Category Archives: Stores
Tabio Bloggers Event in Kensington
Last week, Japanese hosiery brand Tabio held an exclusive bloggers event at its Kensington High Street store, which I attended with the lovely Fuyume and Actually Akeela. Tabio are my everyday choice of tights, so I needed no persuading about … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, London, Stores
Tagged 210 denier tights, 30 denier tights, 80 denier tights, Aminaka Wilmont, ballet socks, bed socks, bloggers event London, bobby socks, cricket socks, designer collaboration tights, fashion socks, fashion tights, handmade tights, Japanese tights, JS.LEE tights, Kensington tights store, london fashion week, Matthew Williamson tights, sheer tights, slippers, striped tights, Tabio tights
1 Comment
Urban Outfitters Autumn/Winter 2011
Urban Outfitters hosted its Autumn/Winter 2011 press day at the Oxford Circus store and presented some of the key looks for next season. The first major trend, Dark Romance is inspired by the creative, bohemian look of a Goldsmiths fine … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Shopping, Stores
Tagged 90s grunge look, Cambridge Satchel Company, Camille Bidault-Waddington dungarees, Carin Wester bag, designer high street trends, F Troupe brogue shoes, girly brogues, Jeffrey Campbell Lita boots, Le Mont St Michel, Swedish Hasbeens boots, tba fuschia dress, tba peter pan collar dress, urban outfitters, Urban Outfitters Autumn/Winter 2011-12, Urban Outfitters Cobain, Urban Outfitters Dark Romance, Urban Outfitters Oxford Circus, Vaudeville & Burlesque dress, Wyred shirt
Leave a comment
Susan Caplan Vintage Launches Online Store
Susan Caplan Vintage is known as the ‘go to’ place for rare vintage designer jewellery and now Susan’s exquisite finds are available to buy at her online store. Last week, Susan Caplan held a press day and website launch party … Continue reading
Posted in Accessories, Fashion, Shopping, Stores
Tagged 1930s jewellery, antique jewellery, Chanel vintage jewellery, designer vintage silk scarves, Home Sweet Home London, online jewellery store, Schiaparelli shocking pink, Susan Caplan Vintage, Susan Caplan Vintage website, vintage designer jewellery, vintage online
Leave a comment
Guest Post: Café Pouchkine Pop Up Pâtisserie at Le Printemps
Moscow grand cafe culture meets with Parisian haute pâtisserie at Printemps’ pop up Fashion Cafe Pouchkine. Coralie Aude Grassin enjoys a very stylish afternoon tea… Paris combines two passions: fashion and gourmet food. So much that pastry chefs have designed … Continue reading
Posted in Afternoon tea, Designers, Fashion, Guest posts, Paris, Stores
Tagged Boulevard Haussmann Paris, Café Pouchkine, chocolat a l'ancien, Coralie Aude Grassin, Emmanuel Ryon, gateaux, laduree, Le Printemps Paris, macarons, Paris shopping quarter, Pierre Hermé, pop-up patisserie, Printemps department store, Russian patisserie, Tea Time in Wonderland
Leave a comment
Shoreditch Pop-Up Shopping Mall
A shopping mall opening in Shoreditch probably should be treated with huge suspicion, but Boxpark is the antithesis of the usual temples of mass-produced stuff. The world’s first pop-up shopping mall, Boxpark Shoreditch is made entirely of shipping containers, making … Continue reading
Posted in Designers, London, Shopping, Stores
Tagged Boxfresh, Boxpark, creative retail, emerging designers, high street, new brands, Roger Wade, shipping container shop, shopping concept, Shoreditch Goodsyard, shoreditch house, Shoreditch pop-up shop, Shoreditch shopping mall, temporary shop
1 Comment
Dover Street Market Tachiagari SS11
Comme des Garçons superstore Dover Street Market prepares for a brand new year with a complete overhaul and the arrival of the Spring/Summer 2011 collections. Meaning ’beginning’ or ‘start’ in Japanese, DSM has a bi-annual Tachiagari, when the store shuts down for … Continue reading
Posted in Designers, Fashion, London, Shopping, Stores
Tagged Adrian Joffe, Alber Elbaz, Comme des garcons, designer concept store, Dover Street London, dover street market, Dover Street Market Moncler jacket, Egg fashion designer, Japanese designer, Japanese fashion, Lanvin, le69 Paco Rabanne, London concept store, Paco Rabanne bag, Rei Kawakubo, Rose Bakery London, Spring/Summer 2011, stephen jones, Tachiagari, YSL bag
1 Comment
DKNY Spring 2011 Campaign
Spring can’t come quick enough to London, so why endure the grey skies when we can look forward to silk scarf dresses and light trench coats with the DKNY Spring 2011 campaign. Shot by Nathaniel Goldberg, Heidi Mount heads up the … Continue reading
Tim Walker Shoots Mulberry Spring Summer 11 Campaign
Mulberry launches its stunning Spring Summer 2011 campaign featuring the doll-like Lindsay Wixson and Nimue Smit, shot by legendary photographer Tim Walker. Inspired by the quintessentially English novel, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the Mulberry girls can be … Continue reading
Posted in Accessories, Designers, Fashion, Photography, Shopping, Stores
Tagged 17th century country house, doll-like models, Edward Enninful, Ellingham Hall, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lindsay Wixson, Mulberry, Mulberry flagship store, Mulberry leather goods, Mulberry New Bond Street, Mulberry Spring Summer 2011, Mulberry Tillie bag, Nimue Smit, pastel colours, peter pan collar shirts, piglets, rural Northumberland, The Secret Garden, Tim Walker, Tim Walker photographer, whimsical
7 Comments
Christmas Through The Windows Of Paris
Baudelaire wrote about the art of social observation among the streets, arcades and shop windows of 19th century Paris and still today, the city pays homage to the sport of the ‘flâneur‘ (the all-seeing wanderer). Paris has pulled out all … Continue reading
Posted in Designers, Fashion, Paris, Stores
Tagged artist Timothy Martin, Baudelaire, Chanel resort collection 2011, Chanel shop window, chihuahua, Coco Chanel, flâneur, Hermès, Lanvin, Lanvin shop window, Leila Menchari, macaron towers, Marie-Antoinette tea party, Paris shopping, pastel wonderland, patisserie, Pierre Hermé, pompons, Printemps, rue Saint-Honoré Paris, Saint Tropez, Vanessa Paradis, window shopping
1 Comment
