Steal her Style: Larissa Loughlin

Last week’s post featured a number of items from the wardrobe of the CW’s new, younger Carrie Bradshaw. This week’s comes from the same series but in the form of English wild card Larissa Loughlin, played by Freema Agyeman. Again a piece from H&M, this dress wasn’t one that I particularly liked when it was in store last season, having seen it reworked on the small screen has not only made me wish I’d bought the dress, but inspired me to rework some pieces from my own wardrobe.

 

Larissa wore the dress to a Halloween party in Manhattan and reworked it with a feather waistcoat, a feathered hat and bright pink eyelash extensions to complete her look as a ‘Bird of Paradise’. Considering most of the guests at the party were dressed in provocative underwear and masquerade masks (With the exception of Carrie and Walt who went as Lady Diana Spencer and Prince Charles respectively), Larissa was undoubtedly the best dressed of the episode.

As with last week’s pieces, the dress is now sold out in store. However a few can still be found on eBay. Whilst it is not the most versatile of dresses Agyemans character shows that with just a few simple touches a statement dress like this can be used for more than just one occasion.

Steal her Style: Carrie Bradshaw

Whether you like her or not, the name Carrie Bradshaw is synonymous with fashion. Whilst Sex and the City ended almost 9 years ago and the brands last movie was a huge disappointment to say the least, the CW's latest offering 'The Carrie Diaries' more than makes up for it (at the same time filling a large Gossip Girl shaped hole in our lives). Based on Candace Bushnell's best selling prequel the series, set in the 80's, follows a 16 year old Carrie Bradshaw during her junior year at high school. Whilst a teenage Carrie obviously has less access to the high end designers we saw her wear in the original HBO series, her closet is as covetable as ever, perhaps more so due to the fact that a large part of her wardrobe is filled with pieces available on our high street stores today.

Even though our high street faves Topshop, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Forever 21 all appear, you couldn't miss the fact that the stylists have chosen H&M as their retailer of choice whilst styling the young fashion icon. Episode two saw Carrie, played by AnnaSophia Robb, wearing a number from the brands Trend Collection and Episode three saw her wearing a pink and silver jumper from the Swedish retailers everyday concept. Whilst neither pieces are available online, both are still available in store - both priced at £24.99. Our favourite piece so far, however, has to be this digital print dress, also from the Trend Collection, which bears an uncanny resemblance to those shown by Mary Katrantzou. Whilst the piece is no longer available in store you can still purchase it on ebay.