Today it was time to decide on the delectable
Trelise Cooper kids collection for summer 2011. Hard to believe I know when we are only 3 days in to autumn 2010. I always feel a little over-whelmed and under-dressed when I visit Trelise's showroom! After all, it is a veritable mecca for anyone remotely interested in New Zealand fashion, and her team always look amazing. Even the sample sewers look as though they've stepped from the pages of a fashion magazine. I studied my Fashion Quarterly on the plane feverishly. All this and I'm buying kids wear!
For those of you who don't know of Trelise Cooper, she is one of our most successful fashion designers. Her upcoming uniforms for
Air New Zealand may be contentious, but no doubt they'll turn heads.
Her kids' range is both pure fantasy & fantastical. Every little girls idea of the ultimate dress-up. (If you missed it, I blogged about her AW10 kids fashion week parade
here.)
I thought you may like to see a few images of the dedicated Trelise Cooper kids store. A children's wonderland, from the life-sized blossom trees at the front, down past the 'tea party' where special fluffys are served in beautiful teacups with multiple marshmallows, to the dressing rooms at the rear. Each dressing room is different - one all mirrored, one a soft fairy dell, one an all out party pad with ultra thick, red shag pile covering all four walls and floor, and the one I'd like to take home - a padded cell, also red of course. But the centrepiece of the store, other than the clothes, is the glass storybook floor. On my last visit it was The Wizard of Oz portrayed in miniature beneath the glass that had everyone spellbound.
As Brunnel dropped me at the airport this morning, his last words were 'Don't buy too much'. He wasn't talking about the kids clothes...
After all, what is a girl to do when she is allowed to choose a few treats for herself from a line up like this!
Amanda xx