A year onwards, I'm kicking myself because I didn't get this Hussein Chalayan giant fabric chain necklace/scarf that I saw because I couldn't justify spending £150 on what is essentially a 'cartoon' statement piece. It's the kind of thing that you could only wear once or twice before getting labelled 'the girl with the mammoth chain around her neck.' Then I saw this picture in Street magazine of a London stylist rocking the necklace in blue (I wanted it in cream) and I swore a bit more because (and I'm at risk of sounding like a crazed fangirl) she looked so cool (ok, that already did sound like a bit dorky).
But then the gods smiled at me and in United Colours of Benetton, of all places, I got my fabric chain fix in red in the form of a wooly scarf (not as cartoon like as the Hussein Chalayan but quite chunky nonetheless). As part of United Colours of Benetton's 40th anniversary, they have produced these scarves in many juicy bright colours (I have my eye on the monochrome one next) at £25 a pop so considerably less than the Chalayan price.
And now I have completed my fangirl homage to the stylist in the original Street picture. I rarely try not to do copy-cat moves but I couldn't deny the coolness of that outfit. In any case, my 3.1 Philip Lim trench is a lot shorter so I couldn't exactly do a full-on mirror image anyway.
