Fashion week - Belinda Paddington - Rene Vaile and Meg Gray

Photographer Rene Vaile and Vogue Australia Fashion assistant Meg Gray combine forces for our Paddington Belinda window in a joyful expression of love and fashion obsessions.

Rene documents meg's love of socks. Her naive designs of socks drawn in both a notebook and on a wall paper size page are whimsical and fun and celebrate how much joy there can be to something we often see as utility.
Rene's practiced eye behind the lens captures the artists character and the image resonates in colour, composition and observation.

Big love and inspiration to both Rene and Meg xx

FASHION WEEK Sydney May 2008

As fashion week begins we celebrate the wonderfully talented friends we have.
Australian Fashion week is a local intimate affair, where many of the designers and retailers are friends and have more than just a client /supplier relationship.

We chose artist from within our friends to celebrate the fine line between art and fashion and the relationships we have with both at Belinda and The Corner Shop.

For the Corner Shop artists we wanted to explore the works of newly emerging artists.
At the Belinda stores we have more established and working professional artists.

The first to launch his works today is Dave Withers for The Corner Shop in the strand..

Dave is a conceptual sculptor, concerned with urban dross (garbage) and working with found object (often with materials lifted directly from the streets).
His newspaper Bubbles, made for this installation within our Corner Shop at the Strand are pure fun.. jigging alongside the mannequins, they induce a sense of play and discovery whilst the bric-a-brac construction of newspaper and masking tape plays against the high end fashion they interact with. The shapes are reminiscent of bubbles or pebbles and are read instantly as abstract organic and feminine forms.


our thanks and kudos to Dave xx

fine art as inspiration

We have been watching the artworks of Stefan Bruggemann appear on the fabulous site ffffound.com for the last few months..
We did this window in our DB store to announce the arrival of the Lanvin instore. It has a framed image of a parisian marketplace with the words from Bruggemanns work 'in paris people think in french' painted upon the image. The handless mannequin adds the quirky element that Lanvin is famous for embracing in their windows.



All credit and inspiration we send to Stefan for his wit and copy writing skills.
(we also placed an image of the original artwork and website details within the display to give props)

i think everyone should have a look at his website http://www.stefanbruggemann.com


IN PARIS PEOPLE THINK IN FRENCH
2003 black vinyl lettering
white and dark blue neon
edition of 3

beautiful food

the best birthday cake ever:)
Pure Gelato makes the most beautiful icecream cakes ive ever seen.. perfect for that visually interested child-like windowdresser.. hehe

pom pom pom pom pom

warm and cozy these coloured pom poms are making a temporary window in our P1 store, a joyous little installation..
The colours of the new season coupled with the youthful repetto and the luella bag make a fun display that sets itself against the grey skies that are dominating sydney at the moment..

squishy and we love it.

Summer flowers

well the craziness and paint flinging has finally begun to arrive at the MLC windows.
We listened to the concerto and painted to it all morning..
all in all a great day and a happy outcome!

young times

Sometimes its fun to just dress good mannequins.. to enjoy the stock and the youthful nature of fashion designers like Luella, Miu Miu, Therese Rawsthorne, Josh Goot and Melissa Shoes..
And then to use fluro mini pom-poms, wool and perspex squares to magically bring it all together.. yay!

The mannequin's 'eyes' come from a momentary obsession with coloured paper as an artform:) and as you can see i carried this through to our shoe and accessories wall.. the shoe 'alien landscapes' were so much fun to do:)

trans-location

we have moved house! again!
hooray!!
hopefully it will be as good as the last:)
xx

whirlwind

I met an amazing partner in crime.. who all too soon left to pursue a vision in a far away land:) and due to this departure... i have been awakened like a tornado..

suddenly, i am looking at all the parts of my life.. examining where i am at the moment.. trying to see if its possible to make all the pieces fit better!
I am inspired to change and grow again!

In this frenetic moment, i sometimes end up feeling all disjointed and sometimes like i'm viewing all the cards up in the air, and waiting to see how they fall...

i instinctively made this window.

Spring Pre-Collections

early spring flowers (announcing the spring pre-collections) have landed in the MLC..

Sofly hand painted sakura buds in pastel colours, create the ephemeral and sporadic feeling of early spring..

gradually the frentic energy of the summer collections will be mirrored in the addition of brighter hues to these base flowers.. culminating in an explosion of colour as we enter full spring-summer ranges in a months time..