This Christmas, Harrods and Disney are celebrating a glamorous collaboration with a pop-up boutique and exciting in-store events. The exclusive 7,000 square-foot boutique is open on the Fourth Floor at Harrods until January 2012. Housing an array of Disney products, it will also include bespoke limited-edition items, collectables and show-stopping dress-up pieces.
For truly royal treatment, visit the Disney Princess Parlour dress-up area and try on iconic costumes. Plus, for £19.95, visitors will have the opportunity to have a 15 minute photographic experience against an enchanting Disney backdrop and take home mounted photographs (by appointment only).
There will also be a Cinderella Slipper Salon offering replica glitter-embellished glass limited-edition slippers, ranging from £24.95 to £34.95; with limited stock available be sure to stop by early to guarantee your purchase.
To celebrate this pink and sparkly paradise, leading fashion designers including Versace, Valentino, Elie Saab and Roberto Cavalli were invited by Harrods to create a special interpretation of one of 10 Disney Princesses animating the store’s Christmas project.
An here is your exclusive first look at the beautiful gowns that will be unveiled in the famous Harrods Christmas windows on Thursday November 1, 2012. I love!
CLICK HERE TO SHOP DISNEY AT HARRODS
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LoL, Sandra
Pocahontas by Roberto Cavalli
Aurora by Elie Saab
Cinderella by Versace
Snow White by Oscar de la Renta
Belle by Valentino
Photos: Courtesy of Harrods
Pick a spooky treat for your fashionable monsters this Halloween. Stella McCartney offers some stylish and scary sleepwear for your little ones that they will surely adore.
Louie Pyjamas by Stella McCartney –
Organic cotton glow-in-the-dark monster print sleepwear, € 60.-
Available from 2 to 14 years
Giggle all in one by Stella McCartney –
Baby glow-in-the dark print organic cotton jersey all in one with feet, € 55.-
Available from 3 to 24 months
Happy Stellaween!
LoL, Sandra
Photos: Courtesy of Stella McCartney
Girls have more fun – finally young ladies can also wear the gorgeous colourful, hand-painted bangles by Sal y Limon.
The first Miss SYL collection for girls is now available in six colours, seven designs and two sizes: Miss SYL small for CHF 24.90; Miss SYL medium for CHF 31.90 each. In Switzerland at Globus and Loeb.
My daughter wears them with great pleasure at her arm…
LoL, Sandra
Photos: Courtesy of Sal y Limon and © Sandra Bauknecht
I am a grown-up Roksanda Ilincic fan as you know and her pre-fall 2012 collection is one of my favourites for the next season. Inspired by her eighteen month-old daughter’s Legos, the uber-cute designs feature drop-waist dresses, puff skirts, Mondrian-like colour blocking and divine colour combinations.
You can shop a great selection at net-à-porter.com 
and matchesfashion.com. The cute Suzu wool-blend crepe dress to the left above has just found its way to me.
This month, the Serbian designer has launched her debut line for two to eight year olds, entitled Blossom Childrenswear. The range features mini-me clothes with instantly recognisable aspects from Roksanda’s womenswear designs and was inspired by the birth of Roksanda’s first child Efimia, back in 2010, who is perhaps unsurprinsgly, modelling the debut collection.
Roksanda puts an emphasis on material “to ensure the collection comprises of soft textures and loose, unrestrictive shapes”. This happens when a mother designs. She knows how to keep the little ones comfortable without giving up on style. The line is available at Liberty and on AlexandAlexa.com. I am loving it!
LoL, Sandra
Photos: Courtesy of Roksanda Ilincic
After you have seen the H&M Fall 2012 lookbooks for women and men, you might be interested in exploring what is coming up for the little ones.
For kids, it is, of course, all about colour and comfy materials. For girls, my favourite is the Dalmatian knit dress and for boys, those blue high-top sneakers. A very cute collection!
But everything small looks sweet, doesn’t it?!
LoL, Sandra
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
Do you remember LUISAVIAROMA’s charity project
“Pug Dogs for Happy Kids” that I presented to you last January? You can click here for the previous post.
Twenty one pug dogs were customized exclusively for LuisaViaRoma by a selection of the most prominent international luxury fashion designers and bloggers were asked to adopt one of those little soft toys.
As you know, I adopted the Emilio Pucci pug dog.
