Clerkenwell Design Week: the stylish dressers

Ella is on the left, Lulu on the right

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Clerkenwell Design Week gave us the opportunity to spot a few stylish dressers and to quizz them about where they get their clothes.

Above is the lovely designer Ella Doran who is wearing a cotton frock bought last season at Whistles, the designer is Sarah Arnett. She's also wearing APC shoes.

Lulu Guinness was promoting her new Clerkenwell clutch handbag by creating a human sized 'pin art machine', where you could press your body into a pin sculpture for all to see. We're not sure where Lulu's dress is from, she was a bit busy to ask. We suspect vintage.

Nigel on the left, Jodie on the right

This is Nigel Coates on the left, a very well respected chap in the design world. I had no idea who he was as I bossed him about asking where his clothes came from, Jane filled me in after I'd press ganged him into posing. He charmingly obliged .

He remembered exactly where everything came from: jacket- Prada, shirt- Topshop, jeans- Unconditional, belt- SBU (from Rome), Socks- from Japan, specs from Mito, Italy and shoes from Clarks. He was wearing some jolly nice rings too.

On the right is Jodie, who looks fab in her Daniela Gregis dress, bought a while ago. We also loved her Kate Kanzier grey suede brogues, which were very reasonably priced at £30.

Comments

[Susanna]

I love Ella's Whistles dress! It looks great with the belt and shoes.

I must say I giggled while reading this entry, all about what the designers are wearing instead of what they were showcasing, the day after yesterday's entry on media focusing on dresses only .... ;) ;).

[amanda]

Susanna, you have a point! But our annoyance with the Kate/Michelle coverage was the way the media went totally bonkers over the clothes, as if it was the most important thing going.

You might notice that all our 'style icons' are over 30 ( I might be doing Ella an injustice here but she had the elegant air of a grown up). The reason we shout loudly about how good they look is BECAUSE no one else is, the fashion industry is slow to love the over 35s.

We have very few role models when we get older, so we make it our business to say how great someone looks when we do find them. Indeed we did something similar about Michelle in the early days of her 'reign', I think she has terrific style, possibly the best example of 'casual glamour' ever seen on a US president's wife.

The worry is when it's the first point of reference -over hyped- by the press. The fashion press are possibly the worst at it. You should see the amount of press releases we get from brands pointing out their 'Kate dresses'....

So we will continue to shoot older style icons if they look inspiring, no matter what they do, as we need the inspiration. But we wont get hysterical about it (altho we do get occasional hysterical girl-crushes- both Jane and I are still mad for Patti Smith).
Ax

[Susanna]

My apologies. You are of course absolutely right! I really agreed with Friday's entry and enjoyed yesterday's. I've been following your blog daily for a few months now and I think it is great, both in its spirit and its execution.
My comment was intended as a light-hearted "giggly" observation without any sting to it, but I can understand how it looked like criticism. For this I am truly sorry!
x

[amanda]

Don't be daft! it was a great comment! My reply was trying to justify our point, but I loved your challenge, giggly or not! and we totally encourage any discourse like this, keep it coming Susanna, you have no need to apologies....we like to be kept on our toes! Axx

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