Shine Bright Like A Diamond

Posted on 20 November, 2012 by admin

So Rihanna showed up in London on her whirlwind, worldwide 777 Tour, to turn on some Christmas lights at Westfield. Apparently she was paid a zillion dollars. That’s a lot!
She wore some pyjamas…

Kinda wished she had worn what I put her in. More Diamond themed.
At first glance I thought that she was in Marc Jacobs…

An easy mistake to make.
Turns out they were Acne men’s pyjamas. Oh Ri-Ri, you so cray cray.
At second glance I thought… Ooh. Nice cobalt blue jacket. Is that the Celine number that Grace Coddington is wearing on the cover of the new i.d. magazine?

No. It’s by Raf Simons. Oh well. At least I tried. Grace looks amazeballs though. I really want a cobalt jacket. And red hair.
Anyway, I meant to blog about her new video (Rihanna’s not Grace’s) for Diamonds last week but got carried away with her pearl sunglasses at Victoria’s Secret…
Anyway. It’s a perfectly nice video. There’s a horse in it and everything.

Diamonds And Pearls

Posted on 8 November, 2012 by admin

So Rihanna performed on Wednesday night at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in her vest and pants, having clearly forgotten her P.E kit. Bless! She’s usually so covered up!

Smoking!
Look at the state of that dressing room. No wonder she couldn’t find her costume.
Fortunately someone had put these amazing sunglasses to one side for her…

Mmm. Pearl necklace!
Ri-ri is clearly as mad for pearls as me. Remember this dress?

Too demure for you, Rihanna?

Fine! How about this blast from the past?

Remember that Donatella fringe?

Scary.
What about more pearls in her hair?

Amazeballs. Or should that be Amazepearls™?

The Thigh’s The Limit

Posted on 12 September, 2012 by admin

Now you may have noticed over the last couple of years (!!!) that I have a bit of a thing for thigh boots. Not in a sexual way, you understand, though they are incredibly sexy. Maybe I watched Pretty Woman too young or something but I do love them. And so do all these ladies.

Madge, RiRi, J.Lo, VB, Kylie, Shakira (not a Sarah among them!) all love them. But it was this picture of my 2012 crush, Rita Ora, performing at GAY in these thigh length beauties that had me heading to my fave doll designers in Hong Kong to check out the latest models…

In an attempt to keep my eBay habit under control I’m only going to buy one pair. And to take the pressure off, I thought I’d let YOU choose which pair to add to the BOTD shoe closet. I narrowed it down to 4 pairs and have left a form at the bottom for you to click on. Easy peasy. The hard part is choosing which boots we neeeeeed.

Which boots would you like to see in the BOTD Shoe Closet?(polls)

Para… Para… Paralympics

Posted on 30 August, 2012 by admin

So you may have noticed that I got a leeeeetle bit over excited during the Olympics with numerous posts about all the amazing athletes and events. After a major Olympic come down, last night saw the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Paralympics.
Hurrah! More mad sports. If you thought I got a little cray cray over archery, wait until you see how I react to seated volleyball. I’ve already been feasting my eyes on blind judo. Wait… I swear I didn’t think that sentence through. So um…
And the ceremony! I heart me some Beverly Knight but she Shoulda Woulda Coulda come on a little earlier if you ask me. I did love the Umbrella opening though. But I would like to have seen Rihanna appearing live. She’s in town! She spent all of yesterday in River Island. Random.
So umbrellas. Acrobatic umbrellas. Paralympic umbrellas. Disco lights. LOVE!

Eye Want To Explain

Posted on 27 June, 2012 by admin

A quick update from Monday’s post about Rihanna’s eyewear. I banged on about her amazing shades, guessing they were by my fave, the fabulicious A-morir. It transpires after ~~much tweeting and googling~~ texting Rih Rih, her baroque black and gold shades were by Mercura NYC. Here is their website. It looks a bit like I designed it 5 years ago for about €14, but the product is better than the site so give them a chance.
In the meantime I’ve started my own crazy bananas couture sunglasses collection, as shown above on Beyoncé. I may start selling them for a gazillion dollars. Let me know if your own dolls need a pair.
As my friend Gaga said to me the other day….

You may say I lost everything. But I still had my BeDazzler and I had a lot of patches, shiny ones from M&J Trimming, so I wreaked havoc on some old denim. And I did what any girl would do — I did it all over again

Only Girl In The World

Posted on 25 June, 2012 by admin

Rihanna took to the stage last night in Hackney in her usual crazy get up. I love the shades. A lot. I think I might have to do a post just about the dolls’s sunglasses collection. I’m pretty sure these are by A-morir. I’ll check the website while you look at her picture….

Can’t find them. but I’ll keep looking for you. I did however find this amazing clip of Beyoncé putting on some A-morir specs…

Cool, huh?
But what did you think of her outfit? Rihanna’s. Not Beyoncé.
Flat shoes are rare at BOTD Towers but we made a special exception.

