Greta & I I feel a poetry revival coming on. You know how the last few seasons of Fashion Week have seen Illustrators on the front row? Well Im seeing front row Poets, wistfully summarising each collection in 3 or 4 lines.
My Best friend Greta is a poet. We collaborated together on these bracelets. Handmade in Guatamela and 100% Fair Trade they feature some of her most powerful lines. We will be selling them exclusivley at Secret Garden Party this year but we’ve put a limited amount upHERE for sale.
1) Retail Gets Social: C&A in Brazil has added digital Facebook Like buttons to their clothes hangers enabling shoppers to like items IRL! READ MORE
2) Email- Luxury: ‘Direct email marketing has been largely overlooked as a serious and significant channel for direct engagement. In the scramble to amass Facebook fans and launch runway collections on Twitter, brands have shifted significantly away from the brand to client relationship, in favour of the brand to everyone relationship.’ READ MORE
3) An Apple Car? J. Crew CEO and Apple board member Mickey Drexler offers an insider’s perspective on Steve Jobs’s vision: “Steve’s dream before he died was to design an iCar.” READ MORE
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5) Tavi Talks at Ted Teen Conference: Her quirky styling and grunge precedence may not be your thing, but one things for sure you can’t doubt this teenager’s eloquent grasp of tech and how the teen audience uses it.
‘The JoeyBra is a bra equipped with a discreet pocket to store your phone, credit cards, Tic Tacs, chapstick, or any of the other weird stuff you usually keep in your handbag.’
‘These candles by culinary designer Stéphane Bureaux not only smell delicious, they taste delicious too. Instead of blowing out the candle, you let it melt to create a delicious pool of melted chocolate. ’
A Surprise Sweet Pairing! Pinata Cookies.
Rebecca Wilson’s Dirty Rotten Peaches are provocative porcelain figures, transforming the already not-so-innocent fruits into voluptuous ladies bottoms.
I’ve got a thing for Chanel. The handbags, cosmetics, shoes and other accessories ( RTW can wait til I’m 30+) it’s just consistently alluring. Season after season, it’s like a giant luxurious pomegranate and each show is one juicy seed. Whether this james and the giant peach analogy is going anywhere or not their recent cruise show at Versailles definitely is.
Fashion Notes: dip dye is now firmly full dye, severe bobs-coming back? Soft pastel make up contrasted with heavy brocade, framed handbags, that brilliant cobalt blue.
First look at the Chanel Fall campaign
Inspired by the Raj’s of India, Karl’s Parisian take on Traditional Indian draping and embellishment has an urban decadence. Perfect with Culietta headpieces It’s Goa Grunge Carine Roitfeld style. Xxxo
Tousled & Draped in a Snow White Dress, with Apple Red Nails & a Dragon Fly Necklace
Onto the green grass carpet. A Huntsman or a Prince who would you pick?
Read the full post at www.myfashdiary.com & Watch the Film in UK cinemas. The most Uh-mazing wardrobe by Coleen Atwood. A thrilling tale with a few fairys too. xxxo