Business of fashion

Liberty + Hermes ♥ scarves




Fabulosity alert! Liberty and Hermes are joining forces to spread the scarf love with a pop-up Hermes scarf salon at Liberty. Now I’m slightly over the whole pop-up thing but for this I’ll make an exception. From September 7th for six weeks, you can buy one of six exclusive Hermes for Liberty designs marrying Liberty’s cotton Tana Lawn fabric with the zhuzh of Hermes. There is also a chance to win a one-to-one styling session with the creative director of Hermes silk. (Hopefully they throw in a scarf too.)

PS: DON’T FORGET TO VOTE DISNEYROLLERGIRL IN THE DAZED/GSTAR BLOG AWARDS!



Fashion curators



A recent post on Fashionista reveals that Rodarte are collaborating with Colette to curate a selection of their favourite things to show and sell at the cult Parisian store in October*. I’ve blogged about this type of creative retail concept before so I’m thrilled it’s finally happening for real. By the way, whatever happened to the rumour that Scott Schuman was doing something similar at Barneys?

*Why not enter my Eurostar comp and you can see it for yourself?



Diesel does dayglo




Exciting news just in this week that my blog buddy Sophy Robson is doing the nails for Jeremy Scott at LFW. There is definitely a nail thing going on in London right now, and no event is complete without its nail artists in situ. Last week I was tempted down to the Diesel Flash for Fun launch (its glow in the dark collection that lands next month), not by free jeans and tees but by a free day-glo manicure courtesy of WAH Nails.

Not only were the nail artists sweet and super-creative (no French manicures here) but something about the whole shebang with the little toy-like plastic fans on the tables (to dry the nails) and general hubub made the event far friendlier than your average hifalutin fash bash. Well, that and the fact it was held at the Dalston Superstore.

In the basement you could see the clothes in action, glow-in-the-dark stitched jeans reminding me of Helmut Lang’s 1990s reflective dresses and trousers – *looks off wistfully into the middle distance* – anyone else remember these? But truly, the most fun was had upstairs where you couldn’t move for fash-bloggers – Isabelle O’Carroll, Fred Butler, Jaiden James and Rasharn Rva included. Honestly, the only fash-blogger missing was Miss Sophynails herself!


[Nails pics: WAH Nails]



Boys boys boys



Step aside Agynes, Jourdan and the rest, the boys are muscling in. News just in of HERO, a new twice-yearly glossy showcasing the best male models from the international agencies. Not sure who’s behind it but anyone brave/crazy enough to launch a glossy mag in the currant climate gets my wholehearted support. Check it out here.