Yeah. I love those specs. Ooh hang on here is an old picture of her in A-morir glasses, dressed as me…

If I say A-morir again do you think they will send me a free pair?
Anyway, here is a video clip of her performance wearing what may or may not be A-morir specs. Amazeballs!

Zebra Crossing

Posted on 15 March, 2012 by admin

What are you looking at?
Do you ever get the feeling you are being pursued by a trend? Zebra print seems to be following me everywhere I go. I picked up these zebra shoes in Palm Springs back in November but have been waiting for the perfect occasion to showcase them. Every time I start writing about them I see zebras everywhere. Don’t believe me?

How gorgeous is zebra with a tan?
A stroll through Westfield last month had giant zebra campaigns in the windows and on the buses outside. Gucci, Jimmy Choo and even Dune had zebra goodies in the windows. I’ve always loved animal prints but this is definitely the year of the zebra. Marc Jacobs, like me, was way ahead of the trend when he featured zebra on the catwalk (and draped down the sides of the catwalk) back in 2010 for Louis Vuitton.

And Michael Kors and Holly Fulton both featured zebra for this summer’s collections.

So obviously Barbie of the Day decided to join in…

And we weren’t alone…

With some taking it a little too far…

And then there are just addicts…

You thought I was making it up, didn’t you? Just so I could write about my shoes? Well now you’ll be wanting to get on board won’t you? Well it’s a good job I’m here…

Awards Awards Awards

Posted on 13 February, 2012 by admin

Ok so this is all gonna be a bit of a rush but bear with me. As you know. I love to give you your Barbie with breakfast or at the latest, with elevenses but today I’m running late as I’m dashing around trying to pack a bag and decide what the dolls are going to wear to the Elle Style Awards tonight. So far,so glamorous. The thing is, I’m back in France. Woop woop. Home Sweet Home, right? Well yes, it’s lovely to have been back in BOTD Towers on the Côte D’Azur over the weekend, but duty calls and I simply must go back to Londontown and now I have a flight to catch.
So back to the awards. Which ones? So many to choose from. Well we’ll start with the Grammys which was all a bit of a sob-fest for Whitney. Adele scooped all the awards as predicted and looked pretty amazing. I’ve not watched any of the performances (due to the packing, remember?) but I did hear J-Hud (she’s known as that, right?) belting out a tribute. Love her. So from what I’ve seen, nobody arrived in a giant plastic egg though Minaj did show up with a Pope-a-like. I’ve only seen one picture of Gaga, disappointingly and she’s wearing a pair of fishnets on her head and some black plastic carrier bag over her boobs. She’s also got a big stick which may or may not be a giant roll of bin bags.
But Rihanna looked nice…

I’m loving this Rod Stewart chic she’s rocking at the moment. Leave the clown hair to Katy Perry. (KP call me. Let’s bleach it out together)

Meanwhile, back in London (the awards, not me, I’m still in France, packing and curling my hair, remember?) Christina Hendricks’ breasts arrived on the red carpet about 20 minutes before she did.

Unsurprisingly she wore Westwood and unsurprisingly she looked sexy as hell. Meryl also wore Westwood which I thought was a really good look for her.
Another great look was Livia Firth who rocked up in a skinny tuxedo.

Great make up, a tight ponytail. Très chic. Apparently she convinced The Help’s Viola Davis to wear a Roberto Cavalli dress made from Colin’s recycled awards.

She looked fab and was a refreshing burst of colour on a pretty monochrome night. She ain’t in mourning but she’d be great as Whit in a biopic, right?
Anyway. Taxi to the airport. I’ll take my curlers out on the plane. X

Only Girl in the World

Posted on 11 October, 2011 by admin

Rocking some red at BOTD this morning. Rhianna is looking fabulous in this stunning black couture. Would you throw her out of your field?

Bringing the Bling

Posted on 15 September, 2011 by admin

A naughty nude today at BOTD. We’re rocking some serious bling as the fashion circus prepares to move on from New York. Glamour and glitz and a little bit of flesh. The perfect recipe for a great runway show.

Stop Right There

Posted on 26 August, 2011 by admin

Flirty in floral but powerful in PVC, today’s BOTD is all fired up for the weekend. With Rihanna’s red hair and GaGa’s biker jacket, this fierce female is softened by her flowery blue dress. Dont tell me it’s too hot for thigh boots, I watch the Uk weather forecast too! Whatever you’re doing this weekend, make sure you do it in style.

Bend and Snap

Posted on 21 August, 2011 by admin

She wowed the crowds at the V Festival, busting some serious moves on stage, so I felt it was only fair to show off some other snaps of Rihanna working it out on the dance floor. If you haven’t watched the video yet, where have you been?

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