Showing posts with label Ave 32. Show all posts
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Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Happy Birthday to the Nutcracker


Today is the 120th Anniversary of The Nutcracker Ballet (Google have sweetly marked the occasion with one of their little doodles.)

The Nutcracker was a highlight of every childhood Christmas for me, watched in my best party frock, on the edge of my plush, velvet, Royal Opera House seat.

So when it came to collaborating with fashion illustrator Isabella Cotier on a Christmas exclusive with Avenue 32, I knew I wanted to do something Nutcracker themed. And so the Clara PJs were born! Named after the lead in the Nutcracker Ballet who is given a nutcracker soldier who comes to life and inevitably whisks her off on a Christmas adventure....

Orders yours today HERE to guarantee Christmas delivery.







Thursday, 15 November 2012

Marilyn Style



I have just come across a really hilarious interview with POPLIN muse, Marilyn Monroe, which includes this typically kooky 1950s advice on diet and lifestyle. 

“BREAKFAST. I’ve been told that my eating habits are absolutely bizarre, but I don’t think so. Before I take my morning shower, I start warming a cup of milk on the hot plate I keep in my hotel room. When it’s hot, I break two raw eggs into the milk, whip them up with a fork, and drink them while I’m dressing. I supplement this with a multi-vitamin pill, and I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

DINNER. My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.
P.S. It’s a good thing, I suppose, that I eat simply during the day, for in recent months I have developed the habit of stopping off at Wil Wright’s ice cream parlor for a hot fudge sundae on my way home from my evening drama classes. I’m sure that I couldn’t allow myself this indulgence were it not that my normal diet is composed almost totally of protein foods.”



Our Marilyn Silk PJs are inspired by the quintessential Hollywood starlet's feline glamour: black leopard jacquard silk with a leopard print trim. Classic but slightly outrageous, like their namesake... 

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