katy perry and the emas

the emas happened. so here we go.

katy perry went off on a mad couture rampage. here are your best shots :

viktor and rolf dress. not sure about this one. not sure at all......

marchesa s/s10 collection. meh, i think white is a bit boring. is it just me or was katy perry more interesting when she wore crazier clothing? this is a little tame as far as i am concerned.
george chakra dress. this i loves. i think it's the right amount of sparkle and the right amount of movement. me loves it. could have picked better shoes though.
don't know who this is by but it's rather dull. again. sigh.....must try harder mustn't we?
rather funnily thestylebitches.com described this as the christina augerlia bottle of perfume dress. brilliant. and i think they are right really.....marchesa ss/10

yasmin le bon for wallis.

yasmin le bon for WALLIS. normally wallis is the last place I would ever go in a million years for an xmas party dress. but following the publishing of the grey maxi dress in a few mags. i actually found myself on the website having a look and liking what I saw. the dresses are quite cheap as well. Bout 80 euro. which for the high street / collaboration fad, is not bad at all. here are my fav 3 picks. hot to trot!

rihanna and chris brown - that interview

i just listened to Rihanna's interview about the abuse she suffered at the hands of an abusive X. fair play. the whole interview seems incredibly hard for her. she did right to speak out. she seems at times unable to speak and on the verge of tears.

it is hard to watch. here are the links to view it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTuANG__Sy0

part  2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkmimCTi6k4&feature=related

please do watch it. it is hard. fair play to the interview. it must have been so hard to sit there and not give her a hug. i would have. but mind you, i've only done a year of journalism and, frankly, i could prob get sued for that.

this is what chris brown had to say on MTV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPksR13VHw4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ugwiSw4yps&feature=related

BOYCOTT HIS RECORDS. do not support someone who feels like they can beat a woman in any way shape or form. fuck him.

on the fourth day of xmas

on the fourth day of xmas, my true love gave to meeeeee,

studded leggings so it's not so winndyyyyyyy.....

dublin is so cold y'all.....

miss penny's irish fashion adventures

for those of us who are regular vogue readers, this is for you :

MISS PENNY DREADFUL FASHION ADVENTURES!

how to be stylish and a fashionista in ireland...... now, this is very tongue in cheek and is intended that way. it is a commentary piece and nothing should be taken any other way then in jest.....

1 : climb the speakers at WAR until a bouncer pulls you off....screaming and shouting. then get sick on your shoes from the 'descent' of course. nothing to do with the 6 pints of overpriced cider you drank then......

2: book a ryanair flight to somewhere foreign on 'the holiday' and persist in telling everyone how cheap it was. 'sure t'was going for nothing like.'

3 : entertain in your lovely flat in Dublin in full gareth pugh before stumbling off to WAR on a friday. or soundcheck on a thursday, or Space n' veda on a wednesday...hey, pugh is expensive. get your money worth...cost per wear. then mutter loudly about the cost of cleaning said pugh in a recession. like.

4:shanghai a cow from your local farm and take it for a walk in a furry jacket, sunglasses. listening to lady gaga on your ipod loudly, mindful of the local paps. at all times. 'FROM MY LEFT SIDE ONLY YOU BRUTES!' mutter, 'dam paparrazzi.' to all the local farmers who ask are you' yer one off the telly.'

5 : wear a biker jacket and hang out with the rest of the rebels without a clue on paul street. mutter loudly about how your parents don't understand you. but your fall out boy album does.

6 :  travel with a maid. who you have plucked from student digs in Limerick. who you will pay a euro an hour to. hey, 8 hours work means a box of fags to a student.....(my student days were leeeeean)

7 : go to penny's in limerick to buy a lovely bra and leave with about 50 other things you don't really want or need.....

8 : Fight a mugger for your topshop jewelry you got on sale.....your not going without a fight like

9 : go to Dublin zoo in vintage furs and ignore the burning looks of hatred, then make like a trooper and go to Lush on anti hunting day in the fur on your way home to get some soap to wash the smell of the bus home off you.

10: wear a thong swimsuit in kerry so indecent that the gardai are called in for public decency disorders....'ah sure, you know yourself.'

11: Wear a suit. anywhere. any time. it's always acceptable.

12 : order a silk slip. then freeze overnight in it.

13 : feel moved outside the opera house in Cork and vomit all over your red knitdress from topshop. after all. you can't afford valentino like.

14 : be the inspiration for a dress by being drunk and smoking in WAR in Dublin.

15 : wear a long veil in cork and hang out with the teenage goths getting drunk on stonehouse cider around Paul street.

16 : wear a tiara at all times in connemara. and get the locals asking 'When's the weddin'? (in irish of course)

17 : own the union jack chanel handbag and get spat at so many times you take it back (spit laden) to the girls at BT.

