Bunny Birthday

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:46:07 +0100

Hillier HQ are the best team in the whole world...It was my birthday last week and look what they created for me! Genius! One can never tire of the bunny!

Bunnies Abroad

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:50:05 +0100

A few weeks ago I took a very long-awaited holiday...

The plan was hatched by my good pals who know where to go a few months back, and ever since we've been counting the days. It got us through fashion month, we all said. That lingering bright light at the end of a blurry fashion tunnel!

Paris Fashion Week ended for me with a quick dash off after the Loewe show to the Eurostar and back home to pack, I needed a few days to find said holiday clothing - it's been that long. Blimey, trying on the bikini in pasty white skin, not so attractive, so I tried with sunglasses on to ease the glare - really, this is true!

Finally the day arrived, off to the airport with a quick stop off in NYC for a meeting, I was then on my way to Mexico. Not to the side that has become popular with my other fashion chums but to the Pacific side. I had a short stop in Atlanta then onto Puerto Vallarta with an entire plane of Spring Break 21 year olds, looking hot and full of the joys of life. A three-and-a-half-hour drive later along the Pacific coast, I arrived in Mexican paradise. Cuixmala is where we stayed for the next 10 days. We saw crocodiles, zebras, baby turtles and an osolot. Pretty good going for a nature lover. Cuixmala is one of those fairytale places that you dream of as a young adult, one day I will take a holiday like that, you say. And then, as if by magic, you are there.

We watched sunsets from rooftops over the Pacific, had dinner on a moon-lit beach in front of a, what I can only refer to as, Wicker Man-type fire. Shoes were very important for dinner to make sure you weren't nipped by the scorpions. We took a sail boat out on the Pacific and saw manta rays, and giant turtles. I wasn't that good on the boat, a little queasy for the first half, and too chicken to get in the sea, probably didn't help that the captain declined the offer of a quick splash around.

All wildlife seemed to have a larger-than-life appearance. One day, what I thought was some sort of exotic giant beetle came to see us at the pool, we all really liked him and let him walk over our hands, only to find out in fact he was a giant cockroach, wont be doing that at home.

Forgetting about work whilst away on holiday is not easy, but we actually did pretty well by all accounts, apart from one day when we decided to do a few shoots, we had some product of course, and we had the very snazzy amazingly stylish Katie Grand, super photographer Liz Collins and agent provocateur Camilla Lowther. I was the prop assistant. As you can see the bunnies had some fun!

When it was time to leave, us girls were very sad. We've made a vow to return all together as many times as possible. I can't wait for October to come around! Thanks to Alix and Goffredo for making us so relaxed and remembering how good life can be after a few days off in paradise.

Happy Hillier Easter

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:50:43 +0100

We love a doodle here at Hillier HQ, and we love working with our friends too. This Easter season we have teamed up with the wonderful Miss Quentin Jones to create this amazing illustration - a cheeky bunny for Easter.

Love Hillier xx

International Women's Day

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:27:23 +0100

Every year on March 8, the world celebrates International Women's Day (IWD).

IWD provides a common day for globally recognising and applauding women's achievements as well as for observing and highlighting gender inequalities and issues.

But not just on IWD, all year round, many organisations and individuals work tirelessly to support gender equality through a multitude of initiatives.

Oxfam have done a brilliant job of raising awareness and really encourage women to get together on this day to celebrate and raise money to enable women around the world to build a better future for themselves and their families.

My friend Roxy Walton did exactly that! And to mark this very important day she organised a fund-raising event. Rallying together lots of women under one roof for a brilliantly fun evening to celebrate everything that is great about women.

We all gathered in her beautifully dressed home, decorated with Spring flowers, fairy lights and her fantastic shimmering IWD banner. There was a feast of international delights including some wonderful British classics, the cucumber sandwiches went down very well, each of them lovingly decorated with cocktail stick flags from across the globe. Fun!

