Caroline's World Daily

Forget clothes, handbags and shoes! Pugs are my all-time...

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:45:48 +0100

Forget clothes, handbags and shoes!

Pugs are my all-time favourite dog and Vogue Italia has not forgot about them…!

Finally in London now and my next purchase will be one of these. I’m calling him George Costanza.

Check it out! Talanted (Swedish) girls Jojo and Malou (actual...

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:04:04 +0100

Check it out! Talanted (Swedish) girls Jojo and Malou (actual names by the way) have paved their way through the UK market, designed for TopShop and Dazed Japan (amongst others) and are now out with their third f/w collection which features the above Chanel inspired jacket. They design in London at Rugby Street and are represented by Essence Communications.

Inititals are the next big thing according to Miuccia Prada.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:49:28 +0100

Inititals are the next big thing according to Miuccia Prada.

The colder months of this year are indeed getting closer,...

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:17:43 +0100

The colder months of this year are indeed getting closer, although on a day like this when Stockholm feels like Bangkok, the fall fashion is far away!

Take a look at any designer now and you will see lots of rich colours like plum, purple, dark marines, greys, black and the additional bold like hot pink or orange. Add some lace, patent and kohl-eyes and you’re ready to go.

One of my favourites, as always, is the 2008 ready-to-wear fall/winter collection by Luella Bartley. Believe or not old Warwick graduates, but this woman is actually a Leamington local from years back!

This year she is keeping up her good style, topped off with the perfect quote “cute but always a little sick – that’s my girl”. The collection is like a fairytale, exciting yet scary.

Inspired by witches, fables and history with a twist, the collection is filled with quirky white shirts, tartan and check prints, orange tights, peach skirts, black Victorian dresses and playful accessories like scarves and tasselled bags.

A particular darling was the blue jacket with a matching Victorian inspired layered scarf paired with a black skirt and matte grey tights.

Edelman attacked by climate change protesters

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:26:17 +0100

After reading CEO Robert Phillips blog and reading the frontpage of PR Week its safe to say that it...

What is it that I'm doing?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:24:36 +0100

My friends, and admittedly parents, keep asking me what PR really is and what my job as an Assistant...

When one reads about people who have experienced tremendous...

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:14:00 +0100

When one reads about people who have experienced tremendous amounts of success, they all tend to have some things in common. Usually, one of these things is that they all have some kind of rebellious streak in them. Quite simply, they are their own person, and have always been.

Lisa Love, the west coast editor of Teen Vogue USA ran away from home when she was 15 to go to Paris because she wanted to change her life. Nuclear Wintour is rumoured to have gone missing for a week whilst having a sizzling romance with Bob Marley and Kelly Cutrone (the creator of People’s Revolution) was the fashion producer who in 2002 on September 11th had more shows on than anyone else at New York Fashion Week as she wanted to celebrate life and beauty instead of mourning.

Katie Grand, the editor of Pop Magazine, who also styles for Loewe, Louis Vuitton and who was responsible for Bottega Vennetta’s newly acquired edge some years ago, just simply decided as an 11-year old she wanted to be “cool” and Karla Otto, the woman behind the PR of a large number of big fashion names used to be a supermodel in her early days.

There just is not any wonder that fashion can be celebrated as it was meant to when there is a world of high powered and passionate people behind the scenes who truly understand designers, how fashion and art is inspired by society and people and how much this is appreciated by mere mortals too.

Watching the Hills has currently become my new tv obsession and...

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:10:32 +0100

Watching the Hills has currently become my new tv obsession and I’m not going to rave about the actual show but I just watched an episode from the second season when Lauren and Whitney get a visit from the super intern Emily from New York.

This girl really amazed me, she goes to NYU 2 days a week, works at Teen Vogue 2 days a week and at Chanel for 1 day per week! How incredible is that! When I interned at Agent Provocateur’s press office we started off with just me and then two other girls came to work as well. Both of them were fired within a week from starting. I had to work so hard to convince them to even offer me the placement because I didn’t do marketing or fashion for a degree and those girls who did precisely that couldn’t even hack it.

Right now the fashion industry is booming. Fashion has become so much more accesible through high street chains like TopShop and H&M, internet fashion spots like Asos.com, netaporter.com and so on, whose revenue has just shot straight up during the last few years, the hundreds of fashion blogs that are thriving and of course tv shows like Gossip Girl and the Hills. Its so easy nowadays to be stylish because you can pretty much get anything off the rack and look just right.

