NYC goes (Phillip) Green...

Lucky for them, unfortunate for us...British fashion's best kept secret Topshop has finally opened its first flagship US store in the Soho district of New York City.

Sir Phillip Green joined by Kate Moss (with her 9th collection for the brand) and a delighted host of US celebrity types and Fashion PR girls flocked to the opening on the 1st April (this was no April fools!) to attend the three parties being hosted to celebrate the US finally getting a touch of british high street style and eccentricity (biased I know!).

The four floor, 25,000 sq ft emporium will play host to Kate Moss's new liberty print collection, along with capsule collections by Jonathan Saunders, Richard Nicoll, Preen and the always fantastic Unique Boutique.

So now our secret is out and even American Vogue Editors are snapping up a Topshop bargain - i'm just hoping Green'll still give us the best of Topshop's offerings first!




Pictured: Kate Moss, Lenny Kravitz's daughter Zoe looking every inch the rock star offspring in acid wash jeans, Taylor Momsen - Gossip Girl actress and NY's latest trend adopter, British actress Emily Mortimer working the 80's Spandau blazer.

... who said a ring was a pre-marriage symbol anyway?

If you didn't think the world (art more specifically) could get any more far-fetched then this is certainly something to satisfy these beliefs.

The girls and I were discussing the 'perfect' engagement ring yesterday. No, we aren't in a rush to get hitched anytime soon but when the words 'Tiffany' and 'Legacy' are thrust into the context of such a conversation then a girl can dream can't she? But far beyond the £8,000 price tag of the Tiffany sparkler, it got me thinking about rings and what they symbolise. Of course the wedding band is an unbroken, infinite symbol of everlasting love (I'm not soppy honest) but what happens, god forbid, if everlasting love isn't...well...everlasting?

Gisele Ganne's Divorce ring. Thats what.

No... she's not a pesimist, nor a man hating singleton, but a Royal college of Art graduate whos jewellery collection nods to Victorian Mourning Jewellery and the Macabre Motif of the time. However, Ganne's designs (skulls, forget-me-nots and ivy) are a modern commentary on today's divorce rates (although to look at them you really wouldn't know!)

Beautifully ornate and perfectly classic (with what could be described as a gothic twist) divorcees should stick two fingers up to the wedding ring (or perhaps 4 in this case...this ring goes over all four fingers!) and embrace Ganne's divorce rings.



And who said divorce had to get ugly....