Emerging Fervour

I just had to do a follow up from last week, where I introduced Anita Quansah London and her amazing accessories. Anita designs jewellery, headpieces, fashion and textiles – you name it! She’s certainly a busy lady but we love how you can hear her passion for the craft in the answers below. Enjoy!

Tell us a bit about how it all started. Why fashion, when did you realise you wanted to become a designer?

I love fashion and all things beautiful. I guess this passion for design and creativity stems from my early childhood, watching my grandmother a seamstress teaching and making the most beautiful clothes from very interesting and embroidered textiles. Her Passion for creativity, her energy and her determination is what drove me to start experimenting at a very young age. I guess also being brought up around women and watching their different styles evolve also had an impact on me. Also after years of selling my Luxury handmade couture fabrics to renowned fashion designers, I wanted to create a fashion line that people could not only learn about the intricate techniques used and see the true value of it, but also fall in love and own a piece of  true wearable art. Then in 2004 Anita Quansah London the fashion line was launched. Since then, the line has proven very successful, sold out in the Laden Showroom London which was the first ever boutique that stocked the line, then from then, I went on to sell on Asos online which too was very successful And now I am designing a range of neckpieces to accompany the fashion line.

Reborne Jewellery was created by Flora, an independent jewellery designer whose speciality is to create amazing jewellery using vintage materials. In 2009, Flora launched her first jewellery collection using zipper material…check our my favourites…

Racing Heart Gold Zipper Necklace $350

Madame Butterfly Metal Chrome Zipper Necklace $450

The Lost Bracelet $92

We saw this designer at London Fashion Week and we had to share her latest collection with you all. Please welcome Rachael Cassar…Recycler – Extraordinaire, who creates beautiful one-off garments made from 90% recycled material.

Is saving the earth and looking good is your thing, then by don’t you contact Rachael Cassar for custom-made outfits on rachael@rachaelcassar.com. Take a look at her site for past and current collections www.rachaelcassar.com

We’re all for recycling, actually it’s called upcycling and seeing the Autumn/Winter 09 collection from ‘Worn Again’ makes us want to go completely green.

Whereas ‘Freitag’ have made a great success from old truck tarpaulins, used seat belts and cycle inner tubes, ‘Worn Again’ work with Virgin Atlantic, Eurostar and Virgin Balloon Flight, making products from their disused materials.

It’s estimated that over 1 million tones of textiles are thrown away every year in the UK alone. If only there were more companies like ‘Worn Again’, who turn waste into something so good.

We love it! What a great concept and we wonder what the next collection brings.