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Kids retro chic for now, a new shoot from Milk Korea magazine by Abi Campbell and Tracey Jacob is our choice today. Featuring the retro style textiles, prints and colours from F/W19 kids fashion where the popularity of plaid checks, teddy faux fur, chunky corduroy and handmade style knitwear shout out to the 1970’s era. A roll call of the kids labels used includes ...

Moving to Mars – opens today at The Design Museum in London exploring how sending humans to Mars is not just a scientific frontier but a design challenge as well. There’s a surprising amount of kid friendly spaces here as well as all the tech details to keep fathers happy. For me the most striking part is a vast triple screen film installation where a moulded floor replicates ...

Sustainable kids fashion summer 2020 by WAWA . One of the pleasures of a visit to CIFF Youth in Copenhagen is an evening meeting with Johanna Topooco, founder and owner of kids sustainable fashion label WAWA in a true Danish Hygge fashion at the cafe Hyggestund owned by the smart brewer Mikkeller. Johanna founded the brand in Copenhagen in 2016.

CIFF Youth kids fashion trade show previewed summer 2020 last week in Copenhagen. This trade fair is now situated back in the same exhibition complex as the main adult fashion CIFF DK show and has been opened up and connected at the rear of the hall so visitors can access both fairs under one roof. A smart move which brought an increased amount of footfall to the kids ...

Food: Bigger than the Plate, sustainability at the V&A museum opens on May 18th. Its a fascinating visit, great for the older kids and educational for all ages. The exhibition explores how innovative individuals, communities and organisations are radically re-inventing how we grow, distribute and experience food. Having just been to another event featuring waste food disruptors which included the Toast Ale entrepreneur Tristram Stuart who makes beer ...

Classic sustainable kids knitwear by As We Grow is perfect for the new circular  fashion economy. This beautiful Icelandic based knitwear company has expanded from their initial sweater offering into a wider range of garments that share the classic with a modern touch aesthetic. As We Grow is one of the most authentic, sustainable and “slow fashion” kids brands to emerge in the last ...

Sustainable kids swimwear at Marks and Spencer joins the adult sustainable swim collection for summer 2019. One of the few main big high st chains to be tackling modern concerns with an agenda to provide more vegan food options too, Marks and Spencer is looking at many ways into future retailing and adapting new initiatives. The kids swimwear is made from recycled plastic.

Mary Quant retrospective at the V&A Museum opens on April 6th to the public. This exhibition covers 20 years of the 60’s pop fashion hero’s career from the very first boutique Bazaar in the Kings Rd which was opened in 1955 and whose outfits whilst groundbreaking at the time seem rather drab now by comparison to the later designs from 1960 onwards as the Youth-quake hit and ...