18 : wear head to toe gareth pugh while meeting your boy/girl friend's parents in rural west cork. and answer questions. 'So, where did you two meet like?'

19 : have your white shirts made by a hardworking LIMERICK SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN student who is nearly crying with workload from her degree show already. then dismiss it in the style of anna wintour. while wearing sunglasses.....

20 : watch barefooted around WAR in Dublin and spend three days picking broken glass and fag butts out of your feet.....with a full length gown swirling around you....

21 : book an entire carriage from Dublin to Cork and smoke while wearing a classic white shirt.....then get thrown off by a cork bus eireann worker for 'Not knowing about the smoking ban like.'

22 : Wear a corset on the nightbus home and pass out from asprixiation and the vodka.....

23 : Emerge from the shores in Kilkee and go native (and urs

ula andress) style in a bikini with a knife belted at the waist.......

24 : insist on being a tourist and doing the viking tour of dublin in a coast bridesmaid gown and insist on wearing the viking horns......

25 : dive off the pier in Glandore in west cork and watch one half of your topshop tiny swimsuit float away....

26 : Wear a balenciaga riding hat amongst the locals in ballybunion and get sectioned....

27 : go to the local hairdressers in galway and ask for a 'Linda' crop and watch them ask each other in confusion what the fuck that is......

28: Negotiate the steps in costellos nightclub in Limerick while wearing your very best runners/platform  high heels with the art pack.....and fail so badly flan costello has to carry you to a taxi....

29: enjoy watching the drama in a front row spot at a drunken bitch fight outside Bondi Beach club in Dublin/ Cork. (bitch slaps transend distance)

30 - Stroll down Grafton street in a classic trench coat, lingere and bare legs and platforms....get hit on by tramps ....then suffer a terrible bout of the flu all week as a result....

gaga for gaga

more insane antics from lady gaga over the week, check out this outfit. i love her. she has the balls to do something different. which beats the fuck out of all the ordinary beyonces and gossip girls of this world. viva la gaga!

kindom of style and the rock boots

I love these photos. they are part of a shoot that appeared on kingdomofstyle.typepad.co.uk. i love them. sorry to the girls for robbing them but i really would like to remind people to check out this blog. it's seriously good. go for it.  i love the boots more then life itself

memories like the corners of the table i must have hit my head on

was saving my pics from bebo when i came across some dodgy snaps of me in second year of my undergrad course. i was 21 and stupid...so in the name of piss taking, let the laughing commence :

this was taken when i was 23. i had just gotten my mowhawk trimmed - as you do - and had asked a friend to help me pick an outfit. this was her choice. it was horrible. you can't see the green skinny jeans. recently she confessed she did it on purpose. shudder.

new rave night in costellos limerick. i put this in to prove i actually know people!!!! oh look at my union jack wristband. can't even remember where that came from. although it did inspire some seasonal racism from a member of staff where i worked that year.....
loving the non matching wristbands again. that year was a big year for wristbands for me. there was no wristband too risky for me....red, black, union jack....i had 'em all...
that blasted playsuit. strapless and manky. it was the first thing i bought from topshop. i had bought it that day for twenty euro (does it not show that it's twenty euro! cheap!) where the thing on my arms came from i have no idea. loving the feathered casual hair though....shudder.
that earring is 6 years old that year. i spent ages getting that stuck in a wind tunnel look. that and lots of hair spray. i think there is hole in the ozone layer that blames me for it's exsistance from that hair spray. 
because the first time you buy and wear hair extensions they should definately be purple. defo. they just look so natural. especially when you make such an effort with the clothes and the hair and then never wear make-up. sexy.

awwwww. xmas cutey!

how cute is this!!!!!! urban outfitters.com - love it. except, my dogs would eat the thing which makes buying it impossible. fun for 5 mins before the embarrassment sets in and they eat it and the bordem sets in for me and i go get some more gin.....

may the fierce be with you!

the wonderful queen of the scene VEDA will be performing songs from her new album tonight kiddies. it is a wonderful wonderful excuse (like i need one) to frequent panti bar tonight. a few jars, a few tunes and a performer who is, frankly, one of the best acts I have seen in ages.

