Fight For Yr Write: 1980's

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12.3.12

BOY London 2012 Collection Selling Fast At Selfridges

Rihanna image courtesy of the Daily Mail website.

OK so after Rihanna worked a straight up original 80s BOY look on the Jonathan Ross Show the other week, everyone knows that BOY London is back. The underground fashion label which was founded in 1977 became famous for its iconic logo print designs worn by every top popstar in the early 1980s, has been enjoying a resurgence with those early-adopting East London hipster kids for over a year now thanks to vintage eBay finds and capsule collections via the likes of Urban Outfitters. Now though, the whole SS 2012 retro BOY London collection is available in the UK exclusively at Selfridges, both in store and online at www.selfridges.co.uk. Here are some of my favourite bits but check the site for the whole collection - or at least what's left as it seems to be going FAST!

5.1.12

PRINT JEANS - SO RETRO, SO NOW

These wicked new print jeans have a great late 80s/early 80s vibe. I particularly love the Current/Elliott leopard print skinnies in pink or mint (above, £200 from Net-A-Porter) which give you a 2 for 1 on the trend front thanks to their bang on SS12 ice cream colours. If only I could still fit in my rose print pastel jeans from M&S that I had in school, from the days when I bought clothes by age rather than size... (blurry old pic complete with Dash sweatshirt and German exchange student, below!).

High waisted chain print boyfriend jeans, £40 from ASOS.

Monochrome geometric print 90s style super skinny jeans, £40 from River Island.

Tripp NYC leopard print skinny jeans, £60 from Urban Outfitters.

Sass & Bide 'The Archetype' feather print skinny jeans, £215 from ASOS.

Roberto Cavali Python snake print purple jeans, £480 from Selfridges.

Pink floral rose print skinny jeans, £40 from River Island.

Superslim animal print jeans with ankle zips, £19.90 from Mango.

And a very blurry old pic of me (second left) in my favourite old M&S rose prints...

4.8.11

CHEAP SUMMER SHOWER CHIC: M&S 80'S STYLE LEOPARD PRINT UMBRELLAS

Stupid weather. I am so sick of getting caught out in heavy rain showers and not being able to find an umbrella.

This super cute, Eightie's style electric leopard print brolly from Marks & Spencer is the perfect size to fit in even a small handbag (mine pictured is an 11" Cambridge Satchel) - I'm never going out without it again.

It also comes in a variety of pop-py colourways - I am definitely hankering after a black & purple, and a pink & yellow - and is a pocket friendly £7.50.