In the last
interview I saw featuring women's streetwear designer Leah McSweeney of Married to the Mob, the very proud Irish woman and new mother was ranting and raving about her brand being the "first of its kind" for ladies in the streetwear market and something about her "paving the road" for other brands. Blah, blah, blah.
Anyways, I didn't fight her boisterous and rather obnoxious statements because in a way it's kind of true. With that, you would think that her collections following the infamous declaration would be all sorts of awesome, right?
Uh, not so much. Overall, the pieces were pretty decent and wearable. But how many times can one rearrange a pair of lips, three leaf clovers, and the words "hoes" and "tricks" on t-shirts before it becomes unoriginal? No, it's not bad. But if you're going to declare yourself a front-runner in a competitive market, you're going to need to have a much stronger platform.
But there is one gem in Miss McSweeney's spring line:
The Fafi t-shirt.
Fafi, the Parisian graffiti artist who just recently released a limited-edition cosmetics line with MAC, doodled one of her signature Fafinettes equipped with a Hermes Birkin bag, Chanel pumps and a lip tattoo on the tee, which comes in two colors. It's too cute and retails for $40.
Now, If only Fafi could help her pal with the rest of her pieces. Just kidding.
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She's baaaaack.
