This is bad...

So apparently Comme des Garçons is designing a line of clothing for H&M, to be released in November 2008. Right in the middle of my shopping detox. This whole 'no shopping for a year business' might prove tougher than I originally thought...thanks a lot guys...

So I'm back at home in Belfast for a bit, and have been reunited with all my old clothes, predictably rediscovering many old items I'd forgotten about. As it's my birthday on Tuesday I'm heading off on one last pre-detox shopping spree in Topshop, where I haven't been in over a year. It's gonna be awesome.

I'm also doing a fair wee bit of research on fashion and popular culture at the moment for my final year dissertation, which I'm writing about fashion, consumption and feminism in The L Word and Sex and the City. It's pretty interesting stuff but such a theoretical minefield I don't even know where to start...