Garance Doré‘s concept shop for Gap has arrived! I popped in to snap her inspiration wall…
The shop (Unit G7, Kingly Court, Off Carnaby Street, W1) is in place for 19 days until 3rd October and will sell specially-printed Garance for Gap T-shirts (but hurry, they won’t hang around for long).
For a mag hag like me, anything that has editorial content and some nice pics is a goer. I hoard the COS, Matches and Harvey Nichols Edit magazines as if they’re collectors editions of Vogue and can’t wait for b Store’s new b Magazine to launch during LFW. Since the latest My-Wardrobe Style Guide arrived two weeks ago it hasn’t left my desk. Not only is it packed with a breakdown of the new-season buys but there are pages of style advice from fashion editors and mini Q&As with emerging designers. Oh and a brilliant ‘how I’d wear it’ feature by the always-inspiring Katie from What Katie Wore.
Interestingly, My-Wardrobe’s Saran Curran revealed to me that she often has to justify the cost of producing the Style Guide to her investors as they don’t always see its benefit. Yet for an online store to produce a printed publication makes perfect business sense to me as it serves as a tangiable reminder of the brand as well as offering genuine shopping advice – and no small amount of encouragement.
Summer 09 will surely go down in history as the season when fashion blogging tipped over into the mainstream. Never have I received so many emails inviting me to blog events, asking for a soundbite or sending me links to big-up-the-bloggerati articles. Today’s Business of Fashion alerted me to an insightful article in The Times that suggests if brands don’t embrace bloggers sharpish, they’ll almost certainly get left behind.
