You're going to be seeing a lot of Marni x H&M news from us Geeks as we eagerly wait for it's launch in just a few weeks! The collection just had an event in LA where you can see some of the pieces that will be available. Check out the video above.
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Showing posts with label H and M. Show all posts
Monday, February 20, 2012
Marni x H&M Celebrity Launch
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Oh Marni Me
As the launch date of the Marni x H&M collection comes closer, I find myself eyeing more and more Marni accessories and wondering what I will be able to get my hands on (if any). So to satisfy my Marni craving, I took a detour to the Outnet and saw the above pieces. Now the question is, do I purchase at over 50% off for the standalone brand or wait it out until the collabo to see if I can get anything good. Dilemma dilemma.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Marni x H&M Campaign Image?
We’ve heralded our excitement about the H&M and Marni collaboration previously and with the news that Sofia Coppola shooting the print and television campaign, we had been eagerly waiting for the finished product. Nothing official has come from H&M yet but there is a print image on Fashionista via The Fashion Spot a couple days ago and we must say this has only fueled the anticipation. Commentors from The Fashion Spot and Fashionista believe the model to be Imogen Poots who was recently signed on by Chloe to be the face of their fragrance campaign. What do you think? Is it her?
Designed by Marni's founder and creative director Consuelo Castiglioni, Marni for H&M will be available in 260 stores worldwide and online as of March 8, 2012.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Marni x H&M
All together now. SQUEEEEEEEE Come March 8th, you will see the two Geeks take annual leave to queue up for what will be a highly anticipated collection, Marni x H&M!!! There is a din of massive excitement at the Geek Headquarters. Ladies, expect vivid colours, bold prints for full pleated skirts, dresses, cropped trousers and jacquard knit, and fabrics range from silk to crisp cotton poplin. And most excitingly jewellery, shoes, bags and scarves!! I'm already coveting the accessories. Guys, you will also get stuff designed for you.. no worries. Check out the preview images and video below.
Sidenote: To give you an idea of how much we love Marni, here's a lil anecdote. A couple years ago, I'd been wanting a dog for AGES... finally convince the landlord to let us get one (after talking to him for like a year).. saved up... and then a Marni bag caught my eye and now I have a pet Marni instead of a dog..
Thursday, November 24, 2011
More Versace x H&M
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Behind the Scenes of Versace for H&M
We've know about Versace for H&M for a while now and the clever marketing people behind H&M have been drip feeding us information bit by bit. The latest is a series of five behind the scene videos during the production of the tv commercial ”Versace for H&M”. Donatella Versace personally gives a guided tour on the set, drops by the make-up room and which bloggers she follows. What do you think fellow Geeks? Are you excited for the collection?
Thursday, October 27, 2011
SHOErotica: Versace x H&M
From the still-life images, the Versace X H&M footwear looks a little lacklustre, but the campaign shots are fab!
Monday, August 22, 2011
Speed Demons
There are very few instances in life where you'll need to shop as quickly as you possibly can, but don't ever rule it out. I once believed that speed-shopping was only for contestants of America's Next Top Model, when they get ridiculous challenges like "you have ONE minute to style an outfit for use at a black-tie function, but you can only approach the clothing racks while hopping on one foot!"
Then I took on the ridiculous task of lining up for the H&M x Lanvin collaboration. Four hours of sitting outside a shop in the middle of the night... 10 minutes to pull roughly 100 items of clothing from the racks, for six girls, all of whom are different sizes. The strategy was easy: spend four hours memorizing the list, and 10 minutes blindly grabbing whatever is in front of you. Strategy was moot, once the buzzer went off and the clock was a-ticking.
The same applied when online retailer Gizzy & Nacho did a showroom grab-sale: 30 seconds to grab as much clothing as you wanted from their clearance box. It's not a neat box, and 30 seconds is not a lot of time. Inevitably, many came away disappointed -- "What? Time's up? Already?" Instead of spending time picking and choosing, they should have grabbed anything and everything that looked interesting, and even the stuff that didn't. You probably won't want it all, but it's better to put it back rather than leave with nothing.
So the cardinal rule of speed shopping is... forget etiquette. Throw manners to the wind. When you arrive at a warehouse sale, don't consider and then come back -- take, take and take. When you decide once and for all you don't want something, then put it back. Take multiple sizes in case the fit is different from standard sizing. Take multiple colours and patterns. Take stuff you think is cool but not really your style, because someone you're with might want it. If you're with a friend, split up the store geographically so you aren't wasting time walking around.
