Resort 2014: House of Holland

So my bezzie hits me up early AM and she's spewing excited verbal diarrhoea all over the shop, something we blessed with IBS understand well, because Henry Holland has liked one of her photos on Insta. Well we are celeb whores after all. My reasoning is thus; if you're gonna get with a normal BORING person, you may as well get with any celeb. At least you'll have a better story to tell than 'Well he took me to McDonald's drive-thru' (actually one of the best dates I ever had was going to Maccies - cheap date eh? Nice to have a Happy Meal toy to play with after though).

One time (NO FRIENDS I will never stop going on about this) Joseph Gordon-Levitt liked four of my photos, FOUR of them, that's EIGHT clicks which is like FOUR SECONDS OF ATTENTION. He likes Thai women in boats/Hackney churches/my Papa holding a fish/pastel paintings of David Bowie, I like Thai women in boats/Hackney churches/my Papa holding a fish/pastel paintings of David Bowie. It's meant to be.

Back to the bezzie. So she's all 'OMG' and 'YUMMERZ' and I'm like 'Nooooo way, I'm soooo jeal' (he has access to Harry Styles) and she's like 'Totes' and a host of other abbreviations and acronyms that our generation have cursed our children with. Quick everyone burn your 'LOL' tees, ironically the least funny garm I ever saw. I guarantee you 'ironic' faux shit stained trousers will make more people Laugh Out Loud than that tee. Like I was sayin, she's all like 'Sheeeetttt' and 'I've eaten too many Smarties' which would appear irrelevant except that it leads me smoothly onto this collection. Check this for a bridge.

Henry's been at the blue Smarties pre E-number removal, or possibly at another E-filled Smartie. This collection is what I wish Moschino Cheap & Chic's had been; bouncing off the walls but mega desirable. It's cartoonish without being cheap, Betty Boop without cliche. It's 50s but over emphasises what defines the 50s; blown up polkadots, giant buttons, cinched in waists, and above all an overt sexiness. It avoids the tired rockabilly looks that the emo tattoo artists of My Space have exhausted. Hi fifteen year old self, that's your fault. 

As always there's method to Henry's madness. Even with his signature OTT - Oh Totally Thrilling - designs, the strength of these collections season after season is their wearability and the ease with which the pieces become must-haves. Henry's given a neon patterned finger to every editor who called him a one trick pony when his AMAZING rhyming tees first boomed out. You can spot HoH a mile off, the collection without fail contains an it-piece of the season. Stand out prints like the orange and purple here are destined for the bod's of Susie of Style Bubble fame and the thousands of fash-heads who hang onto her every word (me). Possible because the prices aren't ridic, 'More Taste Than Money' proclaims a t- shirt. Henry's got this shit down.

So get supporting. Swap your 'LOL' t-shirt for 'HOHllar at me' or a 'wHOHre' tee y'all, this is a one trick pony I wanna ride. Anyone wanting one of these tees hit up Henry to gimme a job. I'll be waiting by the phone. 

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