ROSEMARY MAC CABE

Yes, I’m shallow and vacuous – but I don’t care! Sale time is the best of the seasonal shopping period, if you can get your head around the crowds and the fact that clothes are, for once, sorted by item, rather than by style – no longer can you rely on your local fashion store [...]

When I first started working at The Irish Times, I did a vox pop where I asked guys what they thought of the kinds of “mad” fashion trends women regularly fall prey to. Harem pants? Obviously a no-no. Playsuits? Surprisingly, they were split right down the middle, although I suspected those who were in the [...]

So Topshop has released its transitional spring lookbook 2009/2010. What does this mean exactly? Layers. Topshop’s peeps have got super clever with their seasonal releases, and instead of expecting us all to don bikinis and light chiffons at the first sign of a daffodil, we’re being given the option to pair our delightful floral nudes [...]

Do you remember the post I wrote about the Topshop sequined dress I bought online? Well, I guess now you do (links are so amazing, right?). Well it arrived the other day to the office, where we all oohed and aahed and crooned over it, felt how delightfully heavy it was (substantial, one might say), [...]

This is what I’m feeling for this dress that I just purchased from Topshop. I was there for another purpose entirely – to double-check the price of an item for work – and ooh la la this gúna just shot out at me, begging to be purchased. And who am I to turn down a [...]

So Kate Moss’s Christmas 2009 collection for Topshop launched today online and instore – and what’s the deal? The first collection was launched to much fanfare, talk of it selling out; Kate’s collection was, quite literally, the next big thing, and would see us all looking and dressing like the venerable Ms Moss. Well things [...]

I spend a lot of money on clothes. Anyone who knows me already knows this; I shop frequently and in vast quantities. I go looking for shoes and return with two pairs, a coat, new leggings. . . I can’t go into American Apparel without coming out €100 poorer; if Topshop has a sale online, [...]

Well it would be, wouldn’t it, seeing as Halloween hasn’t even been and gone? I, for one, would happily sacrifice Halloween for Christmas, and have Grafton St lit up from the tail end of August, but I know people don’t like that (although I don’t see why, for the life of me). Anyway, there’s a [...]

I once tried unsubscribing from every e-mail list I was on. It was a harrowing time, during which I was attempting to give up shopping, and I found that getting e-mails once a week from Topshop or Asos was hampering my non-shopping. In the end, of course, I just threw in the towel, bored of [...]

Next week, on October 6th and 7th, Topshop will host more of its infamous student love-ins discount nights, complete with DJs, happy style advisers, drinks, sweets and – oh yes, a 20% discount on all purchases, plus PLUS a goodie bag. There’s a little selection, readers, for your delectation, of the kinda duds I’d hit [...]