IT’S SAMPLE SALE/PERSONAL ORDER SEASON! Whilst not a proper ‘season’ in itself, it seems this time of the year as people start to show their A/W 09 collections and offer up personal orders. Style Salvage has already talked about his purchases from CAROLA EULER and OMAR KASHOURA, who held their joint sale on Friday. After a few glasses of ‘VINO COLLAPSO’, yours truly also purchased CAROLA‘s white shirt with a detachable armour-like shoulder, plus the pleated trousers below. From OMAR’s range I could have bought everything; but emerged with a double-breasted jacket with a detachable shearling/leather collar.
This week it’s CAROLYN MASSEY‘s turn. My love for her A/W 09 collection is now widely known; hopefully everything will be up for order, and it’s these that I’ve got a beady eye on (below right).
If all this PERSONAL ORDERING seems a bit elitist and insider-ish, then why not contact the designers yourself? As Style Salvage mentions, designers are happy to alter things, change colours and even, as CAROLA mentioned, reproduce archive pieces if they still have the patterns (this was a response to her ‘ten tees for b Store‘- below- where I first came across her work. I still kick myself for not buying one first time around).
PRESS DAYS also began this week and beyond. They’re a chance for PR’s to show off next season’s wares, but I honestly find some of these more amazing than the shows themselves, as they’re clothing labels I’m more likely to buy (smaller designers,’mid-range’, etc). There’s also a fantastic SAMPLE SALE on this week if you live in London; it’s for STANSFIELD (mentioned previously) and FOLK, two excellent labels that are well worth anyone’s money:
That shirt which I assume is Carola Euler is really sharp. I like the gunflap detail.