But, and Emily makes a perfect example, it takes so much more to make it. Its not just about the fashion anymore and having the right handbag: you need to be so dedicated to your work, even when that includes getting people lunch, stuffing envelopes and talking to snotty press people all day long. Working at AP definitely made me get a clue and not be so naive which is quite useful now when I’m going into actual PR work because I know you have to pay your dues and just get on with it before all the good opportunities open up for you.

New super-agency

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:29:00 +0100

WPP is merging Cohn & Wolfe with GCI, headed by Donna Imperato to stiffen the competition...

A new beginning at Silverback

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:42:45 +0100

Now officially Caroline Drewniak LLB (Hons), I look forward to working at Silverback this summer...

PR beginner

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:37:49 +0100

The one thing I have mostly been looking forward to this year has been my much anticipated move to...

Many people (perhaps mostly men) easily write off Sex and the...

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:41:56 +0100

Many people (perhaps mostly men) easily write off Sex and the City as some sort of chick-flick phenomenon which is just about four girls having fun in New York, sleeping around, shopping and talking about men all the time. I don’t remember the precise moment I fell for SATC but when I did, I fell hard! And now when the film has come out I feel like SATC has brought with it, as silly as it may sound, something that is really strong and has impacted a lot of girls and women all over the world.

I think my generation is definitely part of the whole women empowerment movement which we have seen in so many different and colourful ways, from the Spice Girls, to our university education, our mothers, divorce, marriage, boyfriends and contemporary society. If you dig deep you will always find something and perhaps it is a long shot to draw something out of SATC.

But nevertheless, I do believe that behind all of our dreams, expectations, requirements, hopes, fears and pure reality, SATC can teach all of us a little bit about life and love.

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Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:05:07 +0100

Yves Saint Laurent passed away on June 1st, 71 years old after a...

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:16:03 +0100

Yves Saint Laurent passed away on June 1st, 71 years old after a battle with cancer.

This legendary designer retired in 2002 after YSL was sold and it can be argued the magic of what truly used to constitute Yves Saint Laurent, disappeared never to truly return.

Luella Bartley’s Geek bag is my dream at the moment....

Wed, 28 May 2008 20:14:39 +0100

Luella Bartley’s Geek bag is my dream at the moment. Probably because I didn’t like it before but do now when it’s sold out literally everywhere… It’s not even on ebay, that’s how bad it is.

Ps. Did you know Luella actually is a Leamington Spa local…? Makes me feel so much better when I spot all the chavs walking around.

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Tue, 27 May 2008 18:40:32 +0100

Miu miu nappa bowling bag. Ideal birthday present. For me. 580...

Tue, 27 May 2008 18:39:00 +0100

Miu miu nappa bowling bag.

Ideal birthday present. For me.

580 pounds.

Actor/director Sydney Pollack passed away today in his LA home....

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:32:15 +0100

Actor/director Sydney Pollack passed away today in his LA home.

He is perhaps most famous for “Out of Africa” with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford which won 7 Oscars in 1985. He has also had memorable roles in “Tootsie” and “Eyes Wide Shut” and did a cameo in “Entourage”.

This actually makes me feel like less of a fashion victim....

Mon, 26 May 2008 20:19:46 +0100

This actually makes me feel like less of a fashion victim.

Martin Margiela has copied this 1998 print by David Penfound from his t-shirt “Summoning the Storm” as seen above, presumably for reasons precisely to do with fashion addicts buying anything with a triple zero pricetag.

The original can be bought on ebay for like 14 dollars and the copy can be purchased at net-a-porter.com for 695 pounds. Go fetch! Or not.

Coco Chanel designed the 2.55 classic, created in 1955 and it is...

Sun, 25 May 2008 16:59:21 +0100

Coco Chanel designed the 2.55 classic, created in 1955 and it is not just a handbag but a biographical story of the woman behind it and her aims in fashion.

It created a stir when released because it had a strap so women could have their hands free to drink champagne, eat canapeés and read theathre progammes - simply being able to enjoy life as they wanted. The lining of the bag, the brown/red colour represents the colour of the uniform Coco Chanel wore whilst living in an orphanage after her mother died in a boating accident and her father committed suicide.

The double chain design of the shoulder strap strap was inspired by her memories of the children’s’ caretakers in the orphanage who would dangle keys from their waists.

The 2.55 also has an secret compartment in the inside of the front flap and this is rumoured to be where Coco would keep her love letters during an affair she had with Nazi spy, Hans Gunther von Dincklage.

Another secret pocket is featured in the outside flap at the back of the bag. This is where Coco would keep a little bit of extra money she wanted to stash away.

The quilted material from which the bag was made was based on the coats worn by jockeys. It was believed that Coco was fascinated by horse racing and wanted to pay tribute to that in the very personal design of the 2.55 bag.