I recently been seen a lot in the george on a wednesday night. for one of the best shoes i have seen. VEDA and other amazing act, DAVINA DEVINE take to the stage to perform a song or six. last week saw the amazing strictly come pole dancing. 

and let me tell you - it was worth the awful hangover and the willy i had to see that night. pure hilarity gold!

do yourself a favour, get into it. you wont regret a minute of it

third day of xmas....

on the third day of xmas my true love gave meeeeee....

a collar made from feathers of birdeeeeessss.....

this ladies, is a collar made of blackbird feathers. while expensive at  €61 from topshop. it can be your essential piece for making your clothing more designer then high street. throw this over any dress and bring it from 2004 to 2009 in one swoop. you go girl! i am full on in love with it. i can envision this with my PVC trousers and  a black lace top. then towering heels. so, the upshot of this is go goth and wear impossibly high high heels. the situation demands you do.

so go girl!

rihanna speaks out

as you know.

violence against women is a pretty big issue. it was also an issue that found it's way into conversations recently amongst us all. the reason, we all saw those images of rihanna black and blue after chris brown. i posted the pics and the police report on this website and called for a protest of chris brown's records.

interestly rihanna kept schtum. saying nothing. which didn't go down to well with reporter dying for the story. to be the first. so 8 months after the incident, rihanna has opened her mouth about the incident for the first time. here are a few extracts from the interview which will be printed in glamour magazine (may actually be the first time i buy that god awful magazine - apart from the time where i bought it for the free benefit mascara and threw away the mag)

“It was humiliating; that is not a photo you would show to anybody. I felt completely taken advantage of. I felt like people were making it into a fun topic on the Internet, and it’s my life. I was disappointed, especially when I found out the photo was [supposedly leaked by] two women.”

“My story was broadcast all over the world for people to see, and they have followed every step of my recovery. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard. Now I can help speak for those women

“I’ve put everything I’ve wanted to say for the past eight months into my music. My new album is super fearless-which is exactly how I feel right now. I am in a really good place.

“I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears. That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day. The positive thing that has come out of my situation is that people can learn from that. I want to give as much insight as I can to young women, because I feel like I represent a voice that really isn’t heard.”

good woman.

we need more people to speak out. more people to draw attention to the fact that violence against women is just not acceptable. it's disgusting and in 2009 should not be an issue at all. as much as it pains me to say it, biologically women are not as strong as men. we are not physically built the same. so men can do an awful lot of damage to women physically.

i stand by my call to stop people buying that shitehawk's music. let him go back where it was he was working before he made those god awful records.

and yes, i do want fries with that.

ashish shoes......mmm.....yes....

i need these ashish shoes in my life.

i really do. seen on the girlfriend of chuck bass's feet recently (yer one that plays vanessa) these shoes are pure amazing. high as hell. i know. i tried to stand on them. it didn't work that well. i stood for 5 mins before i fell.

second day of xmas. the xmas party

on the second day of xmas my true love gave me to meeeee....

a playsuit that is truely sexyyyyyyyy....

topshop give us a cool alternative to the wonderful dress. team with opague tights (avoid over the knee anythings otherwise you'll look like someone in a panto) team with an amazing GOLD must be gold, waistbelt. go for pearl earrings . pull the hair up and get some dangly earrings.

JOB!

xmas party sorted.

24 DRESSES!!!!

it's that sexy time of year again.

the sequins

the glitter

la glamour!

it's the only time of the year where the entire country goes gay with their pay and splashes the cash on things they would normally (seriously, i just bought a glittery deer from paperchase)

so this blog shall be dedicated to all things a little bit glam over the next few weeks.

we are on the hunt.

for the ultimate in xmas cheer, the illusive, the fab,

XMAS PARTY DRESS!!!

(everybody dance now!!!)

we shall be exploring the deep blue ocean of high street rags, in a series of 24 dresses of xmas.....

on the first day of xmas my true love gave me to meeeeeee.......

a dress from the perkins of dorothyyyyyyy!

this is the sexual character that exsists within dorothy perkins. now, i know what your thinking - dorothy perkins, ew. but. this exact dress is also in fran and jane for twice the price. it's pure sex. there really is nothing to think twice about really is there?????? i think not. you know you want to. picture with some black shoes and black tights - remember, the story is told through the dress. it should be your focus. nothing else. but however. a gorgeous clutch bag is in order. i would clash the bag to make a statement. but a gorgeous clutch bag calls for excellent nails. so head down to barry M for a cheap but cheerful nail varnish-o.

JOB.

the morgan hotel on friday!

So off we went on Friday to the wonderful morgan hotel in all our finery. General kitten, ZoHoe and myself, miss penny. A little excited, a little bit nervous. but general a little bit full of vodka.

Upon arriving into the blue lit bar intially we were worried. despite being a saints and sinners night. not one person was in costume. 

(bar the lovely staff)

then the cocktails flowed.

first up were the aforementioned black apple cocktails served in wine glasses. amazing. they really were gorgeous. followed by, a disgusting pumpkin cocktail. what I can only imagine was liquidised pumpkin and i think whiskey. It was horrible.

The highlight of the night were the two dancing cats on pillar who hissed and snarled their way through the evening. where ever they came from, they were worth the paycheck.

Stumbling into the smoking area I was blown away by how pretty it all was (and relieved that there were people in costumes there) and ended up sitting on a vintage bed sharing a ciggie with a new friend.

