Posted by Rebekah Roy on September 2nd, 2008
You might have seen sequins this season at Balmain, Giles, Christian Dior but Ashish is the King of Sequins and every girl loves a bit of sequins!
30 Second Interview with Ashish:
- What’s your favourite smell? rain, old paperbacks, oakwood, talcum powder
- Do you eat breakfast? yes, always. otherwise i get really really cranky!
- What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received? when people tell me that they feel happy/sexy/fabulous when they wear my clothes
- What will be your last words? ‘i’m bored’, in which case I’ll be ready to go…
- What do you wear to bed? moisturiser
- What was the first thing you bought when you got your first credit card? A video camera
- I wish my ex would… let me keep the house?! (just kidding!)
- Five star hotel or a tent in the woods? five star hotel!
- Favourite kind of shoes? hi-top adidas trainers
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on March 30th, 2008
The first English Bakelite phone!
Bakelite was used to make tape measure! Check out Old Tools, they have lots cool items and a good selection of tape measures!
We often see many fashion items and we don’t know their influences or their significance. Top Shop and most high street shops have a good selection of plastic bracelets that are art Deco inspired and a plastic bracelet is nice but it doesn’t seem very special until you start looking at the original ones and their history.
Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-American chemist working in New York applied for The “Heat and Pressure Patent” on July 14th, 1907. The name Bakelite was originally a brand – trademark name, but it’s become a generic term for all phenolic resin products. It’s hard to imagine that one patent was used in so many different objects: saxophone mouthpieces, cameras, solid-body electric guitars, rotary-dial telephones, tape measures, early machine guns, appliance casings and jewellery. Many of these pieces have become collectors items and are extremely sought over. Phenolics are presently used in the electronics, power generation and aerospace industries.
In London you can find a selection of the popular JMP (Paris) 70s Bakelite jewellery pieces – manufactured for Dior at Palette London.
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on February 28th, 2008
This is the lovely Miss Katie! Of course a girl this lovely must design something very special! For over 10 years, Miss Katie has created exquisite corsetry in latex, fine satins and silks – very sexy but still very playfull!
It’s interesting in recent years how latex has moved into mainstream fashion- of course this is more evident in the UK then in North America.
I think House of Harlot has greatly influenced our views on fetishwear – they have created a fetishwear luxury label. Robin Archer, head of House of Harlot has designed for many French couture houses: Thierry Mugler, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton and John Galliano, have all commissioned House of Harlot for their catwalk shows. I remember a few years ago Erin O’Connor worn a green latex jacket & skirt in British Vogue, although it didn’t really translate into sales for the House of Harlot it’s always good press. I love that London has shops like this. It’s always interesting to see what the mainstream tries to co-opt and how far it will go. Cheap fetishwear is really cheap and nasty, but garments that are beautifully crafted and tailor-made from latex can be quite exquisite!
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Posted by Rebekah Roy on July 19th, 2006
When I was in Paris last year I saw a pair of pink Dior sunglasses that I just love, I don’t even remember why I didn’t buy them. The sky was grey & wintery and I think I thought I’d see them again in London but I never did. So I am always looking for the perfect pink pair of Dior sunglasses. So of course when I see the word sale and designers together I get a bit riveted, even hopefull that I might find my sunglasses… Of course I couldn’t bring myself to wear a fake label. Really I’d rather just buy a cheap anything then a fake something. I just can’t get over that it seems OK to sell fakes. I keep thinking that I’m wrong this might be real, but really I know you get what you pay for…
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