Monday 30 August 2010
Saturday 13 March 2010
Sunday 6 December 2009
Café, design et autres digressions
Oui, ce post est en français et ça devient un peu l’anarchie sur ce blog, un coup en anglais, un coup en français et parfois les deux mon capitaine ! Sans compter qu’il pourrait fort bien se voir agrémenté sous peu de petits croquis.
Vous ai-je déjà dit que j’étais un poil flemmarde, particulièrement le dimanche soir ? Si ce n’était pas le cas, voilà c’est fait… D’où l’anarchie et d’où les probables croquis.
Vous ai-je déjà dit que j’étais un poil flemmarde, particulièrement le dimanche soir ? Si ce n’était pas le cas, voilà c’est fait… D’où l’anarchie et d’où les probables croquis.
Bref, revenons à nos moutons… Ce week-end avait lieu à Shoreditch le East London Design Show, avec un peu plus de 100 designers, les talents locaux côtoyant leurs homologues australiens ou américains. Mode, arts du verre, bijoux, sacs, meubles, imprimes, une vraie caverne d’Ali Baba ! Alors comment moi, incarnation dans la vie réelle de Becky Bloomwood, aka l’accro du shopping, aurais-je pu résister ??? Tout était si joli, si mignon, chaque pièce m’implorant des yeux « je suis la, je suis la, emmène-moi chez toi ». Tout ça pour dire qu’au final j’ai été plutôt raisonnable. En plus d’un cadeau de Noël dégoté sur place (un ravissant kit pour fabriquer soi-même son accessoire de cheveux-http://www.janielawson.com/), je suis tombée en pamoison devant cet ensemble tasse-soucoupe-petite assiette de Let Them Eat Cake.
L’idée c’est de réunir des pièces de porcelaine vintage qui ne sont pas censées aller ensemble au départ… et pourtant, à l’arrivée le résultat est spectaculaire. Du coup, depuis ce matin, j’en suis environ à ma vingtième tasse de café, pour le seul plaisir de le déguster dans ma jolie tasse.
J’ai aussi trouvé cette carte, qui résume si simplement le fond de ma pensée. If only there were shoe trees... Je suis même étonnée de ne pas l’avoir formulé moi-même plus tôt... Et sinon pour le compte rendu de l’East London Design Show en anglais et les sites de mes créateurs chouchous, c’est sur Luxsure et c’est là !
Bonne semaine !
Bonne semaine !
Friday 20 November 2009
Foale and Tuffin - Made in England
Ok, I've been very lazy lately and haven't posted anything for days but the good news is that in the meantime I've secured a new job and I'm back into publishing, yayyyyyy!!!
To redeem myself, I'll talk to you about a fantastic exhibition I went to last weekend, Foale and Tuffin - Made in England. As I had to write an article for Luxsure, I peeled myself off the couch and braved the storm to walk to the Fashion and Textile Museum, based in Bermondsey.
Just a short digression about Bermondsey, I was quite amazed about how it's changed. Last time I went there, more than a year ago, it was to view a flat... Within 5 minutes, while I was waiting for the estate agent, a car crash and a spectacular arrest involving a dozen of police vans - those two events not being related - occurred. Right there, just before my eyes. After a little real estate humour moment, thanks to the agent - "well, at least, you can't say the place is not lively!" - I texted a friend who replied straightaway "What the hell are you doing in Bermondsey?? Run away for your life!". No need for him to say it twice! Well, I must say that Bermondsey street, where the museum is based, with its trendy shops and restaurants is now a place I definitely could see myself living in.
Anyway, back to the exhibition. The FTM is holding a retrospective of the work of Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, two key British designers in the sixties. They graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1961, when the winds of change started to blow across the fashion industry. For ten years, they were it! Their shop on Malborough Court, just off Carnaby Street, the heart of the 'Swinging London', sold the full range of their line, colourful, pop inspired mini dresses, corduroy trousers suits, lace garments, etc. and established them as the 'Queens of Carnaby'.
