SILVA SUMMA

PLAYING DRESS UP

This morning started very dramatically - screams, shouts, an intruder, a smashed lock, the feds (sorry) and some inky fingers. After a few coffees and various posited theories about why a man would break down a door run up to Susan's room and attempt to light a cigarette (more on the incident another time), the most natural thing seemed to be to go upstairs and try on some clothes...

 It is a lot of fun living with an old friend when you both like clothes (double wardrobe etc). I particularly enjoy dressing Josie because she is a different shape, providing me with the opportunity to put together outfits I love but probably shouldn't wear.

Of the two outfits we both preferred the second, coming to the conclusion that the first was not particularly natural if that makes sense.

Second hand white silk shirt, Office platforms and Josie's Topshop jeans throughout.

First outfit - Mesh tshirt with beaded crosses, asos

Second - Josie's cropped lurex grip jumper Topshop

AMAZING GREEN COAT second hand, soon to be available from One Off , Josie's new styling venture. 

A GIRL CAN DREAM...

METAL CLOTHES

I have been cruising the internet for a chainmail tshirt because I thought I wanted one. Off-puttingly the internet is rife with the most varied selection of chafed re-enactment aficionados, belly dancers and posers in S&M bras.

Medieval Russian armourNoughties Balenciaga armour

DONATELLA'S TIME CAPSULE FOR DAZED AND CONFUSED

DONATELLA: "The ability to make fire has always been a sign of human ingenuity. In Greek mythology, fire is what the intelligent Prometheus stole from Zeus and gave to mortals. This lighter, covered in white Swarovski crystals and bearing the Versace Medusa-head motif in gold - a reference to another Greek myth - is a portable fire-maker and that is why I have chosen it for the time capsule. It's both useful and symbolic of the human spirit."


For Dazed and Confused's twentieth birthday issue they have invited fashion's finest to choose an object to put in a time capsule for the next twenty years. There are a lot of wanky and annoying contributions as well as some thinly disguised press releases [*cough cough milliner Stephen Jones] but I loved Donatella's, pretentious chat about the Greeks and all... a pleasing combination of pyromania, mythology and, staying true to Gianni, gold and diamonds.

KIND OF SIMILAR?

GOLD AND SILVER

Gold and silver definitely aren't wrong together, nor are black and navy. Shhhhhh Trinny and Susannah