Top banana
Topshop Unique at London Fashion week gave rise to lots of 80s fingerpointing and too much talk of Bananarama for my liking, although you can see why. The inimitable Sarah Mower on Style.com scared the stonewash jumpsuit out of me with her frankness about the Bananarama references being lost on the front-row scensters (Geldof sisters, Daisy Lowe etc), and discernable to their mothers instead. Their mothers. Gulp. As a child of the 80s (but not a baby) I’ve been aged faster than matte foundation in daylight. I’m no mother of a nubile teenager but I do remember – quite clearly in fact – Bananarama and what they wore. OK OK and their music. The fact that it was on NOW 13 wasn’t at my request. (So was Kim Wilde but no one’s doing frosted hair and fringed batwing leather).
Oh, enough already just pass me this T-shirt dress, some Sass & Bide ratties, some Nicholas Kirkwood shoes and a headscarf and let me find my youth again. And if you want to hurt feelings there’s only one thing to say to me. “Aren’t you too old for Topshop?”
Let’s hope Topshop Unique keeps us on our toes, because fashion this fast and affordable waits for no one, not even if you wore it all the first time round. Especially not even.
