Hello all. It feels like a lifetime has passed since we last spoke, and yet it was only last Friday, you know? And we know what it's like: one minute you're obsessing over the Guardian's new fashion website layout (don't worry, it's been keeping us awake at night too) and the next minute a whole week of work has passed and you've barely looked at the site at all. You log off from the work computer everyday with those browser windows still open on the latest blogs or galleries, but their contents remain unread. You go home thinking you'll read up on the site the next day, but the next day only brings a new wave of pop-up diary reminders to occupy your time. Listen, we of all people know. But it's Friday, we've already moved on to the THIRD fashion week in a row since the last Fashion Statement (Milan, babes) and you deserve to kick back, look at some pretty pictures and catch up on some fashion gossip over an organic yoghurt while the fashion world furiously continues it's tweeting of #mfw. Enjoy.
Five fashion things we didn't even have time to cover this week
• London fashion week. On acid. She did it (which obviously we do not condone in any way, shape or form).
• Everything you've ever wanted to know about thongs, except why people still wear them when they've been uncomfortable and unflattering since at least 1995?
• Exactly what someone who probably regurgitates his own meals as a regular part of his digestive process needs: it's a toddler-sized Burberry sweater.
• Ditto an animal that poops in the street.
• Daphne Guinness says she's never been given anything for free by a single designer. Daphne Guinness: more in common with the general population than you'd think.
Random Ryan Gosling update
• Because, really, when it comes down to it … why not?
Five beauty items to tickle your fancy
• Anna Chesters is back with another Brief history of …. This time, she channels her oh la la for Bourjois makeup.
• Celebrity makeup artist Alex Byrne has been making the models look spesh all London fashion week. First it was Jean-Pierre Braganza, who said he wanted "what a woman would wear to seduce Ben Nicholson at a party at the Gatsby Estate". Something like this, then?
• Then Alex was at Jaeger Boutique, where she relied on a lot of MAC to get her through. Here's how she did it.
• And her brief for Aminaka Wilmont was "changeling", which goes something like this.
• The new look for nails? Denim-blue varnish (and we don't mean like the time Guardian deputy fashion editor Imogen Fox wore new jeans that dyed her hands blue).
Five things that have happened at one of the various fashion weeks in the last week
• New York fashion week finished last week, but we had some hangover content, including the top 10 items the buyers expect to trickle down to the high street.
• London played a good hand with print at LFW, no longer considered "bonkers".
• Christopher Kane did a lovely video interview with the Guardian's assistant fashion editor, Simon Chilvers, in which he was just so lovely.
• Meadham Kirchhoff did a video interview with Chilvers too, but it's really quite different …
• Milan fashion week began with a Gucci show that made the fashion crowd go wowwowowowowow.
One random piece of old content that deserves some love
• We started a new feature called A Life in Style in which we interview someone about how fashion has influenced their life. Robert Roope, who designs glasses, told us all about how the navy, jazz and training as an optician led him to design retro shades. If you think someone you know would be good for this feature (we're not just after famous people) then please let us know on the thread below.
*sings* Going to the chapel and we … don't know what to w-ea-ea-r
A while back you asked for advice on what to wear for a wedding, so we told you our thoughts, told you our readers' thoughts, and offered a few dos and don'ts.
