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Family style fashion in a shoot across the generations first seen in FY Magazine. Shot by Tim Marsella, styled by Becky Seager and with art direction by Liz Sheppard this shoot acknowledges that gone are the rules that dictate certain dress-codes for specific generations. Mixing time-tested classics with youthful colour-pops for a winter wardrobe inspiration that ...

Beautiful kids lifestyle products at CIFF Youth in the Copenhagen based trade fair last week. The Scandinavian lifestyle has now become well known throughout the world and the exhibitors at the CIFF Youth trade show last week didn’t disappoint with their clean lines and cool colours for nursery and kids bedrooms. New products are only usually launched every one or two years in interiors but there ...

Texture wins for kids fashion winter 2019 at a busy Playtime Paris kids trade show. A special kind of curly faux shearling was all over the place at the recent kids trade show, call it teddy bear or even its 70’s version Borg fabric. It’s an evolution from the super shaggy furs of the last few winter seasons, although there were plenty of those still too and the very ...

The Mini Rodini kids capsule collection is for vegan pirates and mini activists, or kids that just love the oceans and wild life and want to protect it for the future. For this co-lab Mini Rodini partnered with Sea Shepherd, the international non-profit, marine conservation organisation, to support its mission to defend, conserve and protect our oceans. The capsule-collection with the slogan ...

Two perfect mini fashionista Christmas gift books today. First up Terrific Timelines Fashion  just published by Laurence King Publishing Terrific Timelines Fashion. One of the Terrific Timelines series with pop out characters to make a timeline from antiquity to the 20th Century and beyond. This should keep the offspring occupied for hours on a wet winter’s day.

A Day is a Day – new kids fashion from The New Story magazine shot by Ulla Nyeman which documents the life of a cool mum trying to keep order with her kids and the family dog. Its very real and funny, the styling by Deborah Sfez is spot on too.

A gorgeous shoot of Molly Brown Communion kids jewellery photographed by Abi Campbell today for summer 2018. Molly Brown London was established in 2006 and upon its launch was dubbed ‘Tiffany for girls’ by Vogue magazine. The vision was to create a brand based on the belief that a piece of jewellery given to a girl at any age should represent good quality British luxury.

Our Free Tribe is a project which highlights the vital importance of children’s connection to nature. Jo Wise (a floral artist) and  Jade Soar (a make up artist) are creating visual stories showing the magical connection, joy and profound importance that nature plays in the wellbeing of children and how much it helps to shape them into happy people. Jade explains how the project began “The project ...

Goodordering cool kids bags were designed originally for cycling families but these graphic styles can be used everyday and also holiday travel for the whole family. The independent company is based in Hackney, East London and the designer and founder Jacqui Ma has a firm foundation to draw on having designed bags for Puma, Virgin Atlantic, Microsoft and Debenhams in the past. In 2012 she went out on her ...

Trade show CIFF Kids fashion and lifestyle in Copenhagen for winter 2018 happened last week, the trade fair felt busier this season and exhibitors seemed happy with the result. For me one of the strongest feelings I had was the change in colour of the Scandinavian market, from the land of white walls there seems to be a move away from lightness, especially in interiors with a lot ...