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The Frock Report

Dispatches from the front row of fashion and style…
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SPRINGING INTO SUMMER

By | 2008-08-20 16:13:42

BREAKING NEWS: The Frock Report has been hijacked by The Times Fashion Team who plan to bring you the best and brightest coverage of Sanlam SA Fashion Week which starts on August 27 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.
In the run-up to the event our team of writers, multimedia producers and photographers will bring you all the fashion, gossip, drama and hottest trends on and off the catwalk with in-depth features, on-scene blog reports, And all-access photographs and video stories.

Stay tuned for more…

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How Vogue, Elle and Glamour will save your life

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-20 13:00:49

My fellow blogger Minor Matters sent me this very amusing story from the Guardian UK - about how a girl turned her life around – she went from a sugar addicted dysfuntional somebody to a super duper glamourpuss simply by religiously following all the advice in the glossy magazine.

I know this to be true – for example read my article in the September edition about how it is a bad idea to go blonde if you are a preternatural brunette and you will never stray
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Brilliant Alphadog Graffiti

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-20 07:30:25

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Outside Atlas Studios and the Film School I saw this brilliant graffiti – I asked Alon Skuy who was with me to photgraph it – and he kindly obliged. Is it about Alpha Dog the Nick Cassavetes film starring JT? Is it some other more local group of guys as found in Msanzi? I don’t know. But I liked it for its stealthy dose of cool – and the fact that someone had tampered with it subsequently.
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Peaches & Pixie Geldof : hitched and happening

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-19 07:30:48

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Not so long ago – about a week to be precise it was reported that Peaches Geldof had overdosed in her apartment, she followed this salvo in the tabloids with a shotgun marriage to Maxwell Drummey a drummer in an unknown rock band and Harvard anthropology graduate. The 15 minute ceremony was followed by Peaches flying the coop – literally back to London, leaving Maxwell back in the states – exciting stuff.
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More fashionably, her sister Pixie recently seen on the cover of Tatler, has signed a deal with New Look to design a clothing range – just like everyone else – Lilly Allen, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller etc. Watch this space if for nothing else than more tabloid fodder.
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For more related posts see : Peaches – the starter divorce
and also Peaches takes it all off for Tatler

Peaches Poster girl for knickers and tats

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Gwyneth Paltrow:Saves horses and her mane

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-18 07:15:05

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I am turning into a bit of an eco nut – something tells me its about time…
So I have found a little eco website that perfectly suits my frockster sensibilities – it’s called Sprig the style guide to everything eco.. full of all sorts of great eco tips – presented beautifully.
I read a snippet of celebrity gossip there about Gwynie P on the site – apparently people coughed up $2,500 to see her at a charity benefit to help save horses, donkeys and mules from slaughter. But instead of mixing it up with the punters she spent the evening holed up in the host Steven Klein’s ( fashion photographer) house in the Hamptons in New York City this past weekend, because she didn’t exactly feel like mixing it up with the guests. To add insult to injury the icy maiden was a replacement for Madonna who dropped the charity – probably because she was worrying about turning 50 this past Friday. This was all a roundabout way of getting to the point which is that I do however rate Gwyneth’s new hairstyle – the shoulder length bob is the cut du jour – it certainly is a great improvement on the lank hairstyle she was sporting for ever so long – a good argument for change if ever there was one – Just look at these before and after pics – cut your hair and get all body con!
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Madonna messes with You Tube oh and Happy Birthday

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-17 07:30:40

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What a survivor – and super stylish too – barring one or two incidents. Read an great little aricle here about how to turn 50 in style.

However I do have a bone to pick with the Madge – I tried to download a song from You Tube – and they have all been blocked – by Madonna herself – you can join her fan club for some ridiculous amount of money and watch whatever you like.
I think this stinks – I loved the fact that you could download all sorts of great archival material on You Tube with wild abandon and I just hate it when the material girl – gets overly so. Bad move!

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I am a plastic bag: Exclusive books shopping bag

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-15 12:30:17

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The winner of the Exclusive Books Shopping Bag Design competition, out of 10 finalists is Elske Nel, a 21 year old student from the University of Pretoria.
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I love the naive aesthetic – very delightful indeed – well done Elske – and I adore her broach and brocade coat – so a deserving appearance in the frock report all round. Perhaps next time though Exclusive Books might consider emulating Anya Hindmarch’s ‘I am not a plastic bag’ bag and campaign for environmentally friendly shopping. I would like to see them run a green competition challenging people to design an eco friendly version of their bag.
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Hel Looks – street fashion in Helsinki

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-15 07:30:25

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I just got sent this link by Robert McKay – street fashion is like armchair travel – lets go Helsinki
HEL LOOKS is street fashion from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The pictures are taken in the streets and clubs of Helsinki and is a hobby project of Liisa Jokinen and Sampo Karjalainen. The project is a tribute to Fruits and Street magazines the pioneers of street fashion photography.
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Note to self – must get ice cream.
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Cape Town Fashion Week

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-14 19:46:44

The Times team is in Cape Town keeping track of all fashionable developments –

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Sexy boys in hats

By Aspasia Karras | 2008-08-14 12:35:45

The hat is having its moment with dapper gentlemen everywhere …

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Max in a fedora of sorts
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Frankie in poor boy
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Lebo – ( what is this cap called?)

Can’t make up my mind which one I like best
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