move your body

exhibit 1:exhibit 2:

hmm what is this innocent-looking small plastic leopard box? a mirror compact perhaps? a travelcard holder? a coaster? NO. a limited 'container' for your intimate bits which is currently being given away with packets of bodyform and is so desirable that a few have even made it on to ebay. one word: why?

which leads me on to:

exhibit 1

argos' leopard print loo seat. two words: why not?

BROOMBROOM! ANNA DELLO RUSSO rrarrrr

phoebe just emailed me this and made my monday...

"looks so good in her JEREMY SCott [tracksuit bottomz]"

[above: leopard spotted at old street roundabout summer 09
below: jeremy scott for adidas originals summer 09]

until last year i knew more about jeremy scott for his glorious katy perry collabs than anything else since you can't really buy (look at) his clothes in the UK. HOWEVER if his real collections are on lockdown to the london crazy-fashfan then there's always his slightly delirious ranges for adidas originals, available EVERYWHERE. now.

of course the theme of his first railful of loungewear in spring/summer 09 (vintage yah) was ANIMAL and i am still padding about the house (and occasionally elsewhere) in quiet joy wearing my prized baggy/low-slung limited JS leopard trews.

ALL WE SEE IS LADY GAGA. LADY GAGA.

gaga now, on tour.

WHY DON't YOU LOVE ME?

oh but we do beyonce. WE DO.

LEOPARD LOOKBOOK

ALL IMAGES>> mr facehunter>> the book

got the facehunter book earlier this month. turned up at foyles a few days after his signing session (i knew he wasn't going to still be there) expecting to get a signed copy. but they didn't have any. so i bought a regular one. i'm pleased to see lots of leopard ladies in there - even one with spots tattooed up her arm (not pictured). leopard on the streets: where it belongs.

JUNGLE IS MINI

my older brother is getting married next month and since i got the frock for my friends mel&jon's wedding in september i've been thinking about what the hell to wear to it. it might seem like i have it easy being leopard-lover - that i might have many many options, ideas, strategies. but that's not true. if my imagination is unlimited then my budget is not.

so i found the above-top DKNY jungle dress on my-wardrobe. it's dressy but not too formal, an appropriate length and that print is freaky-fresh and hot. BUT when i tried it on it just hung - with no zip/proper tailoring it felt like a post-beach summer holiday easy evening dress. [plus i saw a pic yesterday of jo whiley wearing it to the NME awards. hmm]

back to the internet then, where i saw the DVF mini pictured above. but when i went to try it on in store my, um, size wouldn't go over my head. then i saw a pap-pic of one of fergie's offsprings wearing it on the way out of some mayfair twittery. no no no. no.

i have 5 weeks left.

CATwalk: NYC fashweek feb2010

lux-trench from gwen stefani's L.A.M.B. AW2010 collection. as shown this week. purrr.

that don't impress me much

ah to be watching vh1 classics on a saturday night/sunday morning drinking cava dregs with friends and shouting at the telly. shania twain in the middle of a late 90s desert hitchin a ride COWBOY! little does she know that shes's been swallowed whole (hood-boobtube-flares-gothcoat) by a bloody big leopard. is it hot in there shania??

COVER GIRL: SCARcat

scarlett johansson in a blumarine ponyskin, leopard-print coat on the cover of Harper's Bazaar UK, January 2010. coat, £3523. happy new year.

TOMcat from TOPMAN

john-boyfriend narrowly avoided getting this hilarious little number for christmas. i won't be buying him it because:

1. £39 is too much to spend on a 'novelty gift' right now.
2. it would sadden me that he would never ever wear it even if i did hand over the cash.

thanks to ms longmire for that leopard link x x

MARAWA the AMAZING: leotard in a leopard

i went to see the la clique with my grrrlz this week and that hula-hooping, rollerskating blur of aussie hotness MARAWA was definitely the highlight of the show for me. in her all-in-one leopard leotard in the circus ring she turned into a spiral rainbow of springy hoops... MARAWAllous...

a catwoman of the world

images: mine

to make up for the shortage of posts in the past few weeks, here's one that i've wanted to for a while and from which you can infer that i've been on holiday or something glamourous like that to explain my absence.

YES it's a TOPSHOP leopard passport holder from c.2007. i know that i definitely had it in the oh-8 because i used to keep jolly cartoon-foto-machine pictures from TOKYO in the helpful pocket inside. and i went to TKY last year.

travelling in style of course.

that doesn't look like school uniform young lady

rosamund pike [helen] & carey mulligan [jenny] share a divine hat and coat set in the very lovely, very english an education which i saw last week.

I WANT IT ALL.

this ashish giantess wedge belongs in my imaginary museum of faux-animal wonders of the world. back in stock at topshop, poised to sprain many an ankle and tottering on the brink of extinction again i'm sure - will payday come before they sell out?

COVER GIRL: what's her name from gossip girl

leighton meester on the cover of this month's [december] glamour magazine. that coat looks warm.

YES WE CAt: memories of halloween 2009

michelle obama dressed in cheetah print for the white house's spooky bash on saturday night. not sure what mr obama is dressed as? geeky gamekeeper?? leader of the free world in fancy dress is probably not a good look, but maybe he's got a little cheetah print on under that sweater. and here's something that my cubfriend sara-lee made earlier:

hello kitty pumpkin carved with love&care by s-l

haha-lloween

probably the best gift* i've ever received was this divine get-up direct from fancydresswarehouse somewhere in america. if only the top wasn't too short and the bootcut pants so low cut! sigh. no i won't be wearing my sexyleopardlady costume for fright-night fun tomorrow - i'm probably going to be doing tank girl instead... but would tank girl ever wear leopard print?

*yes, it's true - thanks annette x x

getting things done

ig**gle are offering wallpapers by 'up-and-coming young designers' to decorate your homepage. i wouldn't normally be taken in by such gimmicks but thought those little-known newbies d&g might appreciate my support. i'll be sprucin' up my laptop with some trademark cat-spotz from them then.

places to go, people to see

image: fiona

MANY THANKS to the delectable fiona kerr for the first post of the week! she tells me: 'It's actually the cover sleeve from a Cartier book we got sent at work, I thought "A-ha invite holder" and nicked it and left the book coatless - 'I've probably had it about a year and it is so coming with me when I leave!' nifty.