30% Off All Naartjie Girls' Dress Up Velour Fashions

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Choose from tops, skirts, pants, dresses and accessories perfect for winter and the holidays.

valentine f-c

The lovely Pia of The Thinking Tank (a blog I hawk far too often) told me about this Erdem lookbook video styled by and starring Valentine Fillol-Cordier, after I expressed my current shall-I-shan't-I haircut dithering. 

three things:

1. i'm an absolute sucker for cute, well directed lookbook videos.

2. now how is valentine's new sharp bob for an inspiring haircut?
3. had until now been completely unaware that valentine has a portfolio blog which is worth a quick peruse here.

The World's Largest Bag...Really!

This is just a heads up to those who slag me off for carrying bags too big to pass as cabin luggage on Aer Lingus. I'll see you and raise you a 12 foot tall Hermes Kellydoscope. Ha! In your face!

And it actually is; right inside the Brown Thomas accessory hall to be precise. Officially the largest bag in the world, the gargantuan tote has been cinched as a global exclusive for Dublin. Be the first to step inside this glamourous toy and experience what its like to be the contents of someone's bag. I won't give it away but suffice to say it warrants the dizzy spell! Being jostled inside the leather structure is about as close to an Hermes I'm likely to get this side of marrying Simon Cowell, George Clooney or Keanu Reeves. I haven't quite decided yet. While I ponder my future husband, take a closer look at every woman's dream bag.

Step Inside!

The short experiential film

hack it off

 

As predicted, I arrived home to Bristol and my Mum was full of ideas about me getting my haircut. Well, the idea went like this "why don't I see if I can book you in for a re-style on thursday?" and all of the vague haircut orientated thoughts I'd had recently forced me to accept. only now, the night before I'm filled with a sense of dread imagining those scissors. What is it about haircuts, eh? I like to think that I'm a pretty rational person and don't get silly about something as trivial as a haircut but well, they can just be a little upsetting can't they? Of course I can equally swing the other way and often end up thinking after the deed has been done 'That wasn't bad. That wasn't bad at all. In fact I love it so much I'll spend the rest of the day looking at my reflection.' Only the fact that I haven't had anyone else touch my hair for over a year (I've been cutting it and dying it myself in some kind of tiny act of rebellion) means that the thought of handing all responsibility over to someone else makes me twitch a little. And this twitching is also because I'm having a restyle, namely a fringe put in and though I think it's time to try something new, the last time I had a fringe I spent the entire time trying to guard it from being ravaged by the wind and rain. 

Does anybody else find themselves overcome by the urge to crawl underneath the bed and never come out the night before an appointment at the hairdressers? Oh how silly we are. Doesn't help that hair naturally seems to look at it's nicest and most tame when a trip to the old snippers is just around the corner, too.

I know, I know it's very idealistic to walk into a hairdressers holding a picture of a model and asking 'make me look like her?' but this is the idea I'm going for..

The Dirty Fabulous Gals are Back

Come visit our favourite Fabulettes Kathy and Caroline at their new Wickow Street digs. Fall in love with the same fabulous edit of vintage finds...only now in the centre of town!! I could gush for Ireland but I will let the pics do the talking. Am I excited. Er, just a tad! Squeek!

Dirty Fabulous, 21 Wicklow St, Dublin 2 (above Molton Brown). Tel: 01 611 1842

Kathy and Caroline!

what you wore

above: this is how we roll: the camera phone style generation.

last thursday I asked people on twitter to summarise what they were wearing in the obligatory 140 characters. today I'm going to be doing the same thing, so scrimp on words and squeeze a short and sweet summary of your outfit into that teensy twitter box. or send me camera phone detail shots. if you're wearing new shoes and can't stop looking down at them or are still in the honeymoon period with an old cardigan take a snap, @mention them to me on twitter (@dconfusion) and I'll compile a selection into a post. I'm hoping to turn this into a regular feature; a nice sneaky blogging community combined effort, a bit of access all areas cyber curtain twitching, if you will.

to get the ball rolling, thanks to these guys for their contributions last week. camel jumpers, nikes, barbour jackets, clogs, my oh my! and my own outfit description too.

@miss_wooo Grey Uniqlo jumper. Black high waist jeans. Barbour Jacket. White Nike AF1.

@heleneisfor rogan for target button down, black cropped UO jeans, RL mary jane clogs

@dconfusion cos pocket tee, cord skirt, 70s dad deck boots.

@fushiaaa  second skin jeans, camel jumper that somehow stands off at the back and my warmest thick grey socks

Irish Tatler Designer Showcase - Shanghai

A few weeks ago Joanne Hynes and I styled up 6 signature looks from her collection to go to Shaghai for the Irish Tatler Designer Showcase. Here are some of the photos from the prestigious event. Enjoy!