Friday 23 April 2010

Alternative Fashion Week 2010











Colour explosion - Heidi Wikar
The paparazzi were out in force at the first and glorious sunny day of the Alternative Fashion Week shows at Spitalfield Market.

Somewhere in the middle of it all was our lovely photographer Shelley that managed to take these pictures!

Designers that stood out were Heidi Wikar (heidiwikar.com) – with her collection Singing Silence 2010/2011 – a gorgeous juxtaposition of colours and materials; orange and cream, smooth and sleek versus volumes of crumpledness.

Her collection is a statement on environmental changes in northern Scandinavian winter due to global warming where the usually snow-covered white frozen landscapes are melting and evaporating. The collection is feminine and glamorous and ‘can be packed into a 20kg rucksack’.

Chloe Haywoods (hatastic.folksy.com) showed some fun fascinators, hats and hairpieces – made from finds and remnants in boxes.

Anne Wilkinson’s knitwear used traditional handknitting techniques with mustard turquoise tones and vintage British styling.

Richard Evans–Lacey’s collection, made in Bethnal Green, showed off kilts for men. Floral, Camouflage City, Nationalistic and even one with more than a little hint of bondage. The kilt in its new form is mashed up with English town and country and the sporrans have been transformed into removable game pockets and army boots into lace up shoes!

Not sure if the city guys are ready for this but me and the rest of the crowd were!

Have said it before will say again the boys seems to be getting more of the hot designers. Colchester School of Art designs fantastic recycled jackets were amazing!

see full article on www.daisygreenmagazine.co.uk

Sunday 11 April 2010

Natural &Organic products show- and wow what a show








Not sure what happened but I did not stop eating there were so many delicious things!
From Flaxfarm.co.uk snacks fabulously made brownies to seedsstacked.com sugarless sweet temptations and a couple of raw chocolate thingies..and Daaz beer and loads of stuff made out of Hanuka honey.
In fact I was saved by Daniel at Chicza chewing gum who proffered a lifeline in the form of a pack of this sensible chewing gum, by which means no food could enter my mouth.In fact Chicza is an amazing story its origins are in the Mayan rain forest and the chewing gum is the first organic certified and biodegradable gum world wide.
Also it doesn't stick to anything it goes hard when you get rid of it, and as my blowing bubbles days are over the fact that you cant worries me not one bit.
You can get at Waitrose all the Natural food stores and a couple of indies too!