us - simple sexiness with a twist.  


Stella, the fragrance, however, is Stella as 'the bride stripped bare'. Launched in 2003, an old school fragrance more retro than ultra

Celebrities attend The Dorchester in aid of HARE Styling

Known for its ultra glamorous balls, The Dorchester Park Lane was at the centre of the glamorous ‘HARE’ styling world this week, as 380 guests flooded The Ballroom to celebrate the work by HARE Styling to raise money for Great Ormond Street. 
Original artworks created by some of the biggest names in the art and entertainment industries were auctioned to raise funds for two new operating theatres

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN: SAVAGE BEAUTY & THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART GALA

The fashion cognoscenti’s breath was bated the moment it was announced, and a maelstrom of reports and rumours regarding who would be wearing whom hit the Internet like a blitzkrieg during the weeks leading up.You would be forgiven for thinking that we’re talking about the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton – but Monday night’s New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) Gala, and

Wedding Fever

Paula Yates marries Bob Geldof in 1986. Spot the rockers in the wedding party!

My sister, Banana meet-Cute is staying with me from Melbourne and is quite the royalist, so we are preparing for the royal wedding on Friday night. When I say prepare, I mean fully stocked with bubbly (I'm thinking Prosecco) and have requested wedding themed cup-cakes, as she is quite the baker. I'm not really into the royal family, was never interested in Diana (although did watch her wedding in 1982 - only because I was promised Charles & Di chocolates) - but lately I've been caught up in the "Who will Kate wear?" hoopla. My personal fave would be Alexander McQueen, but I'm thinking McQueen may be too edgy. Stella? I have a feeling Kate will accentuate those shoulders and go strapless, bias cut or drop waist in a fairly tailored design - mind you Bruce Oldfield has said that you can't go sleeveless in Westminster Abbey? "'It will have sleeves, it has to have sleeves. You can't walk down Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress. It just wouldn't happen. It has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous." Oh well - time will tell! More importantly - who will KATE MOSS be wearing next month? Now that Galliano is vetoed....In the meantime, here are a few of my favourite wedding dresses of all time.

Unmarried Helena Bonham Carter & Tim Burton in a fantasy wedding shot,

from Vivienne Westwood's book 'Vivienne Westwood Opus'



Dita Von Teese marries Marilyn Manson Goth-style in electric violet Vivienne Westwood, 2005 (Milliner Stephen Jones is holding her train).



A classic. Bianca Jagger marries Mick Jagger in a YSL suit. The jacket (and lack of a shirt caused quite the stir back in 1971



Gwen Stefani in Avant Garde, pink dip-dyed Galliano. This dress blew me away, it is so Gwen, and I love the structure and the colour.

Rock star wedding! The inimitable Paula Yates marries Bob Geldof at 26 in a blo0d-red satin dress, a gift from Jasper Conran. I met her when I was working at Harrods - she seemed very shy, very sweet.

Carolyn Besette Kennedy marries JFK Jnr in Narcisco Rodriguez in 1996- a classic in bias cut cool. This was one of my favourites and captured the zeitgeist of 90's minimalism and fitted tailoring.

Carrie Bradshaw in Westwood for the long awaited wedding to Big. If only the makeup and hair was softer though. the red lips & scraped back hair look too harsh.



Another rock star wedding. I love Pearl Lowe. Here she is marrying Danny Goffey with gorgeous Daisy Lowe. look at that cake! Dark chocolate strewn with rose petals, mmm.



Pammy and Tommy get hitched in Cancun in 1995 within days of meeting, after Tommy stalked Pam and followed her to Cancun where she was working on a shoot. I'm sorry but I love that she got hitched in a white bikini - Rock & roll!

We love Madonna

My sister's blog on Madonna inspired me to do this Blog. Madonna was probably my first fashion icon...I'd go to the haberdashery department of our local department store and buy yards of ribbon to tie in my hair and cheap crucifix earrings from local jewellery store 'LimeLitze' - resulting in me being bailed up by the deputy school principal and told to remove my jewellery & big red lace bow as, it made me look like 'a rooster'. I used to dress up little sis in lace, net tees from Esprit and do a nice 'bruised eye' using Mum's purple eyeshadow and look replete with Madonna mole, drawn on with eyeliner. fun times! This Blog is dedicated to my dear friend Krissy, the biggest Madonna fan you will ever meet who has some of the most amaaaaazing memorabilia!
I was obsessed with Desperately Seeking Susan and used to dream about the boots featured. Madonna was the epitome of cool - her vintage/punk/rock-chick style, the way she dried her underarms under the hand dryer, her crazy job as a magician's assistant, living that kind of New York boho fairytale I have always loved. I watched it again last year and it's amazing how the fashion is quite current at the moment with the whole 80's revival - very rock/SoHo/New York. Not all 80's fashion was ugly - I loved the 'pixie' stiletto boots, studded belts & leather, lace bras & bustiers, Ray Ban Wayfarers, dark eyes, men's suit jackets, leggings, hand-fulls of bangles, crucafix jewellery, pearls. And lace always comes around again. Check out some stills below.
I haven't always loved Madonna's various looks (Geisha, 80's leotard monstrosity) - but here are a few of my firm faves.

Fresh-faced ingenue in 1982

I had this pic on my wall - crop top, midriff and rosary/crucafix. Classic 80's!

The Boy Toy, 1983

'Papa Don't Preach' Vid - I wanted this T.Shirt, 1986

Blonde Bombshell for The Girlie Show tour, 1993

Madonna in lolly-pink Versace with Carlos shortly after her pregnancy announcement 1995

One of my all time fave looks - in Tom Ford for Gucci, 1995

The Evita phase, immaculate in 40's style, 1996

Dolce corset dress, 1997

The Cowgirl Phase, 1998. Love a plaid shirt & boots!

In Karen Walker trousers & Helmut Lang tank, 1999

Newlywed in Mrs Ritchie Jacket, 2001

First tour in 8 years, Drowned World 's cyber-punk look designed by Jean Paul Gaultier, 2001

Suited with JT for 'Four Minutes', 2008

More fabulous suits (& above with Stella McCartney) - Madonna does man-style with aplomb

Dolce & Gabbana ads, 2010