The main event of the evening was Roxy's IWD charity raffle. We all donated (our hard earned) cash in exchange for a strip of pink raffle tickets. Everyone was giddy with excitement by this stage as many of the prizes were donated by our good friends at Marc by Marc Jacobs, and of course there were some wonderful Hillier Bunny goodies in there too!

There were sqeals of excitement and applause as girls won prizes, it was verging on hysteria!

The evening was rounded off perfectly with a girly disco in the basement tiki bar (leopard-print bar included, obvs). The speakers were cranked up while Mariah and Whitney bellowed out - what a perfect end to a really wonderful celebration.

Fun was had and funds were raised. A brilliant job done by all.

Go girls!!

xxx

Inventive Invite

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:53:53 +0100

Look how amazing the Loewe show invite is! It's an Amazona made from Tyvek and has a 30 day life expectancy! It's so clever...

Following up with more gorgeous pictures of what's going on!

SEE ALL THE LATEST SHOWS FROM PARIS

My Dancing Feet

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:55:42 +0100

It's cold outside but nothing warms a girl's heart more than new shoes - am I right? You can imagine the squeals of delight when this arrived courtesy of the wonderful Miss Olympia. Without delay, they were unwrapped and all the girls swooned as we admired such pretty feet!! I am going to find somewhere to wear these this weekend, even if it's raining. I won't be defeated by the weather! Chin up boys and girls, there's always shoes to keep us going!

Lots of love, Hillier x

SEE THE LATEST CHARLOTTE OLYMPIA COLLECTION

Hillier Rocks The Vault

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:52:29 +0100

We have made a little animation of the making of the Hillier Rock Vault presentation, which is showing at London Fashion Week. Hope you like it!

SEE ALL THE LONDON SHOWS

And The Winner Is...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:10:09 +0100

The winner

And so to the judging of the BUNNY DOODLE COMPETITION! Last Friday afternoon we all stopped work in the studio to judge the competition. It was not an easy task, so many amazing heartfelt and creative doodles. Hillier HQ all joined in and we narrowed down the many entries to our team favourites, although we have to say we loved them all, but it was a competition and we have to follow the rules. After almost 2 hours of deliberating, we found our winner and 2 runners up!

Runner up

Thank you all for taking the time to do something fun and creative. Well done to all who entered, we will be doing this more often.

Lots of love Hillier xx

Hello Ducky!

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:59:30 +0100

January is a strange month, the excitement of the coming season's Fashion Weeks should be making us feel jolly and alive, instead the gloomy weather and dark nights are keeping us in a state or constant tiredness here at Hillier HQ. In an effort to bring some fun and light, I thought I would share an oldy but goody picture of young Hillier with her favourite ducky necklace. This was the inspiration for our new Hillier paperclip friend, Ducky. Oh, and the print on my very snazzy sun lounger might inspire some for a jolly print this spring!

Don't let the weather bring you down, think of all the nice things that spring will bring! It's just around the corner xxx

Amazeballs

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:41:57 +0100

I am obsessed with this dude! As you watch you will be thinking, 'OMG do I sound like this?' Anyway, you will laugh uncontrollably...obsessssssed! Watch him here and here.

Moo Moo

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:53:33 +0100

Last week it was Men's Fashion Week in Paris, and it was humming with male-ness! Luckily for us, we happened to be tagging along.

We were also in Paris selling our Hillier jewellery and trinkets to adorn your hair. We popped along to our lovely showroom, Touba, to see the gang and found some marvellous stuff which we will report back on shortly. But, in the meantime, this was one of mine and Miss Hannah Martin's favourites! Moo eyewear - they are just so very special, dreamy and fantastical, I've already placed and order!

Keep watching for more cool, fun stuff we found in Paris!

Long Live The Bobble Hat!

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:43:30 +0100

Happy New Year gang!

