Bex and the City Fast Fashion
This fortnight, Bex is in a fashion fix
Bex and the City: Fast Fashion
Ok, so I am well aware that the fashion industry is extremely fast moving, but never am I more painfully conscious of this than in these sunnier (well, supposedly sunnier) months. Just try and shop for your summer holiday in summer. It’s not possible. As soon as spring is over, we start to see all the sandals and floral playsuits and crochet mini-dresses we’d just started to think about wearing disappear entirely from the shelves, to be found creased and trodden-on among the sale racks.
Going to Portugal next month? Anna Wintour doesn’t care. Vogue have had the end of year trends mapped out since March. You should have planned earlier shouldn’t you? Meaning you should have stocked up on your bikinis and crop tops last winter.
Yeah, right.
The fashion magazines may read July, but they’re all stuck in the future, constantly three or four months ahead, amid colour-changing trees emitting swirling leaves. Laughing at us, the little people in our season-appropriate clothing, because we can’t keep up. It’s exhausting isn’t it? So if you really want to be up-to-the-minute, you’ll just have to breeze around the Mediterranean coast in cable-knit sweaters, camel flying jackets and cosy woollen maxi skirts in muted autumnal colours. So maybe you won’t tan quite as well, but hey, vampire chic is all the rage isn’t it? Oh, sorry Marie Claire; apparently that was like sooo six weeks ago.
Speaking of shopping and trying to keep up: Trinity Leeds. It’s on again, it’s off again, but this time, it is definitely on for good. Shoppers rejoice; the countdown is on until early 2013, when we shall receive a million square feet of shiny retail rapture.
So far, the plans for who will reside there read like a game of musical shops. Topshop, H&M, Marks and Spencer, Next, River Island… the list goes on. Change the record! Is it too much to ask for us to possibly get some new shops please? Of course every big city needs their big stores, but come on, enough of the cloning. Aside from some limited charity shopping, we are somewhat restrained in comparison to other places when it comes to independent retailers. It would be great if we could head towards some kind of Brick Lane equivalent when looking to dress ourselves for a night out, without seeing at least five other people in exactly the same outfit.
So that’s why there are always so many Loiners in fancy dress…
Posted on Wednesday 4th August 2010
Rebecca Ryder
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