Yea or Nay: Balmain Jacket

Yes, Ladies, it's the Balmain spring '09 jacket! Seen on celebrities everywhere!

Balmain Spring 2009 Collection

(Emmanuel Lewis accessory sold separately.)

Come. The fuck. ON. We can accept that certain best-forgotten trends are always going to get recycled eventually, but THIS? There is no way to look at this jacket without thinking of a pre-pedophile-charges Michael Jackson showing up at an awards ceremony with either Macauley Culkin or Emmanuel Lewis on one arm and professional beard Brooke Shields on the other. It's not even about the relative merits of the jacket; it's about the fact that it is solely derivative of one (largely fallen and discredited) celebrity of years past. It's way too soon for this trend to be resurrected. Anyone over the age of 15 looks at that and thinks of the De-nosed One.

NAY.


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Yea or Nay: YSL Caged Heels

In the long run, there's only so much you can do with the modern high heel: stumpy or stilleto, kitten heels or fuck-me heels, metal, wood, leather or lucite, in the end, it's almost always variations on a theme that repeats season in and season out.

But the YSL Spring 2009 collection managed to offer something slightly new and interesting and we can't quite decide whether we like them or not: the "caged" heel.

Tilda Swinton was (of course) the first celeb to wear them on the red carpet.

Let's separate the shoe from the heel in this conversation. The shoes themselves, while kinda fab, look incredibly painful, so ignore them if you can. What do you think of those heels? We admit, we're leaning toward the side that says "love 'em!" but also admit that they're a little gimmicky, like those Chanel gun heels that Madonna and Posh were wearing a while back.


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