Vivian Maier

I want to share with you the story of the extremely talented Vivian Maier. 

Vivian Maier was a Chicago-based nanny

who spent her spare time wandering the streets with her Rolleiflex,

taking snapshots of street life around her.

An American of French and Austro-Hungarian extraction, Maier travelled between Europe and the United States before settling in New York City in 1951. Having picked up a camera just two years earlier, she combed the streets of the Big Apple refining her artistic craft. In 1956 Maier left the East Coast for Chicago, where she spent most of her remaining life working as a nanny. She continued shooting well into the 1990s, amassing a collection of over 100,000 negatives.

Maier’s massive body of work came to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it eventually made an impact the world over and changed the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.

Dominique x

tropical

our tropical palmtree in this month's Red magazine

pure klass

We are featured in 3 different shoots in this month's Red magazine, including the cover shoot with Myleene Klass.

Ta very much Red ladies.

xxx

x cross stitch x

 I designed our new window display this week to correspond with the launch of our AW11 collection 'We are all made of Stars'. 

I wanted to do something clean and muted,

after my last window display of the

floral extravaganza!!

My inspiration came from the engraved circles and cross on my favourite piece in the collection, the globe coin.

I used different natural fabrics to cover

our display boxes and then cross stitched

the jewellery on to them.

The decals on the window are from

Supernice on Columbia Road.

Dominique xxx

one night only!

love unites us...

thank you ladies of ELLE for including our treasured signet ring in your 

statement jewellery page

xxx