Pillow Talk: Sophie Paget Steavenson

Sophie wearing Pink Neon Classic PJs 

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Sophie Paget Steavenson is the pretty face and brilliant brains behind dreamy, ethical beachwear label- Beach Candy. We stole her away from her beloved, one-eyed, Bombay rescue-cat Moshe for a little pillow talk.... 

POPLIN designs are inspired by the style of iconic women, often from the '50s and '60s like Bardot and Ingrid Bergman, as well as contemporary icons like Iris Apfel. If you could dip into  anyone's wardrobe, past or present, whose would you choose? 

Talitha Getty or Brigitte Bardot would both have had incredibly inspiring wardrobes full of beautiful bikinis and kaftans. 

What's on your wishlist from POPLIN?

The Daisy Cotton Shorts Set – I just adore them, they’re perfect for bedtime or pool-time. 

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We're all about the beauty sleep at POPLIN... Are you an owl or a lark? Late sleeper? Early riser? 

I am most definitely a lark but at times a reluctant owl...

Favourite thing to... 

- Cook in your pyjamas? 

Scrambled eggs on buttery Marmite toast with avocado 

- Read in your pyjamas? 

I’m currently reading Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

- Listen to in your pyjamas? 

I love the radio on whilst reading the Sunday papers 

Pet hate? 

Nail picking / biting / eating

Guilty pleasure? 

Chocolate / Cigarettes / Wine / Sunbathing – the list goes on and on...

Super power? 

I’m very bendy! (Can put my legs behind my head and other equally useful things like that)

Best hotel bed you've ever slept in? 

It’s a tough one to choose but the Six Senses Lamuu in Maldives is right up there.

Dream destination? 

Istanbul is next on my list

Top travel essentials you always pack? 

1. Bardot Classic PJs with pink neon trim – they’re so comfy and the perfect pair for mooching about in. 

2. A Beach Candy scarf dress that can be flung over a bikini from beach to bar. 

3. Eye Mask 

4. Cosy jumper or scarf for cold evenings or a flight

POPLIN is not about seasonal, fast fashion so we don't go on sale at the end of the season.

We are about happy, relaxing times though so to celebrate Mother's Day we are having a FLASH SALE!

25% off everything when you enter the discount code: "makemamasmile" at checkout. 

Valid until 31 March 2014

AVAILABLE HERE 

One very happy lady with her personalised POPLIN Neon Pink Bardot Classic PJs. 

Monogramming is FREE until March 31st so get your orders in!

Our NEON Bardot Classics are now in stock in yellow and pink! 

To celebrate we are offering our customers FREE MONOGRAMMING until 31st March. 

AVAILABLE HERE NOW 

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Money can't buy these long legs, but it can buy the Classic Bardot Shirt

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We love this from Hollywood costume legend Edith Head's book, 'Dress for Success'. 

"What to wear to bed?" POPLIN of course! 

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This weekend we escaped to Cornwall for a weekend in a cottage, thoughtfully leant as a wedding present. Log fires, Jilly Cooper, a brisk walk along the cliffs followed by the perfect cream tea, rain and then rainbows, delicious seafood for supper at Rick Stein and curling up in my POPLIN PJs.... 

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Fanny is wearing Indochine Silk PJs

Buying your emerald green sofa to match your silk PJs. Now that's commitment... 

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We're really delighted to have our first Australian stockist in Girl & Graaf. 

Their website is a beautifully curated haven of excellent taste! A mix of lovely homewares, accessories- including the most useful shoes from my friend Penelope Chilvers, and POPLIN pjs to wear while relaxing in your newly beautified home. 

These lovely images come from Girl &Graaf's brand new campaign. We're very jealous of that beautiful light here in sun-starved London! In the meantime, we're planning to steal some sunshine on a quick holiday and will definitely be packing our POPLIN Daisy Cross Back Dress. What are your Spring plans? 

Don't Forget!

Content with her children- Ingrid Bergman who inspired our Bergman Dress

Don't forget! It's Mother's Day this Sunday 10th March. To celebrate we are offering our customers FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING. 

Just enter "MAMALOVE" at checkout. Valid until Midnight on 11th March 2013.

Discover something from POPLIN to make your Mama's heart sing! 

Indochine Beauty

Stylish POPLIN girl Pallas looking wonderful in her 

Indochine Classic Silk PJs 

Behind the Scenes: POPLIN Studio

My desk. Moodboards, tape measure, Indian pottery hugging an array of pens and pencils, prints from our latest shoot in Italy, books for inspiration pulled from the shelf, my favourite earthenware mug, mini sewing kit. Valentine flowers.  

Bardot's Back

Classic POPLIN Bardot PJs 

£100 

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On Location

London is endlessly grey at the moment. Weather for getting into pyjamas and watching Scandinavian crime thriller series. Our SS13 shoot on location in verdant Umbria seems like an impossible dream! Here's photographic evidence... 

A February Feeling

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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Tim Walker: Storyteller

It was "back to school" for me when I visited the Tim Walker "Storyteller" exhibition a couple of weeks ago: the Courtauld Institute of Art, where I did my MA in Fashion History, is also based in Somerset House, so my Saturday afternoon treat brought back lots of happy, ink-stained, library book-laden, memories.

But after a dream-like wander through the East Galleries, filled with Walker's whimsical photographs and many of the visionary props he uses to create them, my eye was firmly fixed on the future and the madcap designs and ideas for POPLIN that his images always inspire in me.  

It was so refreshing to go around an art/fashion exhibition- Walker rides both horses- with people laughing, smiling and relaxing, and without the usual self-conscious stiffness that a gallery environment can provoke. 

These are just a few of my favourite images, but I have a particular fondness for the self-portrait in PYJAMAS above! Kindred spirits indeed... 

Tim Walker: Storyteller runs until 27 January at Somerset House London 

Entry is FREE! 

Breakfast Muse: Jean Shrimpton

Jean Shrimpton is our current gamine, bed-in-breakfast muse. Really enjoying wearing our POPLIN PJs inspired by her effortless '60s style in the slinkiest navy blue cotton with classic white piping. Exclusive to Avenue 32. 

Shrimpton Classic PJs 

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