http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/ The Fashion Victim - Emma Johnson's tales from the frontline of fashion from the Liverpool Daily Post en-gb http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/07/03/fashion-victim-you-too-can-make-waves-on-the-beach-64375-21219428/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/07/03/fashion-victim-you-too-can-make-waves-on-the-beach-64375-21219428/ YOU, too, can look beach body beautiful. Without meaning to diss our own fabulous beach body guide, looking hot on the beach in the figurative, rather than the sweaty sense, is a tall order for anyone not named Gisele Bundchen. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/06/26/tennis-stars-are-courting-style-experts-64375-21152207/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/06/26/tennis-stars-are-courting-style-experts-64375-21152207/ CONFESSION to make. I don’t know or care that much about tennis. Correction, I know that Goran Ivanisevic is fit and Jean Michael Gambill (big star circa 2002) is so gorgeous it was all I could do not to lick him when I was sent to interview him. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/06/19/fashion-victim-reality-gets-in-the-way-of-my-stylish-intentions-64375-21101814/ Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/06/19/fashion-victim-reality-gets-in-the-way-of-my-stylish-intentions-64375-21101814/ AS I write this column, I am sitting in a Spanish airport wondering how it is that, despite spending an obscene number of hours each week scrutinising pictures of celebrities arriving at Heathrow and LAX looking impossibly glamorous, I am about to board a flight home in Havaianas and a creased-up black sundress, which will blow up over my head at the first hint of a British breeze, while suffering a hair malfunction of epic proportions. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/06/12/fashion-victim-should-i-be-dressing-my-age-or-my-shoe-size-64375-21060636/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/06/12/fashion-victim-should-i-be-dressing-my-age-or-my-shoe-size-64375-21060636/ IF IT is not Madonna’s terrifying obsession with leotards and fingerless gloves, it is Kylie reneging on her decision never again to be photographed in hot pants now she has passed the magic 40 barrier. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/06/05/fashion-victim-great-style-but-lose-the-mum-daahling-64375-21030079/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:30:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/06/05/fashion-victim-great-style-but-lose-the-mum-daahling-64375-21030079/ FROM Marie Antoinette through Princess Grace to the Queen of Hearts Princess Diana, the fashion world’s obsession with Royalty is an unwavering one. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/05/29/fashion-victim-our-retail-therapy-now-much-closer-to-hand-64375-20988662/ Wed, 28 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/05/29/fashion-victim-our-retail-therapy-now-much-closer-to-hand-64375-20988662/ IF SHOPPING were an Olympic sport, then Liverpool would be weighed down with gold medals. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/05/22/fashion-victim-fashion-we-could-all-carrie-off-64375-20946367/ Wed, 21 May 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/05/22/fashion-victim-fashion-we-could-all-carrie-off-64375-20946367/ SEX and the City was about a lot of words beginning with “f”. Friendship, family, failure and fidelity all featured but the show was most definitely about fashion. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/05/15/fashion-victim-there-s-no-summer-loving-with-my-clothes-64375-20915243/ Thu, 15 May 2008 11:09:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/05/15/fashion-victim-there-s-no-summer-loving-with-my-clothes-64375-20915243/ SO SUMMER is here at last. Or at least it is for the time being. And, if you are anything like me, you have not got a thing to wear. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/05/01/fashion-victim-madonna-is-my-choice-of-gym-buddy-64375-20844904/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/05/01/fashion-victim-madonna-is-my-choice-of-gym-buddy-64375-20844904/ IT WAS the transformation that none of us could have seen coming. Grace Kelly look-alike and earth mother type Gwyneth Paltrow slopes off to spend a couple of years eating lentils and raising babies – then, poof! Up she pops on the red carpet a long-limbed glamazon. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/04/24/fashion-victim-coleen-takes-new-direction-in-style-stakes-64375-20810699/ Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/04/24/fashion-victim-coleen-takes-new-direction-in-style-stakes-64375-20810699/ BARELY a day goes by when our own super-wag-to-be Coleen McLoughlin is not in the papers. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/04/10/fashion-victim-it-s-not-so-easy-to-put-your-best-foot-forward-64375-20743986/ Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/04/10/fashion-victim-it-s-not-so-easy-to-put-your-best-foot-forward-64375-20743986/ WHAT is going on in the world of shoes right now? Don’t get me wrong – like anyone with double X chromosomes, I swoon at the sight of a sexy stack heel and have more pairs than I care to count (well, actually, I know exactly how many I have, they are all boxed, numbered and arranged by occasion, but my bank manager could be reading this). http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/03/27/fashion-victim-liverpool-style-is-always-a-clear-winner-64375-20678810/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/03/27/fashion-victim-liverpool-style-is-always-a-clear-winner-64375-20678810/ OH, LADIES’ Day at the Grand National Festival. Doesn’t it just sum up everything that is great about Liverpool ladies and their unsurpassable sense of style? http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/03/20/fashion-victim-a-courtroom-makeover-maketh-the-woman-64375-20648668/ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/03/20/fashion-victim-a-courtroom-makeover-maketh-the-woman-64375-20648668/ THERE has been no getting away from one story in the press for months and months and this week it finally came to its full and very public conclusion. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/03/13/fashion-victim-criticise-katie-and-you-re-cruising-for-a-bruising-64375-20614628/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/03/13/fashion-victim-criticise-katie-and-you-re-cruising-for-a-bruising-64375-20614628/ I MUST admit that this is not something I ever expected to find myself doing, but I think it is time to come out in defence of Katie Holmes. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/03/06/fashion-victim-will-any-of-us-deign-to-copy-agyness-64375-20564889/ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/03/06/fashion-victim-will-any-of-us-deign-to-copy-agyness-64375-20564889/ ANOTHER week, another best dressed list. This time, it is Tatler telling us who has got it wrong and right over the past year. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/02/21/fashion-victim-lily-s-a-role-model-not-just-a-supermodel-64375-20507263/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:32:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/02/21/fashion-victim-lily-s-a-role-model-not-just-a-supermodel-64375-20507263/ SO IT looks like Marks and Spencer have gone and done it again. After Twiggy, Erin, Laura and Lizzy, they are about to hit the jackpot once more with their latest recruit Lily Cole. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/02/14/fashion-victim-so-what-happened-to-the-glamour-64375-20473322/ Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/02/14/fashion-victim-so-what-happened-to-the-glamour-64375-20473322/ SO FINALLY, after a completely fun-free January, thanks to the writers strike in the US, we got the first proper awards show of the season at the weekend. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/02/07/fashion-victim-walking-tall-could-be-as-good-as-a-workout-64375-20444946/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/02/07/fashion-victim-walking-tall-could-be-as-good-as-a-workout-64375-20444946/ BRILLIANT. Finally, scientists have admitted something that I have known almost since I could walk. High-heeled shoes are good for you. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/01/31/fashion-victim-it-s-all-about-the-happy-couple-64375-20421794/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:19:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/01/31/fashion-victim-it-s-all-about-the-happy-couple-64375-20421794/ SO HERE it is, our very first Style City weddings edition, and we hope it will help all you brides- to-be (and bridegrooms) make those all-important decisions about the biggest day of your life. http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/01/24/fashion-victim-asda-s-new-offering-doesn-t-work-for-me-64375-20387414/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/the-urbanite/2008/01/24/fashion-victim-asda-s-new-offering-doesn-t-work-for-me-64375-20387414/ SO ASDA has finally gone and done it. After bringing out cheap as chips wedding dresses and frocks which can make you cool like Coleen for under a tenner, the supermarket giant has launched an outfit for work that costs a fiver.