After a lovely Christmas break the thought of going back to work sometimes fills one with dread! I, on the other hand, had such a wonderful break - lots of tv, chocolate and slee - that when tuesday morning came around I was super-excited to get back to the office, see the girls and catch up with what's going on! It's going to be a very exciting year here at Hillier and the shows are just around the corner so we haven't got much time to thin about the dreary weather outside. We've been listening to Club Tropicana to shake away the gloom. Something that really brightened up our day was a visit from the one and only Mr Will Broome, the man of the doodle! Apart from Will's ravishing good looks and utter charm, he's also a very snappy dresser, he had the most amazing bobble hat I have ever seen. As you know we love a bit of knit at Hillier but this is up there in our top 5! The creator of this hat was the lovely Carolyn Pearce. Long live the bobble hat!

It's Bunny Doodle Competition Time!

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:41:03 +0100

Love bunnies as much as we do? 'Like' our Facebook page and read about our Bunny Doodles competition where you could win one of our signature silver Bunny Paperclip Pendants! Good luck xx

LIKE HILLIER LONDON'S FACEBOOK PAGE HERE

Lovely Loewe Lunch

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:16:48 +0100

Christmas is coming and what better way to start the festive season than a lovely Loewe lunch hosted by Katie Grand and Stuart Vevers at Harry's Bar?! Harry's Bar is just the most perfect lunch spot. We were treated to lunch in a private room, all snug and very festive. The table was decorated with Amazona cookies, which I took a fancy too and snuck out with probably more than my share but the girls back at Hillier HQ really love cookies and obviously ones in the shape of the Amazona were too good to leave behind! We had a delicious lunch, had a good gossip with the girls about popstars and polka dots. After lunch, Stuart walked us over to the Mount St Loewe store where we stocked up on Christmas pressies, we were like kids in a sweet shop, at one point we all had a new bag on our arm! What a perfect way to end the week! Thanks to Katie Grand and Stuart, and everyone at Loewe for a lovely time!

Hoppy Christmas!

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:23:09 +0100

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, well in Tokyo at least! This is our first ever Hillier London window and it came to life courtesy of our WONDERFUL, AMAZING, friends at Biotop, Tokyo. They have been so supportive with us and offered us a wonderful opportunity to have a whole window just for Hillier. The concept was to create a tree made from items that we sourced in London from our studio, archive and vintage finds, the colour was pink, of course. We have just delivered our Rose Gold pretty in pink collection so we wanted to do something that reflected the theme of the most current collection, a bit like a teenage Molly Rigwold's bedroom. We set to work on getting all the bits together and created the window in our studio in London. It was like curating an exhibition. Every item was documented and a scale one print out of the placement was sent to japan for the team there to re-create! They did a super job, all the bunnies were carved from wood in a local factory and the wood that the tree was mounted on was reclaimed. We also created a set of special edition headbands, hand crafted bunnies, snails and an owl, placed on very pretty grosgrain ribbon only available at Biotop!

We want to say a very special thank you to BIOTOP and the whole team!! Please go visit the store and say Hi to the Hillier tree!
xx

Snow Way

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:32:04 +0100

A few weekends ago I was in New York. I often try and get out of the city for a night or two and stay with my good friend Sloane in Chappaqua (Westchester County). She has an amazing house, two wonderful kids - Sam and Tate - two dogs - Shortie and Olive - and of course her lovely husband Mr Robbie G!

This weekend started off the same as usual, we headed back on the train on Friday night, settled into the sofa with our feet up. Saturday morning, Sloane tells me a snow storm is coming, after Hurricane Irene came and went without that much happening, I kind of thought the weather reporters may have been making a big deal out of nothing. Nope they werent, snow started to fall at 10am, 12 inches and 14 hours later it stopped! Pretty cool but also quite odd as it really wasn't expected!

Well Glam At The British Fashion Awards

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:33:55 +0100

Patrick and I

It's the biggest night in the London fashion calendar and I was extremely privileged to have been nominated for the accessory designer of the year along with the lovely Charlotte Olympia and Mulberry! This was a very special night, to be recognised for all the work you and your teams have done is a wonderful thing, I'm very proud.

