Press: The Barry M Style files with The Broken Hearts and Cosmo

Here I am being interviewed by the lovely Broken Hearts as part of their Barry M Style Files for Cosmopolitan UK.

 

The series of films show the DJ duo meeting some of the UK's 'most exciting places and faces', with Barry M manicures to match.

You can see me getting my nails done in the classic 1920's Half Moon style, and because they are Barry M nail products they are completely animal friendly (a must in my book). 

Whilst getting pampered inside the Beyond Retro cafe I chat about my prop work and show case one of my hand made headdresses, which will be coming to my Etsy shop.

The Barry M style files will be launched every Friday on the Cosmo UK website. Head on over there  to see the first in the series featuring the beautiful presenter duo themselves.

I would like to say a special thanks to The Broken Hearts, Barry M and Beyond Retro for giving me the opportunity to be involved in such an exciting project. 

V&A Talk- Fashion Festival 2012

On the 8th of December Kristofj Von Strass and I did a talk on behalf of Beyond Retro for the V&A Museum.
I felt so honoured to be talking at one of the worlds greatest, most inspiring and influential museums. The V&A has been my favourite museum ever since I was young and it was my safe haven when I first came to live in London so personally this meant so much to me and it literally was a dream come true. You can imagine how nervous I was!


We were talking as part of the museums 'Fashion Festival' aimed at young people between the ages of 16-24. Our talk described the ins and outs of Visual Merchandising at Beyond Retro, I explained how I sourced and made the props for some of our key projects including last years  Christmas windows, featured in the top ten Christmas windows for Drapers magazine.

We also went into detail about our own freelance work, our backgrounds, where we studied and how we found our way into our careers.

Kristofj and I are both so happy with how it went, we couldn't have asked for a better turn out and we were talking in one of the most beautiful lecture theatres I have ever seen. Thank you to all that came and for all your questions, it was so nice to see so many of you so enthusiastic about going into window dressing and visual merchandising.

I would love to hear from you if you were there, feel free to leave me a comment or drop me an email.

Special thanks to James Dwyer for the photo's. 

The Kelly-Marie Capelet

 

The Beyond Retro Lable named a capelet afer me. 

The 'Kelly-Marie's' are made from vintage Silk Scarves and come in a beautiful selection of prints. 

My one came from the Cheshire Street store and was found for me by the wonderful Kristofj ( of Christophe clutch fame)

 

 

The print on mine is made up of fans, filled with Goddesses and Cherubs that are surrounded by Elephants and Lions. Perfect! 

The Kelly-Marie Capelet can be found in all the Beyond Retro UK stores. 

Read more about them here. 

A very special thank you goes to Jessica Spinks.

I am wearing mine with:

1940's Gold Satin Dress: Beyond Retro

Necklace worn as a headdress: Charity Shop

Pictures by Craig (who also has a Beyond Retro vest named after him).

Pictures were taken in my Bedroom which you will get to see in a post very soon. 

Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday. 

Kelly-Marie xx

Drip Drip Drop, when the sky is falling

Playing in the rain.

Outfit Details:

1940's hat... 1950's blouse... Skirt.... Umbrella... Boots

All from Beyond Retro

1930's Art Deco Magnifying glass: Gift from a family friend

Decoupage box bag: Josette Yarn

The skys are blue and it looks like it's going to be a beautiful day so i'm off out to enjoy it.

Wishing you all lovely weekends, what ever the weather x