Cheryl Cole's designer wardrobe may come at a high price, but there is a way to steal her style without breaking the bank.
The Matthew Williamson dress from the autumn/winter collection was worn by Cheryl Cole on the X factor, and retails at £1,495. Centre: The Forever Unique version costs just £175 Photo: REX
The X Factor has become as important a showcase for Cheryl Cole’s increasingly OTT fashion taste as it is for emerging singing talent.
The appearance of the ‘singing judge’ has become a regular catwalk event demonstrating as vividly as London Fashion Week the latest and most extreme looks from our most talented established and emerging designers, including Alexander McQueen, Marios Schwab, Giles, Matthew Williamson, and, more recently, David Koma and Jean-Pierre Braganza.
Cheryl’s look-at-me, flashbulb-friendly style comes at a high price. The David Koma ‘industrial chic’ dress, which featured a metal ‘staircase’ snaking across the torso, for example, carried a price tag of a hefty £1,900.
And the Matthew Williamson ‘Cleopatra’ mini-shift, in cream wool, emblazoned with a multicoloured collar of stones, is from the new autumn/winter collection, for £1,495 (www.matthewwilliamson.com/shop).
But there are always ways to nail-down that celebrity factor at a fraction of the price. The new fashion website, www.foreverunique.co.uk, for example, has its own version of Cheryl Cole’s ‘Cleopatra’ dress, for just £175, in sizes 8-14. And the new spring/summer collections from ASOS (available from mid-to-late January), which I was lucky enough to preview this morning, and from major high street brands including Topshop and Miss Selfridge, are awash with heavy metal references which recall the David Koma experience.
The X Factor has become as important a showcase for Cheryl Cole’s increasingly OTT fashion taste as it is for emerging singing talent.
The appearance of the ‘singing judge’ has become a regular catwalk event demonstrating as vividly as London Fashion Week the latest and most extreme looks from our most talented established and emerging designers, including Alexander McQueen, Marios Schwab, Giles, Matthew Williamson, and, more recently, David Koma and Jean-Pierre Braganza.
Cheryl’s look-at-me, flashbulb-friendly style comes at a high price. The David Koma ‘industrial chic’ dress, which featured a metal ‘staircase’ snaking across the torso, for example, carried a price tag of a hefty £1,900.
And the Matthew Williamson ‘Cleopatra’ mini-shift, in cream wool, emblazoned with a multicoloured collar of stones, is from the new autumn/winter collection, for £1,495 (www.matthewwilliamson.com/shop).
But there are always ways to nail-down that celebrity factor at a fraction of the price. The new fashion website, www.foreverunique.co.uk, for example, has its own version of Cheryl Cole’s ‘Cleopatra’ dress, for just £175, in sizes 8-14. And the new spring/summer collections from ASOS (available from mid-to-late January), which I was lucky enough to preview this morning, and from major high street brands including Topshop and Miss Selfridge, are awash with heavy metal references which recall the David Koma experience.
