Plasticmania

My new plastic-fantastic Vivienne Westwood Anglomania for Melissa thrice-buckled black ballet flats are amongst the many winter sales purchases I failed to properly present here on the blog till now. My bad.

They're just perfect for this season, just before sandals become an absolute necessity.

Here they were paired with some red Accessorize tights for the popping colour effect, but I can assure you, they are just as comfy worn bare-legged as well.

And what's best is that they cost me a mere €50! That animated gif you see above is me doing the shopping win dance. Well, not really, but it could be.

I did a brief search online after I brought them home, just for the kicks, and I found out that in ASOS they would cost me €93.75, in Farfetch €95.00 and in Zappos $123. I feel like quite the savvy shopper right now!

Where did I score such a bargain, I hear you ask?

Well, I got them from that little shop of delights called Saia in downtown Athens. Remember it from last year? If you still haven't paid a visit, do it now. Winter sales may be long gone, but now is the right season to stock on colourful dresses and brazilian bikinis that were actually *made* in Brazil. And except for Melissa, one can also find other quirky footwear brands like Irregular Choice and Seychelles, which I had people asking me whether they're stocked in Greece. Well, it looks like they are. Run!

Vivienne does walls

Not exactly fashion and architecture, but definitely falling into the fashion and interior design category. WWD reports that our favourite ginger grandma of fashion, the ferocious Vivienne Westwood, has teamed up with posh wallpaper manufacturers Cole & Son to produce a collaboration collection of wallpaper under the name Vivienne Westwood for Cole & Son.


According to the official Cole & Son release "the Vivienne Westwood for Cole & Son wallpapers are all based on signature designs from her fashion collections such as the iconic Squiggle print from the Autumn-Winter 81/82 Pirate collection and the more recent Cut-Out Lace from the Spring-Summer 07 I am Expensiv collection".

Inspired by fabric textures and patterns, the wallpaper designs were named quite appropriately.
Here is a small selection:

Trompe d'oeil Drape (seen above on wall)


Cut-Out Lace


Tartan


Vivienne's Lace


Shirting

What does Viv herself say?

"It is good when my ideas get carried over into other artistic media. This collection is a perfect opportunity to be able to work with a heritage company like Cole & Son and to see my ideas from fashion translated into the world of interiors and wallpaper."

And which one is my favourite?

Union Jack
270cm x 150cm sold as a complete panel.

Just imagine a wall covered with it...
Want, want, want!

[story via WWD, pics via Cole & Son]

Vivienne, is that you?

Garance Doré says pirate boots are the official footwear of the coolest girls she knows. I'll have to take her word for it. Although our favourite parisienne was referring to the original Vivienne Westwood pirate boots, the ones I found in Zara seem like a nice alternative.

But Zara boots for €49,95 (even if they're real leather) actually make me think of saving up for the originals.

What do you think?