Pom pom ponytail

I thought I would make a really special effort! I never have my hair done or wear make-up and I thought I would just give it a go. It was such good fun and I would like to do this every time I went out. Glam squad on hand were, Jose Quijano on hair, Dorita Nissen on make-up and Chisato Yamamoto on nails. Henry (Holland) and Patrick (Grant) came to pick me up from St Johns Hotel where we were staying for the night, a really nice treat!

The glam squad, exhausted!

The amazing Savoy drinks reception

Arriving at the awards was very nervy - I was whisked into a room of photographers, flashing lightbulbs everywhere! I made Patrick come with me, too shy to do it on my own! Then it was straight up to a very fancy room with a birdcage in it and a piano playing the anthem of the season from Lana Del Ray. We had time for a cocktail and a catch up with Daniel Marks and Henry Holland, both wearing Louboutin spiky slippers and a sporty similar hair style. Then it was time for the awards! It was a wonderful ceremony, I sat behind Stella McCartney who I haven't seen for ages so we had a little gossip, and right next to her was the gorgeous Miss Kate Hudson, who is not only so beautiful but a right good laugh too. She did the most amazing presentation of an award that I have every heard. Genius. It was all about her hair when she wore Stella to the Oscars in 2001, and she told us before she presented the award to Stella! There were nerves - Tabitha Simmons was on the edge of her seat, I was sitting right next to her, I had a feeling that she would win, I had everything crossed for her! She did, I screamed perhaps a little too loudly, and of course there were tears. I started balling when Victoria Beckham accepted her award from Marc Jacobs - I couldn't help it - two people who I absolutely adore on stage together. Some really fantastic awards were given to some really deserving winners but none more in my eyes than Victoria. She has worked so incredibly hard to get to where she is today and it was so great to be able to see her win an award that she so deserved!

Phwoar, it's Gandy and Grant!

Lucy Yeomans and Stephen Jones

The very glamourous Kate Hudson in her specs, telling us the story about her hair

Sadly, I was not a winner this year, but it's the not the winning that matters, it's the taking part and the nomination was such an honour. Thank you BFC for a super-glossy, smashin' evening!

The absolutely amazing Tabitha Simmons and her award

Here come the boys! Check out Henry's new hair!

The most perfect fried eggs in the world

Breakfast at the St John Hotel

Utterly Pawfect

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:03:53 +0100

We love polar bears at Hillier, a vulnerable species that we very much want to be around forever, so much so that we have crafted an 18 carat gold version complete with a twinkling diamond eye. The bear is available exclusively from Selfridges, snap him up while you can - in gold or silver.

Steve The Stag

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:30:32 +0100

Graham and Green know the importance of having a safe and secure surrounding to live in, with the number of young homeless people reaching unbelievable levels of 80,000 a year it was lovely to hear that they were working with Centre Point to raise money and support for the young adults who find themselves on the street.

They selected a white stag head from their collection and asked artists and designers such as the lovely Charlotte Olympia, Barbara Hulanicki and Rob Ryan to customise it and we were lucky enough to be chosen too. A large box, sizeable enough to fit a person, arrived in the office and out came this beautiful white sculpture - our blank canvas had arrived!

As you probably will have noticed from my blog entries and photographs I LOVE stripes, in fact I'd go so far to say I'm a bit obsessed. I have lots of pictures of me as a small child dressed in stripy tops so my fascination started at a young age. When I first laid eyes on the sculpture I just knew it had to be stripey. Being a bit of a stripe expert, I particularly love the iconic Breton stripe that was worn by Picasso, Dali and Audrey Hepburn.

