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BLOG 08:02:2012
The trick to making a blog as I have discovered lately, is being in the right place at the right time WITH A CAMERA. Often I am driving down the road and see some well dressed individual but just cannot manage to stop in time to leap out of my car with a camera and divert their attention in time to take a snap,not without causing a traffic accident in any case.
Imagine my delight one evening night last week,when I had just parked outside my apartment and was unloading all my stuff from my car boot when I glimpsed Petra walking by wearing these amazing little overalls,(she says she has several pairs) complete with black lace up Docs (which I am also partial to) and with perfect little red socks.
She told me she is a fashion student at A.U.T and works part time at Global textiles,she showed me some nice grey fabric she had bought to make pants with. Lets hope they go well. Anyway here she is looking very effortlessly chic right outside the Spanish style Deco apartments on Mt Eden Rd.
 BLOG 31:01:2012
We are starting to organise the next Show on the Street which is planned March 3rd 2012 as part of the Fashion festival.These events to which you are all invited, are free to the public and run on a shoestring. We need a DJ to spin for the event. Therefore if anyone knows of a female DJ who is willing to trade her skills for a free CB dress then please ask her to E Mail me at cherry@cherrybishop.co.nz or phone during work hours 09 368 1975.Meanwhile here is Moira who's great voluminous faded blue shirt with a tie at back I admired when I met her in my store recently. She is studying art management.   BLOG 16.01.2012 I had a project for my holidays. It was to finish the patchwork quilt I have been working on for about two years. I made it out of the scraps I have kept from cutting all of the dresses for my store. I hate to think of any of that fabric going to waste and hoard it in my back cupboard planning to make a series of masterwork patchwork quilts I have been dreaming about. Here is the first of them. Only a little way to go now. All done with....one small sewing needle and a reel of thread.I have estimated it is composed of about one hundred and fourty thousand tiny hand stitches .I still have a little way to go until completion but not far..........
In between quilting I played house and worked in my kitchen. Basically I spent nothing (and I mean nothing) and just re-arranged all the old stuff I had lying around. This was done with the aid of a few strong lattes from the new coffee machine I got for Christmas from my far wealthier sister.Here are the results of my labour.
BLOG 29.11.2011 Lately I have been obsessing about sailor themes, in particular sailor collars. They just look so fresh and perfect at the moment especially with contrast trim. I found this picture I took of a girl at my show who's stripe sailor top was so cool. The whole look actually right down to the blond top knot, asymetrical skirt and neutral color shoes under little grey socks was just perfect. I have to get some sailor collars integrated into my work soon ?
This young lady came into my store with her Mother who was buying a dress. She looked just a picture in this bias skirt she had made herself. Believe it or not it was a school sewing project.Congratulations to her home economics teacher who clearly knows how to enthuse her students as to the task at hand. This fresh and pretty floral skirt is a timely variation on the theme of a half circle bias skirt and is charmingly worn by it's maker here with plaits and roman sandals .  In these difficult economic times it is up to us all to utilize every day items and make them special. I have to say I have a thing for Roman sandals.To truly appreciate the roman sandal,and yes I do mean those old things you wore at school, you have to look at them out of context and appreciate they are a masterpiece of classic design.
Simple and chic, comfortable and timeless. You could pay US$300 for them in an expensive Italian import shoe store if you could even find anything that good. Better still we can get them right here in NZ for not very much in the way of expenditure.
I personally recommend that funky and fabulous shoe store in Onehunga,you know the one..........for a superior choice of sizes and colours. Imagine my delight when Ms Sophie Blazey wandered in last week looking for her pals from Clyne wearing a pair of roman sandals with little white striped socks. She liked my baby doll dress and we thought it looked pretty damn good with the sandals. Better still was the little print shirt and brown shorts she had on to start with. Come back Sophie and we'll photograph the other outfit next time.............this time in focus
 BLOG 19.09.2011
If you are interested in fashion and you havn't already read it one of the best books you could ever read is D.V. by Diana Vreeland. Vreeland edited American Vogue in the sixties and then moved on to an even more glorious career curating some spectacular fashion exhibitions at the Metropolitan museum in New York.
