Absolutely Fabulous Season Six Fashion Re-cap

I love Absolutely Fabulous. When I was a teenager I used to record every episode on to video cassette (I'm old) and watch them religiously and marvelling at the clothes. Every time Edina dropped a fashion name like Christian Lacroix, Nicole Farhi or Moschino I had no idea who or what she was talking about. Now that I'm somewhat wiser most of the fashion brands featured in the series make it even funnier. 

So now there's season six. I don't know if it really counts as a season being only 3 episodes though but I and many other gays around the globe are like yeah drugs booze fashion. 

So far the first two episodes have aired and I have not been able to pick out what Edina (or Patsy, Bubble, Catriona etc) is wearing. So I'm putting a giant pink distress signal out on the web to all fashion geeks to help fill the gaps and tell me what these icons are wearing. Help a bitch out.

 Above: Classic 80's Frankie Says Relax t-shirt. Eddie later wears a Choose Life t-shirt as well

 Above: Denim on denim is quite on-trend.

Left: Celine Spring/Summer 2011. Right: Stella McCartney Spring/Summer 2011

 Above: Pats, no! And Eddie wearing what? Vintage Issey Miyake? 

 Above: Patsy gives the shoulder cut-outs a go. Very Balenciaga fall 2008.

Above: This is the only look I could work out thanks to the fact that Eddie's jersey dress is printed with the label: Bodymap (that's right, vintage Bodymap WITH hat. Flawless. And on the right we have Pats in a Chanel tweed jacket. 

Calvin Klein Collection Spring Summer 2012

 Above from left: Look 2, 13, 6

Above centre: My forehead doppleganger 10-head Hanne

If you’ve never seen The September Issue then I implore you to buy it, steal it whatever immediately. It’s the closest you’ll ever get to Anna Wintour unless you like stalking and wearing night-vision goggles. I wonder if La Croix does night-vision? So there’s this scene where all the Vogue people are sitting around a table discussing the collections and someone is like “Calvin Klein?” and Andre Leon Talley replies “too clinical” and everyone cackles. And on Wednesdays we wear pink! Gretchen Leon Talley Weiners had a point though. For seasons now Francisco Costa has been so aggressively precise with cuts and fabric technology that the clothes lacked a human touch and looked odd on the models.
Sooooo for spring/summer Costa has lightened up. Maybe he’s smoked a bit of weed and realised he’s not dressing Rosie from the Jetsons. There were plenty of soft edges and a focus on bewbs and curves. It wasn’t like bustiers or anything ridiculous. Costa is way too smart for that kind of stuff. Look 2, 6 and 13 are perfect. There was a lot of Blushy/peachy/apricoty/nudy colours throughout which were a bit, I dunno, nauseating? But the clothes mostly made up for that especially the jackets and some of the dresses with camisole-like detailing were-dun-dun bullshit over-used fashion word approaching-fresh. Also, are spaghetti straps a thing now? Andre?

Jeremy Scott: King of Trash (the good kind)

Deliciously tacky fall collection from Jeremy Scott. There was a religious theme with tops that had a stained glass cross that was machine-embroidered recalling perhaps something you’d pick up from a souvenir shop. It may or may not have been a reference to Christian Lacroix who did a very similar top in the 80’s.

The bright stained glass colours then led on to big-possibly plastic-rhinestones dotted onto sexy thigh high boots and clingy tube dresses that were dripping with metal crucifixes.

The one piece that I’m just dying to have is the drawstring leather backpack smattered with gold Jeremy Scott brand plaques. It’s a 90’s, logo crazy hot mess and I need it.