Now, I am not a girly girl. I love dresses and the like but never really consider myself to be explicitly 'girly'. I don't know why, I just don't feel it so much; much of the summer high street is the girly girly stuff I hate. Maybe, just maybe, I was a man or a butch lesbian in a past life. But that is another matter in itself - for I have a revelation. Karen Karam's newest collection is cute and has smashed through the "I think I was a lesbian in a past life OPRAH HELP ME OUT" barriers. The cuteness level of it all makes me wanna juggle ice-creams or run after baby kittens or something equally as summery.

Ms Karam went to Central St Martins after doing a psychology degree (yeah she didn't cave in to the man yo), graduated in 2006, has had her dresses worn by some famous faces here and there, seems pretty sweet so far right? And so much as I love the incredibly cool cutesyness of it all I don't know whether I see myself in them. They look too pretty to suit me (cue the sad face). But! The reason that Karen is mentioned here is that I really do like the shapes and do admire how cheerful her dresses are.

And in terms of design, I think a lot of dresses (my own included) always neglect the back too... I mean, if shops are totally outdoing themselves there may be an exposed zip but other than that the back of the dress is never really integral to how it looks as a whole... But y'know, Karen cares. And the neglected backs/sides of dresses are probably saluting her as we speak. Time to pull out some florals and pinks and blues and whites out of my storage boxes I reckon.

In other news: I have made it my BUSINESS (oh how I love the Apprentice) to get a pair of these Melissa x Anglomania beauts.


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