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Yearly Archives: 2012

SCARVES HATS & GLOVES

Posted on Tuesday 23 October 2012

Knitted tiger stripes! Inspired by mysterious creatures and wild adventures as part of our Autumn Winter 2012 collection…

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One on the nicest things about having stores and events around the world is meeting so many interesting, creative and talented people. In honour of our new flagship store in Singapore, Silvia from locally-based blog Poise Polish styles the Del Rey in Large Metallic Snake Print Leather with her own unique look.

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Silvia from Poise Polish styles the Del Rey

Del Rey in Gold Large Metallic Snake Print

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NEW STORE IN SINGAPORE

Posted on Monday 22 October 2012

Last week we opened our first Asian flagship store in Singapore, at Mandarin Gallery on Orchard Road.

If you explore the store you will see a design that reflects our dedication to craftsmanship, with limestone-tiled floors, curved timber follies and brass accents. Handcrafted furniture adds to the sense of a natural, refined environment, influenced by the themes of Englishness and craft.

This new flagship store stocks the full collection of men’s and women’s core and seasonal accessories, as well as women’s shoes and ready-to-wear. The collection includes a limited edition Del Rey bag created to celebrate the store opening.

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ON OUR BOOKSHELF

Posted on Thursday 18 October 2012

We love Tim Walker’s new book Story Teller, that accompanies the new exhibition at London’s Somerset House. Tim’s beautiful images are interspersed with quotes, sketches and mood boards giving an insight into how his fantastical shoots are created.

It might be a bit big for bedtime reading but it looks beautiful on our bookshelf!

Tim Walker Story Teller on our bookshelf

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A STORY TELLER TOUR

Posted on Thursday 18 October 2012

Story Teller is now open! Photographer Tim Walker’s new exhibition, supported by Mulberry, has launched at Somerset House in London.

To walk through the exhibition is to walk into a fairytale, with iconic giant props from Tim’s shoots and a collection of his beautiful images both old and new. The building-height skeleton took our breath away, as did the walls and walls of amazing photographs. If you’re in town we hope you get a chance to visit, but if you can’t get there then we have plenty more from Tim Walker on our blog, Twitter and Instagram channels.

We were lucky enough to get inside the exhibition a day early to take these shots of the exhibition and give you an exclusive look inside!

Tim Walker Story Teller is at London’s Somerset House from 18 October 2012 – 27 January 2013 daily from 10am – 6pm, with free admission.

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Inside Tim Walker Story Teller

Photography by James Stopforth

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CELEBRATING TIM WALKER

Posted on Wednesday 17 October 2012

We had a wonderful evening at Somerset House in London to celebrate Tim Walker’s Story Teller exhibition. Kate Moss and Helena Bonham Carter previewed new bags first seen on the Spring Summer 2013 catwalk, the Willow Clutch and Small Del Rey, both available early next year.

Everyone had a chance to see the beautiful images and amazing props as part of the exhibition, and enjoyed food including fresh seafood from the J Sheekey Oyster Bar and cocktails made by Chase Vodka, both nominations in our Brilliant Britain guide!

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Kate Moss with the Willow Clutch

Kate Moss, Tim Walker and Emma Hill

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter

Emma Hill

Jamie Hince, Kate Moss and Tim Walker

Laura Carmichael, Katie Grand and Kristin McMenamy

Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton

Jamie Hince and Kate Moss

Katie Grand

Cara Delevingne

Emma Hill

Birgit Kroencke Lee

Kristin McMenamy

Laura Carmichael

Tallulah Harlech

Suki Waterhouse

Portia Freeman

Kate Moss

Emma Hill and Erdem

Atlanta de Cadenet

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NATIONAL KNITTING WEEK

Posted on Tuesday 16 October 2012

From the 15 – 21 October it is National Knitting Week in the UK. What perfect timing to showcase the Eribe knitters, as featured in our Brilliant Britain guide.

