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Yearly Archives: 2010

POSTCARDS FROM LA

Posted on Wednesday 13 October 2010

Creative Director Emma Hill and her team hit sunny California in pursuit of inspiration and ideas.

Making their mark on the L.A. beaches

Emma Hill at the famous Rose Bowl Flea Market

The beautiful seafront

A Californian cool-dog

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We held an exclusive dinner at Claridge’s in celebration of Tim Walker’s debut film The Lost Explorer, transforming the Ballroom with layers of mosquito nets, billy cans and wooden tables. Guests entered the room by crawling through a vintage camping tent on their hands and knees! Once in, we all had dinner before enjoying our makeshift photo studio featuring an explorer’s dress up box, producing sepia-toned photographs for everyone to take home.

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Gemma Arterton in Mulberry's Stitch Skirt

Felicity Jones

US Vogue's Editor Anna Wintour and Emma Hill

UK Vogue's Editor Alexandra Shulman and Mulberry's Creative Director Emma Hill

Amber le Bon and Julian Miachon

Alexa Chung in Mulberry's Bow Stitch Short Jacket

Helena Bonham Carter

Laura Bailey

Olympia Campbell in Mulberry's Tutti Frutti Gathered Dress

Alexa Chung, Tennessee Thomas and Leith Clark

The setting in the Claridges ballroom

Dexter Fletcher and Laura Bailey

Gemma Arteton and Dexter Fletcher

Harold Tillman, Louise Carter, Zoe Wassall, Clara Mercer and Caroline Rush

Helen McCusker, Richard Bremmer and Kate Driscoll

Helen McCusker and Julia Johansen

Taylor Tomasi Hill, Miguel Enarado, Matthew Bires and Serena

Tennessee Thomas, Alexa Chung, Dexter Fletcher, Leith Clark and Liz Matthews

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BACKSTAGE PASS

Posted on Sunday 19 September 2010

Our models donned vivid red wigs for our Spring Summer 2011 show, held at the beautiful Claridge’s Hotel in London. They all looked fantastic, but it was hard to tell one from the other!

Our models transformed with red wigs!

Getting a quick bite to eat

Getting the model's red wig in place

Our red-haired muse, Julia Johansen

Adding the final make-up touches

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RUNWAY PUP

Posted on Sunday 19 September 2010

Our in-house Mulberry mascot Gili Campbell may only be six weeks old but she certainly has the makings of a great runway pup – she’s just not quite ready yet!

Gili: not quite runway-ready

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A SINGLE YELLOW FEATHER

Posted on Saturday 18 September 2010

Renowned British photographer Tim Walker is known for his beautiful, ethereal images. The Lost Explorer is his first foray into films; a story about a young suburban girl, Evelyn, who finds a lost explorer lying injured at the bottom of her garden. The film contains stunning scenes including a dream sequence where Evelyn and the explorer go on an adventure and see a ship filled with 300 canaries.

As patron of this project, we hosted a screening and dinner for the film’s UK debut, and wanted a special way to invite guests. Referencing the canary dream scene from the film, we sent our colonially-dressed courier to deliver bespoke bird cages containing the invitations, as well a single yellow feather.

Our colonial courier delivers one to Claridge's Hotel

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GUYS ‘N’ DOLLS

Posted on Wednesday 15 September 2010

Our Spring Summer 2011 show audience posed with our larger-than-life paper dolls and watering cans during New York Fashion Week. Afterwards we held a party among the floral surroundings of the Soho House rooftop.

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Florence Welch and Alexa Chung

Ashley Heath and Anna Dello Russo

Amy Astley

Booth Moore

Gemma Arterton

Grace Coddington

Hilary Alexander

Leigh Lezark

Lisa Love and her daughter Natalie

Life-size line-drawn dolls

Mulberry's Creative Director, Emma Hill

The Soho House setting

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DOLL STORY

Posted on Tuesday 14 September 2010

One of our inspirations for our Spring Summer 2011 collection was beautiful trompe l’oeil line drawings by the artist Natasha Law, who drew the oversized doll which became the invite for our Fashion Week shows. But getting from original drawing to final invitation includes many stages; mixing a special neon ink, printing presses, cutting out the doll parts and using rivets to manually attach the doll’s limbs.

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