She also wrote D.V. which is a series of stories and told by herself about her quite remarkable life. It is written to be entertaining and it is.Very!
Recently I also read a biography of Diana Vreeland written by Eleanor Dwight. It contained a great deal of detail,includingthe fact that Mrs Vreeland always had a peanut better and jelly sandwhich for lunch which was invariably accompanied by one or two scotches.
Best of all though was an excerpt I repeat for you here.
" Vreeland was not always happy with the dazzling spreads her photographers sent in. Penelope Tree remembered: " In England one time Bailey and I worked really hard on some photographs---three days and three nights. We flew to America---we were always flying across the ocean in those days,and we went right to her office and triumphantly schlepped them down on her desk. She got out her white gloves--she always wore white gloves when she looked at photographs--and she looked through the light box.
"Bailey, they're great !"Then there was a long pause......."But we can't use them"
"You fucking old bag! Why not?" " Because theres no langour in the lips!"
David Bailey circa 1965  Diana Vreeland at home in her famously red "garden in hell".  BLOG 13.09.2011
Recently I have been thinking about makeup for my upcoming show in the store to which you are all invited..... (Go to the news section to read about it and RSVP me at cherry@cherrybishop.co.nz if you want to come) The look that has been prominent in my mind is that of sixties icons Edie Sedgewick,Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton. What these girls had in common was a complete mastery of the look of the era which essentially consisted of huge bambi eyes heavy with eyeliner and very defined shadow,neutral lips and improbably perfect features.
Everything in fashion has always been done before....and the modern incarnation owes much to Amy Winehouse who singlehandedly pioneered the use of extreme eyeliner in recent times and was unreservedly without equal in this regard.
Before you begin click this link for Lou Reeds song "makeup",probably about Edie Sedgewick who was notorious for spending 3 hours at a time doiing her makeup while others waited outside the bathoom for her to emerge.......at least we think it was makeup that took so much time. She had it so right though............about makeup anyway
Click the link below for auditory stimulation while you enjoy these visual treats...........
     BLOG 20.09.2011
Every now and then some pixiesh creature with truly advanced style wanders into my store and wafts about seeming badly needing to be blogged about and Jessica was one of these. She is a student at Elam and so her impressive look (and wardrobe) is cleverly composed of op shopping finds artfully styled to create her quite 60's look. Of particular note is the hat. It takes courage and commitment to really rock a good hat and clearly Jessica possesses these qualities in abundance. We made a pact that I would promise to start a blog at the very first opportunity and make her the very first star subject. Meanwhile she likes making funky tapestries and has her own blog which is can be found here
 BLOG 20.09.2011
Currently on at the corners of Galway and Gore Sts in the city is the BLACK IN FASHION exhibition realised by the New Zealand Fashion Museum and curated by Doris du Pont. If you hav'nt already been then hurry. The exhibition is on until the 24th October 2011. My favorite garment in the exhibition is this shirt, originally worn by Tony Hopkins a member of Jonny Devlin and his band the devils, and carefully appliqued and embroidered by a very talented fan (whos identity remains unknown) as one of a number of five that were made for the band it truly is a work of art. I quote here from the exhibition explanation" After many years away from New Zealand playing with American musicians including Fabian, Tony returned to find his Mum wearing this shirt,probably the only surviving one of the original five,while gardening".  We have finally managed to get a small production run of this,the rayon bow dress finished and on the rack.It;s chief feature of interest is a soft tie that falls from the hip and which you can choose to make into a bow or leave loose. It's obviously not too early for rayon as I had feared because one sold while I was making this blog but we still have a few left so get in here fast before the rest follow suit.
 CHERRY BISHOP
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