In the lead-up to the Oscars, fashion news is coming thick and fast – Burberry’s revealed how to personalise your trench, Kate Bosworth is doing a top-secret collab with Topshop, and Duchess Kate shows just how to reveal the world’s most watched baby bump. In MaxMara, of course.
Ever wanted to wear a piece of designer clothing so one-of-a-kind it has your name on it?
Burberry’s heard your cry- if you have a few spare thousand dollars, that is.
They’re now offering a straight-off-the-runway service called Trench Kisses, for those clients who can’t have what just anyone has.
Burberry’s famous Brit-style trenches, coats and handbags are now up for customisation by clients, for up to two weeks after the runway collection is shown. So after their London Fashion Week debut, you can bet that a few couture clients around the world are scrambling for an intimate piece of the Burberry collection.
How’s it done? Personalised name-plates are placed on each one-of-a-kind production, but for us the best part is actually the attendant video.
Buyers will receive a special video of artisans making their product – sewing the seams, measuring the leather, engraving their nameplate – as a testament to the piece’s journey to them.
It’s a fantastic way to pay tribute to the work behind fashion, and we can’t wait to see whether Anna Wintour gets one saying A-Dubs…
Image: Burberry 2013.
By now you may have heard that the Duchess of Cambridge happens to be pregnant. Surprise!
However, the fashion industry is all agog at her ‘unveiling’ of her bump this week – in a MaxMara wrap dress.
She couldn’t have been more by-the-book if she’d tried. Wrap dresses, which were invented by Diane von Furstenberg in the 1970s to slip out of a man’s bedroom while he slept, have been adopted by the yummy-mummy cohort the world over.
They’re comfortable, flattering to a bump and easy to wrangle for every one of the nine months.
However, we also loved Kate’s truly spectacular pendant, worth several thousands of dollars – worn casually on a long gold chain, as if to say “What, this old thing?”
Big jewels are definitely back in for autumn, but worn with casual elegance like Kate. At this rate by nine months she’ll be more jewel-bedecked than Elizabeth Taylor…
Image: Duchess in MaxMara.
She’s more famous these days for her status as a fashionista than as an actress – and now Kate Bosworth is upping her fashion cred.
She recently dropped hints at a party that she’s doing a ‘multimedia project’ with Topshop.
What exactly does that mean? Your guess is as good as ours.
Topshop was coy when contacted about the rumours, confirming they are doing something with Bosworth and it does involve clothes, but it won’t just be the regular celebrity design capsule collection.
We suspect Topshop is going to pull something similar to their wildly successful London Fashion Week show, which collaborated with Google to create huge multimedia platforms involving model-cams, behind-the-scenes videos, live Q&A sessions and more.
If this is going to be their model for business from now on, we expect the latest Bosworth collection to be spectacular.
Bosworth’s key style? California simple stripped-back chic mixed with 90s staples – on a very, very thin frame, so perhaps lots of volume and flowing material.
What do you think her line will involve? T-shirts with cameras in them? Secret, unlockable videos?
Image: Kate Bosworth at the Met Gala.
