December 25, 2011

2011 – Year end review by insiders – Part III

2011 reviewed by insiders Nicole Yee, Associate Children’s Editor – Stylesight (USA), Molly Price, Founder of Molly Meg and children’s wear design manager (UK), Corina Papadopoulo, Founder of children’s store and online store Kidsen (UK), Shiva Shabani & Calvin Yu, founders…

November 28, 2011

Pop pop pop…pop-up!

  It's been a decade since the first Pop-up Stores opened in Paris, London and Berlin. The clever concept has spread all over the world and flourished over the years, giving brands the occasion to meet new customers without huge investments and giving customers a chance to…

November 3, 2011

Oona Carysse, 4 Years old – New York, USA

I welcome two ladies with delicious names today. Oona is a highly spirited trilingual kid  filled with curiosity. She loves her Isadora Duncan dance class, anything to do with a pool, playing at the park with her friends, and drawing monsters and rabbits. Jeanne Omlor her mother…

August 4, 2011

Playtime New York, 3rd edition

From comments I gathered visiting Playtime New York on its last day, the show was rather successful : very busy Saturday, quiet on Sunday (all buyers at ENK, or at the beach?) and busy again Monday morning. In general, exhibitors reported that taking into account the…

March 11, 2011

Trade Show report : Playtime New York

    This second edition of Playtime New York featured about  60 children's brands and some maternity wear. A fair amount of excellent US brands : Dagmar Daley, Atsuyo et Akiko, Jess Brown, Kicokids, Lucky Fish, Lucky Wang, Makie, Nico Nico, Winter Water Factory, Wovenplay, as…

November 16, 2010

"Kayo, a kids concept", Antwerp

  . . Opened in December 2008 by Min and William, "Kayo, A kid's concept" is a very inspiring store based in Antwerp.  Inspiring by its amazing mix of products, exquisite brands selection, creative window displays. The whole concept was created with the kids in mind : displays…

November 9, 2010

The "smarty quotes" from Kicokids are back, hurry up!

        Kicokids, the brand that never lacks innovative ideas, is doing its “smarty quotes” programme again for the FW11 collection. Send a sweet, cute, fun quote from your child and if it's selected, it gets illustrated by Japanese artist Ritsuko Hirai and printed on a…

September 27, 2010

Kicokids likes to play

  The brand Kicokids likes to play, and so do children. This season, the game is around the sock theme : sock heel knit patches attached to elbows or, instead of the classic mittens, a sock shape attached at the end of the mitten/scarf-in-one. But Kicokid plays games while…

September 21, 2010

Interview of a store owner : Dominique – Les petits Chapelais, NY

. Dominique Simonneaux is French, and a former professional modern dancer. She moved to New York to follow an exchange student program with Merce Cunningham. When she became a mother, she started a children's line with her sister, a costume designer for the Opera and other…

September 13, 2010

Lola, 6 years old – London, UK

Lola lives in North London with her parents and younger sister Sissi. She is a little editor at Anorak magazine. Her mother Michelle Marshallis the owner of quirkycollective.com and founder of the blog iamquirky.com which was shortlisted for the 2010 Cosmopolitan Blog Awards.The…

July 8, 2010

Djek Max, 6 & Elvis Finn, 4 – Rotterdam, Netherlands

Djek Max and Elvis Finn de Bruin are two fun brothers, the kind of children who make you laugh from morning till evening, and who you want to film or take in picture all the time. Their mother Mother Kellie Smits is the designer and founder of the beautiful children's…

June 24, 2010

Interview of a Chalkboard (Shanghai) Store Owner Anita Wang

Anita Da Silva (Yan Yun Wang if you call her by her  Chinese name), is the founder of Chalkboard, the first Shanghai based children's store selling Western designers. Her assortment includes Kicokids, Hunter, Si tu veux and a nice selection of accessories, toys, home…