Category Archives: Foxy

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Jan 22 2012

Foxxx Factor #1 – JoJo

It seems like eternity since she burst onto the scene with the ‘Get out/Leave’ song where she was out in the rain prancing about in a tracksuit but my oh my have the years flown by. After a long hiatus JoJo is back! No longer thirteen years old confined to a jail bait box she is ripe for the picking, she’s slender, she’s foxxxy, she’s also 21!!!… It’s peak times if I ever run into her cah she’s gonna get scooped up like vanilla Haagen-Daaz!

Beauty and smash factor fantasies aside, I love how she came back with the signature acoustic sound that showcases her vocal ability rather than jump on the techno-pop wave. For that I rate you highly because you’re back on your own terms catering to your core audience and the fans who’ve stuck by you from day one. I like that you’re providing a mature voice to those that like you have grown into adults too.

Foxxx Factor Rating: fx-TRILL (peak levels of smash-ability)

She also gets points for being the only artist to cover Amy Winehouse that hasn’t made me cringe. I love you JoJo, when you come to London I’ll have a Nando’s whole free bird card with your name on it. <3

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Hello Kitty x Vans
May 10 2011

Oi Ladies: Vans x Hello Kitty (June 2011)

To all my femme fatales who still refuse to don a pair of skate shoes, as if the safari print weren’t enough, please will you reconsider when you slip on a pair of the cutest sneakers collabs of the millennium?

Via Vans Girls Blog

It’s almost here, the Vans X Hello Kitty shoes are coming to stores next month, June 2011! I can’t wait to get my hands on those Sk8 Hi D-Lo’s. The checkerboard slip-ons are also Vans classic with a Sanrio twist. Are you excited for the collab? How will you wear them? Check out all of the style that will be available in Women’s sizes above, and Kid’s sizes below. (Via Vans Girls Blog)

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I wonder how many ladies will swap their heels, and high tops for skate shoes once they feast their eyes on this dainty collab?

K O

Apr 19 2011

Vans – Lo Pro Era: Leopard Print

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I encountered these earlier on my adventure to Birmingham to see Adele in concert. A whole lot of my female friends dislike Vans, a few in particular, and I thought this Leopard print Lo Pro Era may convert the naysayers…

Fingers crossed.

K O

Mar 26 2011

Vintage Vixens

Up In The Ear would like to celebrate the stylish, beautiful, influential and timeless Vintage Vixens, who’ve left their mark on the twentieth century and beyond. These four ladies are the cornerstones of what a majority of ladies in the western world fashion themselves on, knowingly or not because they have influenced the world of cinema, fashion, music, and style.

These four ladies came and conquered at a time where immortality was for the taking. These icons, shall never be forgotten in the age where people come and go because they’ve already ascended to the dizzying heights of influence and notoriety, these Vixens are the top level foxes who the foxes on the come up aspire to be…

Up In The Ear would like to pay homage to the Vintage Vixens of the bygone era. In the words of Coco Chanel “Fashion fades but Style remains”.

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Anna Wintour, OBE

“Anna Wintour, OBE (born November 3, 1949) is the British-born editor-in-chief of American Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and sunglasses, Wintour has become an institution throughout the fashion world, widely praised for her eye for fashion trends and her support for younger designers. Her reportedly aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname “Nuclear Wintour“.”

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“Pamela Suzette “Pam” Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an American actress. She became famous in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women in prison and blaxploitation films such as 1974′s Foxy Brown. She is one of a few African-American actresses to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. Rotten Tomatoes has ranked her as the second Greatest Female Action Heroine in film history. Director Quentin Tarantino remarked that she may have been cinema’s first female action star.”

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Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot

“Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934) is a French former fashion model, actress and singer, and animal rights activist.”

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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE

“Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011), often referred to as Liz Taylor, was an English-born American actress. Beginning as a child star then throughout her adulthood, she was known for her acting talent, glamour, beauty, and striking violet eyes; as well as a much publicized private life that included eight marriages, several life-threatening illnesses, and decades spent as a social activist, championing the cause of AIDS awareness, research and cure. Taylor, a two-time winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress, is considered one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age. The American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list.”


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Age is nothing but a number, you should only be as old as you feel. Beauty to me is always found in the heart, mind and spirit of a person, you can never judge beauty on a scale of time. Never worry about getting older because love keeps the heart youthful, if the hearts kept youthful, the woman smiles, if the lady smiles the lady never ages.

K O

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Mar 16 2011

Lily Allen – Alright Still

I’ve always been a fan of Lily Allen, I remember when I first stumbled across her myspace page back in 06/07. I taped all of the the featured songs onto cassette tape and showed everyone.
I was excited and inspired because the sound and style was soooo different; It was animated, thought provoking and pleasant. I remember listening to the songs and instantly trying to load up Reason, to find that the user license had run out of my bootleg copy, I was fucked! I told everyone that she’d blow up soon, I don’t think anyone believed me at the time nor remembers but that first album was amazing, so were the b-sides.

I miss Lily, I miss her music because I think she’d make an ill Rap album as I believe she’s got flows, as anyone who’s heard Knock Em Out.

I’d always show love to Lily because she was rocking vintage Chanel dresses with Air Max 90s on some fly tip. She’s also one of the only women who could still look foxy in a dinosaur outfit.

I think it’s rare that you find an artist who is naturally themselves: music, visuals, attitude, swag. I’m glad that Lily Allen’s debut album, Alright Still, captured what she been doing up to that point. It was an album where she didn’t care about what people thought, she was just herself. Alright Still was a beautiful first offering because it was honest, no matter how blunt or thought provoking. Alright Still is a juxtaposition between content and soundscape, forever special because I remember the moment where I had discovered something new, scoured limewire for the demos, got them, listened to them in tracklist order before going out and getting the album from HMV on the Kings Road on my way to work.

You’ll always be a legend Lily, Up In The Ear salutes you.

K O

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