April Treat: Something Silky
13 April 2015
In February I told you all about my new years resolution which is to spend more on one or two items for my wardrobe that I really love, rather than something which is on trend and from the high-street that will keep my style attention for all of a month!! So I'm doing a year long blog feature on what I'm spending my monthly pay cheque on each month....
We had a little break in March, as I may have purchased a little plane ticket to the South of France but for April i'm back on it!! My treat for April is all things soft and silky, please may I introduce Marina London.. one of my favourite brands and one I always go to when I get some dosh in!!
These are the two little beauties I've treated myself with for this month!
First of all her classic 'VIRGIN SHIRT'
Stalked: Aase Hopstock, Shoe Designer and Illustrator
10 April 2015
Aase Hopstock knows
the way to many women's hearts is through their... Feet!! Yes this little lady
is a shoe designer. I met Aase at London Fashion Week this year to
talk about her passion for shoes and also her latest venture, fashion illustration. She has one of those blogs you just want to keep scrolling down and down and down!
What do you do and
what do you love about your job?
I'm a shoe
designer and a fashion illustrator. As a shoe designer I adore both the the
design and production process. To see your most precious ideas come to
life ever season is immensely rewarding. I also love seeing the progression of
my brand, feeling that each collection is better accomplished, and received,
than the last, - that is a big deal. At the moment Im taking a season off to
restructure, so this Fashion Week I'm focusing on my work as an Illustrator. I
run an illustrated style blog called The Style Drawer, so LFW is like a candy
store - my favourite times of year - when I'm spoilt for choice and I can
revel in the excess of sartorial splendour. I adore seeing people making an
effort to express themselves through aesthetics, it makes me really happy.
Stalked: Marcelle Joseph, Independent Curator and Author
7 April 2015
Curator and supporter
of young designers, Marcelle Joseph, is a well known face on both the art and
fashion scenes. Having begun her career in law Marcelle chose to leave this
industry to pursue her passion in the arts and is now a highly respected curator,
running projects at interesting pop up locations around London. Her love for
young creatives also extends to the fashion industry by supporting emerging
designers and in result has a killer wardrobe to accompany that passion!
I caught up with
Marcelle while wandering around Studio Voltaire to see the latest exciting young
female artists in which the gallery is supporting.
Why did you decide to
start Marcelle Joseph Projects and how do you pick your artists and projects?
After toiling away for
over a decade as a corporate lawyer at a mega firm with over 700 lawyers
worldwide, I went back to study Art Business at Christie’s. After
finishing this degree, I wanted to do something entrepreneurial and curatorial
and shied away from working for a large gallery or auction house.
Founding my own roving projects company gave me the opportunity to work
with a myriad of artists from emerging artists discovered at their MA degree
shows to established artists such as Sir Howard Hodgkin and Louise Bourgeois.
Given that I work nomadically, I first have to find the venue for an
exhibition and then a curatorial construct if it is not a solo presentation. At
that point, I can pick the artists according to the exhibition theme. I
am always visiting gallery and museum exhibitions in London and endeavour to go
to at least one international art fair each year. This year, it is Frieze
New York in May after visiting Artissima in Torino last year and Art Brussels
in 2013. Seeing so much art develops the eye and I try to stay true to my
own eye and love to make discoveries, giving young artists their first solo
shows in London.
Stalked: Alexei Obolensky, Founder and Director, Wasted Talent
3 April 2015
Alexei, is the founder and director of a very special agency. The type of agency that gets this Stalker extremely excited because it's all about supporting young talented individuals and as my regular readers know, championing young emerging designers is one of my loves and the reason I am still blogging now!
Wasted Talent is an agency that Alexei and his partner started not so long ago, specialising in growing young entrepreneurs and creatives with their fountain of knowledge and expertise. From sales and distribution, marketing & PR , design consultancy to creative content, they help to build their clients strategies and grow their brands like they were their own. They also stationed themselves in the most of divine areas of the world to do this.... South West of France!
I caught up with Alexei when I popped to see what the lovely Daisy Knights had created for her AW15 collection at Somerset House.
Tell me all about
Wasted Talent and how did you get into it?
Wasted Talent is a 360 degree agency with our
roots in surfing but our minds on the global stage based out of South West
France. We nurture and grow projects that we believe in, whether that be for
individuals that we manage or brands that we believe have got the legs to
succeed in Europe but need a platform to grow from. My partner and I got into
it by seeing so much fragmentation, incompetence and waste in the sector of the
industry we are in, yet there being so much potential we really wanted to create
something that pulls it all together, and here we are.
Stalked: Carmen Manzano, A Textile Student With Fabulous Style
1 April 2015
I met the lovely Carmen during London Fashion week as she running from show to show blogging for Modices, the Brazilian blog. This little lady has a wonderful sense of unique style, punk rock mixed with 70s chic, and that hair .. oh you can't help but love this girl! More excitingly is that she is not just another blogger (says me!) but is in fact at the beginning of her career in fashion. Carmen is a Textile student, what route she will take in this industry is a mystery at the moment!!
Who is the most exciting emerging designer you've come across this season?
I died for Faustine Steinmetz!
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