There is a certain colour associated with the Breton stripe and it's a deep, rich naval style blue, perfect for our stag. Getting the stripes to look straight on such a 3 dimensional object didn't come without its challenges but with the help of our talented intern Flo we got there in the end and I'm rather pleased with the outcome. Our stag, which we've decided to name Steve, will be reunited with its brothers and sisters at an auction on November 16, we hope you'll support the cause and place a bid or two for our stags head…which comes with a special Hillier wink!

grahamandgreen.co.uk/stag16
www.centrepoint.org.uk

Hillier Loves Pudsey

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:01:19 +0100

BBC Children in Need has been around for almost a century and I have the fondest memories of staying up late and watching it as a child. Still being a big kid at heart I was overly excited to have been asked to customize an iconic Pudsey Bear, and immediately fuzzy felt and needlework classes came to mind.

SEE WHICH OTHER DESIGNERS HAVE CREATED A SPECIAL PUDSEY BEAR

As an adult I still read fairytales and watch kids movies and my favourite creator is Tim Burton - I'm totally obsessed with his characters, especially from A Nightmare Before Christmas. I wanted Pudsey to feel like he had been patched together by a child's imagination, full of innocence, fun and fairytale dreams.

Pudsey came together from a mixture of denim sourced from local charity shops, which Grace, our wonderful, intern washed with stones to give it a more vintage feel, and Liberty prints from a personal collection of fabrics I have. We work very closely with a talented sample maker called Anthony Vrahimis and he kindly constructed Pudsey's body for us. Grace then took over and cut patches from the fabric and sewed them together by hand with neon cottons using a traditional blanket stitch.

SEE KATIE WITH HER PUDSEY BEAR

This was an incredibly fun project and it was an honour to be involved with, please support the future of our children by watching Children in Need on November 18, and more importantly by donating generously.

Katie's Pudsey will be exhibited in Liberty, London, from November 7-19. You can bid to buy the one-off Pudsey's created by Katie Hillier, Erdem, Jonathan Saunders, Henry Holland, Mulberry, Giles, E. Tautz, Liberty and PPQ here.

www.bbc.co.uk/pudsey
www.anthonyvr.com

Go On, Have A Ball!

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:35:32 +0100

In New York at the weekend, whilst we were snowbound, I had planned on making Halloween bunny masks with the girls - Tate, Hannah and Aiden. My inspiration for the days events was Truman Capote's infamous Black & White Ball. It has to have been the coolest party ever!

SEE THE STARS' HALLOWEEN COSTUMES

Luckily, we managed to get supplies before we were unable to leave the house. I had so much fun, little girls are the best and these three are the biggest bunny fans in the whole world!

For the masks we used:
Black and white foam card for the mask
Sparkly felt for the noses
Pipe cleaners for the whiskers
Black and white polka dot grosgrain ribbons to tie them on with

Go on girls, have a ball!
xx

Happy Halloween!

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:57:56 +0100

We've been busy this week at Hillier HQ, getting excited about all things spooky! Happy Halloween! Love Hillier xx

Obi One Kimono

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:49:41 +0100

I have wanted a kimono for years, but I have never had the courage to go into the traditional department of the stores in Japan and have one fitted. But this time I did! The whole process took about 2 and half hours, but it was an amazing experience. So different to buying a new dress at the beginning of the season! As you know, I love an accessory and this is the most accessorised outfit I have ever worn. The options are endless - trinkets from your hair to your feet, bag and obi!

The Kimono is a Japanese traditional garment worn by women men and children, the word Kimono means literally, "thing to wear". Kimono's are T-shaped and wrapped around the body, always with the left side over the right, except when dressing the dead for burial. The kimono is secured by a sash called an obi - I chose a stripy yellow one - I chose the obi first and had to coordinate the entire outfit around it! Over your obi you can adorn it with a beautiful ribbon called an obijime, mine is red, and then you can add a little bead or charm to the obijime which is called an obidome, mine is a rabbit of course. You can also decorate your obi with tassels, these are attached to solid silver shapes that are a bit like a comb, this slides into your obi and the tassel hangs over the side - mine has a rabbit on it. I met the lady who actually made it, she was very happy that I was from London as she had trained at Goldsmiths!

