Fashion Quarterly

Heavenly creature

Noelle McCarthy, journalist

Miss Crabb has been making my life better on a daily basis for the past 15 years. I try to wear a Miss Crabb dress or camisole or coat or scarf or something every day – just a little bit of beauty to help me feel powerful and face whatever’s on.

I first met Kristine back in the Rip Shit and Bust days, when she was doing Non, a perfect name for a label – “elegance is refusal” as Coco Chanel said. Rip Shit and Bust was such a cool shop, like nothing I’d ever seen before, a

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