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
ZARA – Team Chutzpah has a love/hate relationship with the Spanish retailer, but they seem to be pushing all of the right buttons this season with strong women’s and men’s collections.  Just loving the metallics, textural clashes and strict structure of the lines.  And, the

Chutzpah's Weekly Barometer

Follow my blog with bloglovinA light hearted look back over the past week’s good, bad and indifferent including the “don’t even go there’s”.LOVINGDenny & Dazzle from http://www.37oldlondonroad.co.uk/ as featured on "Mary Queen of Shops" (BBC2). Delightful old hippies who were injected by a new lease of life and were undeniably enthusiastic in their store revamp (See link). Loved Dazzle's 'DAZ'

French Connection - Lost in translation

May I just say from the start, I really like French Connection. Always have. It's somewhere that I regularly visit and most always buy at least one piece per season (even if I do think the brand straddles the pricier end of the high street for what it conveys and offers) and I certainly always shop sale. French Connection always has brilliant trouser cuts and a great use of colour and key shapes

The lure of the wedge.

I went to the Dune, Bertie and Pied a Terre press open day yesterday and they're everywhere for Winter '10 - on shoes, ankle boots, open toed peeps, long boots...you get the picture? Wedges have gone global. I actually almost reneged and slid into buying a (discounted) pair at the Anya Hindmarch sample sale a day prior to this as they were soft tan , peep toed, with glints of gold metal and

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”.LOVINGMaison Martin Margiela's Untitled perfume Pure unadulterated hip in a bottle.Desperate Housewives (Channel 4) Still great after all this timeThe Mayfair Tavern A lush little hide away in Shepherds MarketZara's flies and dinosaurs The most covetable window props of the