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Friday 6th June 2008
Part 1: fashion156.com's roving reporters and hosts with the most Elliott James Sainsbury and Sami Knight put on a fabulous fashion dinner. Here is what everyone was wearing. Part 2 will run tomorrow here on the blog, along with a write up and photographs of the night.
The taxi's optional
Quietly, they come in, in anonymous bags, ready for our upcoming shoot. But when we take them out, the whole office is clamouring to get a peek at Natacha Marro's work, in the form of the vertiginous heels above (for once, the term is completely deserved). They put other shoes in the shade- and talk turns to where would be best to wear them. Such outfit-defining, gravity-defying beauties deserve the most glamorous night out you can think of- visits to the member's only bars of London to drink exquisite cocktails, punctuated by lots and lots of precautionary taxi journeys so as not to ruin them.
Marro's recently been blogged about by none other than our fashion spy Susie Bubble on Style Bubble, and featured in the Sunday Times Style. Her fashion CV also boasts some great pieces for Luella and Hannah Marshall, as well as brazenly gravity-defying, mind-bending bespoke work and commissions.
But these shoes also remind me of the colours of sparkling champagne, a chilled rose on a balmy evening or a creamy milkshake from an American-style diner (mmm... get's me thinking about Ed's or The Diner)- or am I just desperate to get to after-work drinks? Either way- they'll be showing up on our fashion pages really soon...
www.natachamarro.com
Posted by Elliott James Sainsbury.
All Hail the Barrow Girl!
Cluster-y glass jewellery isn't anything new or cutting-edge, but in the case of Julia Bristow's fruit and vegetable miniature glass bead pieces it's witty and surprisingly beautiful. Again, this is the kind of stuff that you really have to re-contextualise to make work... what I mean is, a Bristow fruit necklace worn with dangle earrings and a crisp t-shirt, tucked into high-waisted stonewash jeans (since meeting CSM grad Simone Shailes, who works a pair of high-waist vintage cropped denim like nobody else, I've become slightly obsessed with this style) with a very high ponytail. The best piece is the cornucopia-like brooch, top right, which I'd love to see on a boy's suit jacket or cardigan where a traditional corsage might go. 'Each fruit necklace is unique' and, if the site's a bit lo-fi, the pieces certainly aren't.
I love the idea of wearing miniature fruit 'n' veg, with the grapes, for example, echoing the shape of pearls. It makes a crazy kind of sense, but staring at them too long also makes me ravenously hungry. Gar.
http://www.juliabristowjewelry.com/Fruit.html
Posted by Elliott James Sainsbury.
I Love-Heart Bertie Bassett:
This piece of eye-candy is the 'Dolly Mixture' dress which was designed as a costume for the Nutcracker ballet. It fans out as the model spins, showing masses of bright pink satin beneath the full black skirt, and all is topped off with the pink liquorice allsort hat, as perfect as a cherry on a cupcake.
I guess dolly mixtures themselves are a real peice of visual design, not just a colourful treat that takes me back to memories of children's birthday parties. Bertie Basset, created in the 1920s, looks surprisingly dapper with his liquorice top hat, cylindrical yellow shorts and cuboid black and white striped top. I think that the dress (above) is only one of the many fantastic style possibilities that sweeties might inspire. Two of my personal style icons, Jack and Meg White, have often adorned their band website with those swirling red and white Campino's - The White Stripes's candy style counterparts.
This makes me think how fun it would be to make bracelets and necklaces out of dolly mixtures, and badges out of love hearts and varnish and cherish them...
Posted by Cassandra Solon-Parry
