This topic is so ancient and HUGE, its been time for part 2 for a while now. I've booted in some more recent posts to start things off.

Read up on part 1 here

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Attention shoe fetishists (who isn't?): run, don't walk, out to get Vivienne Westwood Shoes...beautiful new book, gorgeous plates, real hot. Vivienne Westwood Shoes

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Shoe Fetishists everywhere, put on your black...
Marti Domination told me today that London's "Little Shoe Box" on Holloway Road
has closed. Not only that, all their classic stock and wooden shoe forms have been THROWN AWAY!
I'm trying to get more info on this, but Google isn't giving me anything.

Kitty Boots wouldn't be BOOTS without Mr. Spirios.

Where else could you get classic custom fetish shoes made to order for about $150.?

Farewell you stinky old drunken shoemaker. You were sublime.

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I've always been a Cavalli fan; was able to wear it when I was younger and she was a bit more daring.


"Cavalli's H&M collection sells out

Roberto Cavalli's line of clothes for H&M - characterised by animal prints and what some fashion insiders have called "pimp wear" for its slinky materials, studs and theatrical faux-fur reminiscent of '70s streetwalker culture - launched this morning, with the collection expected to sell out before day's end. The queues typical of recent high-profile high street launches (Kate Moss for Topshop, Anya Hindmarch's I'm Not a Plastic Bag £5 canvas bag) started in London at 6:30am, with queues winding round the corner of the Oxford Street shop before its 9am opening.

It was a scene replicated across the UK and Europe and China, with crowds waiting sometimes hours before opening, then rushing in to ring up the designer's pieces before they sold out.

The designer, who counts among his friends Sharon Stone and Jennifer Lopez, owns a 40-metre yacht, and expects to turn over £490 million this year, will be on site in New York City today to launch the collection there. The collection is a small offering of 25 pieces for women and 20 for men, many of them in his signature leopard and zebra prints. When H&M previewed the clothes last month at a star-studded party in Rome, fashionistas swooned over his full-length leopard-print maxidress, black fringed leather jacket and white tuxedo suit.

At stores in the UK and Europe, shoppers made early best-sellers of the leopard and zebra-print chiffon blouses and dresses, a zebra-print trench coat and a gold sequin bodice-front dress, according to WGSN, the fashion press bulletin. Other early attention grabbers for shoppers included black-and-white tuxedo pantsuits, high-waisted dark trousers and a faux-fur bomber jacket (which Eric Wilson likened to a fancy-dress hooker costume in The New York Times' On the Runway blog). Shoppers were also picking up costume jewellery, leopard-print hosiery and lingerie for more modest prices.

By lunchtime in Hong Kong, Greater China country manager Lex Keijser said half of the Cavalli stock had already sold out with a full sell-out expected by the end of the first day.

Cavalli is the latest of several high-profile designers who have created collections for H&M. Previously Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld, Stella McCartney, Viktor & Rolk and Madonna all designed for the high street chain."

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I did music for his show one time...
nightmare.

I LOVE H&M though, you can never go wrong iwith H&M.

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This from the Independent UK newspaper - Chi Chi can I hear you shaking your money box?

Sale of BBC Costumes on hold as buyout fails
By James Macintyre
Friday, 15 February 2008

Over the past half-century it has provided about a million outfits and 10,000 hairpieces for some of the BBC's most celebrated dramas and comedies, ranging from Pride and Prejudice to Blackadder. Now the future of the corporation's costumes and wigs department is in doubt after a bid to buy it fell through.


The collection became a victim of widespread cuts at the BBC after the corporation announced last autumn that it would be sold. After talk of a management buyout at Television Centre, several rival companies were linked to a takeover. But last night, it emerged that the Superhire Group has pulled out of the proposed purchase. Now, the outfits will move to Oxford while the corporation seeks another buyer.

The collection is the second largest of its kind in the UK, after the leading suppliers, Angels The Costumiers. The costumes have been used in such leading productions as Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and the film Cold Mountain.

A spokeswoman for the BBC confirmed that the department ceased trading yesterday and said: "BBC Resources had intended to sell the collection as quickly as possible and to make it available over the transfer period in order to cause as little disruption to its customers as possible.

"However, the arrangements [the corporation] was pursuing have not worked out and BBC Resources is currently inviting interested parties to consider making an offer to purchase.

"The department is unable to take any new bookings for hires. However, all outstanding commitments will be honoured up to and beyond the closure."

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Oooooo, what a treasure trove of amazing costumes that must be.

On another note, thought this might be a good place to post this, for those of you who love your designer handbags but hate to put them on the floor if there isn't a place for them at the table, I just received my purse hanger , a beautifully inlaid piece of jewelry that goes right on the table next to you to hang your purse. Mommy, you need one for those Vivian Westwoods.

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I love the new "Hang 'Em High" collection!

Is anyone else totally obsessed with the new Polygamous Prairie look? The style of those dresses I find particularly odd because they are such a mixed metaphor - Giant 1980s Dynasty shoulders grafted onto 1880s frontier dresses. The hair is also so 80's in front with the big pompadour and so beautifully plaited in back..

It just screams for a detournement, no?

I love the look also with the mono brow. We are doing it here for carnival this year since the theme this year is western.

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A Jackie tangent.

"polygamous prarie looks" belongs in a jackie dress code.

Okay...this is just toooooo hilarious. NY Times fashion maven Bill Cunningham going on and on and on about rapidly falling trousers on the men in da 'hood.

Don't know how (or if?) to embed the vid here, but go to:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/fashion/index.html

Scroll down, and click On The Street: Cinched.

A genius juxtaposition - Bill C is a national treasure..

Unfortunately the NY Times doesnt let you embed these, joe. But thanks for the link - started my morning smiling..

Bill C. is so smart.
I love that he's noticed the whole belt thing.
That part IS new.
Well, new for these "Urban" kids anyway.
(That is the P.C. term to describe African Americans now isn't it? "Urban")
White hard core kids have been featuring them for years.
I love the whole cross-pollination aspect of it.
I remember in the '80's when Hip Hop started to change. It got harder, more graphic, violent... etc. I noticed that Hip Hop graphics were changing as well. They were embracing "Punk". The disintegrating graphics, the fonts, the whole look. At this point, when you see something that reads as "Punk" it is always about hip hop now.
The whole skull, hard core look is just more of that.

I'm still in awe that this droopy baggy pants & boxer shorts "Bangie" look is STILL in Vogue.
It was all the rage in 1987!!!! for crying out loud.
It's been 20 years!

I also love that Bill has figured out the origin. (Prison pants falling down and becoming a "look").
I mean, that where "Voguing" started. In Riker's Island.

The whole thing is really interesting.
Pop culture always comes from the streets (and prisons).
I have to admit when I walk down the street and see a Banjie look I always think, "Shouldn't you be in jail?"

That's the undercurrent I was getting from La Cunningham's joyously, practically breathless anticipatory report.

La Cunningham is straight and married.

Gorgeous!