Good Styling v Bad Styling featuring JIBRI and City Chic (pic heavy)

 

JIBRI Plus Size Sleeveless Striped Pansy Dress

This is good no great styling, the photographer, stylist and make-up artist have worked together and created a gorgeous lookbook for JIBRI inspired by Joan Crawford (no coathangers though), Old Style Glamour with a Hitchcock moodiness whilst remaining feminine, desirable and romantic. 

However City Chic has come up with...

I don't know the items in the photo but the image was taken from here City Chic's lookbook

Now you are probably thinking that I'm just this whingey girl who has created some City Chic bashing blog because of some random childhood trauma... well I'm not. I just think the City Chic lookbook shots are unflattering, amateurish and remind me of awful glamour shots (on a sheepskin rug yuk) instead of a brand trying to be cutting edge in the youth plus size market.

  And I think that comparing look books with another plus size designer who as an independent designer manages to keep her items at a very similar price point to a major manufacturer who utilises overseas factories to make their garments is also a very interesting point to mention (cough* you are too frickin expensive for the quality of garment you produce)

anyway lets compare more pictures.

Dea Evans Stylist: WTF?

I'm not a matching prude, I don't believe in rules, in fact I'm all about the Clash, but seriously? you are meant to put items together that a) make the buyer relate to the model b) highlight the benefits and design features of the individual items and c) make the buyer want to buy them.

Maybe it's me in my old age but this makes me go eurrggh! But her hair is lovely, I wonder what conditioner she uses?