The Eribe knitwear design house was responsible for finding the talented women who hand-knit the thick, sheep’s wool pieces from our Autumn Winter 2012 Catwalk Collection. The knit pattern is a combination of Intarsia and Fairisle, with six unique yarns making up the final design. Each zigzag alone can take several hours to knit. ‘Certainly not something a beginner could tackle’ is how Margaret describes it in our exclusive video interview meeting two of the knitters.

We are proud supporters of British craft and the unsung heroes who keep traditional crafts alive. Eribé have approximately 100 knitters working from their own homes, keeping the centuries-old practice of hand-knitting thriving in an age of technology and machine-production.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

Posted on Monday 15 October 2012

The Tim Walker Story Teller exhibition, supported by Mulberry, opens Thursday 18 October at London’s Somerset House. We donned a disguise to sneak in to give you and exclusive glimpse of some of the amazing and beautiful props and photographs included in the show…

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FRIEZE LONDON

Posted on Friday 12 October 2012

Frieze London, which celebrates its tenth edition this year, showcases new work by over 1000 artists from all over the world selected by 175 of the most exciting international contemporary art galleries.

Participants this year include exhibitors from countries as far afield as Korea, Columbia, India and South Africa and yet, I spy with my artful eye, something beginning with B. British art is currently hot property and the work of several British artists both established and emerging feature on my best of British hit list.

The work of British artists Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst is well represented. Emin’s emotive and highly sexualised pieces are instantly recognisable as are Hirst’s spot paintings, medicine cabinet and quasi-ecclesiastical insect encrusted works exhibited by White Cube and Gagosian Gallery amongst others. East End Gallery Maureen Paley exhibits Turner Prize winning British artist Gillian Wearing’s indubitably unnerving series of self-portraits at twenty seven years old as well as ‘My Hand’, an eerily realistic sculptural replica of the artist’s upturned hand complete with multi-coloured painted finger nails.

Harland Miller’s truculently titled piece, ‘What’s All the Hubbub Bub?’ exhibited by Edinburgh based gallery, Ingleby, is one of my Frieze favourites. Also exhibited by Ingleby is the monumental, ‘Rose-Marie’, a totemic seeming structure made up of a stack of lit lampshades by Scottish artist Andrew Miller.

Matthew Marks Gallery exhibits fellow YBA Gary Hume’s placid purple portrait, ‘The Dryad’, while Frith Street Gallery exhibits ‘The Line of Fate’, by Tacita Dean (she of the Tate’s 2011 Turbine Hall commission), a linear sequence of five photographs which capture a peculiarly private, poignant, poetic and arrestingly aesthetic memory of the late art critic Leo Steinberg writing. Herald Street gallery exhibits an intriguing assortment of miniatures by British artist Matthew Darbyshire while Sadie Coles showcases terrifically titillating work by Emin’s chum and former YBA, Sarah Lucas alongside the work of 2012 Turner Prize finalist, Spartacus Chetwynd, whose endearingly idiosyncratic rendering, ‘Giotto’s Play’ is evidently allusive and yet wonderfully original.

Lisson Gallery exhibits star British sculptor Anish Kapoor’s ashen, volcanic seeming, and yet disconcertingly biomorphic concrete form alongside Ryan Gander’s playful ‘Sigh Cy Die, Bye Bye Cy, I Cry’, a piece which like much of his work seems to celebrate the redundancy of making art about art as an un-guilty pleasure. So, with plenty of brilliant British art on display, there’s no excuse not to get down to Regent’s Park this weekend.

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Spotted at Frieze 2012:

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Spotted at Frieze 2012

Words by Nicola Baird

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THE CLASSICS

Posted on Thursday 11 October 2012

This week saw the launch of Brilliant Britain, our celebration of the very best of British, all the undiscovered stories, famous landscapes, intriguing traditions and exciting brands big and small. As a luxury British brand there is much we want to celebrate about our motherland: we started as a small rural brand in the Somerset countryside and are dedicated to maintaining our relationship with the British craft industry.

One of the Mulberry factories is still based in Somerset. Called The Rookery it is where we develop and manufacture many of our bags, and train a new generation of artisans. A second British factory will open next summer.

Over the years many of our bags have become classics – loved for the unique Mulberry mix of beautifully crafted luxury and common-sense practicality.

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