FASHION Because I Feel Like It.

Chanel, Haute Couture, S/S 2012

Oscar de la Renta, RTW, A/W 2012

Alexander McQueen, RTW, S/S 2007.

Love Magazine S/S 2012, 'The Origin of Monsters', Photography: Tim Walker, Model: Kristen McMenamy, Stylist: Katie Grand

Tomorrow a flock of fashionistas will descend upon Somerset House for London Fashion Week, and I have absolutely no doubt I will marvel at their long limbs and ability to eat absolutely nothing and still remain composed in 8inch Louboutin's on the relentless cobbles outside. So with 70 pages of reading for my fashion module in front of me, it only seems appropriate then that I should turn my attention to fashion: a subject I struggle with more and more as I try to understand it. 


Fashion is "an expression of yourself", a slogan I whole-heartedly believed until three months ago. Admittedly, this subsequently led to many a faux pas, including stripy black and yellow leggings and a purple and lime green "GAP" hoodie I donned during my awkward pre-pubescent years. Now with three solid months of Walter Benjamin, "pastiche", and a showing of "The Age of Innocence" behind me, fashion as "an expression of yourself" seems laughable. Despite my new fashion enlightenment, I would quite like to go back to a simpler time when I dressed because I liked that item, on that day, never because it was "comfortable", but because I felt like it. So as I'm feeling nostalgic today, here are some bits and bobs that have caught my eye, because I feel like IT.