TRICKS & TREATS
Tricks and Treats
Before we get completely bogged down in thinking about everyone else, shopping for Christmas presents etc. What about a treat.
Arctic temperatures are kicking in and I have only just brought out my winter kit. Recently I was shopping with a friend who definitely needed a fashion treat. She had been ill and stuck at home for weeks.
We decided to have a gentle cruise round Fenwicks with nothing particular in mind. She found the most fabulous coat by Sophie Hulme in a red so sublime it pinged. The shape was completely simple, the cut disciplined and clean. The coat will work with all her chic clothes and she was incredibly buoyed up. Red has a real impact on the way we feel the colour is associated with confidence and power. Then as icing on the cake we found some earrings in crystal and dayglo resin by Shourouk. Completely whacky but a real treat. They will give an instant thrill to the plainest black sweater and be a real talking point and as she said “happy making”
The tricks. Wardrobe building is something I have learnt over many years as a Fashion Editor and Consultant to the retail fashion industry and as a personal shopper. Women do need to invest wisely in certain good pieces that are versatile and in a way anonymous. Pieces that work season after season, classic items that transcend fashion trends.. Often they are in a neutral palette of black navy grey khaki cream. To these little treasures we need to add the treats. The bright, the fun, the bad and mad.
About. Sophie Hulme is a young British Designer. Shourouk lives in Paris and has created jewellery for Chloe and Galliano. Both are sold widely in department stores like Fenwick and Harvey Nichols and on line at Net a Porter and Matches