I WILL MISS....LIBERTY

 

Liberty is my favourite shop in London by far, and one of the oldest. Opened in 1875, the design and contents of this striking Tudor building is luxurious and homey and crafty all at the same time. The shoe floor is one of my favourite, it is plush and cool making every shoe feel special. Their carefully selected designer bags and jewelry and sunglasses on the first floor are to die for, I usually dream of every piece long after I leave the building. I rarely buy anything here but am always inspired and excited after I leave.

Liberty and Apple-Gorgeous gifts!

Liberty launches a collection for your beloved apple gadgets such as the iphone and the ipad tomorrow. My eye is on the beautifully embossed black calf leather cover for the ipad, £90.
Then all I will need is the ipad...

photo: liberty

Holiday Gift Guide-No 3

This Liberty canvas shopper is more of a gift wrap idea than a gift. I suggest filling this with the Sartorialist's book as a thoughtfull gift for that fashionable friend.
Liberty canvas shopper: £14.95
The Sartorialist Book

Holiday Gift Guide-No. 8

Mini designer finger puppets! You can buy a set of London, New York, Milan or Paris designers in knitted form! Above are the Parisien designers John, Karl, Sonia, Jean Paul and Alber.

Buy them for £65 from Rubbish Magazine  (the creators) or at Liberty.

Worldwide Fashion Night Out

Free Champagne, mini cupcakes, discounts, Hermes scarf tying sessions and photoshoots in Liberty. Free beer, mini cheeseburgers, exclusive t-shirts, and free manicures. This all happened one night when I told my friends that I could show them a good time without spending a dime. Cities all over the world including London, Paris and New York held Vogue's Fashion Night Out to enliven the consumer spirit. Most shops in London were serving free drinks and other goodies to get us a little tipsy to buy things.




The icing on the mini cupcake of the evening was walking into The Gap on Kingly Court and viewing Garance Dore's illustrations drawn larger than life on the walls downstairs along with her photos and an inspiration wall. The Gap let her do three t-shirt designs and they produced only 69 pieces (to coincide with The Gap's new denim line and establishment year 1969), and I was lucky enough to buy the design with the red frames! I was only sad to find out that Garance had left that morning to New York and so I will have to wait to speak to her again.