Swarovski have announced their designer collaborations for the upcoming shows. They include: Erdem, Giles, Marios Schwab and Richard Nicoll, in London; Pedro Lourenco in Paris; and Prabal Gurung and Juan Carlos Obando in New York.
Collections will be shown at the respective catwalk, but also streamed live on: www.swarovski.tv.
Guerlain, Paris, is one of the oldest perfumers in the world. In 1925, the fragrance Shalimar was created, encouraging women to celebrate their sexuality (long before the sexual revolution of the 60’s), encourage their sense of exploration and successfully assimilated vanilla into the fragrance world. Now the Parisian fragrance house has enlisted Jade Jagger to design a new bottle for the fragrance to continue these celebrations for a new generation of adventurous women. Bold and contemporary, the new bottle plays homage to the original bottle and also returns the signet of Guerlain to the bottle; tied to the bottle around the neck with a delicate ribbon. Jagger herself will be appearing in Harrods on September 8th for the launch of the new bottle.
To celebrate the classic adidas Top Ten Hi, and its update the Top Ten Remodel, Foot Locker and adidas Originals are in search of the ultimate trainer addict.
The search will run throughout September across Europe, and daily prices are there to be won - including a special message from Snoop, the Doggfather of cool.
Visit www.footlocker.eu/sneakeraddict for details.
These pictures were taken inside the Topshop Personal Shopping space. I was a bit bored. A certain Aviator jacket had one of my friends in a flap, and she made me go down to the store to help her find it. Said jacket is £325 and very expensive-looking. The problem is they have sold out and no more are going into store. Lucky for my mate two were returned in her size, so she bought them both.
I’m really happy for everyone concerned that she eventually found the jacket, but especially the Topshop staff - they all knew her by name by the time she came to pay.
Tip: if you see a winter jacket or coat snap it up to avoid disappointment.
More parties at the weekend include the annual Pool Disco at Shoreditch House.
Dress code: ‘A little Indian spice is nice, too much is a hot mess’.
So there you go.
Some men are getting more smart. There has definitely been a change. Walking around the West End and Hoxton last week I really noticed.
On the occasions you don’t want to be too formal, but equally not too casual, Thomas Pink has created a new Informal Collection.
Available at www.thomaspink.com
Danish design duo Wood Wood have created a capsule collection for ellesse Heritage.
Pieces available from September at retailers including Size? include: polo shirts, chino shorts, sweatshirts, tracksuit tops and fisherman’s hats. The collection is divided into ‘Blue Line’ and ‘Sunny Line’, which is pretty ’sunny’ in itself.
Richard Mortimer is going back to his Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen roots, and throwing an August Bank Holiday Sunday Special.
The evening will be hosted by Jonny Woo and Jeanette, and is tipped to be a stunning and blinding.
Here are a few shirts, all by Margaret Howell and they are available now at http://www.margarethowell.co.uk/#/shop-online/womens/shirts
Here is a ‘lil fact: Margaret Howell began by making shirts in 1972 with twelve machinists. Each machinist was responsible for every stage of the process. Today this care and attention is still given to shirt production in ourEdmonton workshop. Each highly skilled machinist is responsible for making the shirt from start to finish from the highest quality fabrics and their initials are sewn into each shirt they make.
Prices start at £225.
Chanel’s long-awaited new fragrance for men is now available. I say ‘long-awaited’ without any hint of sarcasm in my voice as their back-catologue of frangrances are one of my personal favourites.
Bleu de Chanel is a woody-aromatic fragrance created by Chanel’s nose, Jacques Polge. The fragrance has a new 1 minute advertising film directed by Martin Scorsese featuring Gaspard Ulliel as the face which launches next week.
