Entries from December 2007
Posted by Rebekah Roy on December 31st, 2007



I love TV and it’s always fashion-related TV that I watch: biographies of designers, music videos and shows like Sex In The City, Ugly Betty or Gossip Girls – any TV that influences fashion. I also like shows that have an otherworldly/surreal feel to them like Twin Peaks – I loved that series.
I just finished watching the HBO series Carnivale. It’s about a carnival that travels across the dust bowl during the great depression and the struggle between good and evil. I love the whole look and feel of this series. It cost $4 million US per episode; it was one of the most expensive shows to produce. There were an estimated 5,000 people costumed in the show’s first season! The clothes are great. I love the neutral colours, they are faded, dusty, worn and authentic-looking: they tell a story.
What I find most interesting about costume and period clothing are elements of the clothes that are recreated in modern clothes to create retro feel to them. Clothes that look fashionable and hip often have a historic reference to them, sometimes it’s very subtle, but it can also be very obvious, to the point were elements of the authentic period costumes in Carnivale look strangely current.
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Tags: television
Posted by Rebekah Roy on December 30th, 2007

I was recently interviewed by Harriet Reuter Hapgood about trends for 2008 for today’s Independent on Sunday! Whenever I’m asked about trends I always end up thinking not just about recent trends, but trends over the past few years, what they mean, their influences, their impact, and really everything that gives them a context: news, political events, etc. They all have a huge influence on fashion, and vice versa!
Several people were also interviewed for the article, including Sarah Leon of Select Model Management, Alison Loehnis of Net-a-Porter and Bev Malik of Browns fashion and Jaana Jatyri of the trendstop.com, Paula Karaiskos of Storm model agency- it’s cool to be in such good company!
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UPDATE: You can now see the full story online Who will be the hot names in fashion in 2008?
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on December 29th, 2007
I lived in Paris for quite a few years and I became addicted to cafe life. I love people watching while having good conversation. I’d met Alison Whelan several times over the past few years and always had wonderful but short intense fashion conversations. We never really had the opportunity to have a really long chat, so we agreed to meet for tea on the Kings Road! Alison’s super cool and one of my favourite people. I find her totally inspiring and truly interesting, I can chat and listen to her for hours as she’s a great story teller. She is also a very talented art director (she’s worked with Tank, Prada and Liberty) and she’s a co-founder & chairman of Fashion Business Club.
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on December 28th, 2007

I’m a terrible knitter so I’m very appreciative and awe-inspired by people who can knit. When I saw this wedding dress in Harrods (displayed at the “Origins” counter) I just loved it! It’s called ‘The Elizabeth’, and it was designed and hand-knitted by Jemma Sykes for Butcher Couture. The dress is made from 100% certified organic wool and dyed naturally in soft pink. I really love the name ‘Butcher Couture’ and their specialty is 100% organic bovine leather!
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on December 27th, 2007
I love leather gloves but I always lose one of them. I keep the other glove just in case I miraculously find the mate, which of course I never do. Now there’s a website called One Cold Hand that’s here to help; this site reunites gloves that accidentally went their seperate ways. Right now it’s just for NYC or Pittsburgh, but there are plans to launch sites in Philadelphia, as well as Italy and Canada. Maybe they’ll launch a site in London!
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