Shabby Chic

A wee ranty blog coz seriously... Shabby Chic? What is that and why would you aspire to it? It sounds like Coco Chanel if she hadn't been successful and ended up as a bag lady. I don't think even she could have made that a good look. If anything has shabby chic in the description I don't want it (I'm particularly looking at you here eBay and while we're on the subject stop calling things that were made last week vintage, they are not vintage.). I will stick with aiming for chic at the moment. Who wants to be shabby?

Particularly Shabby Chic furniture annoys me coz it is seemingly born of destruction. I am totally in agreement with re-utilising past objects so they are wearable / usable / relevant to our lives now, Sheena Holland comes to mind; she give beautiful old things a new lease of life and her shop is a treasure trove http://www.sheenaholland.com/. But shabby chic furniture seems to involve taking a beautiful vintage piece of furniture, covering it with cheap white paint and then purposely damaging it with wire wool or the like. Why would you? So you can have a piece of tatty looking furniture with none of the beauty of the original item? There is a shop near me which apparently specialises in french and shabby chic furniture. I think soe kind of terrorist activity might be in order.

I feel better for that rant. For about five minutes until I find something about a week old described as vintage on eBay.