>>I know I’ve been on and off with this blog but I promise normality will resume as soon as I figure out what the heck to do. It is a tricky case of constantly questioning "If I don’t have the time to do it PROPERLY, what’s the point of making shonky posts?" Like I said before, I refuse to be half-arsed about the blog…
>>On another note, just wanted to send a memo out to save repetition. People ask constantly about where to buy the stuff when I’m writing about designers when the truth is that that they might have little if any stockists. The world is smaller (made smaller by the fact that we have to group hug together to save the collapse of our economy…) and a direct email (I always link to a website so you can find an email there…) to whatever designer your heart desire will 9 times out of 10 get a positive response.
The people I write about tend not to be producing on a mahussive scale so I’d liken it to the relationship between client and dressmaker. A flurry of emails/phonecalls/Skype chats and image exchanges could well get you in a cosy designer-client relationship that I think is set for a revival in these uneasy times. As I learnt over the weekend, outside of my convenient London cave, even chains like Topshop/H&M/Zara don’t get the choice pickings that city dwellers have the advantage of. So let’s get internet-ing and if you fancy a Mary Katrantzou/Emilio de la Morena/Modernist/Matthew Ames (see Labels, Labels, Labels for more names…) you go out and seek them out and I predict something more personal/beautiful will come out of it than simply going into a shop and buying it.
If governments can group together and save banks, a global fashion designer-client networking group hug can surely happen!
i freaking luv your style.amazing
Hi! I love buying from up-and-coming new designers. I just did a post on a new spanish denim label, check it out cause I am sure you’ll just love it. http://www.elnotable.blogspot.com
Anyway, I really admire your style. Bye!
Emilio de la Morena!!! You have to talk about Spain more, Susie
Susie stop apologising! There is no need.
I’d truly rather read one shonky post from you per a month, than to have stylebubble disappear from the realms of Cyberspace.
I dont know what i’d do with myself if you did an Agathe. I spend A LOT of my time re-reading old stylebubble posts again and again. It’s like coming back to see an old friend or a re-reading a favourite book . . . or perhaps it is simply a reflection on the sad sad state of my sad sad life 🙂
i agree with tanya…
besides, you are indeed doing quite alot of work on your other baby… lots of great work. i just wish they published images and full text in the feeder. (yes i’m THAT lazy)
and yeah, i’ve noticed that a lot of these designers are really friendly… so having something unique from someone who is happy to make something for you is much nicer than buying from a faceless site/store (at often times similar price point). that’s why i love the internet so much… even through these 01010’s there’s that warmth of general optimism and love.
Hear, hear great idea! People should not be afraid of contacting designers to buy, they won’t bite!
you’re right about contacting designers directly – you always come out with the most amazing pieces that way.
I love the ‘global group hug’ analogy..
Economy is so bad (everywhere) that everybody can’t stop thinking, writing and talking about it.
Long time/ first time bit… I stand with tanya and, though it would be perfectly understandable if you felt you could no longer keep up this blog at your tippy-top standard, it would be a style tragedy if this bubble burst completely.
Don’t freeze this baby, just suspend it like Han Solo.
Pretty please!
won’t designers be annoyed with hundreds of people calling in to order a single dress? and howww can we see the prices??
(the price of a mary katrantzou dress, for example) 😉
No, I’d imagine most designers will be flattered…as for price points…. they vary so wildly and at time of publication, prices aren’t even decided on yet…. but as an estimate most designers I talk about tend to be around the £200-£700 mark… unless I say they’re particularly pocket-friendly…. Mary Katrantzou’s dresses will probably retail at around £300-£500.
You have the best Fashion blog I have seen. Don’t STOP!!!! Don’t be so hard on youself.Don’t throw the BABY out with the bathwater.
I totally agree about the world getting ‘smaller’, thank goodness for that! I used to contact designers directly often, but seemed to have forsaken that recently. I must go back and re-read that post you made on that amazing designer with the drapey dresses I loved, and contact her directly 🙂 Thanks Susie for the wake up call!
yes! niceee! let’s start with a fashion hugh, then contact the designer and ending up hughin a Mary Katrantzou’dress ^^