British 'it' Girl invasion #2....

(Images from top, Agyness opening the show at Anna Sui,












Eliza at Anna Sui













Daisy at Anna Sui



















Eliza and Ash on the cover of Dazed,





Agy's ID cover,













Alice Dellal,














Eliza's ID cover,


















Daisy Lowe's Marc Jacobs campaign, shot by Juergen Teller,


















Bottom two pictures, Eliza at Marc Jacobs, and on the runway at Rodarte)

Last week, I wrote about the British "it" girls, Pixie & Peaches Geldoff and their friend, half-shaved-heiress Alice Dellal, conquering fashion, to the horror of many......

Today they received another blow, as fellow Brit girls, Agyness Deyn, Daisy Lowe and Eliza Cummings hit the catwalk at Anna Sui , with Agyness making her NY runway debut for this season, opening and closing the show.

British rock-star spawn, and current Marc Jacobs campaign muse, Daisy Lowe, also made an exclusive appearance at the show..... while fellow Brit, Eliza Cummings, who, along with her boyfriend Ash, poses provocatively on covers of the current Dazed and Confused, ID , and in the pages of Italian Vogue, also walked the show (in addition to her catwalk turns at Marc Jacobs and Rodarte.)

These shows are considered three of the most important shows in New York, and certainly, "the coolest". Anna Sui is also considered an important show, in terms of the fact that Stephen Meisel is said to informally cast it.

Marc Jacobs spoke after his show of wanting a return to individuality, as each each of the models in his show were given different, individual, hair and make-up looks.

Also, Katie Grand, talking about her new magazine, LOVE, says "Love the imperfect. You know it makes sense." Furthermore, in her editor's letter she writes. "No one is a sample size in the whole issue, and it's not so retouched" .(Read my post about Love Magazine here... http://chowderchunkybits.blogspot.com/2009/02/in-love-with-love.html

Clearly there is a movement back towards attitude and personality over perfection, and these girls are the first incarnations of that movement on the runway...

What do you think of them?

(click here for the earlier post on Pixie, Peaches and alice... http://chowderchunkybits.blogspot.com/2009/02/british-it-girls-conquering-globe.html)

In LOVE with LOVE...

Just in time for Valentines Day, Katie Grand's new project, LOVE magazine, (She was formerly editor of POP), has hit the shelves in Britain, and so far..not to sound corny.. I LOVE it!!

Covergirl Beth Ditto looks completely striking with the bright colours of her hair and dress against the whiteness of her skin.

I saw Ditto play here in Auckland last year with her band, The Gossip, at the Kings Arms... she was a truly inspiring, charismatic, energetic, mesmerizing dervish of a frontwoman, but at the same time came across as a sweet and sensitive soul.. I do not think that there would have been anyone at that gig who was not blown away by her blazing and undeniable, in-your-face talent.



I'm excited that LOVE have featured her,and,as a fashion icon, I love the way she dresses with the confidence and "don't-care-what-you-think" attitude of a true star, like a female, modern-day Freddie Mercury..


What do you think of the cover?....