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So I was chatting to my Mum earlier on, and she said ‘Did you see that Vivienne Westwood t-shirt for Haiti? it’s got boobs on it’ .. aghast at the fact my Mother of all people knew about a Vivienne Westwood t-shirt before I did, I quickly found it on the trusty interwebs.

Vivienne Westwood has designed a limited edition t-shirt in collaboration with Fashion For Relief which will be unveiled at the Fashion for Relief show to be held on 18 February in London. The t-shirt will be sold exclusively at the show as well as on www.viviennewestwoodonline.co.uk and in the Vivienne Westwood Conduit Street and World’s End stores. It is a fact that women and girls are particularly vulnerable in emergency and crisis situations and are frequently neglected during initial efforts to provide food, water and shelter. Late this January a UN report stated that in Haiti 240,000 pregnant and lactating women will require nutritional support. Proceeds from the sales of the Vivienne Westwood designed t-shirt will go to The White Ribbon Alliance which supports the health needs and rights of women and girls around the world, with special focus on its partners in Haiti at this time who are helping to rebuild the healthcare system for mothers and babies.

‘It’s good isn’t it?’… yes, Mum, it is good. So I bought one.

Ok, maybe not Alice, but the first thing I thought when I saw this outfit from the Vivienne Westwood LFS show was ‘Dude, Mad hatter!’ … maybe not ‘Dude!’, definitely ‘Mad hatter’. I haven’t blogged about the fashion weeks this year, I usually do a couple of posts on my favourite collections. I’ve been watching though, maybe not as much as usual, but still. I can’t watch too hard, else my bank account starts gently weeping at the lack of funds to buy anything!

bah! Stupid having to pay for a house thing with windows and a kitchen :(

Maybe next season…

PS. I made a few tweaks to the blog design over the weekend, did you see? I have another cool feature coming up soon, too.

How’re you fairing in the snow and ice? I’m so unbelievably glad I got my biker boots in December, money very well spent. Despite the weather I’ve still been trudging to work every morning, even through the blizzards, and I owe it all to my boots. Without them I would have gone arse over tits several times this week… especially this morning.

It’s ridiculous, though, I’ve seen so many people wearing pathetically inappropriate foot wear. Come on… high healed suede shoes? not only are you gonna cause a scene when you pirouette into a broken ankle, but your shoes will be fucked too. Salt marks, anyone? It’s not that hard to find appropriate footwear, even if you just wear some walking boots for that walking about thing and switch to pumps when you’re inside. Not many people will look at you in the street like ‘ew… srsly, why is that girl wearing gripping shoes?’ You’re 100% more likely to make a fool of yourself by not wearing something suitable for the snow, fact.

I digress, my boots are fabulous. They cost all of £30 in the office sale (as opposed to an equivalent pair at £85… IN FACT you can now get them for just £10 so I just got another pair for when these ones die!) and I haven’t taken them off my feet. I’ve treated them, too, bought them new insoles and some lovely blackening wax ♥

What have you been wearing in this weather? If you say uggs, I’ll hunt you down.

Dear Ugg Boots,

I thought it was time we cleared a few things up, I mean, the air between us hasn’t been good for a while now… and I feel like I owe you an explanation. Where should I begin? …

I remember when I first saw you, wow, that was a long time ago. You weren’t as popular back then, or as colourful! heh… You were cute in that short and dumpy way, I’ll give you that — I guess in your own little way you still are. I remember those stories you told me about how you used to hang out with the surfers and swimmers, I’m sure you fitted right in there!  I don’t know whether it was your homesickness from leaving Australia and your attempt to fit in, or some wish to be thought of as ‘cool’, but ever since you started hanging around with that Paris girl, well,  you changed — you never used to wear pink for a start. Then I started seeing you with all her friends too, that crowd of people… why did you do that? I guess I can’t lay all the blame with you for that, they knew you were different… paraded you as some kind of new toy. Even when they dropped you that time for Mukluks? when they came running back to you I watched on as you greeted them with open arms.

Yes, looking back that’s when things started to change. I think it got worse when I saw you hanging out in those cheap high-street shops, you’d really let your standards drop… you’d turned so synthetic, half the time you went by some weird pseudonym or something, too. What happened? I think you might have started to spread yourself too thin, wanting to be ‘in’ with as many people as you could.

And now? Now I don’t even know who you are anymore, one day you’ll be wearing wool, the next you’re covered in laces…and some of the colours… oof. I see you more than ever now, sometimes I think you look like you’re doing ok, other times I really wonder what went wrong. Like the other day, you were hanging out with this girl who was wearing baggy sweat pants and a baggy pink hooded sweater, and she wasn’t even at the gym. Wow. I thought you had a bit more class than that. When I saw you in Australia last year you looked so well! Like your old self again! You’d got your colour back and looked homely again.

Anyway, I’m babbling, I just wanted to let you know my reasons. I hope you can understand. Don’t get me wrong, I still think you’re so lovely, warm and cosy… I just can’t be seen with you anymore. I hope we can still hang out around the house, though.

Yours,

Kim

PS. I don’t know if you’ve been in touch with Crocs lately, but I’ll be writing to him at some point. We also have a few things to clear up.

First of a couple of posts about my fave things from London Fashion Week. Since discovering Luella a few seasons ago, through their use of t-shirts in catwalk fashion more than anything, I never fail to love any collection they produce. There’s always a few pieces in there that I just look at and go ‘ah!’. No change this year, either.

I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with House of Holland, I think quite a lot of the collections are pretty dumb and uninspired, but then there’re always a couple of pieces that catch my eye and make me think I’ve got my opinion completely wrong. This time I particularly liked this sweater-dress with house prints. Prints = good.

More catch-ups to come this week, including Red Label (1930s with heavy makeup? I think so!), Matthew Williamson (holy geometry, Batman!), and Temperley London (cloche hats and long dresses, another 1930s collection?).