Category: Fashion
Cheers x
Light up x
Northern Lighting, an international company based in Oslo, describe themselves as a creative force led by original ideas, in a place where traditional design seems like a thing of the past. Interesting.
Certainly each light is different and beguiling..
(All pics Northern Lighting)
This has to be the perfect corridor light. It just wants to sit on a long, thin piece of foxed glass. Heaven.
Laters, Kate x
Within reach x
For an aspirational label, Isabel Marant manages to produce an every-now-and-then treatable jewellery range that’s naturally quaffable.
There’s an edgy, urban vibe that’s highly wearable.
(All pics Isabel Marant)
Come join the noise.
Laters, Kate x
Loveshackfancy
Back to the boho summer dress vibe complete with straw bags, picnics and iced gin and tonics by a pool.
Loveshackfancy is New York City lifestyle brand founded in 2013 by Rebecca Hessel Cohen.
It’s creamed off the best bits of vintage inspired Victorian pieces and blended them seamlessly into a modern, timeless style.
(Pics from Loveshackfancy)
It’s a label that creates an overwhelming urge to jump into a camper van and head to the surf..
Laters, Kate x
There’s more..
The tour de force of Vanda Jacintho is not limited to clothes. Her jewellery also rocks.
(All pics Vanda Jacintho)
Nuanced and complex, these are statement earrings with a built in spotlight.
Laters, Kate x
Vando Jacintho x
Vando Jacintho’s Brazilian upbringing is infused in her lush, colourful, tropical, quirky aesthetic.
Light yet bright..
Bright and brilliant – her ‘panneux’ – her version of a sarong which can be worn four different ways. Worth checking out here.
(All pics Vando Jacintho)
Eu te amo.
Laters, Kate x
The Simple Things x
Escapism confined to the mists of time, summed up in the romanticism of a gypsy caravan.
Away from the knowledge of leaky roofs, bumpy rides and social exclusion, it’s the pastime equivalent of the tiny house movement.
On my dream list is the wish to spend some serious time in one – Just. To. See
Laters, Kate x
Is it?
A lot hangs on ‘want’ these days – designs being produced for a perceived need. A bit like these Joseph Joseph freezer/fridge tupperware boxes.
At first glance – so clever! A wheel in the top to show the date stored – problem solved!
Second thought: But it doesn’t tell me what’s in there…
The truth: You can’t beat a sticky and a sharpie hashtag-Grandma-still-knows-best.
Laters, Kate x
Old tricks x
We should be in Greece now where one thing that is fundamentally different from the UK (apart from sun, sea, beach, food, music..life) is the bathrooms and in particular shower/trays walls which are made on site, in one piece away from any notions of hinges, doors and glass and their battle with limescale.
A similar effect can be made using Tadelakt – or Moroccan plaster, now making it’s presence felt over here.
The joy is it’s versatility – waterproof, flexible, able to create curves or lines it’s totally usable.
This is about embracing forms beyond and one for the mental storage box.
Laters, Kate x
Oh the joys of packing…
This an old post, but so apt for today when once again I’m knee deep in suitcases: The children may have changed, but the problems haven’t!
When the kids were babies I soon realised that to avoid the crying of souls (mine) I needed to be excruciatingly anal about packing, particularly as it’s not and never will be an art form that comes naturally to my psyche. The truth be told:
1. I hate it.
2. Even the impending thought of it gives me brain-swell.
3. I am a self-proclaimed light-packer. Until I pack.
4. I could just take cut off shorts, a white t-shirt and flip-flops..but why suffer clothes envy if you can avoid it?
5. How DO you take the minimum clothes for the maximum occasions?
6. I’m continually haunted by the idea it’s all wrong anyway.
7. There’s a profound anguish that the weather is undoubtably going to go through an unprecedented solar flux and be the opposite of what I’m reasonably expecting. Even though it never happens.
8. Will it really be hot/cold at the equator/in the mountains because it’s not hot/cold here (delete as appropriate).
9. How can I pack the stuff I’m wearing now?
10. What do people mean when they ‘throw a few things in’?
11. How do I know I won’t be invited to tea with the Queen or Beyonce or Karl Lagerfeld?
12. Why do I always have the most cases? I packed light..
13. And why do they never shut?
Burnt too many times, I learnt to make furtive lists on the computer in the hope that nothing vital in my then sleep-deprived-likely-to-find-hairbrush-in-fridge-state like nappies, nappy sacks, first aid kit, tranquillisers..would be disastrously and time/happiness sappingnly forgotten and there could be hope yet for my marriage.
Those days are (almost) gone, but the discipline has proved invaluable and certain rules still stand:
1. Start packing 5 days in advance and wear tea towels if necessary.
2. For a week or more pack 5 sets of underwear plus 3 of each for the rest (t-shirts, shorts etc)
3. Summer holiday for me…just dresses, the ultimate capsule wardrobe…beach dresses..other dresses..end of.
Now I just have to learn to take my own advice…
Laters, Kate xxx
Maison Bentley Style 