The Lola & Bailey Coffee
Last week, I had the lucky chance to meet Cheri from Lola & Bailey – the chic, cool and oh so fun jewelery / tote designers from Sydney.
Lola & Bailey is going to make it super big. Super soon. So I thought I had better get in before I miss my chance and they decline to see me cause they have to say yes to Leslie Feist.
PRETTY/HOT INTERVIEWEE.
Yesterday, I met the one half of the cool duo that is Lola & Bailey.
Cheri Flewell-Smith – is a brown girl (I’m allowed to say that cause I am one).
She is intimidatingly pretty, lithe and has a big, bright smile.
She’s a Windsor girl through and through – with a background as an art director, orange nails (I wish I took a photo for you), a chunky blue ring, cool shoes and one of her sun dials dangling from her frame, she fits right in.
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THE DUO.
Theresa is working from Sydney and Cheri from Melbourne. Now they’ve both dived in for the full time love of Lola & Bailey. Cheri will be traveling back and forth – they’ll be emailing, sending files and all over the show really.
The more easygoing of the two is Theresa. Cheri follows up the bills. They’re both the creative brains and the practical brains together.
Their collaboration rule is to email a concept to and fro, but never to head backwards, always forwards.
I like.
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GEEK-Ville.
For the geeks – they work from sketch through to Adobe Illustrator – and the final piece is always a bit of a surprise, never knowing how it will really look once it goes into test production. For the super geeks – their current collection is “CMYK“. The four colours of print named after the file names we designers know too well, jpeg, tiff, ai, psd and eps.
And her designer of the moment is Andrew Ashton – founder of the legendary Studio Pip & Co and a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Her RSS feed is tapped to It’s Nice That (what a coincidence, so is mine…), Sea of Ghosts (get ready to loose a working hour if you click, I did) and Alex Bogusky’s Posterous (the guy is huge).
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Off to press this week and available soon are the Long Live McQueen and Fromage totes. The Fromage tote for the sexy French uni student that you want to channel, great for your A4s – why didn’t you do this when I was at uni Lola&Bailey? Their homage to Alexandra McQueen tote in tribute to the genius that brought us those shoes, was one of the first designers to use Indian models in London and more.
Lola and Bailey have had big Kish love for a while now. Their “Metropolis” Collection had me at M. They want to open 3-4 boutiques of their own and of course make it massive, transitioning between all dimensions of fashion.
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GET ME TO THEM
You can grab their sundials and shadow puppets at their current stockists; Tessori Bellini in Victoria, Rowan Sable in Queensland and at Popshop on 330 Crown Street, Surry Hills in New South Wales.
Or buy online direct here.
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