Hilfiger Collection

These are the boots which I fell in love with last Spring (2015), and which are responsible for reigniting my love for fashion, and ultimately, led to this blog:

A friend of mine did somewhat taint these boots for me by declaring they had a “touch of the Gary Glitter’s” about them” but ultimately, it was true love.

Here they are in gold and wine:

Now, for the record, let me just state: I never ‘fell out of love’ with fashion per se, it was more a combination of guilt (about not earning an actual income of my own) and moving to my small town (in a “what’s the point? why should I bother anymore?”) which led to my downward spiral of being stuck in a fashion-rut.

Oh, and having a baby at 41.

A baby so unlike my dream-firstborn: a Gina Ford routine led baby (who wasn’t a puker, not snotty, robust & healthy, slept through from 9 weeks… ) and all without so much as ever even picking up a Gina Ford book!

When your life, your routine and most of all, your sleep are not interrupted too much by your baby, its actually relatively easy to maintain your mind, and stay true to yourself.

4 years on, and what a different baby numero 2 was.

He was tricky from the off, needing 3 feeds a night for 11 months and did I mention he had a lot of… secretions?! Eugh!

What we deduced from all this in our home was, that we were simply, bloody lucky first time round!

When you are *that* tired you just can’t think, and kinda lose your mind a little.  Plus, there was never any point in wearing anything nice as he would puke on it, poop on it, snot on it…

Apologies.  TMI.  Why I am telling you this…?

During the first two years of my new baby, I stopped looking at magazines, stopped browsing in shops (as he wouldn’t nap in the buggy) and my rather decent wardrobe took a battering.

We also bought a new house, so finances took an equal battering.

But in Spring 2015, something magical happened:  The Tommy Hilfiger collection.

Whilst waiting to see my GP, I picked up a mag, and as I flicked through it, I came across a photo of Rita Ora wearing these boots:

And BOOM!  That was it.

That was the light-bulb moment.

I went home and looked the boots up, which then led to magazine purchases, online searches for items, signing up to ‘New In’ newsletters from all my favourite stores and of course, this led onto finding & reading what are now my favourite fashion blogs….

And here I am.

Not quite making history, but here, none the less.

So, that is why I’ve decided to do this blog post on the current Hilfiger Collection: no one does a stripe or a star (or nautical) better than Tommy.

For the record: this is *not* a sponsored post (ha! I wish) & neither am I an ‘affiliate’ blog as yet, so I won’t be making any money if you click on the links…

No, this is quite simply, me, fawning and lusting over stuff I can’t afford but simply love.

Let’s take a look at Tommy’s label ‘Hilfiger Collection’ from the Hilfiger website – just click on pics for links.

I love it all so much, its difficult to know where to start: this Velvet Marine Jumpsuit is simply gorgeous:

Being a short-arse, I could never wear this without looking like a Victorian child: but oh my, I love every single detail on this jumpsuit and just the idea of it, so, so much.

Sticking with the Velvet Marine – these shorts!

And the trousers too:

Moving onto sweaters: what is not to love about these babies:

I love the nautical vibe, and with gold in the mix too… its just heaven. Speaking of nautical:

Where are the stars and stripes you ask?  There’s plenty, although not a standard breton in sight:

How about stars down one arm & stripes?

I also rather like this cross stripe dress:

It’s not just nautical, there’s a military vibe going on to: more Naval officer perhaps?

Or if you’re in the market for a longer line, wool military coat, this is simply divine:

And I really want to break the bank for these side-stripe Military wool trousers:

My favourite jacket though, would have to be this simple faux fur number:

And back to the start, Stars.  Here are this season’s star footwear offerings, more subtle than 2015’s, but pretty swoon-worthy none the less:

Sneakers too:

And my favourite this time round are these pumps:

Man, I need a lotto win!

Well, I need to buy a ticket & actually play the lotto for that to happen though.

So there you have it (by just a couple of weeks,) before I found Gucci…there was Hilfiger.

What do you think of this collection?  Up your street or too ‘in your face’ nautical?  Will you be splashing out on any of this?

There are of course, far more affordable alternatives on the high street, but its nice to take a peek at what’s going on with the designers sometimes, right?!

Back to reviewing next week – Boden under my petites microscope.

Thanks for reading.  As always, would love to hear your thoughts.

B x

PS: You can can view the full Hilfiger Collection Label here if like me, you enjoy torturing yourself!