Finally the pug dogs are to be auctioned off starting March 19th for UNICEF in support of children in Bangladesh on eBay. For more information on how to bet, please click here
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Happy auctioning for a good cause and a big thank you!
LoL, Sandra
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
During New York Fashion Week, at the Lincoln Center, Barbie threw open the sparkly, pink doors of her Dream Closet.
It’s a special 9,000 square-foot installation with all kinds of looks to pick from and try on, a demonstration of what kids can do at home on their own computers if they visit BarbieWow.com and have webcams.
The real attraction were the Barbie “dressing rooms,” where you pose while your picture is snapped on a giant screen, then allowing you to “try on” some of your favorite B-doll costumes.
Stephanie Cota, Barbie’s senior vice president of marketing, has been active during Fashion Week for several years. There was a runway show in 2009 for the doll’s 50th anniversary, featuring outfits by 50 designers who included Vera Wang, Diane von Furstenberg and Calvin Klein.
In all, 75 couture designers have outfitted Barbie over the years. Cota and her Mattel crew were loaded with Barbie tidbits: There’s a “Barbie Pink” Pantone colour and more than 1 billion outfits produced for her since she first hit stores as a “teenage fashion model” in 1959 wearing a black-and-white zebra stripe swimsuit.
LoL, Sandra
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
Here is your sneak preview of Versace’s S/S 2012 advertising campaign for Young Versace that features 10-year old Kaia Gerber, the daughter of Cindy Crawford, one of Gianni Versace’s supermodel muses.
Young Versace is a brand-new collection for boys and girls aged from 0-12 which offers the quintessential Versace style with a youthful rock ’n’ roll twist, including playful prints, vibrant colors, mixing of patterns and a reinterpretation of the house’s iconic Greek key motif and Medusa head logo. The collection is available at the Versace Young boutique in Milan and worldwide in select multi-brand stores specializing in childrenswear.
Beautiful Family: Cindy Crawford with husband Rande Gerber, son Presley and daughter Kaia.
“Like her mother, Kaia has a very special gift. The camera really, really loves her,” said Donatella Versace, Creative Director of Versace. “Having Cindy on-set for the shoot took me back to all the amazing Avedon shoots we worked on together. It was such a special treat watching Kaia walk in her mother’s footsteps!”
“I’m so thrilled that Kaia was chosen to be part of the first Young Versace Campaign,” said Cindy Crawford. “I have so many fond memories of the times I spent with Gianni and Donatella. There is something so very special about the House of Versace. Being on-set with my daughter watching her in front of the camera was a fantastic experience. I am so proud of her.”
The campaign was shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and art directed by Giovanni Bianco.
Doesn’t Kaia looks so much like her famous mother?
LoL, Sandra
Photos: Courtesy of Versace, © John Sciulli/Getty Images North America
Let me introduce you to LUISAVIAROMA.COM‘s charity project “PUG DOGS FOR HAPPY KIDS” an exclusive one of a kind edition of 20 pug dogs, produced by Steiff, the German leader in the production of handmade plush toys & collectables.
Each piece is customized by a selection of the most prominent international fashion designers.
All proceeds generated from the sales will be donated to UNICEF to support disadvantaged children.
For the 4th Edition of Firenze4Ever Luisa Via Roma has asked each fashion blogger to “Adopt a Pug” for UNICEF. It was pretty tough to decide which one to take as designers such as Balmain, Emilio Pucci, Giambattista Valli, Mary Katrantzou & many more have come up with some pretty amazing pieces.
Curious which one I have chosen? Let me tell you that much: I was fighting with Bryan Boy over the Mary Katrantzou one and he was winning, haha. So I went for another one that I have truly fallen in love with. Stay tuned for the upcoming unique photo shoot with my little puppy.
The toys will be on display in store throughout the following Pitti week and will subsequently be available online.
LoL, Sandra
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
Today, I would like to show you my “Christmas Uggs” by Ugg® Australia. Wouldn’t they be something for you, too?! Available with either gold, silver, purple, black or red sequins, they are absolute eyecatchers. Click here to be transferred directly.
Looking at my feet, my comfy Uggs make me totally happy. But with those shoes, there are only two ways possible, either you love them or you hate them…
My daughter got this super cute pair with double ribbon bows at back! Available in pink or black.
Click here for more information on the Bailey Bow for Kids.
LoL, Sandra
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
