YOU NAME IT: The growth of personalisation
Illustration by Marina Kharkover
by Jenny Dalton
IN THE EARLY 80s when it became fashionable to own accessories with your name attached (remember the original script name necklaces, way before SATC’s Carrie got her mitts on one?), I remember being constantly thwarted when I hit the shops looking for named items. A million Jennifers, but never a Jenny.
So, what must today’s kids feel like rifling through those souvenir racks, name-cards and the like, all of which are rendered pretty pointless in the face of a million and one children with exotic, one-off, individual, even made-up, names.
Posted 2 March 2010 in Products
Moomin Mobile by Flensted
A genius brand new mobile from Flensted featuring the beloved, cult Moomin characters. The mobile includes 12 characters from the Moominvalley that you hang on the pegs included, and change whenever you please, or when reading a Moomin story to your little one. Totally beguiling. Design Riina and Sami Kaarla, 55cm x 50cm.
Price: £18.50
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BUNK MATE: Ace hotel bunks
LOOK NO FURTHER for inspiration for your pre-teen or teenage son’s room than the recently opened Ace Hotel in New York. One of our (male) colleagues spent a couple of days there recently and is still extolling the virtues of the large canvas laundry bags with Navy-style typography, the masculine-chic toiletries from Rudy’s barbershop, the [...]
HEART OF GLASSES: Zoobug
IF YOU’VE TRIED unsuccessfully to get your wee ones to wear sunglasses, then you probably haven’t heard of Zoobug.
Zoobug’s founder, 33-year-old Dr Julie Diem Le, the Vietnam-born ophthalmologist who moved to the UK aged four and trained as an eye surgeon, might not have had to do the persuading first hand, but as an aunt [...]
Posted 23 February 2010 in Products
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