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Posted At : 23 February 2010 18:42 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: accessories, Fashion, London Fashion Week, Black, Black Patent Leather Gloves

London Fashion Week is in full-throttle, so we thought we'd get stuck in to some straight-up fashion talk. We are no strangers to the formula of fashion magazines; Grazia, Stella, Style, InStyle and our (obvious) favourite, Vogue. And all the blogs. And the tweets. And Facebook updates. It's fair to say that we have been driven to this. It is brilliantly infectious.

So, we (and by 'we' I mean 'I' - we are not yet a steaming juggernaut and there is no squadron of FashEds behind this facade...but 'we' will keep saying 'we' because it makes 'us' feel authoritative) came up with little, er, 'carefully edited' selections of accessories that we think go BRILLIANTLY together and that we have of course worn out and about and have road-tested, on the street, in the dales, underwater to insure against guffawing, sniggers or shrieks of 'what the HELL is she thinking??!!!'

'Our' favourite selection is this:

 

We would ask what your favourite collection is if we thought we would get an answer, but you need look only to our Facebook page for the probability of that.

 

BRIGHT BLOG: Hello Yellow!


Posted At : 19 January 2010 12:20 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: accessories, Fashion, Gloves, Black Patent Leather Gloves, Black, yellow cashmere scarf

Some called me insane. Some called me a maverick. Some had better things to do with their time.

I love my yellow scarf. I nabbed it (read paid for it, boss) when our range of accessories was delivered for our sister site BrightByBlack.co.uk*. But I always got the feeling that those who beheld it weren’t quite as dedicated to spreading the yellow as I.
 
 Acid Yellow Cashmere Scarf - 100% Cashmere - BrightByBlack.co.uk
 
So I wore it strategically, with denim, black patent leather, black cashmere: sartorial scene-setters that would show up yellow scarf as dramatically as a lightening bolt against midnight.
 
And then Vogue's Catwalk Report landed on my desk and as I swept through it, I soon saw I was not alone in my yellow fog. See below.
 
 
“From amber to saffron to primrose, [yellow] brings a sunny ray of light to spring”.
 
Tip: To avoid jaundice, pair with intensely black textures, such as black patent leather.
 
Short Black Patent Leather Gloves, Patent Leather Gloves - Black.co.uk
 
 
* InStyle.co.uk loves BrightByBlack.co.uk’s ‘gorgeously cheerful accessories’. If you haven’t had a look yet, why not now?

I'd Love to Glove Rachida Dati


Posted At : 12 January 2009 16:39 | Posted By : Abi
Related Categories: Rachida Dati, Black, Black Patent Leather Gloves

Cri de coeur.  British feminists are foaming at the spectacle of French Justice Minister, Rachida Dati, zooming out of a 5-day maternity leave. L’horreur, non? Quel mirage. Black velvet jacket, stilettoed feet, no eye-bags, no belly-bag. She’s so impeccably French: an excoriating sight for la femme ros-bif, who gets fat by just looking at lard (and probably eating it when all’s said and done) and whose life is audibly destroyed by the effects of childbirth – while Dati will slither in and out of halcyon Provençal lunches like a diaphanous anchois, dropping kids in the morning and holding forth in the Supreme Court by elevenses.
 
Dati’s rush back to work, it is said, might have more to do with the fact that Sarkozy is planning a reshuffle imminently and that her presence demonstrates her desire to keep her position. Therefore, with a new baby to care for and no active father in the dynamic, someone should give la superwomaaan a break – or equally allow her not to have one.
 
In my capacity as Secrétaire de Gants (sharing office with the Fashion Police and Style Council) I’d issue these to Mme Dati.
 

Black Patent Leather Gloves. Sleek, shiny and wipe-clean.

 Short Black Patent Leather Gloves, Patent Leather Gloves - Black.co.uk

 

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