Paint me beige.

DN has a short article about the main spring trends for 2010 on here, and they´re exactly what I was hoping for. Lovely juvely softness and beige and skin colours and a little bit of layering but not too much. I am a bit dubious about this clog-trend I´ve been hearing rumours about, although Mama Kellerman is very excited (she already has a pair of clogs, you see).

And although the noughties insane heels are great in their way, it is probably a good thing that shoes you can actually walk in are coming back in fashion. I´m sure emergency room staff all over the western world will be very happy anyway.

Alexander McQueen thinks walking is overrated.

Another day, another shoot!

Sneak preview from yesterday's pinup style shoot with the lovely Miss Julia, who's my perfect 50s cheeky girl! Photography by Michael McCarthy, styling by little old me, and beret by Chatham Girl, Zara Carpenter. This is our Valentine's theme shoot, so more will be up soon! Love!

We're open for business!

We opened the shop yesterday, so now all we have to do is tend to it and hope things run smoothly. It still feels completely unreal, like we're playing "shop". Anyway, I'm still exhausted from the final push, so won't make much sense right now. Instead of me rambling, here are some pictures from yesterday:

This is the jewellery display downstairs, made from recycled materials left behind by the previous owner.

This is half of the downstairs section. The other side of the room houses our mini gallery, which opened with an exhibition by Swedish artist Ulf Lundkvist.

This is mom's favourite section - the lingerie topped off with a gorgeous pair of Elsa Schiaparelli hats which any prospective buyers will have to fight her for.

And to you...

A very merry christmas from Fashin Dawg.

A Sign of Things to Come

Our sign is up! Look!

And this is the main room of the shop, all the shelves are up and the fitting room is nearly done! I love our big window to the street, it's nice to see what's going on outside, and while we've been working lots of people have been stopping by to see what we're up to. It's been a lot like being in a fish bowl, which has been weird, but we haven't minded at all. It's just so nice that people interested!

This is our lovely chandelier up close. My father made this out of waterbottles - the holders for the lights are the bottoms of the bottles, and all the little prisms are cut and folded from the bottle plastic.

...And this is the second shop room downstairs. It still needs a little bit of work but the shelves are up, the floor's been painted and it's really just small final touches to do before it's done (like maybe sorting out that very fashionable wire hanging from the ceiling).

My father has also made a lovely, simple glass top table for displaying jewellery and smaller hats which is installed in the downstairs room. It's been really nice to do the shop up as a family project, everyone has been working really well together, and we've also been recycling as much material as possible, making shelving and other bits from material we've recycled from what the previous tenant left behind.

So close now! Our 2DO list is still pretty long, but the jobs on there are getting smaller and smaller!

Outfit of the day - another Wicked Wednesday

Another week, another Wednesday. This particular Wednesday I'm taking the boyfriend to the airport shuttle as he's leaving me for two weeks. I'll be ronery. No amount of cute Cardin shoes can stop that. But they can probably distract me from it.

Outfit of the day - another week, another Tuesday

Tweed Tuesday this week, maybe? Kind of a hunting theme going on, but more birdwatching than foxhunting I think. Foxhunting is wrong, man.