Results tagged “PPQ” (12)

Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

agynessactress.jpgAdd A Slash: As in model/actress. Next up is Agyness who’s shooting a short film with the guy who plays the ADA on Law & Order. Also we now have “Celebrity Skin” running through our heads, which is not a bad thing at all. {Page Six}

Is Adidas the New Target: They’ve had Jeremy Scott and Stella McCartney, but now they’re onto British brand PPQ. Here’s your first look at their stripe-y, Catwoman-y collection. {Nylon}

Rita Hayworth Gave Good Face: Lindsay Lohan does not. God love (or hate) the Daily Mail for pointing out what we also witnessed last night, some seriously weird expressions that did nothing but age the girl in a major way. {Daily Mail}

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Trendspotting: Seeing Stripes

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Streetwalker

Streetwalker: Stars & Stripes

stripey streetwalker.JPGEglantine, Actress

Got Her: At the PPQ show at the Burlington Arcade.

Stalked Her: Because we’ve been trying to knit a neck thing like that since our senior year of college. We’re about half way through. And, because we love a good stripe.

Shot Her: Because it takes a certain kind of woman to pull off stripes like that on legs. Plus, we couldn’t stop staring at her hair.

She Says: “I’m doing London Fashion Week interviews for iTV5 and it’s been so much fun! I’m going to squeeze in at the end to watch the PPQ show because I really love their clothes.”

We Say: We really love yours.

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Slideshows

PPQ, Or, A Catastrophe

PPQ aw09 .JPGI get to PPQ about five minutes early. I’m meeting Rebecca from Elle.com and despite our seated status, we and the rest of the crowd are locked outside a gate. While the show should be starting, workmen bring in the benches.

Alexa Chung slides by and The Moment twitters that editors are being turned away while socialites are flying in. We get past the gate and there’s a bar serving PPQ lemonade - which has no lemonade and tastes like straight Pim’s. By now, we’re practically in a mosh pit. No one’s let behind the curtain - not even Alexa Chung - until 8:37.

Everyone’s told to put down their glasses, alcohol spills, a girl slips, her knee cracks, she passes out and the stampede rushes on into the almost mile long arcade. Rebecca and I pick her up and get her sorted before taking our seat in the mono-row, (how Marc).

By now it’s 8:53 and 2812 starts in Camden in seven minutes. Colin McDowell and Hilary Alexander both get up and leave. The British Vogue editors behind me chatter, “That’s interesting, should we go too?”

As I’m about to bolt, the lights go down and Daisy Lowe stomps her way down the runway.

The clothes are bright, the braids are plastic and the shoes are fun.

I do indeed bolt before the finale and thank god that I’ve made it this far without passing out, falling down or trampling any passerby.

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News

Peaches for PPQ Actually Happening

peaches geldof wears a vest.jpgWay back in May, PPQ announced that Peaches Geldof would be designing a capsule collection of mostly dresses for their line, all based around the colors black and peach. After that, news about it simply did not exist - until today.

Vogue UK now says the collection is complete, and will hit the racks at Selfridges later this month.

We love PPQ, so it’s a shame Peaches can’t use her new found semi-celebrity over here to make like Rihanna and try to bring the label to the US, but maybe that’ll happen when California native Cory designs her own capsule collection, because really, can it be that far off?

On a side note, Peaches’ collection with apparently include bags “complete with everything you need for a night out already inside”. So, lipgloss, mints, a hand mirror.. we wonder what else Peaches thinks is necessary for nightlife..

Would You Wear

Would You Wear Spring’s Head Gear?

spring headgear all over.jpgOr the more appropriate question is, “Will you wear spring’s head gear?”

The runways have been inundated with hats. Catherine Holstein wrapped whole sweaters around the heads of her models. PPQ added I Dream of Jeannie-like toppers to their ruffly dresses and Luella splashed retro veiled hats and riding caps across her floral outfits.

We think some, like the sweaters at Holstein, might look super cool on the runway but stop short of realistically working on a regular girl’s head. Same goes for the PPQ hats - they’d induce a giggle or two at the even the most wacky New York party. And the swim caps at D&G - are they serious?

Luella’s little hats, while cute on Ali, Jourdan et. al, are the kind of thing we want to rock when we’re eighty-year-old eccentric ladies with a murky fashion past.

Right now, we’d love one of the sun hats from Trovata and Nicole Farhi, or even a mini Mary Poppins hat from Marc. And we’d obviously rock the giant bobby pins from Basso & Brooke, but we’re not even sure those are for sale.

If you don’t usually wear hats, will this spring’s wide selection make you change your mind? Or is this a look better left to runways/editorials/ads/models rather than mere mortals?

Streetwalker

Streetwalker: Real, Live PPQ

PPQ Streetwalker.JPGMadeline, 23, Writer

Got Her: At PPQ’s Spring/Summer 2009 show at the London Fashion Week Tent

Stalked Her: Because her simple hair and shoes defied the dangerously hip crowd - in a good way.

