Manolo Blahnik windows are based on victorian puppet theaters of layers of screens with the stark contrast of white light.
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Manolo Blahnik
The exciting collaboration working with Manolo Blahnik on the design for the first ever Manolo Blahnik shop outside of their stand alone stores. Inspired by Aubrey Beardsley and William Morris I embarked on a journey to create a department that the maestro of shoe design would one day say 'i love it'. Unkle Olo as he became known after a meeting with him and his niece Kristna Blahnik is charming, thoughtful and uncompromising. The result a dramatic fusion of Liberty past and present and Manolo's journey of the shoe, as each arch takes you further into a world of floating shoes that don't fail to excite.
Sunday, 5 September 2010
Win window
You can win everything in the window. The draw will take place at Vogue Fashion night out at from 8.30pm.
Monday, 30 August 2010
Barbican Surrealist House Exhibition opening and dinner
To get into the mood I wore Reid Peppers pigeon wing head peice and clasped her most talked about rat clutch. Our starter a scratch and sniff card of mothballs and burning rubber a main of chicken and rice followed by a neon world of jelly. An Absynth cloud left me fuzzy headed the following day! The incredibly talented Jane Alison, curator of the exhibition deserved this glorious evening.
Thank you Dafudd Jones for the photographs
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Sunday, 4 July 2010
Boy in the Oak exhibition
Article from vogue on Jess Albarn and her wonderful Boy in the Oak exhibition on Liberty 4th floor
JESSICA ALBARN today launches an exhibition of illustrations taken from her new children's bookThe Boy In The Oak. Illustrator and artist Albarn's, ethereal, fairytale themed art work is now on show in Liberty.
"I wrote and illustrated a children's story a long time ago when I was 14 while I was convalescing from a car accident," Albarn told us. "It wasn't until my own children were growing up that I felt inspired to write another story for them. I drew my son and my daughter for the two main human characters in the book and so it has elements of their childhood and mine."
Jessica, sister of Blur front man Damon Albarn, previously worked with Helmut Lang NYC before writing and illustrating her first children's book. The book which took four years in total to create, was picked up by Maxine Groucutt, Liberty's head of visual identity.
"A few years ago I showed my work alongside a fashion collection by Pearl Lowe at Liberty," said Albarn. "I met Maxine Groucutt and this year she asked if I would like to have a window for my work. I was looking for a gallery that could house the exhibition and the book launch so, I showed her the book and it all came together beautifully."
The illustrator has big plans for the coming year including new exhibitions and a new book.
"I would like to turn the book into a film and animate my drawings," she said. "Also I have written the rough for my next book, although no ones read it yet! I wanted to see this book through first. Exhibition wise I am really looking forward to getting back into the studio and working on a whole new body of work."
Jessica's exhibition is on show at Liberty's from today until July 11. For more information on The Boy In The Oak please seewww.jessicaalbarn.co.uk
Jewelry windows
To celebrate 135th birthday of Liberty the windows celebrated with the ultimate party. Everyone was there Kate Moss, Pixie and Peaches and long list of supermodels. Surrounded by beautiful jewelry including Eddie Borgo, Annia Vogel and YSL things got a little out of hand!
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