The exhibition not only recreates the shop, but also Foale and Tuffin's showroom and workroom, with the original cutting tables, sewing machines and sample books. The whole experience is a very pleasant ballade down memory lane, surrounded by great tunes from the sixties.
Sixties nostalgics, Austin Powers' fans or simply fashion lovers, you don't want to miss this exhibition!
For the article on Luxsure, it's here.
Otherwise, for more information about the Fashion and Textile Museum and the exhibition, it's there.
CREDIT image reproduced from Foale & Tuffin - The Sixties. A Decade in Fashion published by ACC Publishing Group.
To redeem myself, I'll talk to you about a fantastic exhibition I went to last weekend, Foale and Tuffin - Made in England. As I had to write an article for Luxsure, I peeled myself off the couch and braved the storm to walk to the Fashion and Textile Museum, based in Bermondsey.
Just a short digression about Bermondsey, I was quite amazed about how it's changed. Last time I went there, more than a year ago, it was to view a flat... Within 5 minutes, while I was waiting for the estate agent, a car crash and a spectacular arrest involving a dozen of police vans - those two events not being related - occurred. Right there, just before my eyes. After a little real estate humour moment, thanks to the agent - "well, at least, you can't say the place is not lively!" - I texted a friend who replied straightaway "What the hell are you doing in Bermondsey?? Run away for your life!". No need for him to say it twice! Well, I must say that Bermondsey street, where the museum is based, with its trendy shops and restaurants is now a place I definitely could see myself living in.
Anyway, back to the exhibition. The FTM is holding a retrospective of the work of Marion Foale and Sally Tuffin, two key British designers in the sixties. They graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1961, when the winds of change started to blow across the fashion industry. For ten years, they were it! Their shop on Malborough Court, just off Carnaby Street, the heart of the 'Swinging London', sold the full range of their line, colourful, pop inspired mini dresses, corduroy trousers suits, lace garments, etc. and established them as the 'Queens of Carnaby'.
The exhibition not only recreates the shop, but also Foale and Tuffin's showroom and workroom, with the original cutting tables, sewing machines and sample books. The whole experience is a very pleasant ballade down memory lane, surrounded by great tunes from the sixties.
Sixties nostalgics, Austin Powers' fans or simply fashion lovers, you don't want to miss this exhibition!
For the article on Luxsure, it's here.
Otherwise, for more information about the Fashion and Textile Museum and the exhibition, it's there.
CREDIT image reproduced from Foale & Tuffin - The Sixties. A Decade in Fashion published by ACC Publishing Group.
Monday 9 November 2009
Sunday afternoons
How good is it sometimes to spend a whole afternoon at home like if you were 6 again and it's raining/cold outside? Well, the answer is definitely VERY good. My agenda yesterday involved a couch and a woolen plaid, The Wizard of Oz, The Aristocats and some delicious little pink things, marshmallows with a chocolate heart, coated with rose sugar, mmmmhhhh...
C'est si bon parfois de passer un après-midi entier à la maison, quand il fait gris et froid dehors et faire comme si on avait 6 ans de nouveau! A l'ordre du jour hier : mon canapé et un plaid tout chaud, Le Magicien d'Oz, Les Aristochats et de délicieuses petites choses roses, sortes de marshmallows avec un cœur de chocolat, délicatement saupoudrés de sucre rose, mmmmhhhh...
C'est si bon parfois de passer un après-midi entier à la maison, quand il fait gris et froid dehors et faire comme si on avait 6 ans de nouveau! A l'ordre du jour hier : mon canapé et un plaid tout chaud, Le Magicien d'Oz, Les Aristochats et de délicieuses petites choses roses, sortes de marshmallows avec un cœur de chocolat, délicatement saupoudrés de sucre rose, mmmmhhhh...
L' objet du délit
At the end of the day...
A la fin de la journée...
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