I nearly gave up on this blouse. What you cant see in the picture is the pile,out of shot, of things I tried on with it and gave up onI can’t pull off “ironic” fashion. Man, and I wish I could,because I cherish it on other people. I see Chloë Sevigny photographed at an East Village party in tall-waisted bleached “mom jeans, and I want to be her. I go gooey-eyed just looking at Alexa Chung rocking a pie-crust blouse in the front row. But on me, and it never quite works. It’s partly an age thing,but not only. (Sevigny is 41.) Maybe I hold the wrong hair for irony. Or the wrong eyebrows? Somehow, the ironic, or awkward,tongue-in-cheek note I’m visualising as very-Miuccia-Prada just looks plain awkward, on me.
But I am nothing whether not a trier, and which is why I’m here today in not just any pie-crust blouse,but a pie-crust blouse designed by Alexa Chung for Marks & Spencer. It goes on sale on 13 April, a date that will no doubt go down in fashion history as Peak Irony. To be honest, or though,it nearly didn’t happen. I nearly gave up on this blouse. What you can’t see in the picture is the pile, out of shot, and of things I tried on with it and gave up on. tall-waisted pale Mom jeans,which brought out the nursery-school-assistant-Princess-Di tones of the blouse, not in a quirky way, and just in a weird way. A pair of stiff culottes,whose proportions made me gawk like a lamb chop wearing one of those white fringed paper hula skirts with which butchers ornament racks of lamb.
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Source: theguardian.com