Like any good teenybopper, I love bag charms. At the moment, I'm rocking the 60s European Vacation look. Swinging souvenirs from the continent, and the UK in a big bunch hanging from my oversized bag. Yum.
Pick up cheapo keyrings from tourist tat shops, or supercheap on eBay . Or go higher budget with this stylised, 7" Gay Paris luggage tag from ModCloth for $11.99 (they deliver to the UK). Keep it tacky. And remember to wear a pair of HUGE sunglasses to top off the look.
Stiff Records were the coolest label of the punk era. They released records by The Damned, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, and Madness. All bands I loved when I was a nipper. Although, obviously, I had no idea they were all on the same label.
I bought a Stiff Records t shirt the other day. It has the Stiff slogan, "If It Ain't Stiff, It Ain't Worth A F*ck" emblazoned across it. I love wearing it. It makes me feel like I'm on one of the legendary Stiff tours, where a load of spotty oiks climbed onto a bus (or even a train!) and rampaged in the nicest possible way around the country. It makes me feel punk rock, although the logo is almost 30 years old.
Everyone should have one.
They're £17 from here.
Helen Rochfort makes cutesy, shiny handbags that make you feel good just looking at them. Inspired by sweets, chocolates, and cupcakes, her purses fizzle with sherbety goodness, emblazoned with hypercoloured goodies, from Wonka’s golden tickets, to pink sweeties, and Dorothy’s ruby slippers. Helen describes the bags as "vintage kitsch and delicious!"
At $75 (about £38), they are pricier than your average New Look bag, but so, so worth it. You’ll look a perfect candified princess swinging along the street with one of these over your arm. I asked Helen who she'd most like to see carrying one of her bags, and she said, "I would love every lady in the land to carry one of my handbags!
Jennifer Nicholson (Fashion designer and Jack's daughter!) has just bought three.
See my MySpace for whole collection...I must put more on my Etsy shop..I've been so busy though! 
It was a sad beginning to 2007, as burlesque diva Dita Von Teese announced that she was divorcing her husband, monkey-breath Manson. But she's got over the trauma of leaving the milky-eyed goth in style.
I love these pictures of her modelling for Jean-Paul Gaultier at last week's Paris Couture shows. Dita is weeping tears of blood, and dressed as a kind of Pierre et Gilles-style superCatholic Madonna. He loves his Madonnas, that Jean-Paul.
Jean-Paul says, "She was bleeding a little, there was some blood and some red, but that's what is beautiful about passion, no? It's love and pain at the same time." I say, "Where can I get one of those rose hats?"
Regular habitues of TK Maxx, the bargain clothes barn, will be familiar with Disney's ranges of T shirts. Disney Ink and Paint make vintagey, sequinned, distressed shirts. But they're a tadge bit Jordan-takes-her-blind-kid-on-holiday-for-spread-in-Hello for my liking. In fact, one of their retailers describe them as "fun clothes for nice people", which is enough to put even the most ardent Mickey fan off. 
A notch up are the Disney Couture shirts (Snow White on left). Easy enough to find in the USA, at stores such as Hot Topic, they're more elusive over here in the UK. I bagged a really neat Cinderella blue chap in the Urban Outfitters sale, so perhaps that's a good place to start. I'm also digging the print-on-demand vintage Disney shirts at Zazzle
Of the official outlets, The Disney UK online store is pretty useless, full of baby pink hotpants with a tastefully embroidered Little Mermaid logo that only a retarded suburban hairdresser could love and embroidered Quo-style denim. But when I visited the US equivalent , I felt like Tiny Tim pressing his nose against the toy shop window, snow falling on his tousled hair, knowing he would never get his frozen hands on any of the sparkling goods inside. 
Disney US sell brilliantly bonkers items like this diamante set of Mickey ears, created by Madeline Beth, that retail at $1200 and are perfect for high days and holidays, I would wear these to a picnic on a hill, or perhaps a disco in a retirement home. Plus they have enough vintage-style Disneyland merchandise to fill a fairytale castle. I love the old hand-drawn Disneyland logo. It's so evocative that it makes me pine for holidays I never even had. 
These flags are lovely, and would look comforting and familiar above a bed, or fluttering proudly above a porch. "I went to Disney before it was sanitized into nothingness," they would proclaim.
But we can't buy any of them. Disney US won't ship over here (believe me, I asked very nicely). Please, we didn't get a theme park. Give us some cool things to buy in compensation.
It's funny, I'm not even a huge fan of Disney films, but their wholesome-50s-Americana-meets-European-fairy-tale imagery makes me melt.
PS. A joke for any Scottish people.
Q What is the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney?
A Bing sings, and...
Katamari Damacy is one of my favourite video games of all time. You roll a ball around, and, as stuff sticks to it, it gets bigger. And so you can pick up bigger stuff. You start off picking up tacks, safety pins, and matches, through cans of drink, pizzas, animals, people, cars, houses, up to Godzilla, and finally, entire countries.
But what makes it one of the best games ever isn't just the plot. It's the surrounding hoo-hah, the showtune-soundtracked, Busby Berkeley-style technicolor opening film. The soundtrack, that fuses perky J-pop with the screams and shouts of entire continents as they get rolled up, ready to be flung into the cosmos. And the curious cast of colourful characters with very odd-shaped heads. Anyway, it's great, and you really should buy it.
When I first bought the game, last year, I loved it so much, and I wanted to show my love to the world. I almost cried when I first saw these wonderful t shirts from the game's creator, Keita Takahashi,in a collaboration with illustrator Ryo Kimura.
But then my hopes were cruelly dashed, as I found out they were unavailable to UK Katamari high rollers. But this week I checked back... and they're now shipping to Europe. Sing hosannas! I may order seven and wear one every day of the week. After all, we should all be taking advantage of those crazy good exchange rates. They're $24.95 plus shipping.
Buy them here
I have worn black leather brothel creepers since I was 16. I’d seen a picture of The Cramps and wanted to be as evil Elvis and rock n roller as them. Being relatively skinny of leg, it soon became apparent that if I teamed the shoes with a drainpipe jean, or thick black tights, it made my limbs seem more chive-like and detracted from my bustier, never-going-to-be-Patti-Smith top half.
I’ve had several pairs over the intervening years, all the same, all bought from the fantastic Underground Shoes According to my friends, I tend to “dress like a dude”, and these shoes do nothing to temper that. Hurrah.
But now, momentously, I’m considering changing my signature shoe. To a pointy winklepicker. The way they peep from underneath those same drainpipe jean is somehow more modern, fresher, spindlier. I’ve been partial to a white shoe since my Jon Spencer obsession, so it would have to be the blanco version.
I’m not sure though. Am I just being swayed by current The Horrors and Vincent Vincent fever? Or is this the Right Move for life? A big decision. I’ll let you know what side I come down on. Advice please.
