2010 Fashionings of note (that makes no sense but I didn’t want to say milestones or high points coz I’m throwing in low points and I thought I’d combine fashion and musings into one word. You feelin’ my genius right now? Probs not.

Firstly I hope you had a great new years. I sprawled out on my friends couch in my Kate Moss t-shirt and drank booze till the wee hours. The next day I hid in my flat until sundown then made a hasty trip to McDonalds veiled by darkness. The shame.

This is my year end round up of things that were of note for 2010. A little book-end to a year of blogging if you will.

Alexander McQueen commits suicide. A true fashion genius gone.

Sarah Burton debuts at McQueen. She did a resort collection that was well received but Spring Summer 2011 was her first fully fledged collection. Everyone heaved a huge sigh of relief that the house of McQueen has been left in capable hands. Burton wants to move away from McQueen's theatrics and her designs will be softer, with less angst. Take that as you will.

Gareth Pugh opens first store in Hong Kong. Not a major news item but a great indicator of how far Pugh has come in such a short time. Interesting that Hong Kong was chosen over Shanghai or Beijing. Everyone in luxury fashion is all about the mainland right now. Maybe in a few years time?

Carine Roitfeld resigns/got fired/was asked to leave French Vogue. After 10 years of pushing boundaries Roitfeld’s image is tarnished by being banned from all Balenciaga shows and rumours of consulting for Max Mara. Apparently she lent out Balenciaga clothes to Max Mara. That's so not fashion C-Roit.

Also, Russian Vogue's Aliona Doletskaya steps down as editor in chief, Sally Singer runs from American Vogue and becomes editor-in-chief of T Magazine and Stefano Tonchi leaves T Magazine for W.

Aliona

Singer

Tonchi

Tom Ford is back. 

Mary Katrantzou. Getting rave reviews for her stunning Home and Garden printed dresses.

Photographer Corrine Day passes away. 

The bride wore Givenchy. Lara Stone got married. Aww.

But I much prefer what she wore to the reception. Super short and shiny Givenchy.

So roll on 2011. And while you're at it, make some resolutions like Chloe Seven-yee

Gaga's Alejandro

I really don't know about this. Visually, stylistically, art-direction-wise etc it's flawless and you can't fault it. Without sounding too much like a paranoid weirdo I completely question Gaga's motivations for this video. I think she's pandering shamelessly to the gay community and it's like, why bother? A large proportion of her fans are gay guys anyway and they eat that high-fashion pop porn shit up (I should know).
And though the video is flawless the men look like they belong in a Madonna video 20 years ago. They're totally Steven Klein's (the directors) vision of what gay men like. Don't get me wrong, I'd let any one of those guys pound me but they're so 80's leather muscle daddy that it's cliche. Very dated cliche.


Also I find it funny that a lot of people are saying that's she's trying to be shocking and she's failing to. I really don't think she was trying to shock at all in this video. Eating rosary beads? Wearing a latex nun's habit? Men in high heels?

Fashion-wise a couple of outfits are Alexander McQueen. I wonder if they were designed by Sarah Burton, the new head designer?

Oh, my favourite part is at the end where the celluloid burns up on the image of her face. It's cool.
Anyway, that's just my half-assed 2 cents. Apologies for the lack of updates, I'm back from Japan and just found out we're being evicted from our flat so my biggest concern is finding a new dump to move into. Just quickly, Tokyo was beyond amazing. It's just....I don't know, there's so much to say about it. I actually did find the Prada building and went inside. The staff were curt but that was to be expected. The buidling was amazing, I think it was about 5 floors and there was a basement too. The menswear was hideous. The womenswear was cool. ok my eyes hurt, I have to go now. Toodles