Ready Steady Bow at the Barbican

Posted by Rebekah Roy on July 17th, 2008

Annabel Lewis is the founder of the celebrated trimmings and ribbon shop and every stylist’s favourite haberdashery VV Rouleaux! Annabel was giving mini demonstrations as part of the Viktor & Rolf exhibition on bow making. She gave everyone a long wired ribbon and showed us how to make the perfect rose and Christmas tree bow!

My rose!

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Tags: Annabel Lewis, haberdashery, ribbon, The Barbican, VV Rouleaux

2 responses so far ↓

1 rollergirl // Jul 22, 2008 at 21:21

Oh FUN! Would love to have gone to that!
2 Carl Starling // Jul 23, 2008 at 17:17

I’m so jealous! I wanted to go to many of the workshops put on at the V&R exhibition, but left it too late to apply. Loved the exhibition though.

Stumbled across your blog, and it’s really informative (esp. the lush vintage shops)…would you mind if I link up to you in my blogroll? Feel free to have a browse around my little blog. Cx