HOUSE OF HOLLAND

This is just a quick shout out to say House of Holland is becoming a favourite!

I was lucky enough to get an invite to last seasons show and it was ace. 

The soundtrack featured 90's house classics, whilst HOH pumped out the hotness.

The ready to wear, sold in places like Urban Outfitters, is affordable, fun, and easy to where. check it out.

and my obsession ASOS!

Anyhoo, great stuff HOH!

Je T'aime YSL : Yves Saint Laurent Jardin Majorelle

Last November I had the pleasure to visit the wonderful country Morocco.

It was everything I had imagined.

Whilst visiting I managed to escape the hustle and bustle of the souks of Marrakesh and visited the Gardens of Yves Saint Laurent.

The gardens themselves were tranquil and exhibited a wonderful array of cacti.

Deep the gardens is a tiny room containing framed collages Yves had created over the years. These were gifts for Christmas to his friends and family.

The images, below, have the imagery of love.

As valentines day is upon us I thought I'd share a creative, thoughtful and economic way of sharing your feelings.

Happy Valentines day.

P.s. I urge you to visit, it will not disappoint. 

Sophie the Sack maker. xoxo

Back from the land down under...no not Austrailia but New Zealand!

So yes it's almost been a month, but in that month I have indeed travelled the whole length of New Zealand!

You may ask "why"? And I shall answer to see the furthest land from here(London) (I think).
And yes it was a spectacle, the high light being Milford Sound.
Before I went I had no clue what a sound was, I thought does it have crazy whale music or something. Anyways nope it didn't just amazing waterfalls and huge mountains. INSANE!

Also during my visit I realised New Zealand has some great designers and boutiques. The cream of the crop, boutiques:

Angel Divine - Queenstown....

If I had ooodles of moula I would totally spend it here!

http://www.angeldivine.co.nz/ check it out!

Cute heels! Carr heels!

For awesome vintage in a cute sea-side town check out Tauranga's Idiom:

https://www.idiomboutique.co.nz/

Amazing finds! I got a really cute grey scarf (197o's) with a quirky pheasant print, pics to follow!

Also some cool new designers like : Medowlark, Juliandanger and Salasai. 

Juliandanger

Sayuri Kimono.

It's cool that I found these boutiques in smaller towns. 

Next time I hope to hit Auckland and Wellington large style. However did have a great night in Wellington, recommendation The Alice bar, cocktails in tea pots, what more does a girl want!

http://www.wellingtonnz.com/bars_restaurants/alice

http://www.whiterabbit.co.nz/

Oh yeah, and the Te Papa museum was ace too!

http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/pages/default.aspx

 

There I saw Giant squid in a huge tank, and an exhibition on European modern artists, funny huh! Awesome Museum.

Hope you enjoy the first instalment of The first summer of 2011! 

Keep installed for more!

Next time highlights from Puzzling world!

Where's that wolf.....Lanvin stole it!

Werewolves, exciting? Furry? A thing of fiction?

 Kanye West feat. Jay-z Bon Iver and Nicki Minaj, video for monster. Werewolf girl, making hairy look sexy!


Possibly, however wolves are real! Word.

Contemporary evidence is in Lanvin's new Pre-Autumn 2011 shoot. One word....Wunderbar!

Normally I would be anti a shoot like this. My argument would be using a wolf (or Jaguar, in later pictures) to advertise clothing or any commodity is shallow and cruel. But this works, it gives the hard-core lux brand a hard blunt fierce edge. And the final effect is utter style.

 

Noted this could step into the farcical realm of teen wolf, but at Maison Lanvin every essence of the brand is lux'd up to the max, so I suppose farce would always be a polar extreme of this brand, unless they chose to be quirky and ironic one season.

Lanvin I applaud you!

Peek-a-boo

Hello everybody, I have been gone, but alas not forever, I suppose this Holiday season is starting to take it's toll.

To cheer you all up, if the snow is having the opposite effect (if you are not in the UK, if the general weather and time of year is getting you down) this is for you.
The first selection of images are from my archive, a selection of machines from one of the wonderful sampling rooms of Savile row!

 

Below a selection on Monk pictures from my trip to Noway, he was the artist who created the "Scream". 

 

This is my favourite!