Everyone in LA seems to wear Wildfox Couture t-shirts, they must be the most popular label around. Combining quirky statement with prints that look a bit like those sugarey loveheart sweets I used to love when I was little, they’re practically a trend in themselves. Actually, didn’t they update those sweets for the new generation with things like “Text me!” on them? Anyway, Wildfox is the name to look out for when doing a bit of celeb spotting in the name of research.
Full of bite and attitude, the foxy numbers are favourites of Katy Perry, Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox and just about anybody else who is anybody else.
Think funny slogan, quirky hand drawn pastel print and oversize t-shirt or vest t-shirt and have a go for yourself. Slogan tees are where it’s at right now, so keep up by designing your own little number. I’ve gone back to the sugar hearts for inspiration,which look amazing on t-shirts. I so used to love those sweets!
I keep wondering if it’s just me thinking that I see more and more celebrities wearing t-shirts with not so discreet messages printed on them. But a little snippet in Glamour magazine definitely confirmed my thoughts. Swedish/ Canadian actress Malin Akerman is shown in LA wearing a vest bearing the slogan “Paris is Overrated” and a broken heart underneath it. Might a feud be brewing between her and alleged vacuous coke head Hilton or is she just bored of travelling? Either way, it’s a great t-shirt and a sure fire way of getting people talking. I love Glamour magazine’s style tip which is “DO wear witty vest tops and tees to inject some tongue-in-cheek fun to your wardrobe.” Am in total agreement!
I hate to admit it, but it’s become sort of a guilty pleasure watching the best clips from the X Factor on Sunday morning and not sitting through the whole thing on a Saturday. Not only was Natalie Imbruglia’s face suspiciously solid, (always fun having a bit of Botox spotting) but there was the most horrific piece of car crash television I think I have ever seen.
Shockingly bad telly and quite unforgivable for me to have been so hooked by it, but the truly awful audition by Abbey and Lisa (aka Ablisa) which ending up with one of them punching the other was proof if ever you needed it that Vicky Pollard is alive and thumping. Small wonder looking at this, that British women have been voted the most minging in the world (as voted by the rest of the world!)
The tragic thing is, that they were exploited for the purposes of cheap entertainment, and they should never have been allowed on the television in the first place, it was quite obvious they couldn’t sing right from the word go. They were only picked to make riveting telly by embarrassing themselves. So while part of me is appalled, another possibly much smaller part feels a bit sorry for them. Thus I thought they should have their own supportive t-shirt, courtesy of T-Shirt Studio. But only if they promise never to be on TV again. Ever!
The Guiness World Records are always a bit mad. There are a lot of categories one might never come across in real life, and this is one of them. How many t-shirts can one person wear in one go?
I love this clip of Matt McAllister putting on 155 t-shirts in one go to the Ride of the Valkyries in 2006, and achieving the world record for the greatest number of t-shirts worn at once. With t-shirts sizes ranging from modest through to massive Mike really goes for it, donning an extra 100 pounds in weight, wowzer! The best bit is if you pause the clip and check out some of the wackier t-shirts. And what is that enormous barbie pink one about, Mike?
Tony Blair’s memoirs of his time in Downing Street were always going to cause a stir. The way he soared into Number 10 after the Tories had gone on too long proclaiming “Education. Education. Education” and other such soundbites heralded a new era in British politics. A lot of what he’s saying in his book, (which is already being sold at half price) is already well documented, but it’s been all over the newspapers today, thus a Tony Blair t-shirt seems to be in order. Trouble is, there are so many different things you could say, where to start? I quite like the line “I knew Brown Would be a Disaster” which seems to point towards the fact that he himself wasn’t perchance? Although I’ve gone for another quote where Blair credits Brown with a lack of emotional intelligence. Anyway, it’s good enough to start, roll on the rest of the Blair t-shirts!
The Saturdays are a kind of latter day Spice Girls from what I can gather. They don’t seem to have made much impact, but their publicists are working day and night to conjure up meagre stories about them so they can garner a few column inches. One of the girls was photographed the other day in a t-shirts saying “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)” which looked glaringly familiar to me. Katie Price was spotted with the same slogan shortly after splitting up from Peter Andre, causing confused t-shirt decipherers to question whether or not this was a statement or just hopefulness. Interestingly enough, the words actually come from a song lyric from Big and Rich, a country group who released the song in 2004.
Ye-Haa!
