EVERYBODY LOVES A PARTY

To celebrate our hard work over the past couple of months for the NY store opening, we had a little Topshop/Topman party at The Hoxton Pony in East London last night! Take a look at one of the buyer's sets - it got us all dancing!

- N-Trance 'Set you Free'
- Kings of Leon 'Wasted Time'
- Rolling Stones 'Jumpin' Jack Flash'
- Kylie Minogue 'Better The Devil You Know'
- Haddaway 'What Is Love'
- The Strokes 'Someday'

GOOD ENOUGH TO EAT

We spotted these over on Electric Blue Gallery's blog and can't help but think how much we'd like Massimo Gammacurta to make one for Topshop! Yum yum yum...

LOOK BOOK AW09

Yesterday, we started shooting our look book for AW10. Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come. Shot by Franck Sauvaire and styled by Katie Shillingford - fashion editor at Dazed and Confused -  we can’t wait to see what the rest of the pics look like!

Check out our models - Anna’s and Gintas’s - favourite pieces from the look book shoot. We rather like that jumpsuit and blazer combo too!

BEBAROQUE

No wonder the girls behind Bebaroque won Accessories Designer of the Year at the Scottish Fashion Awards last year - just take a look at their tights! After seeing one of the interactive designers wandering around the office in a pair of these, we had to check out their site. Expect to see a lot more of Mhairi McNicol and Chloe Patience’s elaborately patterned hosiery out and about! 

BUYERS' VIEW OF BARBARA HULANICKI LAUNCH

At 8.30am on the launch of the long awaited Barbara Hulanicki range, the queues were beginning to build and we where starting to sweat from the sheer excitement that had been building up for the past eight months. 

With the collection minutes away from being available to the public, Barbara and the team arrived to see the fabulous visual merchandising and the collection waiting to be shopped. And I mean shopped! At 9am on the dot, eager shoppers came streaming down the escalators, all desperate to get their hands on Barbara's collection. Especially her little red dress! 

The speed in which it all happened was so over whelming that we all got a bit emotional, including Barbara who was standing back taking it all in. We talked about how back in the days of Biba it was the same scene, 'they moment the stock was put out, it was gone,' she laughed. 

Well, the Barbara effect is still working and from what we witnessed today, it doesn't look like it's about to stop. Her collection reaches out to people of all ages and the reaction was truly unbelievable. She has been a pleasure to work with and the memory of this day will stay with the buying team who worked on Barbara's collection forever.