Kingdom Of Style

Do Disturb...

Me and unsupervised disco naps!

A combination that usually ends in disaster.

I did it again last weekend.

Sir Midas was doing the first hour at The 'Mo and sadly I slept right through it. But today while prowling around the Design Museum Shop I came across a solution!

A Do Disturb Sign and it only costs a meagre £5

Now all I need is someone around to read it!

Queen Marie

The Wonderful World of Wound...

A magazine for the kind of world we're living in today.

A world where our media landscape is wide.

A world where we want clever delivery of content as well as clever content itself!

Earlier this week Lucy emailed us to give us a heads up to the upcoming re-launch of Wound, the magazine that celebrates and examines art, fashion, architecture and design...

The issue entitled 'La Grande Illusion' is available with a choice of 4 collectable covers but the choice doesn't stop there.

Wound want to overturn conventions and assumptions about how to consume magazines and to that end

it will be the word's first magazine to launch with bespoke content across three platforms-

Wound magazine in print, Wounddigital online and iWound on iPhone

Available quarterly and with this relaunch issue featuring interviews with Marios Schwab and peaches, the empress of electro, make sure you make time for Wound

Queen Marie

'Take That' - please do...

Last night I got caught up in the traffic jam, to end all traffic jams!

Heading into the club, a journey that normally takes me about 15 minutes, took about an hour and a half.

The reason? Take That had come to town. Hampden to be precise...

Circus?  I'll say it was.

Hampden holds 52,000 people.  Picture it - 52,000 drunk, screaming women. Drunk screaming women in stetsons!  It's enough to make your blood run cold.  Now let me just say, I have nothing against Gary and the boys, in fact I think I am faintly fond of them, but the women in the street last night. OH.MY.GOD!

I have never in my life seen so many badly dressed women with really bad shoes staggering along pavements and falling into the road. It was as though evolution had taken a step backwards.  These women couldn't stand up straight!  They were hunched over and hobbling. Almost as though they had actually been hobbled...

*shudder*

By the time I got to the club, I was in a vile mood.  So vile, I couldn't even dance it off and by 2, I was heading home again. 

And can someone please tell me when wearing a glittery stetson became de rigeur at a gig?

I must have missed that memo.

A very cross Queen Marie

Please feed the bunny...

This is one bunny, that designer Paul Smith is hoping everyone in London feeds...

This is the Litter Bunny, a big green rabbit,whose ears light up when you put your rubbish in his sack.

Designed as 1 of 15 commisions to help improve City Life in London you can find out more at The 'Super Contemporary' show at The Design Museum

I think this little fella would help out anywhere.  I hate litter and anything that helps people think about dropping things in the street makes me happy.

Queen Marie

PS. it goes without saying that now I can't get Nicholas Cage  out of my head saying "Put the bunny back in the box"  . Con Air. Genius.

Would it make me look like a big marshmallow?

Oh hell yeah!

A big fat assed pink marshmallow!

But do I still kind of love it?

Hell yeah!

This Moschino Cheap and Chic number can be found at The Out-Net the discount outlet for Net-a-porter.

for £390.

Which is still quite a lot of money to look pretty in pink...

Queen Marie

"Heart Shaped is what's Happening"...

Reading the NY Times Style section last week about round sunglasses being the latest shape to grace the most fashionable faces, William H Macy greeted the news with a snort of derision.

Being a garden donkey, he spends a lot of time outside, and boy does this donkey know what he like when it comes to eyewear.

"If you want to be ahead of trend and not a mere follower, then Heart Shaped Aviators are what's happening" he said...

Donkey say, Queen do...

"Heart Shaped" you heard it here first.

Tee Hee

Queen Marie

Let's take tea in the garden...

Well we could, but we would be blown away with the hurricane like winds and the pissing rain.

Our jammy dodgers would be soaked before we had a sip of our tea!

In an ideal world, the sun would shine, a cooling breeze would blow and we would gorge ourselves on heavenly cupcakes served on this delicious cake plate from Esther Coombs

My Garden Cake Stand $180

Esther whose work can be found in Liberty and The Designers Guild in London as well as on the wonderful etsy brings happy new life to sad discarded ceramics, putting them together and adding another dimension with the addition of her own charming illlustrations.

Small Skyscraper $90

If these treasures are a bit out of your price range, she also does brooches, made from 

shards of plates and saucers and a total steal at only $10!

Teabag Brooch $10

Queen Marie

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Laced At Last

Finally James has put up a wee preview of his laced up leggings. He has been working on these for the longest time so it's good to see these finally come to fruition.

I tried to initially get him to give the holes grommets because, well, for selfish reasons really - I like grommets. But he worked out a better way to do them without the palava of grommet tape. They look ace none the less.

If you are really into laced up legwear these corset style tights are kinda cool...in a weird way. I, of course, would wear them back to front over something like floral tights. They would be better if the denier was heavier though.

Or perhaps you prefer a side lattice effect?

From the same shop these floral opaques with the sheer pattern are rather fetching.

Or ones with straps and chain styled detail?

Available from Teddy Girl.

Queen Michelle

Big Head

Having a read through the Fashion156 blog I noticed they had the new AW09 Le Tour De Force collection previewed. Wow! As much as I love the kid's version I got I still want one of the bigger, adult ones.

Of course they are even further from my reach now due to impending dole-dom, however it's nice to look none the less.

They have a large version of the one I got which looks utterly amazing and a similar one in black too. Also loving the cage-like veil detail on the top left hand hat.

Totally stunning. Everyone should experience the joy of having something so strange and wonderful on your head.

Queen Michelle

Handbags At 40 Paces

Ever found yourself accidentally, or deliberately, in the middle of a fevered sale scrum?

Women desperate for a bargain will use anything at their disposal as a weapon to fight off the pawing competition. Elbows, nails and of course handbags. How many of you have been stragically shoved out of the way by a wayward handbag when you're simply trying to look at clothes like a normal person, and not a rabid dog? Well, I have the answer.

Empire33 sent us an email about their handbags which utilise sword handles in their designs. The designer behind the label, Marjan Petrovski, had the idea in a dream. He dreamt that the famous Japanese sword fighter, Miyamoto Musashi, was dueling with General Custer over a Gucci bag. From that dream he created the most beautifully crafted bags I think I have ever seen. Just what you need at the next Harrods sale.

The Musashi

The Custer

Marjan has worked for labels such as Whispered Scream, Chainsaw Chuckles, 4th Rebellion, Brux and Capitale and now run creates his bags in a workshop in Sydney.

Prior to creating his line of handbags he was a millner, getting into after reading about a man who wore a possum on his head and believed it was a hat! Which reminds me of the book by neurologist Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, which is a collection of stories about cases he'd come across during his career and one of them was a music teacher who suffered a condition, visual agnosia, which meant his brain was unable to recognize human faces and so one day, whilst looking for his hat, he tried to put his wife's head on his head thinking it was his hat!

It seems that Marjan Petrovski looks to the oddest of places for inspiration!

Queen Michelle