Reviews by Vovo

Diane von Furstenberg (Designer Shop)
08 October 2005

A little fashion victimy - my best friend lives two houses down from this weirdly silver store and every time we go in it there is someone whose face is a mass of silicone and whose body is a quilt of designer items. However if you are in your twenties/thirties (I am too young for these dresses - they fall open on me sluttily) and like the ' yummy-mummy teetering on skinny legs while carrying lunch boxes and then moving on to have lunch (well, a lettuce leaf) at Harvey Nicks with friend Arabella Pilkinton' look, these are the clothes for you.

Alexander McQueen (Designer Shop / Menswear Shop)
08 October 2005

Alexander McQueen+credit card=total heaven.

Gucci (Designer Shop / Menswear Shop)
08 October 2005

Oh boy - Fashion Victim Central here, rich teens spending Daddy's plastic and tourists hoping to look more Western by spending thousands on a bag when they could do so much better on Portobello or at a vintage shop.

It's good if you want to look like you've tried too hard, a bit vixen/vamp/glamourpuss/bond girl in white leather, so bad if you're more into quirky, original clothes. It's just a matter of personal taste...

Louis Vuitton (Designer Shop / Handbag Shop)
08 October 2005

Full of Japanese tourists carrying Gucci bags, but MY GOD why shouldn't they be in Louis Vuitton because it's FAB!!! Marc Jacobs is a GENIUS, what he's doing for the label really, really doesn't disappoint.

Am not giving it a five because when you see the cutest pair of shoes and your heart gets all happy and you get all excited and then you pick them up and turn them over to look at the price it's upwards of a thousand, it's not the best feeling in the world.

Versace (Designer Shop / Menswear Shop)
08 October 2005

Totally, totally trashtastically footballers wives!

Bouncers and Victoria Beckham fake tanned wannabees ahoy. If you want bright orange leggings or a black lycra dress that shows your ass crack, or perhaps drag queen heels, this is the store for you.

Or maybe if you've just got engaged to a tanned manicured hairband wearing football star, head here to make use of his platinum AmEx.

The Costume Studio (Fancy Dress Shop)
08 October 2005

This shop gets all the handmedowns from Angels - so it's just as fab but less posh! Takes a good while to get all the way down to Dalston though.

Voyage (Boutique)
08 October 2005

Probably a little pretentious... they sell £1000 diamond encrusted jeans and the like. But it's still fab.

Coco Ribbon (Boutique)
08 October 2005

Completely lovely in every way! The sales assistants are beautiful and un-patronizing, the selection of clothes is fab (although I'm not paying £560 for a printed silk dressing gown and £50 for a matching eyemask). The decor is just... heavenly, you'll want to move in there or at least sit there for hours! Everything there is for sale, mirrors, tables, the garlands of butterflies everywhere - if you want it, you can have it! If you don't buy an item of clothing or furniture, you can buy books and bath cupcakes and chocolate and CD's... Coco Ribbon in every girl's tea-party-ish dream!