sheerling coat

adore!

Titania Inglis

My style is a miss match between vintage and advent garde so when I came across Titania Inglis I just had to blog about her. She has designed clothes for the modern woman with particular interest on the fit and cut of the garment. looking at bias cut, origami pleating and ingenious seaming.
As I am fast approaching my late 20's I feel that I am heading towards that grown up edgy look, with more emphasis on this area rather then nieve prints. She sticks to the rules of minalism as a matter of taste. I am really looking towards reducing my wardrobe to well considered peices rather then multiples of high street urges. knowing that I look great in what ever I decide to throw on at 6am on a Monday morning. Or a quick change before dinner out after work. More and more of us are aware of recycling and less are buying for the sake of it so Titania's use of organic fabrics and vegetable printed leather is most apealing-guilt free fashion.
xKx

Beautiful Shoes

Spring scrapbook loves

the nights and mornings are lighter the sun is shining outside and that can only mean wardrobe planning time!! I get excited about spring and start to plan my outfits, the best way is to set up a scrapbook-handbag size, or get a big chunky bulldog clip and save all your magazine cuttings and print outs in a lovely leather folder.

Here are a few of mine for starters, ss h&m look-book

stunning jade stripe dress, loving the mustard and mint stripes at the hem

Coral, the colour that has been coming back year after year for a while now, teamed with gold- and that owl necklace-lush

sharp shoulders and a modern twist on the breakfast at tiff dress, loving the the way the waist curves upwards-very flattering

Delightful Dahlia

Today I went to frock heaven.  Dahlia do the most delightful dresses and some coats too!

xKx

recession and fashion

When thinking about what to write in my new post I wondered to myself what is the main thing that is going off in my life right now. Being a lingerie designer times are hard. Many people are facing redundancy (me included) so I am wondering what is happening to the fashion industry? How do the consumers react? Who is doing well, who is flopping? Why and how?

Start at the top, there was recently an article in the metro stating how well the high end lingerie brand Agent Provocateur was doing in these tough times, apparently their sales have grown by 8% since march last year. On an even higher scale Hadley Freeman from the Guardian said that Dior's haute couture sales have risen by 35% and Chanels by 20%. On the bottom end of the scale there is Primark, New Look and Matalan alike all doing really well.

I think in times like these it seems that stores with good PR, good shop fittings and that know their market work well. That is why people like Morgan and Bay Trading are flopping. Agent Provocateur's PR is fabulous, from window dressing to newsletters and agent documentation brochures everything is well thought through. Press is something that New Look and Primark are always in, does this sound like brain science? I dont think so. You just have to be witty about it.