SHANGHAI STYLE FILE

Les Petites Collections

Hart — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:39:42 +0000

A few months ago I met French interior designer Stephanie Sebban and featured her beautiful Parisian-chic home in That’s Shanghai and on SSF too (click). From her house Sebban hosted many private sales for her growing business Les Petites Collections – a line of imported French fashion and home accessories. The sales grew so popular, the stylish mother of two opened her own boutique on 22 Fuxing Xi Lu, near Huaihai Zhong Lu.

The airy Fuxing Lu store offers a wide selection of whimsical throw and floor pillows by La Cerise Sur Le Gâteau (RMB460-520). Such a simple, cool idea – stamping funky, inky neon prints onto delicate floral and toile fabric.

There store carries a lot of la mode, too. The French girls will surely snatch up the delicate string bracelets by Cielle (RMB65-380) and Sebban’s own bracelets made of pearl, crystal and Japanese ribbons (RMB150). There are also cute threads by the cult kidswear brand Maison Georgette (RMB375).

Fashionable organization-freaks will appreciate the small clutches by Les Cakes De Bertrand (RMB290-420). Designate pouches for groups of your daily tools – iphone, headphones, keys, pens, cards, lipsticks. More pictures to come later!

Et voila. Go visit it this weekend!

Stocking sock

Hart — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:02:58 +0000

The long awaited arrival of summer is marked by many things – late sidewalk dinners, picnics in the park and Saturdays by the pool. And two more things. Gross Chinese icecream (cliccccck). And these bad boys – the stocking socks. When the temp becomes too warm to wear a cotton sock (???) these delicate little sassy socks make an appearance. Most common in navy and maroon, they are worn with sneakers, loafers and, my favorite, the sandal. The stocking sock is so ugly in form, there must be massive amounts of function that has kept it around for so long.

Hipsters, if you have any balls, wear these. Just imagine how much so-ugly-it’s-cool cred you’d get from your friends.

Denim

Hart — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:49:25 +0000

Denim is the most democratic of clothing – a unifier. That said, I love to see how people style jeans differently. A perfect blank [blue] canvas.

Quite the foxy couple photographed outside of Central Studios Spring Fair.

Sasha – who owns a photo studio in Beijing – demontrates how denim on denim is not dead.

DIY boyfriend shorts.

Speaking of DIY, I’m ripping away at my own version of ACNE’s pop trash jeans – click -. See my progress on Weibo here. and Twitter here.