She loves shopping - clothes, shoes, handbags... even the indent you get on your hand from carrying too many hangers to the changing room. And while she knows her PPQ from her Primark, that doesn't mean she can afford it. This is TV presenter Cat Cubie's irreverent and entertaining insight to the world of fashion...
Fur sure
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So the cold has well and truly descended, A/W fashion is in full supply - the shops are wrapped in winter coats and woolly hats. And fur. Lots of fur. Not of the real variety, of course, unless you are spectacularly brave and have a bank balance with more body than your stole.This trend is hardly a surprise after Chanel's A/W 10 ice-cool parade of faux furriness (check the pic).
However, it does strike me as a little odd (despite my staunch belief that animals should not be killed for fashion victims) that we choose to wear this fakery. I know we also do it with leather (and I for one, am very fond of my pleather jacket). I suppose the difference is that leather jackets don't usually look like cows.
I love the glamour and warmth of a lovely man-made fur, it can make me feel like a 50's siren or a regal princess. However, there is something relatively ironic about choosing to wear a coat which looks as though it has been whipped off a poor animal's back and placed on your own.
As a teenager I had a particularly hideous pink and black spotted fake fur skirt, and as a result I'm not sure that a wilder colour palette is the answer. Perhaps there doesn't need to be; the dichotomy of a beautiful but agonising pair of heels will always have staying power, even when the wearer does not.
In the same way, it would seem that due to a fur's warmth and decadence (fake or otherwise), a girl's love affair with it will never die.
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