Does Wearing Heels to University Look Pretentious?

Loads of people think fashion can be barometer for deciding whether someone is pretentious or not. I love high heels even though my walking skills in them do not portray this love honestly.

University campus is the perfect platform to see certain people running around like they own the land and it is also the best environment to see what people like to wear. Many girls are made up perfectly at my university in that Sloane Ranger style (messed up hair + ralph lauren blue sweater + skinny jeans). It looks good on them but part of me is wondering, should people be dressing up to go to university? Is it under-dressing or over-dressing? Shoes are a key part of any look and they can be the deciding factor in someone labelling you as an over-dresser.

If I wore these TopShop shoes to my politics seminar, would I be pretentious by bringing *too* much fashion into the classroom? (They are £65 available from the TopShop website)




If I had the funds, I would be making my own catwalk looks of what I like to wear everyday. Wearing what you want is important because it is about free will. People will always have their opinion about what someone wears but do we want to bow down the fascist society we live in today or just wear what we want? There are somethings about the high-fashion world that I don't like but everyday fashion includes every facet of clothing & accessories. If this means that I want to wear shoes (TopShop - £55) like the one below to university then so be it:




I can understand how people think wearing heels during the daytime is pretentious but it is part of the age old debate about women and comfort. High heels due cause pain if you wear them too much -- that is an obvious argument but someone should march to down to shoe designers to tell them to stop making so delicious!

I once saw a stencil in Paris in Montmartre that was simple a foot wearing a high heel and its' subtitle was "Why Do You Torture Yourself?" -- Is this artist onto something?

Window Displays: Screaming Mimi's in NYC

I remember my experience at Screaming Mimi's in New York: the racks of clothes are tantamount to being in the Cadbury chocolate factory: they are overflowing -- it was great to see so many clothes. On their website, they have a section about the various window displays that they have had.



The graffiti and heart ones are my favourites for 2 reasons: 1) writing scribbled anywhere looks great 2) hearts are an obsession that I have so seeing them in a window display will make me enter the shop. Window displays are so important that is why H&M should step their game up. Am I the only one who thinks their window displays are bad? (I can only speak for the ones I have seen in England) Is that a sign of the bad clothes or bad management?

The SM window displays are almost as good as the ones from Selfrigdes in LDN...almost. Those ones are on another level! I will find some examples some time in the near future if security don't try and get in my face for taking pictures.

Sugar Kane

Christopher Kane might as well be a buzz word for Google judging from how famous he has become. His Spring 2007 collection had some people salivating -- is the hype justified?

Here are some looks from the Autumn/Winter 2008 collection in the first row and the second row are my personal favourites from his much-loved Spring 2007

Which one is your favourite? The Autumn collection looks like a gorgeous mish-mash of black dipped with other almost gaudy influences. I personally would not wear them because I don't think they would suit me but the look is really captivating. The electric orange and that subtlely fantastic dark dress from the spring group would make anyone want to put CCTV surveillance in a warderobe. He is trying something different with dresses and that is what we need: dresses need to look original and different.

Apparently he is rejuvenating the London fashion week scene. I don't think it ever went anywhere but I am glad he is putting it on the map. Let's see how far he goes -- is he the new McQueen?

Christopher Kane however is not a fan of Victoria Beckham aka Posh who Christopher Kane does not want to wear his clothes! I am liking how he is going about things: he obviously has a set plan and does not curb his tongue for anyone. In that same article, Kane notes "I don't want to sound presumptuous but I've worked too hard for my stuff to be seen on the front of the Sun newspaper," . From this quotation, I think Kane wants to centre his work to be more of one-of-a-kind as opposed to being a uniform.