Natasha Bailie & Amy Phipps Launch New Clothing Line

Congratulations to Natasha Bailie & Amy Phipps who have succesfully launched their first collection of vintage reproduction dresses made from vintage and reclaimed material. La Luminata got up close and personal with the new clothing range and can conclude that the shape and fit is authentic to the 40’s and 50’s era in gorgeous and wearable soft colours of blue, yellow, pink and green. The quality and attention to detail, plus the fact that you can order your very own made to measure dress makes this a one-of-a-kind treat, for any girl looking for something a bit special. I predict the Phipps, Bailie collaboration growing much further…

Queens of Lingerie Ophelia Fancy Custom Design Own Hotel Room

Congratulations to the gorgeous girls at Ophelia Fancy who have custom-designed their own boutique room at Brighton’s famous hotspot, Hotel Pellirocco. The fantastic launch party featured cupcakes, babycham cocktails and ladies cavorting around in Ophelia Fancy wear. The new room takes inspiration from Ophelia Fancy’s unique designs, complete with framed nipple tassles, reclaimed furniture and decadent finishing touches, planting the great ethical knicker-makers firmly on the Brighton map. Lucky guests received an exclusive handmade Ophelia Fancy eyemask to take away with them, now I just want the matching frilly knickers!

Swaps and Surprises at Brighton Frocks

What a great time we had a great time at the ‘Forever Fashion’ talk & clothes swap event for Brighton Frocks. Thanks again to the people who contributed to the event…Riverford Organic Vegetables, Poppy Organic Skincare, Live Native , Innocent Oils, Eco Bags, Kolkata Fairtrade, FAIR, Lifestyle Magazine, Miss Eco Glam, My Eco Store, Nigel’s Eco Store, Natasha Bailie, Gossip and last but not least Juliet Greig for Photographing the event. Photo’s of the event are available here.

La Luminata at Brighton Frocks

The ‘Forever Fashion’ talk for Brighton Frocks went extremely well today, so thanks to everyone who came, sat and listened and made this afternoon’s clothes swap such a success. More details and photo’s of the event to follow…

A great big thankyou goes to:

Riverford Organic Vegetables for donating 2 prizes of vegetable boxes

Poppy Organic Skincare for donating gorgeous samples

Live Native for introducing us to their new products

Innocent Oils for their great goodie bag samples

Eco Bags for supplying all of the clothes swapping bags

Kolkata Fairtrade for generously donating a People Tree dress

FAIR for their continued support to La Luminata

Lifestyle Magazine for the magazines supplied

Miss Eco Glam for introducing La Luminata to new and exciting products

My Eco Store for donating their lovely bags for the clothes swap

Nigel’s Eco Store for their discount vouchers

Natasha Bailie for her great help and support at the event

Photographer Juliet Greig for photographing the event

Gossip for contributing to ‘Forever Fashion’

Brighton Frocks for making this all possible

‘Forever Fashion’ For Brighton Rocks

I will be giving a talk on behalf of ‘Brighton Frocks’ at The Clarence Suite of the Brighton Hilton Metropole about my ethos of ‘Forever Fashion’.

The talk will take place on the 24th May as part of the Brighton Festival,  There are 12 Places available, I hope to see some of my lovely readers there.

How Designers Can Take Eco Responsibility

I’m very pleased to be giving a talk on ‘How Designers Can Take Eco Responsibility‘ for Brighton’s Creative Fashion Forum in April 2009. Spaces are limited so sign up quickly!

Free Web 2.0 Event In Brighton

New Frontiers in Social Media is an event that will explore how social media will influence our lives in the future.

The event will bring together a mix of thought leaders, professionals and academics to answer the questions – How will these technologies evolve? How will they create new experiences for users? and how will they impact social changes?

Use8 events are informal and tend to create an open atmosphere conducive to discussion and networking. A good mix of creative businesses, professionals and students are expected to attend.  The event will be held on the 12th of February 2009 at the Jurys Inn Hotel - Brighton UK.

The event is free to attend but you need to register.

FAIR Launch Party

A big thankyou to all of the people who came to the launch of the FAIR shop and helped to make it a big resounding success. If I missed any of you then I hope to see you in the new year. For more photo’s of the project, please see here.

Happiness And Victory For Nascent Atmospheric Songwriter

Brighton based DONNA FULLMAN launches her latest EP “Happiness + Victory” at The Sanctuary Café in Brighton on WEDNESDAY 8TH OCTOBER 2008. The EP includes 5 new tracks and is released through ‘Lyrically Speaking’ Donna’s own label.

Happiness and Victory is a reflection of Donna’s journey as a songwriter, from selling her flat and giving up her career, taking a music course to her success as a live performer. Always writing and storing ideas, poetry, insights and eventually, tentatively picking up the guitar. From a young age she was influenced by the Rock and Roll greats as Fullman says: “Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry – always bellowing from the front room”.

Influences from the 60s and 70s seep through into her songs. Embracing the roots and storytelling of Folk music, with enticing heart-pulling melodies of Country songs, completed by bluesy atmospheric vocals – her songs articulate a personal journey that is authentic and inspiring.

La Luminata styled & art directed the shots for Donna’s EP and will be creating the set for her EP Launch.

Photography by Gill Orsman: ©Gill Orsman Photograph, www.gillorsman.com

Little Signs of Hope

I stumbled upon this amazing picture today, of Aids ribbons being made by an invisible figure. I saved the image to post later on today and then my internet crashed, so I lost the link! However, the photograph stands for itself as a beautiful and empowering image of hope, so I will share it with you anyway. If anyone knows of its origins, please let me know!