The whole process of flat hunting in London has me extremely stressed out, ignoring the crazy fact that I’ve been running around town with a checkbook… I find a flat, I lose a flat, I find a flat I love a flat, but does the flat love me?
All this still going on, I came home to be confronted by another nagging issue I have been trying to avoid, trying to keep deeply buried at the back of my mind during this whole process ”Even if I do find somewhere suitable… How the hell will I move my stuff? My magazines!”

And so begins the process of shifting through old issues of Vogue, Nylon and ID, trying to decide which one is worth keeping, which one could be chucked (yes I’m keeping all my POP thank you very much).

A page from an old issue of Vogue fell into my lap, something I must have carefully torn out, thinking I would use later (maybe I had foreseen this site in the future), I think it is from the December 2006 issue of British Vogue, the special ‘90 years of Vogue style’ issue, the page entitled ‘Style Slang’ is a list of fashion terminology and their meanings, reading it again, everything is still relevant, and so, I thought I would share a few of the blatantly obvious, and not so obvious ones… Mostly picked due to their relation to upcoming summer trends and events.

BASIC -
n a useful rebuff when being complimented. ‘This silk YSL T-Shirt? God, it’s just a basic’.

CHANNEL -
vb to invoke the spirit of. ‘Gwen Stefani is channeling Jean Harlow’.

.COM -
suffix used when a subject has reached the point of overkill. ‘Lindsay Lohan dot com’.

DECK FLUFF -
n pretty girls on boats, wearing Missoni bikinis and Tom Ford shades.

FASHION FILLIES -
n pl pretty girls who go to the Cartier Polo and Ascot in pretty dresses by Chloe and Marchesa.

FOXYMORON -
n a dim but cute girl.

PANTS -
adj revived word to describe utter disappointment in a show.

P-DIDDY -
adj drunk on free champagne at a launch party.

REAL -
adj a desperate attempt to find authenticity in the fantasy world of fashion. ‘It was just really, real’.

REDUX -
adj redone or brought back. A fashiony way to describe the revival of an old look. ‘Marc Jacobs A/W collection is grunge redux’.

RUNS -
n pl ‘Rich Urban Nomads’ who jet around the world from show to party, from boat to beach. Runs have large carbon footprints, but great style.

SHOULDER-SURF -
vb to glide effortlessly through a fashion event making yourself known to the great and the good.

SWERVY -
adj a design that has gone off trend in a tragic manner.

TIC -
adj good-looking.

TURN HEEL -
vb to discard a trend when it has reached its saturation point. ‘I turn heel on leggings!’

WILSON -
n someone with an admirable nose (after Owen Wilson). ‘What a Wilson!’.

ZOEBOT -
(pronounced “zo-bot”) n a pretty young woman dressed under the influence of LA superstylist Rachel Zoe - outsize glasses, huge jewels and seventies style glamour gowns.

Some of you crazies, might be wandering why I have a page from that issue and not the issue itself, seeing as it is an important and iconic issue to keep in the archives… I assure you, I do have it! Two copies! It’s in my room at my mothers, err… in my other magazine closet.