Tods comes to Kildare Village
I do love a good handbag, no surprises there! And now I have something great to be happy about, Tods have just opened in Kildare Village! You may remember the fabulous ads with Sienna Miller? Yes well the luxurious leather of Tods can now be yours at the hottest outlet in the country so pop down to have a look!
Victoria Secret is nearly here…well it’s opening in London
Last week the most famous lingerie retailer announced it is opening in London in the Summer of 2012. According to the Telegraph, the spot chosen to house the store will be on New Bond Street and promises to be everything the stores in the US currently offer. Head over to the Telegraph, to read the whole article!
Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood and Yoox.com have joined forces with the UnitedNations Agency, the International Trade Centre (ITC), in a new creativecollaboration, which provides dignified long-term employment for some of theworld’s most marginalized people while protecting the environment. Thisis a unique system of sharing talent,sharing skills and sharing responsibility forthe environment.
For this season’s Autumn- Winter 2011/12 Ethical Fashion Africa collection created through the programme, Vivienne Westwood and the team were joined ontheir first venture to Africa by the Worldrenowned photographer Juergen Teller. He has captured the project and thepeople to help support and promote the campaign. The whole campaign will hopefully help promote the project and allow it to continuewith maintained success for the future. Juergen Teller commented ‘I came back completely energized and full oflife. It was truly inspiring to meet Simone Cipriani and the whole ITC team. Itmade a lot of sense to go with Vivienne to Africa.’ VivienneWestwood, in collaboration with the ITC, have created a long-term objective touse fashion as a vehicle out of poverty. From the slums of Nairobi to the most barren rural areas, someof the world’s most disadvantaged women, marginalized by illness oroppression and the daily trials of extreme poverty, are empowered by thisprogram. The Ethical Fashion Programme has already helped over 7,000 women toimprove their lives. Without the income provided through the Programme, localcommunities would otherwise be forced to deplete the natural resources aroundthem by cutting down trees to make charcoal to sell. The resultingdeforestation is an international catastrophe.
Globale-tailer, yoox.com joins with Vivienne Westwood to ensure the programmeproduces products which are truly ethical and made from recycled materialsunder conditions of fair labour, reaching customers around the world. Yoox.comis a welcome partner in making fashion fair and available to all.
The White Door
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of styling two competition winners from the Beauty Spot in Drogheda. The prize was a styling session with me in the fabulous White Door boutique on Dublin’s Exchequer Street, and has fast become one of the top stores in town. Famously known for it’s Hello Skinny jeans (of which I am a huge fan and proud owner!), I showed the ladies how to find the perfect jeans for them, depending on their preference for skinny, bootcut, straight leg jeans! Hello Skinny has a fantastic range of styles, lengths and colours and they fit and shape you like no other jean I have come across in my years. They don’t lose shape or elasticity and I highly recommend taking a trip to the store to check them out!
[image from the Independent]
