“It’s all about the computer these days. People might look at a picture of me and say, “Wow, I wish I had her body”, but they should realise that I often look at a picture of myself and say, “Wow, I wish I had my body.” ’ - Coco Rocha, to the Daily Telegraph.

According to the Daily Telegraph, sales of sewing machines are way up, which means more people must be sewing their own clothes.

They cite the culture of fast fashion as inciting a backlash and causing people to want to customize their own clothes and make sure it wasn’t sewn in sweatshop.

We’ve had dreams of being super seamstresses long before Season 1 of Project Runway. The idea of making clothes exactly the way we want it - rather than scanning a zillion stores and sites in search of a dress design that popped into our head - and of it fitting us exactly how we want is enough to make us consider taking our own sewing machine down from its high place in the closet, before we remember that we don’t even remember how to thread the machine, let alone sew straight lines.

We’ve been considering taking a sewing class or two to get things started, but there are just a lot of other factors - time (it seems like it’s a lot faster to shop rather than design a dress, pick out the fabric, actually make the dress, deal with mending the dress that we probably didn’t sew correctly, etc), quality (after all, what the hell do we know about designing clothes?), and, oh yeah, skill.

So we’re wondering, do any of you sew your own clothes? And if so, how did you get started?

(Editor’s Note: If you make a compelling enough of an argument, you might be able to convince Britt and Natalie to sew their own dresses for an upcoming event. DIY ball gowns? Only if you’re inspiring…)

“As the owner of a 32E bosom, I was once informed that the Vivienne Westwood clothes I was eyeing up were for women who want to look as if they have breasts, not for those already in possession of them. On another occasion, a designer stared at my unclothed form and stuttered: “Hourglass!” in tones one might use to utter the word “paedophile”. Most mortifying of all was the moment an Armani tailor waved her hand dismissively across my chest, before pronouncing: “These are not Armani!” - Hannah Betts, in the Daily Telegraph.

“But suddenly I had to force myself to wear dresses and was being taught how to walk for fashion shows by a man who donned a pair of high heels himself and pranced down the catwalk, shouting out insults as I tried to imitate him.” - Rosie Mortimer, on her brief modeling career, in the Daily Telegraph.

” ‘She’s really conservative. I’m very disappointed in that. She wears jeans. I think jeans are terrible. Those boiled-wool trousers I was talking about that shrank, the ones I sent to her? Well, I took Cora to the terracotta soldiers [sic] and after a bit I said, “I was really hoping that you would wear those trousers.” She said to me, “It’s more important if people are nice people than what they wear.” Westwood’s expression is ambiguous. It’s almost as if she is impressed by her granddaughter’s gumption. So what was her answer? ‘I said, “Rubbish.”’ ” - Vivienne Westwood, in the Daily Telegraph.

There is apparently nothing on this Earth that cannot bear the mark of a fashion designer’s logo -

The Daily Telegraph reports this morning that Henry Holland has iced a 2lb chocolate egg from Thornton’s (kind of like Lindt, but not,) with the Holland coat of arms to be auctioned on Ebay next week for the children’s charity Barnardo’s.

He used purple, yellow and all the other HH colors and included his new motto ‘Passio Factionis’ - passion for fashion - for the design.

No word on whether Aggy will be on hand to present it to the winning bidder.

But we do know this: Don’t bother bidding if you don’t plan on eating it. Two pounds of melted chocolate and icing is not exactly the best accessory to tartan.

“It was Mary-Kate who first emerged as a style icon. Three years ago, when the twins started at New York University, she took to slinking around in enormous shaggy sweaters, huge hats and oversized sunglasses…she’s said that she wore these mish-moshed costumes mostly to stay warm” - The official explanation for MK’s NYU outfits, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph.

For those of who you worship Agyness Deyn, your taste has just been venerated. For those of who you are sick to death of her, well, we hope you’re not going to shop at a Zara anytime soon.

The Daily Telegraph reports that Adel Rootstein, the British mannequin company, has designed an Agyness model to launch in a Dusseldorf branch of Zara before being released in Zara’s worldwide.

With this deal, Agyness joins the ranks of Twiggy, a former Adel Rootstein mannequin herself, and kind of one-ups Kate Moss, who was rejected by the late Adel Rootstein herself for being “too short.”

Aggie is reportedly hanging on to just one life-size doll of herself - maybe to send down the runway on skates to pick up a little extra cash?

We hope the Zara window dressers are smart enough to not put the Agyness mannequins anywhere near the windows - she’d be a prime steal for those smash-and-grabbers…

[PS If you can’t get yourself to a Zara, or if you just can’t wait, you could always wear Agyness’ likeness on your back - is this girl a phenomenon or what?]

When we saw that the Guardian was making a case for the male jumpsuit (it’s as quick and simple as women’s day dresses, they say) we thought they had a good point.

When we saw that the Daily Telegraph was challenging women to make a jumpsuit work, we thought it was a little Project Runway.

Now, this month’s Vogue UK is all out telling women to go out and get a jumpsuit - not out of convenience or a longing for roller skates and disco balls, but because they’re… stylish.

We have to admit, we’ve seen a few that are kind of cute - Britt says she sometimes wears a great, evening jumpsuit from Stella McCartney, but that it mostly elicits rubbernecking and questions like “um, is that a jumpsuit?”

For the most part, when we think of a jumpsuit, our mind skips over to Elvis and chain gangs more than anything else. Plus, we especially couldn’t imagine the boys trying to pull this one off, like the Guardian article suggests. They haven’t even graduated to short sleeve shirts at work (the corporate boys, that is) so sporting a jumpsuit seems like jumping the gun.

Would you wear a jumpsuit? Or is this better left to Jailhouse Rock impersonators?