Eye heart NY.

Alright, hand's up, Who else is loving this sweet satirical tee?


It's the perfect antidote to all those overdone, worn-out 'I heart' tees that are popping up in just about every city worldwide. Though costing $50, it pretty much outreaches most souvenir (and student!) budgets.
Make your own with a cheap tourist tee, googly eyes from a craft store and some glue. We swear nobody will be able to see the difference!


T-shirt $50 by Andrew Kuo at Opening Ceremony

Street Style Sundae

Street Style Sundae: A delicious concoction of pure unadulterated style. With a cherry on top.

Welcome to our very first Street Style Sundae!

The Tantrum fashion scouts have been out trawling streets all over the country bringing the best dressed straight to the Tantrum blog for all you lovelies to feast your fashionable peepers on!

Here's the cherry on top of this weeks fabulous sundae:

This sweet old man had co-ordinated his entire outfit for the England match, even down to his mismatched blue and white socks! We admire his patriotism AND his fashion sense. Oh, and his aaaamzing patent red brogues.

See, being old doesn't mean you can't be cool!

Fashion Icons Vs Superheroes.

It's the age-old fable, the story your mother wouldn't dare tell you before bed, it's the tale of the eternal battle of the Fashion Icon Vs the Fictional Superhero.

You have no idea what i'm on about, right? Let me fill you in...

In celebration of the 75th birthday of DC Comics, DC have collaborated with our fave French store, Colette and a range of designers, bringing you all manners of superhero-ey fashion. And no, we're not talking about lycra all-in-ones and underwear on the outside, but rather swish bow-ties ('The Joker' by Alexis Mabille), hooker-like thigh high boots ('Catwoman' by Roger Vivier) and gorgeous golden jewelled headbands ('Wonderwoman' by Maison Michel).

OH! and let's not forget these babies:

Our absolute faves from the Colette x DC Comics collection have got to be these 'Green Lantern' jewelled fingerless gloves by the genius that is Karl Lagerfeld.

We don't care if it's a million degrees outside, we'd wear these everyday, whilst probably running around pretending we really were superheroes when nobody was looking...

Green Lantern gloves, 495 euros from Colette

Hello Kitty x Doc Martens.

Okay, so we've said it before and we'll say it again: Hello Kitty really is taking over the world.

Not content with collaborating with some of the coolest and best-known brands around (M.A.C, Tokidoki and Stussy, to name but a few) The sassy little Japanese kitty has gone and got herself a gig with none other than the planet's favourite shoe brand - Doc Martens!

Softening up Doc Martens tough, punk-laced history, Sanrio have produced a line of 3 limited edition styles of cute but kick-ass boots, purrfect for even the girliest little kitty on the block.



Our personal fave here at Tantrum is the one printed with a whole bunch of Sanrio characters, featuring Kerropi, Chococat, My Melody and of course, Miss Hello Kitty herself, but we'd reeeeeally love to have all 3 of them. After all, a girl can never have too many pairs of shoes...

Lacking Inspiration?

Sometimes when I'm feeling a bit low or if there's a project I'm working on and I'm lacking inspiration I go searching on the old internet for other peoples work to get the fire going again.
I found Yellow Ghost's (Angie Hoffmeister) site a while ago and had it bookmarked for those days when i needed an extra boost. I really love her style and the patience she must have for the detail is deffinately inspiring for one with such a short attention span as myself!




You can check out her work for yourself here
Alternatively you can find her on tumblr
(All images used in this post belong to Angie Hoffmeister.)