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Welcome to your second home Daisy!
It's hard work selling Vivienne Westwood.........

These great affordable bags arrived the other week. They are beautifully finished with a vintage feel about them. They're made using the off-cuts from good quality leather sofas. The raw material is a responsibly sourced bi-product - aniline cow's leather.

Silivia £99
Everything about this is so well considered from the pockets to the stripey canvas strip that is stitched to the underside of the strap and so protects delicate tops and precious knits.

Sling - £99
A good sized satchel, again well considered with plenty of pocket space and a generous strap. This will look even better the more used and battered it gets!

We have three other styles. They are a welcome addition to our non sale pieces and will look great with the imminent Autumn/Winter ranges. (Scary I know seeing as though we're only just starting to have our summer!)

Sale Continues

 There's more reductions in store as the sale continues - loads of bargains, including these

Vivienne Westwood Anglomania + Melissa shoes. 

  These flip flops were £85 and now only £29. So bargainous! 

 

And the 'Lady Dragon'. They were £120 and now half price at £60.

Plus the 'Skyscraper' was £128 now reduced to £64. They are pretty comfortable for a high heel!

These are just a small selection of the Vivienne Westwood Anglomania + Melissa that we have.

(I was sticking to the red and black sale theme). We have reductions on our other makes too - 

Tracey Neuls and Trippen.

 They're flying out fast and it won't be long before the sale ends. So grab them while you can!

We're so looking forward to all the new goodies that will soon be upon us. Watch this space.

Harrogate Home and Gift Fair

Our buying trip to Harrogate on Sunday involved:

picking up the stylish Fiat 500. I want this car!

               

 Quick hello to Daisy.
(Hurry up and get house trained
so you can keep us company in the shop!)



And so we arrived.
A productive day - we'd already put in four orders by 1pm
including Ayala Bar jewellery and Kapre scarves
(oh lots and lots of beautiful scarves.)



Delicious fish & chips for lunch at Graveley's



One last look round before heading home. And the sun stayed out all day.
Please come back soon sunshine - we miss you!

Tichtech Jewellery

Last week saw the arrival of a large delivery of one of our favourite ranges of jewellery, Tichtech. We spent the whole day trying to get it out on display and still sold a couple of pieces as we were unpacking it! It's all out now, looking lovely and selling well still.



Very unusual £69, looks even better on a real person!



How lovley are these? £25, £29, £18. Maybe not to be worn altogether!



Amazing statement brooches £25 & £39.



These are probably my favourites £25 each.

There's lots more in this range as well as all the pieces in our other ranges.

We're off on the road again this Sunday to Harrogate to hunt for more jewellery. We'll also be looking for Christmas bits. Scary how quickly it comes around!

Scoop International Fashion Fair

The time has come for buying again - exciting! Especially when it takes place at so civilised a venue as the Saatchi Gallery.

We drove down to London for the day on Sunday to check out Scoop International Fashion Fair that was being held there. I was the designated driver and it was the first time I had ever driven right through London. Suprisngly there were no major disasters and I only stalled twice which sounds bad but is actually really good because I normally drive automatic!

Scoop is a relatively new show but seems

to be getting busier each season. 

 
It was a successful day and we found two amazing new fashion labels - one from Sweden and one from Japan. They will be with us for next Spring. We also ordered some beautiful scarves that will arrive in the Autumn.

Yummy Melt Candles

So the shop smells amazing at the moment because of the Melt candles that came in last week. They are now even more beautifully packaged than they were last time, so would make great gifts.

They are hand made in Britain - lovingly hand poured in  Lancashire.

We have 5 fragrances:

Rich Cream - Like a very fine woody aftershave with a floral twist and some gentle spice.

Verbena & Clary Sage - A wonderfully fresh yet rich combination of verbena leaves, silver lavender and clary sage top notes. (This is my favourite!)

Shine - Fresh & zingy grapefruit. Clean and sharp. (My second favourite!)

Neroli & Rose Geranium - A beautiful creamy quality to this frangrance which is top notes of orange flower, sweet pea and freesia.

Angel - Rich, round, musky and slightly choclatey.

If only you could download fragrances!

The latest addition to the team

Meet Daisy. In store soon!

The Summer Sale

It's that time of year again!

The SALE starts this Friday 29th June 2012.

Taran Taaran Scarves

Taraan Taaran is a label that produces timeless and luxurious hand-woven textiles.

They are a delight to wear; these subtly shimmering scarves are generous enough as a shawl for the evening, as well as being light, soft and warm to wear throughout the day.

Bonita Ahuja, the designer behind the label says of her textiles,

"I make hand woven textiles, which go through myriad processes so that they become even more precious and enriched. These include hand stitching into the weaves,embedding vintage fabrics into them and playing with light and reflection.I take inspiration from objects and places that radiate a sense of quiet beauty."

Richard Weston silk scarves

Fluorite agate, weston silk scarf £149.00

SOLD OUT

Madagascan agate, weston silk scarf £149.00

Brazilian agate, weston silk scarf £149.00

Quartz agate, weston silk scarf £149.00

Richard Weston's silk scarves have been top sellers at the home of scarves, Liberty of London, and have received much national press and fashion industry coverage following the BBC2 coverage of his story in the Britain's Next Big Thing series.

You can now buy Weston scarves from Nichols & Co. please see some of our Autumn winter range of his beautiful silk scarves.

Vivienne Westwood/Melissa shoes

New Autumn/Winter stock.

Just for starters.... VW Anglomania/Melissa

We will be putting more intriguing and exciting Melissa footwear on a following post!

Vivienne Westwood Anglomania for Melissa 'Skyscraper' £128

Vivienne Westwood Aglomania for Melissa 'Ultragirl' £84

Yohji Yamamoto

We were really lucky last week when we decided out of the blue to take a trip to London to see the Yohji Yamamoto exhibition at the V&A before it finished, as we managed to get tickets for his Fashion in Motion show held in the Raphael Gallery.

The event featured Yamamoto's spring/summer 2011 collection, including menswear which was inspired by the V&A's textile archives.
The garments were modelled by real life couples, an idea he first incorperated into his 1999 S/S menswear show.
Yamamoto became internationally renowed in the early 80's for challenging traditional notions of fashion by designing garments that seemed oversized or unfinished, he is also known for his unusual pattern cutting and frequent and skilful use of black, a colour which he describes as "modest and arrogant at the same time".
So for those of you that sadly wouldn't have had chance to see the exhibition here's some of the highlights,
and for most of us who can't afford Yamamoto take a good look at Ivan Grundahl, inspiration is everywhere.