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In the Know - November
I saw Amy Winehouse play live in Milan last week on a short trip to Italy’s fashion capital. It got me thinking about fashion and style, and what defines the two. Dear old Amy was a little worse for wear as she staggered her way about the stage, and her dress was giving her major problems, the zip coming down and the straps falling off.
‘She needs a stylist’, said one of my friends, and, whilst I would love the job, I don’t think she does. Indeed, at the risk of doing myself a disservice, I think too many people rely on stylists, and too many stylists overstyle.
This season, with Forties fashion in vogue, the waist back in style, and glamour on the up, it’s still disheartening to see so many over-tanned, over-groomed, WAG-wannabee’s out there, with too long hair extensions, far too much make-up and Ronseal tans.
Amy may be a little too thin, and some of her tattoos are questionable, but that beehive, that eyeliner, and those cute little dresses make her her own creation, a magnificent example of style equalling individuality. Who is more beautiful – Christina Aguilera, or Posh Spice? The former is only to be hugely admired for not listening to her stylist’s advice, dropping the crop tops and low rise pants, finding the peroxide and high heels and being reborn as a gloriously glamorous new woman.
It’s all too easy in the Noughties to pull on our jeans, add a slick of lip gloss, straighten our hair, and head out. It’s boring, predictable and, if overdone, unflattering, not sexy and horribly cheap.
A vest and skinny jeans a style icon do not make. The late, great Isabella Blow, fashion guru, was exotically individual. A fashion colleague of mine who struts about town in pillbox hats looks truly wonderful on a night out. The long haired, gym-toned, fake tanned Wagabee in the corner doesn’t. Forget trying to look like every passing Abigail Clancy or Colleen McLoughlin and embrace your own style, your own shape and have some fun with it. It’s exactly what Amy and co are doing.