Styling with Bend Down Boutique.

Hi guys,

I just wanted to do a quick blog post, selecting all the pieces in the shop that everyone should consider wearing together. I have always designed and made clothes in a stylists perspective, and for a bit of aspiration! know that my clothes in my shop have an mixture of styles, and its hard to know what pieces would actually go together, so I hope you will see things differently after I show them all to you!

So here are the styles:

Style 1:

1. Grey Upcycled Tube Top

2. Grey Upcycled Vintage Top

3. Handmade Gray Brown and Blue Clutch

4. Abhy Pink Recycled Pendent Necklace

Style 2: Incorporating with other designers

1. Brown Upcycled Asymmetric Top

2. Jocelyn Textiles Earrings

3. PPP Coffee in the AM pants

4. Patchwork Tote

I personally prefer style two, what is your preferred one? I like the second one, because it represents my whimsical and slightly hippie way of dressing, and it's with my favorite indepedent designers <3

Katherine

Much Love Mondays #03: Poor Pitiful Pearl.

Today, I'm going to dedicate this post to my favorite designer/maker, Shauna from Poor Pitiful Pearl. I have been following her shop and her blog for the past year and I must say she is my inspiration. The lifestyle she lives is what I hope to get in a few years time... it's so beautiful! Her clothes are all upcycled and she has many signature garments that are added often in her shop. Here are a few of my favorites:

Flannel Oxy

Bell Sleeve Jacket

Apron Patchwork Skirt

No sleep till Austin Tank

Sweat Bloomers

One day, I will afford to support her by buying some of her clothes. :) When I spotted her clothes, I thought... "OMG, amazing!" like she was the only designer that I knew that made clothes that I liked and wasn't badly made, or wasn't distinctive like other designers I had. Shauna's clothes made me feel as if her clothes was a trend in itself, and was distinctly anti-fashion. I felt there was a sense of anarchy, and honestly said, it brought out a more freespirited, rebellious side to my clothing. I'm not sure if you have seen my sales, but I had first made clothes that were specifically edgy, and always had to be quirky to be original. When I was first selling my clothing 2 years ago, I had just left London College of Fashion and felt the need to break the mold of this typical fashion student who sits around drinking Starbucks all day, reading I-D, Vogue or Dazed and Confused and following the trends. No offence to those who do this, but that's not the lifestyle I lead. My inspiration is by music, and art, and not fashion. I'm not a follower, and I wouldn't like to be. She gave me the inspiration to continue to be myself, and that, I shall be. :)

Have a wicked evening, and Happy 4th July, my American friends!