Valentino Cruise Line 08

Cruise lines are all the go at the moment. Chanel launched theirs last week in a giant airline hanger in L.A. and now it's Valentino's turn.

The whole concept of a cruise line is merely a way to tide hungry fashionistas over between the fall and couture shows. Which is good business for the shareholders Valentino is accountable to, but kind of baffling to us mere mortals who aren't that likely to be in need of a whole wardrobe of boating outfits.

What was the Valentino's inspiration for this line...'The Nanny'? It's all very Fran Drescher if you ask me. Perhaps he bought the box set of the series on Ebay and became obsessed. "She was working in a bridal store is Flushings Queens, till her boyfriend kicked her out in one of those crushing scenes, what was she to do, where was she to go, she was out on her fanny!"

It's all very cheap looking, very department store. It's more suited to Fairstar the Fun Ship, than crusing with Naomi Campbell on Flavio Briatore's private yacht.

P.S. I didn't even have to google the lyrics to the Nanny theme song... let's just say I got on well with my T.V. as a teenager.