I've already heard a lot about how this girl has her own, signature style. How she's lovely and unique and all of that wonderful stuff. However: I'm all for standing out and not fitting in, but as a member of the fashion law-enforcement community, I can't commend her to this. Seriously. The hair!...

Blake Lively usually looks pretty chic and sunny, on- and off-screen. So what's going on here? Is this for a role? Did she wander off the set and, in a bout of exhaustion, forget to change her costume? Sadly, I think not. This looks like a mix of what a Victorian-era widow might wear and the sort...

As I occasionally do, I've singled out a male celebrity for today's arrest. And it's not pretty. This is so wrong that I feel overwhelmed. The porn-y mustache that appears to be slowly yet steadily eating his lip away...the mascara (possibly)...the mustache...It's all too much to...

As faithful and thorough readers of Fashion Poirot know, I have a weakness for the show House, and its cast. Thus, whenever I am obligated to critique their fashion missteps, I feel the need to address it in a "SPECIAL POST". I don't know why. It just makes me feel less harsh. And I like seeing...

Politics of building, aesthetics of anti-architecture hannes meyer & hans wittwer, basel peterschule Functionalism is a vexed term. Denounced, claimed to be impossible, or a pejorative for the ‘merely functional’. Yet for much of the 20th century functionalism was, almost inadvertently...

Sartorial Socialism from Huey P Newton to Honecker Little has happened since 1989 to challenge the view that aesthetically, ‘actually existing socialism’ was one enormous bread queue, its dowdily dressed denizens no doubt dourly shivering in front of a grey concrete building housing a state...

Architecture or Revolution: the Congres International d’Architecture Moderne, 1928-33 Ribbon City Proposal for Magnitogorsk, Sovremennaia Arkhitektura, 1930 (Some of this might be familiar from the garden cities piece: this is a paper given at the Building Centre on 19/5/07) Perhaps the key...

A history of Vermilion Sands ‘A Place where I would be happy to live’ There are many agglomerations of people in the works of JG Ballard that could, at a stretch, be called ‘communities’ – the linear city on the French Riviera that provides the setting for...

Garden Cities of To-morrow and Garden Suburbs of Yesterday It might seem peculiar to imagine the New Towns or Garden Cities as anything especially revolutionary: places like Letchworth, Welwyn Garden City, Stevenage or Hampstead Garden Suburb are assumed to be staid and dull, their radical...