Everything Looks Better With Bicycles

It seems like I have been seeing bicycles in every second magazine I open.

Okay, I get that bikes are being treated as this year's must-have accessory, 

but I think it's more than that: tastemakers have discovered that 

everything looks cooler when it's photographed with a bicycle.

Ironic dust-collecting sculptures of wild animals.

{The otherwise covetable apartment of editor Kevin Sharkey 

in the September 2010 issue of Martha Stewart Living.}

Ridiculously unwearable floor-length skirts.

(Love the cloche though!)

{Promotional email sent 13 Oct 2010 by Anthropologie.}

Huge padded eighties-style shoulders.

{Jean-Paul Gaultier via Fashionising, from July 2010}

Fur.

{Saks Fifth Avenue print ad campaign from Sept 2010 via Benepe's Bike Blog}

Shorts as office wear.

{Anna Kendrick in ELLE's October 2010 issue.}

Beauty is a state of mind, but please buy our skin cream.

{Marcelle cosmetics print advertisement in ELLE Canada, March 2009}

Seventies-style chunky-heeled boots and a Relic toque on a hyper-skinny model.

Of course, this bike is a vintage Raleigh-built Robin Hood,

so it naturally has the power to make things alluring enough to make out with.

{Print advertisement is from the October 2010 issue of In Style.}

Wait, the guy you were just snogging with has a bike with rod brakes and a double top bar?

Is that a Brooks B-33 saddle?

...Carry on, then.

{Print advertisement from ELLE Canada, September 2010}

...Powerless to resist ...the allure of ....vintage rod brakes

...combined with mothering instincts

...must ...buy ...cashmere ...scarves

{From the Autumn-Winter 2009 Burberry lookbook}