MRS PRESS S/S '11'12 COLLECTION SHOW TODAY

Jess Cove just sent me these super cute backstage shots...

WATCH THIS...

Kimbra - Cameo Lover (Official Music Video) from Kimbra on Vimeo.

EXQUISITE INDEED

I've been dipping in and out of Jessica Kerwin Jenkins's Encyclopedia of the Exquisite, An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights (Doubleday), since my husband bought it for me a couple of
months ago - it's delicious in name and nature.

This morning, as I ate porridge with brown sugar - a leisurely breakfast for
once - I read Jessica's musings on the history of the glove. I love this
because I've just written a whole chapter about gloves for my new book - but
I knew barely any of the fabulous facts Jessica knows. That, for instance,
"striking a medieval knight with a glove was an invitation to brawl" and
"the rich gave their servants gloves with money inside", and Queen
Elizabeth I's admirers hoarded her gloves likes talismans - one guy
wore one of queenie's jewelled gloves affixed to his helmet, as if to
protect him in battle.

The softest gloves were most prized. Glovers used kid skin of course, but
who knew they used chicken skin too, and mouse skin?! Writes Jessica: "An 18th
Century French naturalist managed to succeed in making a pair [of gloves]
from woven spider's milk." Cripes! Make mine from velvet please. Actually sod
it, make them mittens. Not dainty, but cute, you've got to admit.

Anyway, Jessica, who used to European editor at W magazine, is a superb writer and her book is fab.

Happy Easter!

COUNTDOWN BEGINS

Kimbra's new video clip for Cameo Lover is out so so soon.
She just posted this pic on her Myspace site. Yes, that's our Mrs. Press pompom dress made especially for her. Can you guess what's coming for summer?!

FRUIT LOOP

Emily found this inspirational fruit table on a website called My Nigerian Wedding.
Who knew?

STREETS LIFE

These beautiful images are from the Santa Monica Dreaming story now live on
the On the Streets of Sydney site. Hello Mrs. Press 'Annie' cape and 'Madeleine skirt'...
Every bit as good as a print mag editorial, don't you think? Bloggers are
taking over the world. Two of our faves are behind these shots: photographer
Zanita Whittington, and stylist Rachel Yablsey. Congrats ladies - gorgeous.

www.onthestreetsofsydney.com

GARAGE SALE MAJOR JOY SUNDAY

I've got beautiful fabric offcuts and dress making lengths as well as vintage treats galore. And Madeleine's been baking all night. See you there!

SPRING FROGUE FLING

Just been dreaming (drooling) over Feb '11 issue of French Vogue. I'm
usually a British Vogue girl, often finding Frogue too sexy-ugly-on-purpose
for my tastes. I get that's it's unreal, but mostly I don't want to live inside
the pictures, or I don't when they are designed to shock as well as awe, but Emmanuelle Art and Carine Roitfeld's take on the SS'11 collections is so
devastatingly beautiful I wish myself inhabiting every shot. Especially the
one of Yamamoto's blow-up lilo skirt. And all the ones of Lara in Orientalist
Dior. And every single Frejha moment (please reincarnation Buddhist type God,
can I die and come back as her hair??). And goodness aren't the colours
wonderful. And hello, how hot are those daisies?