Ohhh... I am addicted for anything miniature. I can contemplate 'little things', as I like to call them, for ages...
Anything goes, for instance, I could be at superdrug, a place great for travel size products, admiring all those cute little tubes of toothpaste or a super cute mini baby Johnson's cream for ages. It doesn't stop there, don't you love when you come across a little fruit, like the tiniest grape of the bunch? Or is it just me? This list could on and on...LOL.
So here it is, something I totally fell in love with, a Miniature Collector's jacket by Martin Margiela! OMG! I wish I'd had my camera with me so I could showed you the the size of the jacket compared with my hand. It must be about 35 cm high.
It's a gorgeous little jacket. Extremely well tailored, I could see a very small child wearing it, but honestly you wouldn't dare. This fab little item is a special edition piece for the celebration of Maison Martin Margiela's 20th anniversary and it costs £250.
Certainly an item that you would treasure, especially if you were an exquisite collector.
This whole post reminded me when I went to the V&A exhibition back in 2007 'The Golden Age of Couture - Paris/London - 1947/1957'. It was a delightful exhibition with the most wonderful gowns made by Dior and Balenciaga of the post war period. The launch of Dior's new look was very much controversial, Dior wanted to celebrate the end of war and the birth of a new era, to set a standard for dressmaking and high fashion and mostly to keep the fashion industry, his house and others in Paris running as they had been before the war. Whilst in England, the scarce of materials, and house wives much used to the make-and-do, found Dior's look pretty much outrageous.
Anyways, THE highlight of the exhibition for me was a miniature doll,(an easy and cost effective way for French houses to demonstrate and sell their designs to countries world wide). The doll's outfits were made in the most exquisite way, to display potential buyers the quality of the product despite it's size.
Miss Virginia Lachasse was a British doll which had a touring exhibition to raise money for the Greater London Fund for the Blind. Her wardrobe shows the clothes a typical couture client would possess. It includes lingerie, accessories and jewellery, made specially by exclusive London companies such as Asprey. It also has what is thought to be the smallest pair of nylon stockings ever made.
Would you be jealous of Miss Lachasse's wardrobe???? She is just fab!
That is why I loooove mini, little, kawaii things!