That Spin 103.8 crowd are awful brainy! They’ve asked us to present the style icon of 2009 award as part of their SPAFTA Awards 2009! We’ll be live on air at 1.50pm on Wednesday afternoon with Johnathan and Clare on ‘The Spin’ discussing the year in fashion and announcing the overall winner! Make sure to tune in!

The following are the peeps who made their short list and we want YOU to help us decide the overall winner!………..

 - Lady Gaga -

- Victoria Beckham -

- Cheryl Cole -

 - Danii Minogue -

 - Olly Murs -

 - Jedward -

Cast your vote on Spin’s website here … it looks like this…

……and tell us who your style icon of 2009 is and why in the comments section below!

(B) & (L)

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Ben Dunne is all sorts of awesome and win. Not only is he WRECKING our heads with his gym ads on radio stations across the country but he has also :

- Been kidnapped by the IRA and held for seven days.

-Was arrested for cocaine possession and soliciting a hooker while on a golf holiday in Florida. He also allegedly attempted to throw himself off the balcony.

- Given large amounts of money to a number of Irish politicians, mainly from the Fianna Fáil party including the then Taoiseach, Charlie Haughey.

-He also ‘knowingly assisted’ a Fine Gael politician evade tax.

What a legend. He is not to be mocked. I mean, who among YOU can say YOU’VE never been caught snorting cocaine off a crack ho’s ass before lobbing yourself off the balcony? (Allegedly) NONE OF YOU, that’s who. 

(B)

P.S Ben can also be found adjudicating the scores on ‘The Big Quiz’ on Tom Dunne’s show. (Newstalk, Fridays at 11.30am). It may be Ben Dunne. Or it may be an impersonator. Who knows. 

P.P.S Joe Rooney, the comeejean who is very good, has a gig on in Howth this Saturday, along with Willa White and Colum McDonnell. Sounds like a daycent night out! Tickets €15 01-8322006 More Info >here<

P.P.S HUGE thanks to Joe and Sorcha at Newstalk for having us on with Tom this morning - lovely folks altogether!

So is Diane Kruger a style icon or what? We need the answer to this so she can rest comfortably in the ‘Style icons’ penthouse apartment of a category we have, where she will join such notables as one of the Olsens, Brigitte Bardot and our good selves. Have a look through the evidence below an get to voting! 

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When (L) and I are describing clothes to each other over the phone and we’re not exactly sure how best to define a colour, we pisstakingly call it ‘Taupe’ or ‘Mushroom’ or ‘Mauve’ or one of those other interior designy paint colour names that mean nothing. We HAD also decided to start saying -’ ah it’s very Belgian’ about ‘meh’ clothes that were a bit non-descript/without any interesting features etc…

All this must now change, due to the introduction to my life of QUEEN FABIOLA OF BELGIUM!!! Fabiola! Best name ever! I stumbled upon my new Mistress of Elegance, Grace and Subtlety while perusing www.dlisted.com…and off I went on my merry wikipedia/google images ways. Check out that hair! The clothes! She’s epic!!!

Here’s a bit about her…in my next life, I want to be Queen Fabiola’s shoulder pads. 

Queen Fabiola of Belgium (née Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón; was the third daughter of Gonzalo de Mora y Fernández, Riera y del Olmo, ?th Marquess of Casa Riera, 2nd Count of Mora (1887—1957) and his wife, Blanca de Aragón y Carrillo de Albornoz, Barroeta-Aldamar y Elio, ?th Marchioness of Casa Riera, 2nd Countess of Mora (1892—1981). She was a sister of Jaime de Mora y Aragón, a Spanish actor and jet set playboy. Her godmother was Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain.

***ALL EPICNESS!!!!!!!*****

On December 15, 1960, Fabiola married Baudouin who had been the king of the Belgians since his father’s abdication in 1951. At the marriage ceremony in the church of Laeken she wore a 1926 Art Deco tiara that had been a gift of the Belgian state to her husband’s mother, Princess Astrid of Sweden upon her marriage to Léopold III of the Belgians. Her dress of satin and mink was designed by the couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga. 

***EPIC CENTRAL!!!***

TIME magazine, in its September 26, 1960, issue, called Doña Fabiola, who was a hospital nurse at the time of her engagement, “Cinderella Girl” and described her as “an attractive young woman, though no raving beauty” and “the girl who could not catch a man.” On the occasion of her marriage, Spanish bakers set out to honor Fabiola and created a type of bread, “the fabiola”, which is still made and consumed in a daily basis in many Spanish cities.

