Fashion Limbo Sees Handbag GOLD

This shoulderbag from H&M;‘s new autumn collection is one to grab before it sells out. At only €29,95 it is a stylish bargain, that you will use until it breaks to pieces. What do you think?

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Fashion Week and its Side Effects

Reading a report on London Fashion Week by Simon Chilvers for The Guardian, we couldn’t help but quote a paragraph here at Fashion Limbo. To read the full article, click here.

Fashion week side effects. After six days of living in a fashion bubble you find yourself doing the following as if it were utterly normal:

a) Walking as if you are on a runway. Shoulders back. Slight lean. Fierce glare. Strut.
b) Wearing sunglasses around the house. At night.
c) Expecting someone to be waiting for you at home with a bottle of champers.
d) Thinking its OK to put kisses on a tweet.
e) Calling the man in the paper shop darling, then sweetie, then darling again, all in the time it takes to buy the Sun.

Picture: One of Todd Lynn’s elbow cages, with horse hair. By Alastair Grant/AP

We are coveting…Bottega Veneta

Browsing through the web, tut-tut-tut and suddenly the Outnet.com teases us with new arrivals. We are crazy about this Bottega Veneta bag. A classic, dark blue slouch… and of course, with a 50% discount price tag it sold out pretty fast… and we couldn’t afford one. It is a sad day…

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Dress of the Week – cmarchuska

We were browsing through the site of one of our favourite brands, cmarchuska, and we wanted to share our favourite item from the new season: the Leslie dress.

What do we love about this dress? how soft it looks, how uncomplicated to wear, and how it is true understated style. This dress has so much potential, as a comfortable look, simple and casual. Yet, dressed up with some eye-catching earrings, golden shoes, and a handbag to match, it becomes the perfect little number for an evening out. And we adore the hood.

Yes, we love cmarchuska: sustainable and natural fabrics (Leslie is 92% bamboo), produced in New York – where, by the way, we will be heading to sooner or later in 2010, it just has to happen!!!

To shop cmarchuska, click here.

Picture: cmarchuska.com

Style Tips by Gwyneth and Emma

Celebrities are always a good source of inspiration if you need any fresh fashion ideas. Celebrities at fashion shows are an even more interesting subject, as they all stylishly emerge in an attempt to keep their fashionable status sky-high. A good example of this was the Burberry show at London Fashion Week: we had Victoria Beckham, Agyness Deyn, Alexa Chung, and pictured above, Emma Watson with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Style tips to study and repeat:

1. In Gwyneth – grey nails: A cool shade for the winter ahead, forget deep burgundies or dark blues, it is all about pale shades such as grey, jade (a pale green) and light lilac. The rolled up sleeves: especially for this cooler albeit not freezing weeks, roll up your tuxedo or black jacket sleeves and parade the lining inside.
2. In Emma – gold sparkle: notice how her exquisite Burberry dress is complimented by uncomplicated hair due and subtle (almost invisible) make up. Just some eyeliner and the rest is all nude. Pairing a gorgeous dress with a hardly worked-on style is key. Accessories were simple with a black leather belt, mirroring some dark sandals.

Picture: via Trendencias

That Iconic 80s Look

Agyness Deyn, Peaches Geldof, even Kelly Osbourne. The platinum blonde frenzy had an icon in the 80s. The Sunday Times Culture magazine features this historic picture on its cover. There are some things about the 80s that gets Fashion Limbo so helplessly nostalgic…

To read the full feature/interview click here.

A Shoe to Covet

Pictured above, the Tonight shoe by Hermès, at £860. High heel, peep-toe, laces and colourful for the dark months ahead. What do you think?

The Painful Flat Shoe

After a long working day of 8 hours (or more), with hardly any chance to sit down, one may believe a flat pump is the right survival shoe. However, most of us end up with painful ankles and excruciatingly sore feet. Apparently, extremely flat shoes end up straining the Achilles tendon, and also our calf muscles.

Flat shoes, although ever so trendy, absorb no shocks, providing hardly any heel support. However this is no shocking news, for when the trend originally emerged experts were already telling us to beware our passion for such shoes.

The key to the problem? Mix and match, alternate heels, shapes and styles.

Picture: prettyballerinas.com

People’s Best Dressed

People magazine have published their best dressed list. Amongst others, Frida Pinto was praised for her use of colour, whilst Michelle Obama won Best Accessible Glamour.

The list also names Beyonce Knowles as Best Street Chic.

Taylor Swift took the Best Sparkle title, and we have to agree, for the lovely teen star has been wearing some amazing dresses.

Reese Witherspoon was considered the best at wearing short dresses… strange category, quite random 🙂

Kate Winslet was named best dressed female on the red carpet.

A 60s Fashion Icon at 60

An eternal fashion icon, a working model (see Marks and Spencer fashion ads), a TV personality: all in all a full-time working woman, Twiggy has just turned 60. The Observer features photographs by Bryan Adams, and the model couldn’t be any hotter or in trend. To read the entire article click here.

Picture: Bryan Adams via The Observer