This has become a very popular slogan which has given rise to a variety of snowclones (I only just discovered what this meant, and am going to use it on everyone I know to see how long I sound clever for), such as “Save a horse, (Ride an American)”. Possibly a variety of slightly changing t-shirts could be worn every day, just to see if anyone notices or how long it takes them to catch on. Fantastic fun!
Ah well now the new mugshot of Paris Hilton has been released, so it’s only right to place it firmly where it belongs, that is on a mug. Paris, for all her faults, does at least have the prettiest collection of mugshots around. It’s almost as though she were expecting it! If she gets arrested just another 3 times, we could go the whole hog and make a set of 6 mugs, what a treat. That would be the perfect Christmas gift for all Paris fans, wouldn’t it! You could have a matching set of all of her perfumes and you’d be off. Just imagine the fun you could have, guessing the year, the offence and the corresponding perfume, I wonder if Paris has already thought of this, and is quite aware she only has three mugs to go? She is a one woman publicity machine, so don’t be surprised if she goes and launches the Paris Mugshot Mugs herself! But don’t forget you saw it here first!
So Paris has been arrested again has she, how many times is it this year now? So, just as Lindsay Lohan gets out, Paris goes in. I wonder if Lilo has been keeping the bed warm for her. Maybe, they might even coincide if they ever served the full length of their sentences. I have to say, if they were in a cell together, people would pay millions for a fly on the wall show. No, I don’t mean it like that (well not just like that) but to see which one of them is the most narcissistic would be worth watching, and a fabulous social experiment. Can you imagine, Paris performing an actual public service. It’s got to be a better bet than the reported radio show Lilo has been offered with her mum, where she offers callers pieces of her own unique brand of wisdom.
Still, likely as not, before you can say “empty, vacuous, devoid of charm and filthy rich” she’ll be let out with a soft smile and a little tap on the wrist. But always a good time to remind ourselves of how lovely her mug shot was when it was taken about three years ago. Mugshots featuring unflattering poses of the rich, famous and undeniably priveleged are always a source of mystery to us lot here on planet earth. When you’ve more money than a lot of people put together would earn in a lifetime, is there a particular reason why you would go and blow it all. Although on the other hand, possibly the most unstaged entertainment some of them will ever provide. This lovely pair of mugshots were taken in 2007, with the shot on the right never intended for release. She looks quite chirpy in it, doesn’t she, and great that she had time to do her hair between shots. Maybe she had a stylist on hand?
The last ever Big Brother is drawing to a close. With the final winner in place, some old favourites (the ones who haven’t got anything else coming up in the near future, and whose agents are threatening to quit) are re-entering the house for the final time. Nadia, Makosi and Ulrika meet Nasty Nick, Coolio and that guy from Channel Four racing, in what is an exercise in barrel scraping for the very, very last time. Please say it’s the last, please!
I love this t-shirt that Nasty Nick is wearing.
I'm so casual about this!
Back in the first series of Big Brother, his cheating was enough to cause a great big scandal. That was before the producers decided the show was too tame and started turning it more and more into a freak show in a bid to keep those flagging audience figures going. If you’ve never read Ben Elton’s “Dead Famous” then do so now.
Big Brother is anything but a game show. What started as a loosely termed ‘experiment’, descended pretty quickly into voyeuristic trash. Quite funny trash for a while, until it the sound of the barrel scraping overwhelmed the show.
Maybe it will be the end, but I wonder if they’ll find another reason to revive the format. Big Brother: the Resurrection? I’m sure it’ll happen!
There seems to be an awful lot of hoohah about the fact that Top Gear’s Stig wants to write his autobiography and tell of his time as TV most popular unidentified secret racing driver. The BBC want to take him to court, claiming that he signed a confidentiality agreement, although the Ben Collins has been revealed as being the Stig by the papers so does that even count now anyway?
Personally, I think they’re all taking this way too seriously, and are missing the real point. There is a perfect opportunity for an X Factor style “Hunt the Stig” show. How many applicants would you get for being Top Gear’s Stig? It would be amazing, and you would have TV dynamite if you were to add the magic ingredients of Jeremy Clarkson (Simon Cowell but a bit sharper), James May who could be Louis Walsh, kinda dim but nice and Rickard Hammond, aka the Hamster, ideal in the Cheryl Cole/ Dannii thingey role.
Isn’t this perfect? I can’t think why the BBC haven’t come up with it already. Or maybe they have, and all of this court stuff is merely a smokescreen. Anyway, here is today’s t-shirt: I am Stig. Perfect, I am getting mine right now!