The lovely lady at Isetan who spent 2 and a half hours with me was very good at putting me together in my outfit and she was very concerned that I wouldn't be able to do as good a job when I returned to the UK. She gave me 5 sheets of instructions in English to explain. I'm slightly concerned that I might need some help on my first go, but I'm very excited about my first outing in all my new bits!

Sianara peeps!

The Amazing Mrs Hillier

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:16:31 +0100

Since Christmas my mum, Mrs Jackie Hillier, has discovered her long lost passion for knitting - and stripes!

We're actually doing a roaring trade in Hottie Bottie covers at our wonderful local village store, Sweet Peas of Great Tew. The first batch sold out in 3 days! Mum's also branched out into teapot cosies and egg cup covers!

When I got home today there was a little surprise for me. Inspired by the Marc by Marc spring/summer 2012 show, Mummy Dearest whipped up this beauty and delivered it to my house whilst I was out - you can see where my creativeness comes from!

SEE THE LATEST MARC BY MARC JACOBS COLLECTION

Rumble In The Jungle

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:11:08 +0100

Animals in general feature very highly on my radar as you can see from my blogs, and the fact that I based my brand Hillier around beloved bunnies. My heart sinks at the thought of animal cruelty and endangered species becoming extinct, so I feel lucky to have been asked to contribute towards an utterly fantastic project created by Elephant Family. They are the charity behind those incredibly beautiful elephants that charged onto the streets of London and posed gracefully throughout May and June of last year. The colourful display attracted an audience of 25 million, creating huge awareness of the depleting numbers of Asian elephants and raised an astonishing £4.1 million for the conservation of the elephant population.

SEE KATIE'S BEHIND-THE-SCENES PHOTOS FROM THE MARC BY MARC SHOW

This year the herd travels to Edinburgh and we were tasked with decorating a giant blanket to cover the elephant sculptures when they were on display. With the fantastic help of our intern Grace Cooper, we set about Hillierising the blanket we selected from Ardalanish - a traditional weavers based on the Isle of Mull in Scotland, who Patrick (Norton & Sons and E.Tautz), introduced me to. The result; a crafty menagerie of appliquéd animals; kissing elephants with long luscious pink lashes, tortoises with brightly patch worked shells and of course our signature bunnies with winking eyes. If you share our passion for the preservation of these enormous and intriguing creatures please show your support by donating to the fund. Thank you, with a wink.
www.jungle-city.org

SEE KATIE'S BEHIND-THE-SCENES PHOTOS FROM THE HOUSE OF HOLLAND SHOW

Harvest For The World

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:33:08 +0100

The Harvest loaf - The Wheatsheaf

When I was a child, I remember every year raiding the cupboards for tins of food and my mum buying extra vegetables at the supermarket, all in aid of Harvest Festival. Being a city girl, it was more about giving something to people who were more in need than ourselves, rather than a celebration and thanks for a bumper crop. On Harvest Day at school, we would bring our offerings to the school hall where the teachers would busily build a mountain of baked bean tins and carrots. I actually remember a baked bean robot one year being built!

Kneading the dough

A greasy try is in order - plenty of butter required!

As you know I am now very fond of our wonderful countryside and harvest in the countryside is a lot different to harvest in the city. This Sunday I decided to refresh my memory about harvest and join in with the local village Sunday school at our wonderful Church in Great Tew.

Preparing the Wheatsheaf

Little hands are particularly good at rolling the wheat ears

Almost there...

Harvest is from the Anglo-Saxon word HAVERFEST, meaning autumn. It referred to the season for reaping and gathering grain and other arable products. Every harvest, my good friend Rachel Mitchinson bakes a wonderful Harvest loaf in celebration and thanks to a good year of crop. I joined in and it was so much fun. Living in the city and being in a marvellous fashion bubble sometimes doesn't let you remember some of the more simple but important things in life that are traditions in our country and very important! We must not forget them. Join in the celebration and bake some bread, give something you don't need to someone who needs it more than you, or even just google harvest and read about it so you know what it means and why it's important to us living in Britain!

All done and ready for the Aga!

