Missie Sunshine Couture – children’s beachwear with a funky attitude from Montreal.

Posted on May 15, 2013 by smudgetikka

Missie Sunshine Couture is the brainchild of Christina Lee and her partner Heidi Massa who started the brand over a year ago. They are based in Montreal and the collection is produced in India.

Helping them with the branding, art direction and graphics is one of my cyber friends, Chantale Park whose own delightful blog featuring her daughter Kiki shows us many aspects of Montreal and her favourite bento boxes! A firm twitter friend to many UK bloggers, she avidly retweets us all the time so thank you ChantaleP.

Kiki features as one of the models in the new Missie Sunshine Couture summer 2013 collection which has easy dressing kaftan styles, sheer slip over swimwear dresses and casual jersey stripes.

Missie Sunshine summer 2013 young girls and tweens summer dressing from Montreal

Missie Sunshine summer 2013 for girls up to 10yrs, summer dressing from Montreal

Missie Sunshine summer 2013, vibrant layered dresses made in India.

Missie Sunshine summer 2013 casual summer dressing for girls

Missie Sunshine summer 2013 monochromatic trend dress for kids fashion

Missie Sunshine summer 2013, sheer dress for beach layering kids fashion

Missie Sunshine summer 2013 dip dye kaftans for kids beachwear trends

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Habitat rolls out into Homebase, winter 2013 sneak preview of this newly accessible collection.

Posted on May 14, 2013 by smudgetikka

Homebase showed off its new collection for winter 2013 last week with a romp through the homes of Sherlock Holmes and the Mad Hatters tea party.

One of the key elements of the new collections is a huge range of new wallpapers with monochromatic oriental prints and graphic fake bookshelves prints amongst the most striking.

Habitat will have a section devoted to itself in the store and the name ranges look pretty sharp under new director Polly Dickens. In mustard, Yves Klein blue and pillarbox red mixed with grey tones the designs are graphic and striking for the winter season ahead.

Bedlinen from Habitat at Homebase for fall 2013 in key colour scheme mustard and grey.

Very Scandinavian looking platters and crockery at Habitat in Homebase for fall 2013

Orange and lime green are the other key colours for the Habitat winter 2013 collection at Homebase

Orange and lime green are the other key retro colours for the Habitat winter 2013 collection at Homebase

Textiles at Habitat in Homebase for winter 2013

Habitat opens its own shop within shop for fall 2013 at Homebase

Vivid Yves Klein blue is used for homeware at Habitat in Homebase for winter 2013

One of the new bookshelf inspired prints in the Sherlock Holmes room at Homebase press preview for fall 2013

Nothing like a simple minimal light, at Homebase for fall 2013 interior style.

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Made with Love Kids, summer discount from this cool new webshop

Posted on May 13, 2013 by smudgetikka

Made with Love Kids is a new web shop and a new sponsor for me which features a great selection of some of the coolest brands in kids fashion.

Owner Tanika has picked a selection she feels represents her ethos that beautiful clothes make beautiful memories and as a big fan of photography and how it captures a moment she loves the reminder of how a special garment can capture the feeling of a certain day.

The labels stocked at Made with Love Kids are mostly from Scandinavia with the addition of the clever British brand Hucklebones. As a special hello to new customers she has created a special discount for smudgetikka readers with the promo code smudge05 of 15% off the entire collection from today till Sunday 26th May.

Made with Love Kids, detailed close up which is a nice feature for a Hucklebones dress for summer 2013

Made with Love Kids, full length view of the Hucklebones dress for summer 2013

Made with Love Kids, details on the waist of a Mini Rodini dress for summer 2013

Made with Love Kids full size Mini Rodini girls dress for summer 2013

Made with Love Kids, Livly from Stockholm summer 2013 dress

Made with Love Kids, Livly from Stockholm summer 2013 classical style dress

Made with Love Kids, Mini Rodini Jaguar sweatshirt for boys

Made with Love Kids boys swimwear from Mini Rodini

Made with Love Kids, a delicate silk blouse from Pale Cloud for summer 2013

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Poppy England new storybook dresses for fall/winter 2013, kids fun in a chocolate factory

Posted on May 10, 2013 by smudgetikka

Poppy England have been much copied of late with their retro conversational border print dresses for girls and women popping up in various guises at most of the High St retailers.

In answer to this the new fall 2013 collection sees a change of styling with allover prints replacing the simple borders but the main design elements remain, each season has a little storybook to go with each dress and this time the tale is all about Poppy and Fred’s chocolate shop.

The shoot is quite whacky and wild set in its own chocolate world!

Poppy fall/winter 2013, girls and womenswear dresses with a chocolate shop theme.

Poppy fall 2013 one of the new allover prints from this British storytale specialist.

Poppy England for fall 2013, each dress comes with its own story booklet

Poppy England for fall 2013 a beautiful monochromatic print for the winter kidswear season

Poppy fall 2013 girls lollipop dress with co-ordinating t-shirt and tights all from Poppy England

Poppy England, great colour mixes from this girls and womenswear British fashion designer for fall 2013

Poppy fall 2013 close up on the new border and allover prints for kidswear from this British designer

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Boden shows off Mini Boden and Johnnie B at their fall / winter 2013 press preview

Posted on May 10, 2013 by smudgetikka

I am so impressed with the effort that Boden go to for their bi-annual press shows, this one for fall 2013 featured a display of sock monkeys, sewn from Boden socks by the staff in dozens of variations.

The display was backed up with giant wall posters which had a massive impact at entire wall sizes and the kids clothing ranges had plenty of new prints and styles to keep those who have been critical about the company’s reliance on key staples happy.

For girls there is a retro feel with lots of pretty print dresses and skirts in unique textiles and also some Tromph L’oeil dresses which seem to be shaping up into a trend for this coming winter.

For boys there is a new emphasis on variations of shirting, a simple blue blazer jacket and a fun Scottie intarsia sweater.

Mini Boden sock range in a sock monkey display sewn by staff members at the fall 2013 preview.

Retro print dress styles against giant wall posters at Mini Boden fall 2013 preview day.

The baby closet and giant poster featuring the Scottie dog intarsia sweater at Mini Boden for fall 2013

Fantastic zebra print sneakers for girls at Mini Boden preview for winter 2013

Great colour combination for this boys scarf and hat set at Mini Boden winter 2013 preview.

Sweet baby bib selection at Mini Boden for fall 2013

Lovely vintage look village print from the retro range at Mini Boden kids for winter 2013

Tromph l’oeil military dress at Mini Boden for girlswear winter 2013

Classic 50′s retro rose print for a cute girls dress at Mini Boden fall / winter 2013

Vibrant applique skirt for fall 2013 from Mini Boden preview day

Hand knitted creatures from Louise Walker on display at Boden winter 2013 press day

The schoolroom set up at Mini Boden UK press day for fall 2013

The girls party section for holiday 2013 at Mini Boden, spotted taffeta, frilled silky dresses, layered georgette and glitter shoes.

At Johnnie B, brilliant leopard bootees and sharp wool checks for teen spirit lovers fall 2013

A vintage cushion is the inspiration for a guardsman print in the Johnnie B girls teen collection at Boden

The guardsman print as a dress at Johnnie B for Boden winter 2013

Monochrome dressing for winter 2013 featuring the teen winners of the Johnnie B find a model competition at Boden UK

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