Shot Her: Because sometimes a PPQ dress is hard to wear if you’re not Lily Allen/Peaches Geldof/on a red carpet, and she managed to rock it pretty damn well.

She Says: “I used to work for PPQ! They’re amazing, and I still love helping them out whenever I can. Now I work for Distill magazine, it’s a new book and it’s like a magazine digest. So we feature the best of the international fashion press.”

We Say: Definitely a dress that’s fit to print.

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Things That Make You Go Hmm, at PPQ

PPQ SS 09.JPGWe couldn’t decide which was stranger about PPQ’s Spring show: the celebrity quotient or the collection itself.

Front row held, in no particular order, Kimberley Stewart, the Geldof sisters, Russell Simmons, the Klaxons, Cory Kennedy, the Horrors, Henry Holland and Alexa Chung.

And the randomness did not stop there.

On the runway were ruffled mini dresses (on the likes of Daisy Lowe) we’d wear any day, but followed by pants and headdresses straight out of I Dream of Jeannie. One of the final looks was a black romper devoured by ruffles - a Spring trend that apparently did not stop in New York - on top but missing crucial fabric on the bottom.

We loved the popsicle colors, similar to the ones we saw earlier in the morning at Topshop, but they seemed a bit over the top when put on such silly shapes.

And we loved watching Ali Michael strut down the runway.

The show was a blast to watch, as was the befuddling front row. But we’re not sure how easy it’d be to wear, unless of course you’re Kim Stewart.

Because then we totally get it.

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News

PPQ to Cell Phone Accessories?

ppq cell phone bag.jpgThis morning’s Vogue UK has a funny bit of news:

That PPQ’s teamed up with something called the Carphone Warehouse to design a little bag for your Blackberry.

It’s striped magenta, dark blue and silver in a Prada-ish way, and will be sold at Selfridges and Oli.com. The PPQ duo, Amy and Percy, say, “The combination pouch and handset will make even the most stylish fashionista stand out.”

Does this strike anyone else a little strange? A little too random? Not fun, like PPQ’s usual stuff, at all? And a little too much like something Dior Accessories would do? Is a lipstick holder next?

At least all the proceeds go to Macmillan Cancer Support.

People We Like

“Girl I’m Asking Could You Be My Queen?”

rihanna in ppq.jpgWe know stylists work hard - it can’t be easy to dress divas, guarantee red carpet success and compete in a very small, very competitive industry - but we often wonder how hard it can really be when all the big names knock down your door with the prettiest clothes and accessories .

So we’re kind of thrilled that Rihanna’s stylist is working a little overtime to promote smaller, particularly British, labels.

The singer lit the Empire State building last night for Cartier Love Day wearing the colorful PPQ dress to the left. Then, she wore a colorful ruffly Poltock & Walsh skirt on the Today Show this morning, (Topshop - PLEASE pay attention), and she’s been out and about in plenty of outfits we don’t recognize, which is very refreshing.

Sure, people like Mischa Barton and the Olsens wear underground brands all the time, but Rihanna’s far more mainstream which means she has potential to bring indie brands into a bigger spotlight with the kind of break that only comes with devoted celebrity fans.

To Rihanna’s stylist, keep it coming.

News

Peaches Now Designs, Edits

peaches geldof pic.jpgWe guess British socialite Peaches Geldof was taking notes when she beat out Agyness to open PPQ’s show in London last season.


The young label (think Richie Rich and Trevor Rains’ style, except British and with less glitter), has just announced that Peaches will design a capsule collection of mostly dresses, all around a color palette of peach and black.

The line hits racks this Fall.

In other Peaches news, Catwalk Queen has been reporting for a while now that Peaches has scored her own MTV reality show (to be produced by her father’s company, Ten Alps), in which she will play an editor of a celebrity magazine, to air in the UK.

We have no idea how this qualifies as reality TV - even taking into account the new mock meaning of “reality” - but sit tight for details.

News

Ben Sherman Pairs with British Label PPQ, Clones Lily Allen

Ben Sherman PPQ Dress.JPGIt seems like it’s all about designer collaborations these days. Adidas and Diesel, Stella and Notify, everybody and H&M.


Now Ben Sherman is jumping on the bandwagon, partnering with design and record label PPQ for a diffusion line. Though PPQ isn’t so known in America, they’re like an upscale Heatherette in London - this October, they opened their fashion show with Peaches Geldof and Agyness Deyn (in that order), and the MisShapes played their after party.

The limited-edition collection launches this March with only five dresses, all meant to capsule decades of musical style. The outfits begin with a Mod-inspired shift for the 60’s and end with a high-necked lace frock, which references (they say) the Cranberries, KT Tunstall and other moody songstresses from today.

Ben Sherman is only making 175 of the dresses, and only 25 for the US market. We think this is a cute idea, but something else is bugging us:

If the Indie Dress at left comes in white, it’s going to look a lot like the Chiffon with Velvet Dress from Erin Featherston’s diffusion line. But the Ben Sherman version is £180 - can we still rock out to the Kills if we shop at Target?