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I Meet Dress

Ah shopping, an addiction which is up there with the fabulous things about being a girl!

In 2011 I have (so far) four weddings to attend. This means four different dresses...

Sigh...

And by sigh I mean – a guilt free excuse to shop and spoil myself! Hurrah!

I have passed recent free time scouring the internet for the perfect dress.

Perfect dress number one

Perfect dress number two

Perfect dress number three

Perfect dress number four

Did I mention four weddings? So I need four perfect dresses. (Zero guilt since it’s for other people's benefit really!)

I found myself in a maze turning a corner to face a virtual brick wall when searching through the hundreds and thousands of dresses online to find the perfect one. Nothing...

I was bubbling up to throw a good old female strop when I discovered the (virtual) answer to my fashion prayers!

I need a dress, I meet a dress... I discovered the fabulous website ‘Girl Meets Dress’

Borrow a designer dress? Eh, yes please!

(Why did I even hesitate there!?!)

Tory Burch

So here’s how it works:

Simply peruse the collection of over 100 designer brands and 300 designer dresses (Marc Jacobs, Temperley, Chloe) and add up to 3 of your favourite dresses into your Shopping Bag to try on.

You can keep these beauties for two nights or seven nights (If you’re a hot mess when you party, insurance is a simple £7 - you have nothing to stress about!)

Tata Naka

Schedule a delivery date, and your dress will appear at the doorstep of your choice – home or office. Next-day and even same-day delivery (if you live in London) is available, for last-minute fashion emergency. You can pre-order your dress or bag well ahead of your big night if you wish and we’ll send it to you in advance to try on so you have complete peace of mind and your outfit sorted!

Let them know which one you have chosen so they can refund you the difference and then enjoy wearing it and bask in the compliments and admiring glances you will get being a glamorous designer fashion hot mess!

Once you are done, just pop your dress back into the pre-paid packaging and drop it into your local Post office. No need to dry clean, ‘Girl Meets Dress’ takes care of those irritating chores!

While we’re here I’ll just give you a background to the company – a mini fashion history lesson!

Stella McCartney

Girl Meets Dress was launched by Co-founders Anna Bance and Xavier de Lecaros-Aquise after Anna left her career in Public Relations at Hermes.

The vision to set up Girl Meets Dress came after she was inspired by the constant lending and borrowing of the collections which goes on behind closed doors within the fashion industry - for either fashion shoots or for celebrities to wear to events.

She thought it be wonderful if all women had access to this same service - the option and freedom to borrow any dress they wish for every event throughout the year. The luxury to have an endless closet.

“It is a fun concept and women have really responded to it. Hopefully we have answered their prayers by giving them a new way to shop – a fun and affordable way to try new designers and always ensure you look your absolute best without compromise.”

Fashion changes so much and of course there are many key purchases in a woman’s wardrobe – but we all love the idea of wearing a different dress for every event by designers we have always wanted to look amazing in!

Roberto Cavalli

I already have my eye on four fierce dresses to wave the fashion fairy god mother wandfor the the nuptials in 2011!

Girl Meets Dress you have rocked my world and solved my (one of many) fashion dilemma!

Ssssshhhhh - let's keep this our fabulous little secret!

www.girlmeetsdress.com

Posh Baby Reading

So Victoria Beckham is pregnant ..

According to celebrity gossip she is doing just about everything in her power to have a girl ..

Taking it all with a pinch of salt, but at least if she has a little girl she can have designer fairy tales read to her by the Beckham clan

Perhaps Sleeping Beauty as re told by Camilla Morton and illustrated by Christian Lacroix

Or ...

Or perhaps "This Little Piggy Went to Prada" - nursery rhymes with a designer twist ..

Designer reading for a designer baby!

Ah the life of the rich and fabulous!

Mopping Up Avril

I know the Brit Awards were a week ago, but I cannot get Avril Lavigne's dress out of my head ...

All I could think when I saw it was

Is this a love (hate) child of the feather duster character from Beauty and The Beast and a conventional mop?!!

Musing over what possessed her to wear this 'dress' ...

Maybe it's easy to clean?

Maybe she's OCD so two birds one stone - nice dress, can clean things whilst wearing it ..

Hmmmm ...

My eyes are still offended though ..

Blow-Up Trailer

Love the Movie and love the poster!

Betsey Johnson FALL 2011 COLLECTION, MERCEDES-BENZ FASHION WEEK

Oh yes Betsey J you are one hot mess!

Tom Ford Je t'aime

Tom Ford never fails to deliver with his sexy hot mess ad campaigns .. Why is my eye sight not bad enough that I can have glasses! Thank God for lense free ones to suit for now!

Masquerade meets Dior

I love seeing an image and I immediately associate a song with it (and have a mini musical in my head!)

This happened with several of the Dior Spring 2011 Couture - The Phantom of the Opera's Masquerade was my personal soundtrack to it!

LOVE.

GaGa Incubates @ Grammy's

Grammy Awards?

Not if you live the the Haus of Gaga ..

What one persons red carpet moment that makes all of the hard work possible, is another's opportunity for a red carpeted piece of performance art.

Gaga didn't even walk the red carpet (at least her red carpet outfit can't be slated by the fashion police) - she was carried in in an incubator! She was eventually Born (This Way) for her performance.

I love this woman. She is one evolving piece of performance art that makes me proud to be a little monster!

Haus of Gaga's Nicola tweeted from the Awards last nite:

.. Gaga is in incubation. Tonight's performance is in collaboration with Hussein Chalayan and House of Mugler ..

Gaga you are personification of FASHION HOT MESS

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