Design

So you can’t see the fringe, which would make you realise how much this Pooch Poncho was inspired by Coco Chanel Fall 2011… Just imagine the fringe under all that neck fur, ok? This is Max (yep, it IS written there) modelling felted faux tartan a la Chanel. (I have yet to do the ‘classic [...]

The woolly warmth of felt seems to have real comfort properties…this story just in from Rambo’s mum Valerie who also has Rocky the cat… “Rocky has developed an affinity for felt. The other day, when he was ill, he sat on the camo one all day. Even when we took him off it, he would [...]

In the year 2050 it’s likely that we’ll be living in increasingly tiny spaces. For designers entering Electrolux’s Design Lab 2010 the challenge was  how do you fit “all mod cons” into an apartment that might be no bigger than a boxing ring? The undergraduate and graduate industrial design students currently enrolled at a school [...]

When I saw these I was straight on the phone to Max Markson. How cute’s this super-model in his Pooch Poncho haute couture?? I was never a true little dog fan. After my staffy Flick died (tragically young from a massive heart tumour – that’s her on the left) we were left with Finkel (that’s [...]

Let’s face it, if you’re lucky enough to have, um, boobies, then you couldn’t do much better than encase them in Marlies Dekkers’ creations. I’ve been waiting a while to do this post – since I first saw Marlies Dekkers’ bras in Rotterdam years ago. In fact it was my partner who read about them [...]