PARLEZ-VOUS FASHIONISTA
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f you’ve let your fashion credentials slip lower than a Versace
neckline and don’t know your Christopher Kane from your
Michael Caine, Victoria Martin’s fun fashion phrase book
might come in handy. We guarantee you’ll be talking like a front
row regular quicker than it took the Stella McCartney collection
for H&M to sell out.
Alexa Chung
Fashion star de jour. This TV presenter and girlfriend of Artic
Monkey Alex Turner can do no wrong. Say “that’s very Alexa”
when paying a couture compliment.
Asymmetric
One shouldered numbers which are all over the high street.
Best avoided by big breasted girls.
Christian Louboutin
© Robbie Smith
The French shoemaker whose designs set a girl’s pulse racing
and her bank balance just as fast into the red. Just like M.
Louboutin’s trademark scarlet soles.
Darling
Homage
How you would refer to someone who is not important enough
When one designer rips off another (usually dead or long
for you to bother remembering their name.
forgotten) designer’s ideas.
eBay
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Where you sell last season’s clothes to help fund this season’s
Along with the word ‘fabulous’, an overused word best used to
purchases.
describe celebrities with good stylists.
Front row
‘It bag’
The ultimate insult which could possibly be bestowed upon the
The only place to be seen at the shows. Designers often use it as
bag you just spent three months rent on.
a tool to ‘downgrade’ editors who have been mean about them.
Loewe
Haute Couture
Spanish label soon to be the one to wear now. Ex-Mulberry star
Pieces of hand-crafted art designed by the couture houses of
Stuart Vevers is creative director.
Paris and adorned by only the seriously rich.
Luxe
Another word for luxurious. Often used in the same sentence
by fashion editors with more shoes than brain cells.
fashionista?
Muse
A person who inspires a designer when they are designing
their collections.
Passe
How you would describe something that was ‘so last season’ or
FASHION SPEAK
something your sartorial rival is currently wearing.
Piece
words Victoria Martin · main photo Susie Lowe
Not to be mistaken for a sandwich, piece is a very useful word
when you haven’t got a Scooby what someone is wearing i.e.
“That’s an interesting piece you’re wearing.”
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