The downside of the night however was the lack of finger food promised by the flyers. We were given a bowl of mixed nuts. for those of us who had come straight from the late shift to be there, we were not impressed. 

but the staff made up for it by being friendly, all out in costume and generous with the free drink, which, lets face it. was a big plus.

the morgan itself is actually a great venue. very pretty but, hasn't gone down the road of being to fashion for it's own good yet.

however. i did get stung by a cosmopolitan cocktail. 15 euro!!! for one drink. not good times. 

we retreated after being wonderful for a while into the sexy santa party in WAR. this is where the night took a dip for me. while I love WAR at SPY the night seemed to lack a certain something and seemed full of new faces and annoyingly, santa hats.

kudos for the inflatable santa in the corner though. 

Tired and a little world weary, myself and zoHoe headed back to the convent for a quick nap and a long chat. which ended up being, one of the highlights of the night.

XoXo - you know you love me!!!!!

this weeks agenda : Space N Veda. the george wed night. see you all there!

(must apologise for the lack of photos but our photographer was unable to attend. look out for the photos from the best dressed on wed night at the george. photos taken from the morgan website. www.themorgan.com)

nars 15.

celebrating 15 years. nars creator has produced a book with these images. check out Marc Jacobs rocking the red and daphne guinness. JOB!

DUBLIN GETS STYLEHUNTED

stephen's green mo' fo'!

as we all know stylehunter is one the best reasons to buy grazia. so imagine my surprise when they annouced they would be dublin on a thursday. i lifted this from their website which means it is not mine. taking no credit. and it is amazing excuse to visit their site which is, well, brilliant. so enjoy the interview about dublin fashionistas and photos.

Style Hunter: Which of the season's key trends appear to be the most popular in Dublin?

Annmarie: Sequins, lamé and big shoulders; followed closely by leather jackets and statement tights. We've got some major Dallas and Dynasty love afoot.

Style Hunter: If there’s one thing you’ve seen everywhere on the streets of Dublin – what is it?

Annmarie: I’ve noticed that brogues are the daytime footwear choice du jour. They are everywhere: from soft capezio styles to two-toned jazz numbers and Katherine Hepburn tributes. I've got a pair in plum and am lusting after a pair of Swarovski-encrusted patent beauties on Asos.com. They will be mine!

Style Hunter: Where would you recommend for the Grazia readers to visit should they stop off in Dublin?

Annmarie: A must-visit is Smock boutique on Drury Street - home to edgy labels like Maison Martin Margiela andTsumori Chisato. Denimologists should check out South William Street's Indigo & Cloth which also stocks names like Rodebjer and Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair. Dublin retail therapy isn't complete however without a visit toPowerscourt Townhouse. Find Ashish and Henrik Vibskov at Circus, an in-store atelier at Bow Boutique, and a bastion of Irish designers and killer vintage finds at The Loft Market.

IS THIS YOU? ARE YOU IN ONE OF GRAZIA'S PHOTOS ? TELL US! LETS GET SOME CHAT GOING GIRLS. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ARTICLE AND THE PHOTOS ? STYLE OR MEH ?

NICE ONE FOR THE MENTION OF THE LOFT THERE GIRLS! GOOD WORK!

fake it!!!!

everyone and then some are wearing faux fur coats. (unless of course you are anna wintour or S who are working the dead animal draped look) but, are they classy - class-less. who wins, you decide?

vote now.

this is the only poll that matters. fuck your lisbon treaty voting, this. my friends. is the biggest poll ever. 

and here are the candidates up for best faux fur elections.

how to wear :

remember. daytime wear. your coat does the talking so

 keep your outfit simple. it's important that the whole, i just threw this on thing is happening. so jeans and brogs would rock along with an olsen twin rock t-shirt and a bright handbag.

nighttime : this is high glamour so mix your fabrics to get great results. leather, velvet, it all works. 

one word of advice :

KEEP YOUR LIPSTICK MATTE NOT GLOSS. nothing is worse when random fluffy hairs get stuck in your gloss and annoy the fuck out of you.

another word of : fake it. in some parts of the world animals are kept for fur only and tortured in the most horrific ways for it. there is no excuse. no one needs to know it's not real. the high street are doing amazing versions. so lets keep it fake. 

another piece of advice : DO BECAREFUL WHEN IN SMOKING AREAS AROUND HIGHLY FLAMMABLE FUR. no one really likes a disco inferno.

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Just watched Melissa Joan Hart get TRASHED on american tv. so so funny.

she tried to be funny.

it backfired.

big time.

she is appearing on celebrities come dancing get me out of here something in america and was asked, 'will you be using witchcraft to help you win?'

to which she replied, ' that joke is a little 1996 to be honest.'

and the response was :

'well, so are you really.'

BURN!