Fashion

'I think the desire to be new is just as bad as the desire to be fashionable. It's a losing game.'
Cecilly Brown, 2005

There is a three page article in the Sunday Times today about how being a Yummy Mummy, dressing in florals, wearing Hunter Wellington boots, decorating your house with Farrow and Ball paint and Cath Kidston and anything to do with cupcakes are all now extremely unfashionable. Now, the people who used to do all of these things are wearing Acne and neon, collecting art, finding their kids less fascinating and losing weight.

Though the Style says that the Jubilee and Olympics were what killed shabby chic stone dead, when I read this article I became extremely worried that the afore-mentioned neon, modern art and bad parenting (stuff I like, mostly) is now de-rigeur among bourgeois, Sunday Times reading mums. I am basically now utterly out of fashion. The only way to get back in will probably be to resurrect my 90s wardrobe, bubble perm my hair and get some black lipstick. How tiresome.

This is a lesson never to read fashion magazines, especially in weekend newspapers. Just look at the pictures, avoid being too high fashion and for about 20 minutes every 5 years, you will be just right.

The same style supplement also suggested that reading exclamation mark-riddled, ersatz erotica Fifty Shades of Grey, is particularly fashionable. Either to show that you are naughty or highly ironic. I think this tells you all you need to know.

This photo is an an apartment I like from Design Attractor, now endorsed by the ST style and therefore dangerously out of fashion!