So really, the best way to prepare for a speed-shopping experience is not to strategize and memorize, but to hit the gym and bulk up those arm muscles. It sounds funny here, but after the H&M experience, my arms hurt for THREE DAYS. This is no laughing matter.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Versace x H&M
Now word on the street is that the next collection will be Versace x H&M which will be available from 17 November worldwide, as well as online. Below is a video with Donatella talking about the collection. The collection will include ranges for women, men and what I'm most excited about, selected pieces for the home.
Donatella recently wore one of her Versace x H&M pieces at the Versace men’s fashion show in Milan on June 20th and by the looks of it, the collection will another heavily anticipated fashion event of the year.
See some preview images after the cut.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Celebrity Sightings: More More More H&M Lanvin
I'm sure you guys are totally sick of the collection by now... I sort of am. But there's this morbid fascination, now that everyone and her momma has managed to acquire some aspect of the H&M x Lanvin collection, on how everyone is styling the pieces to make them their own. It's sort of like a worldwide style challenge. Even in Hong Kong's tiny pop-star sphere, the high street collaboration has taken hold, with celebrities both male and female rocking looks. Read on for the big image dump.
There's my favourite of the crew, Hilary Tsui, giving it attitude and edge. Sammi doing her signature overload of everything and somehow making it work (plus, she got THOSE SUNGLASSES). Louis Koo posing weirdly in a changing room or something, looking sort of gay. Gigi Leung as pretty as she always is, in almost professional photos. Pace Wu, showing off legs, legs and more legs. The never-aging Carina Lau, wearing all the pieces I wanted, including the ones I didn't get. Michelle Reis looking like a ballerina doll. Wyman Wong being Wyman Wong.
Excuse the poor quality of some of these, they were thumbnail sized so I had to screen cap off pdfs.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Laziness, or iPhone Show & Tell: Photoshop Express
I've had a long weekend of slaving in the kitchen trying to put together Thanksgiving dinner, so there's not much time for blogging left. I hope you accept this semi-narcissistic post of me trying on my H&M x Lanvin buys and then doing the whole cell phone pic in the mirror dorkalicious thing (which, sorry, I've also posted on my tumblr, so the originality in this is nil). To make this post somewhat value-added, I'd like you trick you into thinking this is a substantial post by recommending you download Photoshop Express for iPhone. It's addictive and can make your crappy cell phone pics look almost special.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Adventures at H&M x Lanvin
As the leader of any successful military operation knows, the key to victory lies in teamwork. A few weeks ago when images of the H&M x Lanvin collaboration hit, a group of us girls decided to brave sleeplessness and shame to line up for the chance to nab some of the limited-edition collector's items. After much discussion, strategizing and planning, we came upon the predetermined hour of 4am at the Elements branch of H&M, rationalized based on the fact that for the H&M x Jimmy Choo collection, Laura had gone at 6am and come away with what she wanted. Andrea and I both had half days of annual leave left, so we put in our forms to take the morning of November 23rd off from work. We chose Elements because it was the only fully indoor branch, guaranteeing us comfortable temperatures.
Those same successful military leaders will also tell you that even the best laid plans often go to pot. At T-minus 24 hours came the first sign that all was not right. Spotted in central almost a full day before the collection release were the first-in-liners, eager as beavers and ready to give us a run for our money. By early afternoon, Laura sent me this picture from her Blackberry.
Operation Lanvin needed to go into action earlier than anticipated. The six of us came to the agreement that we still wanted in, but none of us were prepared to do the 12-hour overnighter. Quick thinking led us to a shift system, in which each pair of girls would take a four-hour stint beginning at 8pm. Almost immediately after work, Laura and her devoted boyfriend Mark headed to Japan Home Centre, where they picked up cheapy plastic chairs that would be our only shelter from the elements.
But then, our plan to collectively cut in line and go in as a six-pack was foiled. No cutsies was the rule, and it was enforced by a couple of grumpy security guards with timestamped slips that allowed only 30-minute breaks from the line. That meant that as the last line of defense, Andrea and I would have 10 minutes to pull clothing for six girls. And allow me to remind you that you don't line up on the street for four hours in the middle of the night just to buy one dress. Yet it was our only solution.
