Today's guest post is by Sally Cousins, participant in the $150 challenge and where I go to get my celebrity gossip first. Royalists look away, today's post is a rant about Pippa Middleton and her style - or lack of it!
I need to rant about something and the Chavali blog seems like the perfect place to do it so please indulge me and disagree if you must.
Ever since Will and Kate got married back in April 2011 the phenomenon that is Pippa Middleton's ass in that dress and her resulting "fashion icon" status has been detracting from important fashion and celebrity gossip coverage, like who is the father of January Joneses baby and how is it humanly possible for Jessica Alba to look like that 5 months after having her second baby, and more importantly why do we care? And I’m over it!
Since that day for some reason the media have chosen to adopt Pippa as their new 'High Street' fashion icon, as a girl us average girls can look to for inspiration and tips on how to look stylish on a working girl’s salary, but in my opinion her style is much more nanna than glamour.
This recent article on people.com (my fave website for up to the minute hollywood news) is the perfect example of what i mean. The title is "Pippa Middleton's 10 Cutest Coats - Kate's stylish sis has a massive collection of adorable outerwear and we picked our faves". Of course i clicked on it, and you know what, they would have been cute... in 2002... Her style is exactly what thousand’s of ‘average’ girls style is; practical, simple, ok quality and probably collected over many years of shopping at Top Shop and H&M. There is nothing that stands out about it, there’s nothing new there. Maybe that’s the whole point, and maybe I’m just missing it? Perhaps the attraction for people is that she wears things which we would all find in our own wardrobes... There is a purple tweed looking blazer in there that i'm sure i saw in Zara at about that time, and a black trench with white piping which looks exactly like the ones you could buy in Portmans for $89.95 back when trenches were the must have wardrobe item (i know you remember).
If you believe her hype you'd think she can make a tube style mini skirt, flat black boots, sheer black tights, a navy knit and a blazer look chic but in my opinion, she looks just as plain as most girls would wearing that in the middle of winter in London.
Her list of fashion go-to looks all seem to include tube-style minis, knee length dresses, black boots, peep toe sling-backs and jackets, lots and lots of jackets. There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of that, but it’s getting dull. I just expect more from celebrities I guess.
She's in a unique position to be able to influence trends and to be given pretty much any designer outfit she wants, but she's throwing it all away by being ultra conservative. It was her sister who married royalty and will spend the rest of her life in knee length coats and sensible shoes, not her.
Though even Kate manages to jazz it up a bit while remaining royally conservative.
(the princes on her arm don’t hurt either)
(conservative but stylish)
I guess when you get down to it the issue I have with her new found celebrity is that I don’t look to celebrities to see how similar they are to me, I look to them to see into another world which is much more glamorous than my own. So I beg all the fashion editors around the world, please stop calling her our fashion darling!
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