I will keep on banging on about Liberty of London just because I can never stop ogling their bags, accessories and prints whenever I'm in store but I'm continually surprised by the 'Yeeeshk!' prices especially for a label wanting to establish itself.  Still, I guess 'luxury' is where it's strategising itself towards what with the new Liberty of London store that has popped up on Sloane Street so I guess I'll have to live with it and just keep on stroking.

But at least I have the ads to console myself with.  I just think they're always so visually well assessed and Liberty do push the boat out when they could very easily play on the ol' English cliche and have an 'English rose'-type model (whatever that means...) lounging around a manor house demurely holding a handbag.  For AW08-9, we do have some cliches...but twisted very nicely... a lady in a headscarf a la the dear Queen (anybody going to do a take on HRH Queen Elizabeth II this season... D&G is saying yes...I'm not so sure...)... sitting in some English woods... wearing some dark green latex leggings.  That would be the twist.

The florals they have created for AW08-9 also prove that the flower won't wilt and die come autumn as these are decidedly robust and slightly 'meatier' if that makes sense with the addition of birds to add another dimension.  I'm also loving the faded hue they've added to the shot like aged magazine print similar to the gardening mags my boyf's nan pinned up in her garden shed as inspiration images.