Braids & Bows on Style Bubble

Style babble is our all-time favorite blog, and the lovely Susie who writes it keeps us posted every day about all the things we really love. So you can imagine our surprise and excitement when we discovered this morning that she wrote about us.
Thanks Susie!

Scarf-Mania

My two worlds, the blog and my work at TimeOut , were intertwined this week while preparing an article for Timeout on the new "up-cycling" trend, and the new collection of the fashion house, " Clements Ribeiro ". For anyone who doesn't read Hebrew and therefore can't read the article, "up-cycling" is a process that takes old garments, recycles and upgrades them into a new outfit, and therefore is both green and creative.
Designers at "Clements Ribeiro" did just that with their newest project "Scarf-Mania". There they took vintage scarfs that they found in their fashion house storage, and made an entire collection out of them. In the article I presented a DIY project showing how anyone can make their own version of Ribeiro's Scarf Mania. To show it off I couldn't think of anyone better than miss DIY herself, Nina. Once Nina was already on board I couldn't resist bringing Yana, our photographer along for the ride, and there you have it - the entire Braids and Bows team on a TimeOut adventure.
The spread in Time out


Ribeiro's Scarf Mania collection




These are the steps to create your own scarfs dress:

1. What you’ll need is: two silk scarves, a thread, a needle and chalk.


2. Fold 10 cm of the upper part of each scarf.


3. Measure 12-15 cm from the two ends of the folded part of the scarf, and mark it with chalk.


4. Invert the scarves, and stitch the two scarves at the marked places (now you have the opening for the head).



5. Leave enough space for hands, and stitch the two scarves lengthwise.


And now you have a dress!

Fashion is in the details

A good friend of mine, Dvir Ackerman, has such a great job! He is the photographer of Fashion TV, which means he goes to NY and London fashion week twice a year, sits on the first rows, enters to fashion shows backstage, and let's not forget the goodies bags he gets! Is there a place for me there maybe?
'Till then, Dvir gave me some of the photos he took at the latest NY fashion week to share with you...Did I mention the Jeremy Scott's bag I got as a present?! Thanks Dvir, please keep your job!!

Monique Lhuillier on and behind the stage










My beloved Marc Jacobs...









Jeremy Scott on and behind the stage









The amazing Carolina Herrera








If you were wondering what models are eating...




And Alexander McQueen's empty store...

Morning Light

Once in the dream of a night I stood
Lone in the light of a magical wood,
Soul-deep in visions that poppy-like sprang;
And spirits of Truth were the birds that sang,
And spirits of Love were the stars that glowed,
And spirits of Peace were the streams that flowed
In that magical wood in the land of sleep.
Sarojini Naidu























Ninas Dress- Zara
Tchelets Dress- TopShop
Shoes- Vintage
Magazine- Vogue, April 1960
Music- "All I Need", Air

Big thanks to Yana Godin for the beautiful photos at the morning sunlight...

The Animal Crinolines

Walter Van Beirendonck's latest Winter 2010/2011 collection "Take a W-Ride" was mostly menswear. As expected from Walter, the collection was very colorful with strong graphics and humoristic… For me the best part of the fashion show was the end, when the models showed on stage with sculptured animal figure crinolines and over sized hats! The designers that created this genius crinolines were Elke Hoste and Lisandro Olmos. I was desperately looking for their other works on web, but almost found nothing, hope to hear about them more in the future…