Mary Katrantzou

This girl doesn’t stop lately…from UK to France, from France to the States…nonstop! Same goes for her designs…And the Greeks are (lately) known around the globe for something more than their crisis :) … hope they are proud for her!!!

We are waiting for her second collaboration with Topshop that will be released in February next year and even though it shouldn’t have gone public we have all seen a prototype going around that looks really promising!!! It is a 14 piece collection that we are all looking forward to seeing and hopefully do a bit of shopping since I guess the price range will be more accessible…

Then in January it will be launched the Mary Katrantzou for Longchamp collection. The theme for this S/S 2012 bag collection is ‘East meets West’. A must have for print lovers!!!

Get ready for Mary Katrantzou overdose :)

First Virtual Fashion Museum

Well, well, the first virtual fashion museum is open and Giancarlo Giammetti and Valentino Garavani have explained how people can interact with the digital master classes and other interactive concepts that will be introduced every eight weeks.
Instead of the static exhibitions in museums, the Valentino duo has used immersive 3-D technology to present archives spanning 50 years, including nearly 100 fashion shows on video, 5.000 dresses, the original working sketches and photographs of the clothes etc. The virtual museum is a downloadable desktop application that when downloaded each visitor can create their unique route through the galleries, to discover and enjoy every aspect of Valentino’s world. The application is available to download since yesterday, 5th December!

The idea is to open up the archives and see a key outfit close in intimate detail in 3-D, with explanations of its cut and craftsmanship, as well as when and where it was first shown. The significance of the initiative is to bring the history of Valentino to the wired generation in the language of today’s technology.

I find this very interesting and I’m planing to virtually visit :D

Isabel Marant’s T-Shirt

I like that Marant decided to create this T-shirt for Gap and support World AIDS day 2011…if there are still T-shirts left you will find them in selected Gap stores!!

It makes me happy to see that people really care for what’s happening around them irrelevant of their wealth, status etc…

Marni x H&M

I know it’s all over but I couldn’t resist to at least post some pics and say that I can’t wait…

As you can obviously see there will be women's, men’s collection and accessories!!! This time I’m queueing :D

And you??

‘Pop-up’ shopping centre

Boxpark, London’s latest retail park is built entirely from recycled shipping containers and just opened in East London on Friday. It is the world’s first ever ‘pop-up’shopping centre and is already proving popular with celebrities and public alike!

Located on trendy Shoreditch High Street, it is made up of 60 standard-sized shipping containers which are stacked two stories high and five rows wide. Roger Wade, British entrepreneur (Boxfresh), is behind the park and you can visit the website below for the brands you can find and more information.

http://www.boxpark.co.uk/

The shopping centre took a year to complete and has a temporary lease of five years. Once the lease is up, the plan is to return the land back to its owners in the same condition as it was before Boxpark was built. Then the community can decide if it wants a more permanent retail space there.

What do you think of these kind of initiatives?

I’m back!!!

Good morning all!!! It has been so long since my last post and so many things have happened!!!

Marni is designing a capsule collection for H&M
Online Vogue Fashion Week starts today
Pull and Bear has created its first collection for kids
Chopard is opening in Madrid its bigger store in Europe
Boxpark opens the first pop up shopping centre in Shoreditch London
Amy Winehouse’s final Fred Perry collection goes on sale
British Fashion Awards

and so many other things that for sure I’m missing now…

oh! Christmas is almost here…yuppie!!!

S xxx