Hey you all! I wanted to do a post about the fashion shows going on at the moment, but the Paris Fashion Week hasn’t finished yet and I wouldn’t have much to go on – though I can already say I love the Givenchy collection! As well as looking at the photos over on Style.Com, [...]

Hello there! So, how on earth are you supposed to take any good photos in winter when it starts getting dark at around 4.40 pm? Hum?! And don’t even get me started about fiddling about with photoshop…. Anyway! I was putting away some magazines when I thought I’d talk about them and stuff (hey, we’re [...]

Howdy there! I have been sewing a bit but not enough to show you guys anything! It’s funny, summer’s ending here and all I want to do is make hats with some sinamay… Anyway, I thought I’d point out this hat book I picked up in Berlin! The full title is “Design Museum – Fifty [...]

While in Berlin I went to a great exhibition called ‘Visions & Fashion’ held at the Kunstbibliothek in the Kulturforum. It’s ending October 10th, so if you’re in Berlin and you’ve got 8€  to spare go check it out! I love fashion, and I think what I love most about it is that it’s not [...]

One of my very kind twitter followers recently sent me a message, wondering if  I would be interested in a hat book she found in her stuff, and obviously I was! The original book is called “How to Make and Trim Your Own Hats” by Vee Powell, published in the USA in 1944. I did [...]

I’m a 24 year old girl , I should be blogging about clothes and guys (that’ll be my next post…), but instead I’m going to talk about an article I saw in the economy pages of the newspaper (‘Le Monde’, 22 February) about Bohin, the sewing needle manufacturer…yes, I’m THAT cool! Bohin is a a [...]

So remember I blogged about a new Stephen Jones book that had come out recently? Well, I didn’t get it for christmas so I bought it the other day! I haven’t had time to read all of it yet but I’ve obviously flicked through a fair amount. It’s just gorgeous! It’s a book that goes [...]

I’m currently on christmas vacation, so I won’t be blogging for the next couple of weeks (too busy eating food!). But if you’re blocked in a airport somewhere and need a very good, serious fashion magazine to read, you should pick up the latest issue of ‘Industrie’ magazine (it’s a english mag). It’s got a [...]

The new issue of ‘Télérama’ has come out today (Télérama is a french cultural magazine as well as a TV guide), which has a special round up of the special craft courses/schools in France – in areas such as art restoration, ceramics, glass-making, wood crafts, fashion and jewelry. It’s really interesting, I sure wish I’d [...]

At the moment I’m busy putting together some pretty funky stockings for christmas but I have already got some ideas about what I’d like to make next hat-wise. I’ve been looking through a great book of Erté fashion illustrations taken from the magazine ‘Harper’s Bazar’. Erté was a russian-born artist who worked for the magazine [...]