MULBERRY BAGS: TEA PARTY FOR FAMOUS FASHION BLOGGERS. LUXURY ENGLISH HANDBAGS, DESIGNER PURSES BY EMMA HILL.
Mulberry held a private tea party at the Luisaviaroma store — putting some of the world’s top fashion bloggers all in one room! Here’s La Carmina and Sebastiano Serafini with Wendy (nitro:licious), Bryanboy, Liberty London Girl.
In front of a gargantuan, gold blow-up purse.
Punky top and skirt: Spider, Hong Kong Lolita brand (store photos to come)
Leopard print bleeding shoes: gifted from T.U.K Shoes
We love Camilla, social media manager at Luisa. She invited us to the event and took care of us — we became fast friends.
The party had a cake station, where we could decorate our own dessert. Tea, or champagne? We chose the latter.
All of a sudden, the bag started to deflate. Quick: La Carmina jumps into action and saves the day! (Do you think Seba let the air out of the bag?)
Asian bloggers represent. Our Hong Kong comrades Hypebeast, Popbee…
… and Bryanboy. Emma Hill, creative director of Mulberry, also flew in for the event.
We had fun previewing the new Mulberry bags and accessories, and did an interview for their site (it’ll be up soon). A certain little boy insisted on taking the gold balloons home.
Thanks to TUK Shoes for sending me Luv n Lux sexy pumps — they feature vampire artwork, and pay tribute to Lux Interior of The Cramps.
Luisaviaroma put us in the classy Granduomo Hotel, right at the foot of Florence’s Duomo. Pop quiz: can you find Seba’s stuffed toy dog, who travels everywhere with him?
Seba is the Number One cook.
A Kamijo moment. (So cool that his band, DNR, got to open for Versailles in concert!)
What’s with the pose? Gently mocking a certain fashion blogger… but we’re not going to tell you who!
Have you heard of TUK Shoes before? They have a smashing collection of Goth Punk Rock Retro designs… for affordable prices. What are your other favorite shoe and accessory brands?
PS: Back from a secret filming in Wisconsin! You can see my cheesy travel updates and photos on my Twitter.
Song of the Day: Yugure Girlfriend – Sandwich de 120 pun (ridiculous Visual Kei video)
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BROS PRODUCTS, HONG KONG COLORFUL STREETWEAR BRAND. ASIA URBAN CLOTHING, CUTE KAWAII CHARACTER DESIGN.
Introducing our favorite new streetwear brand… Bros Products, from Hong Kong! Here’s the fun story of how we got to know the designers; they’re now some of our favorite people.
Sebastiano Serafini discovered the colorful urban clothes years ago, when he was modeling in Hong Kong. He wore the Shark backpack on his TV drama, Nihonjin no shiranai nihongo, and Japanese viewers fell in love with it.
While we were in Hong Kong, we noticed that Bros Products was everywhere (lots of young people wearing the cute character garments). We got in touch with the label… and guess what. Designer Beerbean invited us to pick out clothes — as many as we wanted — from their factory inventory!
The fun, bright kiddy streetwear fits our personalities perfectly. It was difficult to narrow down our choices.
Mr. Shark, however, is probably Seba’s favorite character.
Pop quiz: can you find the design tributes to the Simpsons, Spongebob, Winnie the Pooh?
Sanrio’s not the only company with adorable characters. The Bros family includes Baby Lion, Rinne, Benson the naked boy, Panda, Duck and Monkey, combined in oh-so-many ways. (Frankenstein Lion and Devil Rinne, to name a few.)
The brand’s a small, family-run operation, but produces an impressive number of designs. Including sneakers, belts and watches.
Bros Products has nine stores in Hong Kong. Each is decorated as brightly as the t-shirt prints. (You can see photos of their Causeway Bay shop here.)
The team is the nicest, and we’re working together on something cool… We’ll let you know what’s up as soon as we can!
Sebastiano modeled Bros Products in a fashion shoot for a magazine; here are some of the images.
Do you love Bros Products as much as we do? Don’t you want to wear everything they make? In fact, we ended up doing exactly that… hilarious photos to come!
PS: Sebastiano and I are in an Italian TV news show (T7), in a story about Luisaviaroma’s fashion blogger event! You can see us in the clip above and here.
Song of the Day: XA-VAT – VAT-DANCE (featuring Kozi of Malice Mizer).
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