Archive for August, 2010
Friday, August 27th, 2010
There’s a distinct Autumnal vibe about the place and we are beginning to prepare for frosty mornings and chilly evenings in cool, cool owl style…
We’ve stumbled upon the gorgeous cashmere wares from New York based ‘We Are Owls’ .
The label is a culmination of carefully developed artistic prints of beautiful animal and plant prints with the finest yarns.
Ling Chen the designer, studied Fashion and Illustration at Parsons School of Design before launching this unusually artistic, enigmatic, beautiful line.
The Auntumn/Winter ‘10 We Are Owls collection can be purchased through shopbop.com with free delivery worldwide in 3 days or less.
Tags: Autumn. Winter '10, birds, cashmere designer scarves, cool, dark, enigmatic fashion label, Fashion and Illustration at Parsons School of Design, flower, free delivery worldwide in 3 days or less, illustrated printed scarves, Ling Chen designer, owls, plant prints patterns, shopbop.com, we are owls
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Frette- providers of luxury linens around the world since 1860, has recently launched a more casual line ‘Edmond‘. The sub- brand is named after the company’s founder Edmond Frette, and is aimed at a discerning, younger market than the Frette brand itself.
Frette’s exquisite quality of luxury goods for the home are comprised mostly of Egyptian cotton fine merino wool and cashmere. Over the centuries,Frette has been the supplier of choice to the most distinguished residences, royal courts, government residences, embassies and hotels such as the Ritz Carlton and Claridges of London.
The Italian company’s decision to incorporate the Edmond line is a nod to contemporary prints and more colourful patterns than their richly conservative classics. And we feel they’d be a very welcome addition to any bedroom, and would leave you feeling cofy and cosy for many a cool night!
Frette bedlinens are available from Brown Thomas in Dublin, Harrods and Selfridges in London and from the Frette online store.
Tags: 5 star hotels, Brown Thomas Dublin, cashmere, claridges London, contemporary textiles, Edmond Frette, eqyptian cotton, fine linens and home decor, Frette, Frette online store shop, funky luxury bedlinen, Harrods London, italian bedlinen, Italian fabrics, luxury fabrics, merino wool, modern printed bedlinen, Ritz Carlton, royalty bedlinen, Selfridges London
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
News just in! The Orla Kiely Summer sale ends this Sunday 22nd August.
Gorgeously printed goodies from her Spring/Summer ‘10 collection are up to 50% off! This includes the household and clothing ranges too.
Visit the online shop and browse everything from notebooks to tea cups!
Happy Shoppping!
Tags: clothing, colour prints, colurful, designers at target, discount designer, home, interior design, Irish fashion designer, Orla Kiely, printed patterns, summer sale
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
We can’t resist a little bit of rock chick street style to get the juices going, and on a recent trip to London we were besotted with the world- renowned The Great Frog in Soho.
Image courtesy of The Local Data Company
Not to be bedazzeled by the abundance of skulls and crosses of your average rock legend, guitar hero and/or your local biker, K+A found some really unique pieces of chunky silverware that could easily make friends with a Kate and Ava dress at a garden party.
All jewellery sold in The Great Frog is handcrafted instore and tailors to retro, gothic and ethnic styles. The Great Frog supplied all the jewellery in the Harry Potter movies and custom made pieces for the bands Aerosmith, Iron Maiden and Metallica.
If it’s good enough for Aerosmith, we felt these pieces might even be cool enough for the man in your life too!
Rock on and play nicely now.
Tags: Aerosmith, bikers, chunk rings, chunky jewellery, cool gifts for men, cool jewellery, cool shops in London, Iron Maiden, Metallica, rock chick fashion, skulls and crosses, Soho London, solid silver, street style, The Great Frog silversmiths, The Local Data Company
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Thursday, August 19th, 2010
We’ve been so delighted to hear your wonderful comments about our new Autumn/ Winter 2010 collection that we thought we’d give a little insight into our inspiration which was mostly taken from the glam era of the 70’s and 80’s and in particular the legendary New York haunts of Studio 54 from that time.
We loved the styles of Debbie Harry, Gloria Vandrbilt, Bianca Jagger and the likes of that time so much, that we felt we had to make a feature of them. Our photoshoot pays homage to their well- put- togetheredness by day and their all-out glamazonian chic by night!
Studio 54 was mostly frequented by movie starlets and rock and roll icons as well artists such as Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali and anyone with serious amounts of street cred!
Looking hot and partying hard was the order of the day… Both are values closely held in K+A’s hearts.
Party on!
Tags: age of decadence, Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Cool glamazon style from 1970's and 1980's, Debbie Harry, glam rock, party fever, party hard, rock chick, rock star chic, Salvador Dali, Studio 54
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