FASHION: Northcote Road
Photography, Helen Marsden; Styling, Kellie Daggett / www.kelliedaggett.com
SOUTH LONDONERS have known about the super-stylish and parent-friendly shopping area that is Northcote Road, Battersea (SW11), for some time.
On a sunny day the street and surrounds (dubbed ‘Nappy Valley’) will be packed with dining families, extremely well-heeled & yummy mummies, and well-behaved and well-dressed kids sauntering in and out of the likes of the Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Cath Kidston, Petit Bateau, the antiques market, or ASPACE interiors boutique.
Stylist Kellie Daggett is a regular to the area, and her favourite stores include Iris boutique (97 Northcote Road; www.irisfashion.co.uk), Living Vintage (113D Northcote Road), and for style on a budget, the impressive Fara Charity Shop just off the street for amazing vintage, designer bargains. See our stockists information for more Northcote Road shopping inspiration…
PICTURE CREDITS: Going Shopping (left). Saskia wears dress, £25, Noa Noa at Living Vintage. Grosgrain hair bow, small, £3.99, Trotters. Petal print mini bag, £6, Cath Kidston. Cluster necklace, £38, Cath Kidston. Butterfly hair clips, £4, Cath Kidston. Click on all the images below for full credits.
Posted 23 April 2012 in Textiles
FASHION: Pop Brights
KIDS’ FASHION is leading the rest of us this season with pop brights and happy, saturated colour in great swathes. If you needed persuading to let go of the black this summer, here are a few good reasons…
*Photography: Helen Marsden (www.helenmarsdenphotography.com) ; Styling: Francesca Bartoli (www.francescabartoli.com); Hair & Make-Up: Christina Corway (www.christinacorway.com)
Stockists: Boden: www.boden.co.uk; Caramel: www.caramel-shop.co.uk; Cos: www.cosstores.com; Elias & Grace: www.eliasandgrace.com; i love gorgeous: www.ilovegorgeous.co.uk; Vitra: www.vitra.com; VV Rouleaux: www.vvrouleaux.com
Left: Lilac long-sleeved T-shirt, £12, Cos. Yellow skirt, £51, i love gorgeous. Gold pumps, £28, Boden. Junior Panton chair, £130, Vitra. For all other stockists details click on each image below.
Papaya and yellow
Green dress
Cornflower dress
Pink bonnet
Yellow and gold
Posted 23 March 2012 in Textiles
SHOP FOCUS: Dalani
by Jenny Dalton
WE’RE A bit crazy about pouffes in our household. Perfect for foot-a-resting after another tiring day, or child-a-sitting when colouring in / snacking at the coffee table, so we understandably got a bit excited about these from TS Homeware at Dalani.
If Dalani doesn’t sound familiar, it’s a new flash-sales interiors-themed webstore started by an ex-Elle Decoration editor, and frequently offers brilliant, brilliant sales by the likes of Arper, Conran, Jamie Oliver, Dualit and Allegra Hicks.
The pouffe sale which sees reductions from £99.95 - £129.95 down to £69 - £89 begins next Thursday (15th March) for almost a week… So best sign up now..
Posted 9 March 2012 in Design + Decoration, Textiles
NEW TALENT: Corby Tindersticks
WE’VE FALLEN hard for the work from creative duo Carly Gledhill and Nick Mitchell, otherwise known as Corby Tindersticks. Corby, you should know, is a character [pictured left] created by children’s illustration graduate, Carly, who working with her architect partner Nick promises northern-influenced, brilliantly quirky, kid-friendly offerings from soft toys to T-shirts … After stocking up on their hand-embellished felt posters for the LittleBig shop, they gave us an insight into their new work..
LittleBig: Agyness Dean recently said that what the North has that the South doesn’t is a sense of humour… How much does being from the North and northern humour infect what you do?
Carly Gledhill: We don’t take ourselves too seriously, I can empathise with Agyness Dean’s comments as there is something quite special about northern culture, but I think humour is universal and we hope this translates through our products. We are hugely influenced by northern eccentrics, in particular the late Frank Sidebottom, whose all encapsulating world was both touching and funny. Sometimes we do have to stop ourselves using Northernisms - for example we had to drop Corby’s flat cap and whippet so customers worldwide would understand!
LittleBig: Where did the lovely, quirky Corby Tindersticks name come from?
Nick: Corby came from a doodle of a little boy character Carly drew whilst studying for an MA in children’s book illustration. He has taken over most drawings since and became our firm favourite invention. He was sewn into a 3D character and he’s been all over the world with us! I’m not really sure where the name Corby came from - I think it was partly from liking the word and also influenced by Alan Partridge’s obsession with the Corby trouser press! Tindersticks was really an accident, when we were trying to think of a good surname for Corby to make the company’s name I heard the word on BBC 6 music and it just stuck! Read the rest of this article
Posted 5 March 2012 in Designer Profiles, Textiles
TRENDS: Bubble Review
By Jo Middleton
LITTLEBIG VERY selflessly spent the day last Sunday going all the way to Bubble London to check out the latest trends for kids for Autumn and Winter. We traipsed around all day looking at gorgeous dresses, cooing over tiny shoes, and gasping with delight at hand-sewn cushion covers. The things we do for you…
The whole show was fantastic, and we’ll be bringing you more in-depth features on some of the individual brands over the course of the next few months, but in the meantime we wanted to whet your appetites with a few of our favourites.
Following the success of the Muffin Pouffe, a luxurious leather cushioned stool with a playful elegance [pictured left], Matteo Bianchi has been baking mini muffins! Yes that’s right, they’re stools that look like muffins - what’s not to love? You can create your own unique design by selecting your muffin ‘ingredients’ from a range of beautifully handcrafted solid wooden bases, buttons, and soft leathers and fabrics. So gorgeous you won’t know whether to sit on it or eat it. www.muffinpouffe.co.uk Read the rest of this article
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