The holidays are over and everyone’s starting back at work. Why not cheer yourself up with a new outfit or even just some cool accessories to freshen up an existing one.
Both men’s and women’s clothes are in the sale as well as the majority of accessories are on sale so make sure to have a good look through, it might be your last chance to buy at these prices.
Eustratia is making changes for a more professional and business minded approach this year and hopes to bring you a lot of exciting work.
This has been a while coming, but I wanted to write a post to introduce my new stockist, Hitome Adore.
The shop opened a few months ago and is situated on the second floor of Afflecks palace, Manchester’s premier alternative fashion market. It’s boutique-like feel makes it stand out from the other stalls and the eclectic mix of items make it well worth a visit.
At the opening we talked about the shop ethos and products on offer, tried on latex and gave people advise and even signed flyers for some excited school boys.
Hitome Adore is run by model Kira Krueger and TG Manchester promoter Frankie Knuckles and is also the official TG Manchester ticket vendor. They chose a dark but sumptuous look for the shop with dark striped wallpaper, damask curtains and dark wood vintage furniture, the shop name definition typed out on an old type writer is a nice touch to finish it off. My personal favourite item of furniture in the shop has to be the saddle chair, my current home decorating obsession has made me really appreciate quirky seating.
I was delighted to hear that they wanted Eustratia as the main brand, I’ve always enjoyed introducing new customers to latex, incorporating current trends into my collections and mixing latex with different fabric and textures, so making more wearable items to appeal to a more mainstream audience sounded like an idea that would lend it’s self well to my label.
Aside from the Eustratia range they also stock some latex accessories from Arcanum, chainmail accessories by Richard Ayres and a selection of wigs in various colours and cuts. Frankie Knuckles also has some of his own artwork displayed in the shop.
Images by John Clarke and Frankie Knuckles
LatexGirlsHD captured a video of what we got up to at the opening along with some info about the range and the shop in general.
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting increasingly bored of my website front page image. I can never seem to find one that I think fits perfectly so I end up changing it every so often. Today I was feeling like playing around in photoshop and after seeing an images that inspired me on tumblr, I went ahead to create a notice board type collage of inspirational items and artwork that is used in my products and branding.
It features two model images, the first in the top left corner is by Toria Brightside and the second by Jennifer Byron. The other two photos were taken from my university look book. A few of the insects are from stock photos I found online and the vectors were created by me for various projects.
I haven’t made anything like this for a while and thoroughly enjoyed it, I think I need to make room for more not-strickly-work-related art projects in my life. They help to keep my work on track and inspired. One of my greatest fears is waking up in an other couple of years and realising I’ve become one of these people who just make stuff because its their job and don’t have any creative vision beyond what will sell to boring sheep-like individuals.
I also bought an overlocker today so I look forward to starting my leggings collection as soon as I have chosen the appropriate fabrics!
The holidays are over and everyone’s starting back at work. Why not cheer yourself up with a new outfit or even just some cool accessories to freshen up an existing one.
