The Hills Are Still Alive

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>> Considering that I puked my guts out up in icy climes, at the tender age of five because I couldn't hack the altitude of the Swiss alps, I seem to have a persistent fondness of Alpine scenes on clothes.  The hills are well and truly alive according to not one but two blog posts that feature the lilting words of Julie Andrews.  Blame my parents for bringing me up on a strict video diet of Sound of Music on rotation with Oliver and Grease.  

Carven went high up into the mountains with their resort collection before taking a round the world riotous of yellow and pink for spring summer 2012 and apparently, that's yielding them good results.  Suffice to say, Carven have had a good year and as I predicted long ago, A stronghold of Carven-devotees are now very much present to match the other cult of Wang-ites and they've got the sales to back that up with My-Wardrobe saying that it's the fastest selling label they've got.  It couldn't happen to a nicer bloke as I can strongly attest that Guillaume Henry is giving, what was essentially a defunct house with a few perfumes, every bit of creative and commercial nous he's got up his sleeve.  

The summer of Carven therefore begins with me yodelling badly from the heights of my balcony, wearing a matching silk t-shirt and shorts combo my My Wardrobe.  A handy gift voucher meant that I could commit the unspoken no-no of donning a "total look".  When it's a total look that involves completing a picture postcard scene though, it's hard to resist looking like I'm wearing a sandwich board for a brand.  

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29 comments

  7. oh wow, u just keep making me fall back in love with digital prints of photographs, and how it’s continuous from shirt to shorts is just fab! OH! there’s an alternate title for this post: “the hills from shirt to shorts” lol jk cause that was lame but anyway great outfit babes! 😉
    xx nathan.niche
    -FIND YOUR NICHE-
    http://style-niche.blogspot.com

  8. these are grand love digital print my cousins just done digital printing for her label zipporra its such an interesting process these alpine prints are insane and I love they remind you of your youth xx My blog- A Fox That Meows ‚ô• Instagram afoxthatmeows !!!

  16. Since I have jumped on the very last mountain top in the whole wide city of Paris back in January and enjoyed the luxury of chatting with the employees in the Carven shop, I have to tell your readers that you are not (necessarily) a bad ironer/steamer. What you notice on the 3rd picture will survive to the best washing/ironing possible since it was made….on purpose. Genius mountain. (I haven’t washed it yet though, for fear to actually have to iron it…).
    PS: I had to drop the shorts though…no vouchers for the flowers.

  18. first impression. a pyjama!
    second: where does that stop. The shorts as an extension of the top.
    just one. not the two. the two dont work well together

  23. I LOVE this “total look.” You look great.
    All that is missing is a little lonely goat high up on one of the hills! xx

  26. Love love love!! We have a really great designer hailing from Melbourne, Australia, known as Jolet, who has used a Parisian landscape in her new collection -Artificial Elements. It’s amazing! You’ll have to check it out on my blog!
    Suzi x
    For the Love of Audrey

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