I tried to sleep early but it was a restless night. I pretty much woke at 230am and lay awake until 330am, at which point I got dressed in my pre-determined "comfy outfit for sleeping on the street" and went downstairs to hail a cab. I think the cab driver judged me a little bit when he saw where I was going. When Andrea got in a taxi from her home and asked to go the Central, the cabbie instantly replied: "H&M?" How transparent we women are.
Getting out of the cab to see this was simultaneously religious and ridiculous. There it was, a window display that perfectly encapsulated what's so great about commercialism and fashion, immaculate in its reality (we've been dissecting the pics forever) and just a taste of what we were here for, a perfectly ironic reminder that we were so close, yet so far. And then right in front of the window, a troupe of fashion hobos, a potpourri of colourful characters: a cluster of Indian men, purportedly looking to scoop the clothing to clone and sell; Filipina maids, sent to fend for their employers' wardrobe; fashionable boys with undercuts, ponytails and designer tracksuits looking to buy for themselves and their friends (for a smartly calculated profit); and of course, the requisite girls who live for fashion.
At 4am in the morning, pretty much all sense of public propriety flies out the window. It's sort of like when you get on the plane in Economy class and the guy behind your seat INSISTS on stabbing his toes into the space behind your armrest. Does this happen to anyone else, or am I just lucky? And it's sort of like getting an arm massage, except it's really disgusting? Anyway. People were slumped in chairs and on newspapers and cardboard boxes. Our fellow comrades had left us with rations, though: water, magazines, snacks. I had a fishburger from 24-hour McDonald's and considered ordering Tsui Wah to the street. I had my Kindle and my iPad was stocked with episodes of Cougar Town and the seminal Shakespearean adaptation and Joseph Gordon-Levitt featurette, 10 Things I Hate About You.
It wasn't that hard to make it to 6am. I had a minor claustrophobic freak out but that was tempered by activities like memorizing the list of sizes and styles that Andrea and I would have to pick out for the six girls and all our friends and family. Reading magazines. Checking out the vitaminwater truck that pulled up. Watching its driver eat a lunchbox. Gossiping about work. Tweeting.
At 6am, they told us to stay put. They gave out free tote bags and scarves to the first 100 people in line. We drank our free vitaminwater and listened to instructions in Chinese which I then translated to Andrea. We would be in Group Four, the 850-9am section.
Here, there is a gap in photographic documentation as 8am approached and we entered the store to head downstairs to the men's section. Mayhem ensued, as can be imagined, with people grabbing like a drunken frat boy at a sorority house. We nabbed what we could, including a bunch of bow ties and blazers in varying sizes. Dally a second longer and everything was gone. Then we headed upstairs to wait our turn in the enclosed area.
I felt really bad for the H&M staff, but they were all so accommodating and genuinely nice and patient.
When our turn came, we ran in and grabbed as much as we could, as fast as we could. We grabbed and grabbed and grabbed, with little regard for sizes. We grabbed until our arms were filled in a froth of tulle, chiffon and ribbon, and then we grabbed more, until an entire area of the floor was covered with our pulls. The staff helped us put everything into shopping bags and made sure we didn't have more than our allocated allotment of items (one per style per person). Somehow we stumbled back into the store and dissected our purchases with Tina and Laura. That's Tina resting amid our clothes.
We bought pretty much all we pulled, leaving behind only one pair of men's sweatpants. If you need any indication of how ridiculous the amount me and Andrea carried out with our bare hands, this is the number of shopping bags we needed. (Okay, bear in mind the mirror makes it seem doubly crazy.) Then, we took a cab up to Laura's showroom, ordered breakfast and got to work trying on our new purchases.
Totally girly, totally materialistic, totally frivolous usage of time, and totally worth it.
I was distraught to find out that somehow my tee didn't make it back with me. We accused some lurkers of stealing from our shopping back. The rest of the girls showed up to try on their loot, and informed us that the line was still going strong at H&M where stuff was still available. We, against all reason and financial sense, went back down to see if we could get MORE stuff. We did not, as lunch hour had brought a wave of people, but Tina did find my tee, which was stuffed into the accessories wall because I forgot to get a hanger for it. And so here it is, paired disastrously with the ruffled skirt I bought two sizes too small which will soon be snapped up by my sister-in-law's friend.
And so ends the saga of this fairy tale-cum-military operation. Would I do it again? In a second. Even though it's Thursday night, and my left arm is still residually sore.
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