I am not stating anything new when I acknowledge the fact that yes, winter is here. Freezing, dark, gloomy...hence we look back at our Indian 'Summer' with nostalgia and longing /well,cannot say summer in London impressed me that much yet in the last 6yrs, but hey a little sunshine here, and we must be glad., cannot expect much more, true ;) / There were just so many things going on this September!
First part of my recap series as I am getting closer and closer to fashion ;), is an event I attended in the sublime surrounding of the Prince of Wales' gardens at Clarence House, Lancaster House and Marlborough House this September.
I would have loved to see DameVivienne Westwood, and Orsola de Castro and so many more, but could not afford to take time off from work, so I went along on Sunday 12th, but believe me still a lot to see ;)
First of all, the bit I enjoyed the most, and this is not the first time, was the Morsbag workshop!
I made my bag already on a previous occasion at UK Aware, and this time I prepared another one for my friend.
It is such great fun while aiming to reduce and replace all those plastic bags around, and seriously inspires me to invest in a proper sewing machine ;)
My other favourite was a tiny little amazing stand in the corner at the very end: CIEL!
They are always there, but always so elegantly quiet and effortlessly chique just like their designs.
the choice of the stand was quite unique, would love to use this as a pop-up shop in different areas around town ;) though originally designed as a sustainable outdoor office by ARCHIPOD.
The other pretty cool thing for me was another tiny little house (great design again!) with G-Star Raw Collection: organic, nettle, recycled, blend:
First of all, the bit I enjoyed the most, and this is not the first time, was the Morsbag workshop!
I made my bag already on a previous occasion at UK Aware, and this time I prepared another one for my friend.
It is such great fun while aiming to reduce and replace all those plastic bags around, and seriously inspires me to invest in a proper sewing machine ;)
My other favourite was a tiny little amazing stand in the corner at the very end: CIEL!
They are always there, but always so elegantly quiet and effortlessly chique just like their designs.
the choice of the stand was quite unique, would love to use this as a pop-up shop in different areas around town ;) though originally designed as a sustainable outdoor office by ARCHIPOD.
The other pretty cool thing for me was another tiny little house (great design again!) with G-Star Raw Collection: organic, nettle, recycled, blend:
It was definitely an all day fun amazing sunny weather, with hog roast, London Welsh Male Voice Choir,Chris Marques & Jaclyn Spencer (Strictly Come Dancing) teaching kids dancing on an energy-producing dance floor and oh soo much more. Big companies were present too: M&S, EUROSTAR,B&Q which on one hand is indeed impressive /paying attention to sustainability and environmental issues/ on the other it does ring an alarm bell, that such events are all about money and representing the big corporates....and what about the support of small individual businesses?? a little bit of a marketing stunt for all these big companies, and if you ask me i.e. M&S hanger recycling did not mean much: breaking up unwanted plastic hangers?you can use hangers all over and over again....why destroying them?
Anyway, overall it was a really spectacular and quite an eye-opening event one way or another ;)
Further photos from it below:
