A mum dress on a hot model in oil slick leggings and fuck-me shoes is still a mum dress. That is the lesson everyone learned this morning at British designer Caroline Charles’s Fall-Winter 09 collection show. Charles already has several claims to frump fame: she once dressed Emma Thompson in what cruel wags in ‘96 referred to as a “sea slug” for the Oscars (Thompson won for Best Actress, but her hideous aquamarine trouser-dress was an epic FAIL) and has made outfits for such renowned fashion victims as Princess Di, Liza Minelli, Mick Jagger and Ringo Starr - oh and a scarf for the Queen. Sartorially speaking, she’s UK high society’s conservative answer to Bob Mackie.
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