Giles Deacon in The Corner

Giles Deacon is selling a new capsule collection exclusively through the corner.com in a kind of online version of a 'pop up shop'. From January 2010 he will be opening his own online mini store at thecorner.com. The capsule collection consists of a limited (in variety) yet very nice little collection of just 3 pieces, a bustier dress made in lurex, a skirt and a top. Each of the items, developed from the collection, is inspired by a distinctive flower decoration: the detail of the flower petal is repeated over the textiles and used as a decorative element to embellish shoulders and gowns. The fabrics and colours are all exclusive to thecorner.com. Not to worry though, there will be more available in January.

All of the pieces are unfortunately far too expensive for the likes of myself (I will be sticking to the fab Gold by Giles for New Look collection), but I love the dress modelled by Pixie Geldolf and those sketches, which I would love to put in frame to decorate my rather overcrowded workspace.

Giles in Paris - an arachnophobes worst nightmare

Perhaps you though that I had forgotton to post about Paris Fashion Week. I had not. I was just considering and digesting the events and have decided to be very selective in posting as opposed to the blanket approach of blogging about every single show, as that would bore myself and everyone else. So here it is the show that really jumped out at me immediatley - Giles.

My first thoughts, WTF, actually I really like that, eww is that spiders. My best description of the colour scheme would be zingy. It was bright and included neons but in a very unobvious way.The collection had a fair amount of retro and comedy in it. The spiders were, even for someone who claims to have no fear of spiders, slightly creepy. For some, I can imagine they would provoke a shreaking sort of over reaction. But then perhaps that the reaction is part of the joy of wearing such an outfit.

I can see all the cool kids wearing this collection next summer. Unfortunately I don't think any stretch of the imagination could put me in the cool kids category but perhaps I can give it a try anyway, it looks so much fun!

pictures from http://www.style.com/