Labour's Own Balmain Bride

A while ago I read a piece in a fashion mag where the writer was questioning the credentials of Balmain. 'How many seasons can you go on using big angular shoulders?', the person rightly asked. Margiela did it a few years back, Christophe Decarnin at Balmain continued the trend, made it big, exploded the brand and then....he continued doing the shoulders....again and again.


Surely this image, if nothing else, must be end of this trend. This is Margaret Hodge, Labour MP of Barking and Dagenham, who the other day beat the political crap out of BNP's Nick Griffin. Great, well done Hodge. But WTF are you wearing?


You are not standing one the command bridge of the USS Enterprise, even though it looks like SPOCK standing on your right. I know, I probably just confused two very different sci-fi series....but you know what? I don't give a shit, they're equally bad.


Anyway, back to the point; shoulders. A massive thanks to Margaret Hodge MP for beating the BNP and for single handily killing off the massive shoulder trend. 

FASHION IN POLITICS analyses this year's XMAS cards...

Christmas is around the corner, people, and Yuletide cards are sent out in every possible direction. This bunch here is from the leaders of the three biggest parties, plus the Mayor London...

This is Gordon Brown's contribution. Apparently the photograph was taken by some 19 year old kid who'd won the CIWEM Young Environmental Photographer of the Year, but I couldn't care less. Can they not see what it shows? Sometimes I wish Malcolm from The Thick Of It was for real - he wouldn't have let this pass through....No. 10  dangling on a VERY thin thread! So except for wishing us a Merry Christmas, Gordon Brown is saying that he is smoked and that his premiership will be done with when the trees go out...which is in the beginning of January, if I'm not mistaken...

This is David Cameron: as boring and...well, just bloody boring...as you'd expect.

At least Nick Clegg has added some personality to his card. But he should really talk to his kids about their drawing skills; they're 22 and 25 years old after all...

What are you saying Boris? That you're our star? We should re-introduce camels to save carbon emission? That you're Christ? I don't get it, you bonkerous flip-flopper!

This could have been Nick Griffin's Xmas card. But it isn't. But it could have been.

The Ugly Face of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit

These are the kind of people who's in Copenhagen, trying to sort out our climate change problems! Personally I would even trust them with going to the toilet by themselves....

Nck + Adolf = Best Mates

BNP on Question Time - The Verdict

So the big debate of the week has taken place; Nick Griffin and the BNP against the rest of the world. Fave Nick quote? Well, thanks for asking. Definitely Griffin describing a KKK devotee as a member of an "almost entirely non-violent Ku Klux Klan". Priceless.

Also worth noting was the unofficial Who's Got The Ugliest Tie? competition between presenter David Dimbleby and Griffin. Who won? Well although Griffin looked like he queued from 6am outside an Next sale to get his, Dimbleby's was slimy green with anchors and crosses on it. Ohh, this is controversial. Griffin wasn't the biggest fashion criminal, but he lost out every other way....

BNP's Nick Griffin and Two Dozen Eggs

I just like seeing the face of Nick Griffin as he is pelted with eggs during his Westminster press conference. Ah poor Nick, run home to mummy...