Posted in fashion, tagged House of Beth, Virginia Woolf and fashion on Saturday 30 June 2012| Leave a Comment »
Sarah Kendal from the House of Beth sent me several photos from the June 27 fashion launch I wrote about on Tuesday that featured a collection of Virginia Woolf,-inspired fashions.
They look quite Woolfian and writerly to me. What do you think? You can find more photos of the event on the House of Beth’s Facebook page.
Posted in fashion, tagged House of Beth, Virginia Woolf and fashion, Virginia Woolf Collection on Tuesday 26 June 2012| 1 Comment »
Today I am longing for London. The reason is the House of Beth fashion launch featuring a collection based on inspiring women
I got an invite via email today. And the launch is tomorrow, June 27. Which means I can only be there in my dreams. Luckily, I can view lots of images to inspire my nocturnal flights of fancy.
The event showcases collections based on Woolf, Audrey Hepburn and Sappho and will be held at the House of Beth location in the BBC radio building on Marylebone high street. It includes “free drinks, beautiful cupcakes, scrumptious strawberries and a striking new collection inspired by the Ancient Greek love poet, Sappho.”
Detail of dress bodice in the Virginia Woolf Collection
House of Beth describes itself as “an online ethical fashion marketplace selling pre-loved clothes on behalf of charity shops and ethical brands.” The company also styles charity shop clothes into
collections based on inspiring women, such as Woolf, Hepburn and Sappho. The store’s models are of various ages and sizes, and their photos are not airbrushed.
The company also raises awareness of human trafficking and donates 10 percent of its profits to fight it.
Read more about Woolf and fashion.
Posted in fashion, Woolf sightings, tagged Virginia Woolf and fashion on Tuesday 13 September 2011| Leave a Comment »
But fashionistas who don the simple sheath dress made out of recycled shipping paper won’t have long to enjoy it. Why, you ask? Because it is designed to disintegrate.
The wearer’s body heat causes the outer shell of the dress to wear away. And what’s left is a layer covered with handwritten quotes from famous folks like Charles Dickens, Dalai Lama, William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Mahatma Ghandi, Agatha Christie — and, of course, Virginia Woolf.
As you can see from the drawing at the left, the Woolf quote is located front and center on the bodice, close to the heart.
Said to mimic “supple leather sheath,” the dress was created by designer Sylvia Heisel, in collaboration with Brooklyn, New York’s Paper No. 9‘s Rebecca Cole Marshall.
Read more about Woolf and fashion on Blogging Woolf:
Posted in fashion, tagged Virginia Woolf fashion, Virginia Woolf gown on Sunday 3 October 2010| 5 Comments »
Women have always served as inspiration. Now some of the most famous have inspired a line of wedding gowns. Among them is Virginia Woolf.
The Virginia Woolf gown as it appears on a bridal website
You will find the Virginia gown, along with long fancy white dresses inspired by such literary favorites as Jane Austen and Emily Dickinson at this link on the Carine’s Bridal website.
And in an interview with Rebecca, bridal designer for Carolina Herrera, you’ll learn why the Virginia gown is the designer’s favorite in the spring 2011 collection.
A special thanks to Kristin Czarnecki of Georgetown College for sending both links to the VW Listserv.
Posted in Cecil Woolf Publishers, fashion, tagged Catherine Gregg, Virginia Woolf and ‘Dress Mania’: ‘the eternal and insoluble question of clothes’ on Sunday 12 September 2010| 4 Comments »
So writes Harriet Walker in “It doesn’t take a genius to admire a Balenciaga coat” on the Belfast Telegraph website. In the piece, she makes the case that having an interest in fashion doesn’t make one a dunce.
Woolf, of course, was anything but. And as many scholars have documented, she had a definite interest in fashion, as well as massive insecurities about it. Catherine Gregg covers the topic in Virginia Woolf and ‘Dress Mania’: ‘the eternal and insoluble question of clothes’, published this year by Cecil Woolf Publishers.
And fashion designers, as well as others, have not been slow to make a connection between their own designs and Woolf. One New York style newcomer even tied a silk scarf around a worn copy of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and sent it as a stylish invitation to her fall 2008 fashion show.
For examples of other designers who used Woolf as inspiration, take a look at the following posts on Blogging Woolf:
