Celebrating 10 Years of Pirouette: 2011 – Year end review by insiders Part I

In 2019 Pirouette celebrates 10 years! By way of looking forward Pirouette will be launching a brand new look website in the New Year that will allow for up to date news and easily discoverable articles. Whilst developing Pirouette for the next ten years we also take some time…

Summer Holiday Stories, Part II

Where do our favourite childrenswear owners and designers go on holidays? Some destinations will make you dream, big time! Repost from September 2013 Second part of the best summer 2013 holiday memories of cool families : Milk Magazine in Mallorca, Lucky Wang across Europe,…

Discussion with industry insider Jeanette Petersen

Jeanette Petersen recently launched Little Fashion Factory, a PR Firm specialised in children's products, in Copenhagen.

Alejandro & Gonzalo, 8 years old – Vigo, Spain

Alejandro and Gonzalo  are 8 years old twins. Both love football, but they are very different : Alejandro very fidgety and happy, Gonzalo a very sweet and sensitive. Silvia their mother contributes to menudamoda, a blog created by her sister Carmen.

Formidable Violaine – Paris

Violaine, her husband Benoit and their son Achille live in Paris 18eme (next to Le Sacre Coeur). Violaine Belle-Croix has a passion for magazines, no matter if paper or online, well established or emerging, related to kids or to adults. She contributes to many publications…

A London PR Firm

   Sarah Hand and Bridget Jacottet -  Above, products from Kidsen . Bridget Jacottet and Sarah Hand are the two founders of London PR agency SAIBR for aspiring family brands - from birth and beyond. Their clients include Kidsen, the UK’s first Scandinavian children's…

Interview of a retailer : Kidding / Beirut, Lebanon

Name of the store : KIDDING Name of the owners : Katia Rabbath Chanet & Joanne Karkour Date of opening : May 21, 2010 Size : 40 sqm Brands : Caramel Baby & Child, Finger in the Nose, Soeur, Antik Batik, Mini Rodini, Little Marcel, Dandy Star, Maloup, Meresine, Ten,…

The photographic choice of Alexandra Darcissac

Photos by Gana   The real life story of Alexandra Darcissac and children's brand La princesse au petit pois (The princess and the pea) could start with "Once upon a time".  In 1992, two years after the birth of her first daughter Siam, Alexandra started her…

blabla

Co-founder and designer of blabla kids, Florence Wetterwald is French (living in the US), mother of Isabella,15 and Tom, 13.  She studied art and design in Paris and Florence, Italy, finishing her degree at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. She comes from a family of designers : her…

Look de rue

5 janvier 2011 Notre demoiselle du jour reviendrait-elle de son cours de danse ? Couvre toi vite ou pars d’un pas chassé énergique, avant d’attraper froid… Sophie Carré (Look de Rue, Milk magazine www.milkmagazine.net) Oh, it's MY Iris...I had forgotten about this picture sent…

Pitti Bimbo, Italy – Trade Show Report

    Over 8,300 buyers came to Pitti Bimbo this season (10,000 visitors). International buyer attendance rose 4.5% bringing the total of foreign buyers to 2,816. Among the “best performers” are Russia (+42%) putting the country into first place in terms of attendance; China  +…

Pirouette is off…see you in 2011!

. .   Pirouette is now 1 year old. Thank you to all the faithful readers and enthusiastic supporters. A special mention to the great magazines and blogs that have helped increase the visibility of Pirouette : lmnop (read more), Stylesight (read more), Milk Magazine (read more),…