***A BREAD - NAMED AFTER YOU! EPIC BAKERIES.COM!!****

The royal couple had no children, as the queen’s five pregnancies ended in miscarriage. There are reports, however, that she had a stillborn child in the mid 1960s. Fabiola openly spoke about her miscarriages in 2008: ‘You know, I lost 5 children. You learn something from that experience. During my pregnancies I got problems, but you know, in the end I think life is beautiful’.

***SAD EPIC - BUT TRAGEDY, LOVE, ROYALTY….EPIC!!***

Baudouin died in 1993 and was succeeded by his younger brother, the Prince of Liège who became Albert II of the Belgians. Queen Fabiola moved out of the Royal Palace of Laeken to the more modest Stuyvenbergh Castle and reduced her public appearances in order not to overshadow her sister-in-law, Queen Paola. She is famous for her hairstyle that has not changed in decades.

***FABULOUSNESS HAIR EPICNESS!!

(B)

FROM wikipedia…

What can you say about Miss Brigitte Bardot, apart from the fact that she’s an utter roide? Sometimes, when I, Stylebitch (B), am in my French phase of dressing, doing the hair, and talking in the third person, look at photos of her..I realise.. I will never look like her.

It is then that I commence self-flagellation while crying and rocking in a dark corner…But! I take comfort in the fact, that as an auld wan, Bardot has become a hate-mongering homophobic racist. Fact!

From WIKIPEDIA  After her retirement from the entertainment industry in the 1973, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist. During the 1990s she became outspoken in her criticism of immigration, interracial relationships, Islam in France and homosexuality^[4], and has been convicted five times for “inciting racial hatred“.^[5][6]

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I haven’t the taste for the female in a sexy time way, but I can appreciate a girl with her own style, and Pixie Geldof has recently stepped out of her bratty sister’s limelight and started to turn up places wearing some REALLY interesting things. The fact that I covet her hair is an aside. The fact that she is pictured here at the NME awards with Alice Dellal, another style crush of mine, also aids her cause.

What do you think of her look?

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Well folks, what thinks you of Rachel Bilson casual/floaty/grungy chic type look thing she’s got going on? Yay? Nay? Personally I love both of these images above….(B)

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Close your eyes and picture, if you will, Dita Von Teese in an pair of trackies and Uggs…I just can’t do it! Even my minds eye can’t imagine her ever looking anything but immaculate. The woman doesn’t own a single pair of jeans! Now close your eyes and imagine what her bedroom must look like. A lush boudoir filled with leather and lace, feathers and diamonds, perfectly placed ornate jewel boxes, pearl brooches and amazing hats. For all we know she could have a Super Ted duvet cover but the images she conjures up with a mere bat of a midnight-black eyelash are an experience in themselves.

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Erin Wasson is another one of those achingly hip models who make you want to take copious amounts of some hallucinogenic, just so you can create an alternate planet where you, too, look and dress and have as much money as this. Except drugs are bad, so feast your eyes on her lovely shoot for foam  magazine and use that decadent imagination of yours instead…

Erin recently launched her own collection for RCVA, who are another ridiculously coo-el brand, and has also got her own jewelry line. A very expensive one too. Rumi from fashiontoast is also a big fan, Rumi being one of those hip young queens of the style blogosphere, so she must know a little something about a little something. Lesson over..resume normal life. *sigh*

(B)

I never really got the Grace Jones thing, til I saw her at Electric Picnic. She really is the ‘Vogue-Cover-Come-To-Life ‘ mixed with prowling panther persona people rave about. She’s just slinky and sinister and fun and demented. I like it, her, and I love these images by Andrea Klarin from a shoot in November, but I wanted to share again as it is just h-Amazing. Do you have an opinion on Miss Jones? 

(B)

I have never.. NEVER ever come so close to shaving part of my sallynoggin’ as I did when I fell in stalking style love with Alice Dellal. I’m not quite sure what it is about this slightly demented looking rock n’ roll model that makes me want to throw away EVERYTHING that isn’t black in my wardrobe, (and the fact that she seems to only have one tongue-on-roof-of-mouth pose should make me not even use the term ‘model’ in that description), but I just like her style. And I needed a bit of a new fashion direction so I am ‘channellling’ her, like a good New Yorker. (Even though I am from Kilkenny…details shmetails)

Anyway, my hairdresser said no to the head shave. She said I would regret it. I slapped her around a bit, but eventually we agreed that she was right. Once she came to, she instead tightly french-plaited the side that should be shaved, and set the rest so it had lift and volume. It’s a change from the Brigitte Bardot fringe and backcombing attempt of the last couple of months, so me likes it!

Feel free to hate ALL over this look, or share the love! “Whatever” as Alice Dellal might say.

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(B)

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