- The Observer,
- Sunday October 8 2006
OK, we admit that apart from a handful of hippie/green labels, the designer fashion world has been slow to embrace all things eco and ethical. So step forward Noir, a luxury Danish label that uses organic, Fairtrade cotton from its farm in Uganda. We particularly like the cotton mannish trousers - very now, very cool and very kind.
We know it's common ... but we love it anyway
1. Gold hoop earrings and pony tails
You know. Like Lily Allen.
2. Market stall sunglasses
What do you mean, you paid more than a fiver for your shades? Fool!
3. Rupert Everett's tarty memoirs Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
Yoga with Madonna, sex scenes with Sharon Stone? What more do you want?
4. Ja-cardigans
This season's jacket/cardigan hybrid. 'Common' as in 'ubiquitous', rather than trashy, because they are everywhere. Loving them nonetheless, especially Gap's pea coaty one in black or grey (£49.99).
5. 80-denier tights
The itchy factor renders them distinctly vulgar. Still. The look endures.
6. Camel-hoof spotting
High waists are back, and so is the accompanying unsightly 'wedging' effect on many an early-adopter girl-celebrity's trousers, because they're pulled up so ... damned ... tight ...
