11 June, 2013

Order it now: Charlotte Olympia’s cherry-shaped bag

Charlotte Olympia just out-kitsched herself with this immaculately realised Perspex bag for Resort 2014. Available for shipping from November, you can pre-order it now from Moda Operandi. Too quirky (surely not)? Then consider the matching heels instead. In red and black suede with fetching leaf green heels, there’s more than a hint of Guy Bourdin about them. The only catch is that this ‘trunk show’ ends on Thursday so if you want them, get in fast… (more…)

Disneyrollergirl 0 Comments Brands, Design, Shopping accessories, Charlotte Olympia, Moda operandi, pre-tail, Resort 2014, shopping

8 June, 2013

Yasmin Sewell curates Beach In The East

Yasmin-Cho-Poland-Street

That photo above is from the Disneyrollergirl archives, AKA a pile of scrapbooks and box files containing years worth of photos, cuttings, and ephemera that I’ve held onto ‘just in case’. Yasmin Cho was a late ’90s shop on a first floor in Poland Street, an out-of-sight destination that you had to want to find in order to visit it. Run by Yasmin Sewell, it stocked a curated mix of under-radar labels like Susan Cianccolo, Carol Christian Poell, and Rick Owens. You had to press a buzzer to get in and the sign on the door was made up of coloured sticky dots. Fast forward 15 years and Yasmin Sewell’s early concept has come full circle with a Shoreditch pop-up space called Beach In the East. (more…)

Disneyrollergirl 1 Comment Brands, Design, Online shopping, Retail concepts, Shopping, Trends Beach In The East, Frederick Maxwell Kingery, pop-up shops, retail concepts, Sophia Webster, Thomas Tait, Yasmin Sewell

7 June, 2013

Ben Eine X Louis Vuitton

Ben eine louis Vuitton

The art-fashion convergence continues to broker commercial collaborations. I quite like this one between Louis Vuitton and street artist Ben Eine. Eine has reimagined his signature typographic letters for Vuitton, arranging his colourful words on a silk square scarf. Although given the choice between knotting it round my neck and framing it, I think I’d prefer the latter.

I actually can’t find any info on this collab I’m afraid. Instead I found this very sweet video of Eine talking about his work a few months ago…

EINE 2013: EXTORTIONISTS X PROTAGONISTS from Bosh on Vimeo.

UPDATE: Ok I found some info. A lot of info!

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31 May, 2013

Quote of the day: Dapper Dan

“My intention was to take them and adorn my customers with them in a way that made someone wearing one of my garments feel cool, giving them that sense of “I’ve arrived!” I wanted to really make my customers stand out so that they felt like a celebrity in one of my pieces.”

Dapper Dan on his excessive custom-logo-ed hip hop garb, in conversation with Mandi Lennard on the LOVE blog

[Image: Dapper Dan with LL Cool J]