Gorgeous Rachel with her wonderful Wheatseaf!

Happy Harvest chaps xx

How To Draw A Bunny

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:44:18 +0100

A few weeks ago when I was in the wonderful world of great Tew at a friend's party, me and my good friend Miss Delphi Tuppence Parkinson discussed in great detail our love for rabbits. Delphi has two rabbits of her own, Mr Bean and Bella, gorgeous rabbits with beautiful coats because Delphi looks after them very well!

Delphi is the ripe old age of 10, and she's super smart and very creative. After our discussion about our favourite furry friends I assigned Delphi a project - please can you draw 10 rabbits for me. With that said she didn't waste time and completed her task a few days later. I think you will agree it's a work of art, and I just wanted to share this with you all! My favourite is stripes, obviously!

SEE WHO WAS AT THE LAUNCH FOR KATIE'S COLLECTION FOR LOEWE

SEE KATIE HILLIER'S ANIMATION TO CELEBRATE HER COLLABORATION WITH LOEWE

New York: Part One

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:50:00 +0100

Arriving back into New York after a very busy few days of the launch of the Loewe Hillier bags, I was quite out of sorts! I had been in New York the week before, and returning back home before the Marc by Marc show and seeing all my favourite fashion editors and bloggers made me feel like New York had happened already and I had missed it! This wasn't the case. I left a cloudy rainy London in search of the summertime that is normally still happening across the pond in New York. Shock, horror it was not to be - rain and clouds all around!

SEE THE LATEST MARC BY MARC SHOW

SEE ALL THE MARC BY MARC BACKSTAGE ACTION

SEE WHO WORE WHAT ON THE FRONT ROW

Fashion's Night Out thankfully was not a wash out, Mr William Broome hand stuck over 3,000 stickers that he had illustrated, to a very cute ice-cream van that parked itself on Broadway selling wonderful Marc By Marc jewellery.

SEE ALL THE PICTURE'S FROM FASHION'S NIGHT OUT

Here are a few backstage pics of the Marc by Marc show and some of the Marc by Marc gang working hard and having fun as we do!

London, It’s All About Henry Isn’t It?

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:00:00 +0100

I didn't waste any time - I flew in from New York and headed straight to Henry's show! There's a cosy feeling I get when I arrive at Henry's, we are all really good friends, and all of Henry's family and oldest friends are always there without fail! Everything went strictly according to plan, apart from a very mysterious missing jacket, that was rectified by the show before running late and one of Henry's wonderful assistant navigating London traffic.

SEE HOLLAND'S LATEST CATWALK SHOW

The show was a riot, best one ever! It was also Pixie's 21st birthday and we all sang happy birthday backstage, while she blushed. After the show we packed up calmly and all wandered to the pub for a pre-dinner drink, then it was off to Bistrotheque in East London for delicious fish and chips with all the family.

300 Is The Magic Number

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:17:35 +0100

I've just got back from Japan and finally I got to see the giant pandas at UENO Zoo. Last time I was in Japan they weren't there and I was very disappointed.

On the flight on the way over, I watched a really great documentary narrated by my favourite David Attenborough that was shown originally shown on BBC2 last year. The giant panda as we know has been on the brink of extinction, but they are coming back - thanks to an extraordinary conservation project. The Chengdu research base, in central China, is at the heart of the project to breed 300 pandas and then start introducing them back into the wild. Shot over two years, the film follows the pandas and the keepers as they edge closer to the magic number of three hundred.

For now, I enjoyed a rare glimpse of an animal that I have been so fond of ever since I was a little girl. It was kind of magical watching this giant panda bear, eating her bamboo, and watching her cartoon like mouse ears wiggle around. I wanted to jump over the top of the glass a nestle into her like I did to my panda bear when I was small. Instead we watched quietly took some snaps and passed by. If you would like to know more information about the panda programme in China this site is brilliant: www.panda.org.cn, or you can log onto www.wwf.org.uk.

Long live the giant panda xx