We’re Loving it!

LiveByLove is a new lingerie brand by Irish designer, Lisa O’Riordan. Currently available in Brown Thomas, the spring/summer collection 2007 has proven to be an instant hit with Irish women. The bright and vibrant colours (hot pink, cherry red, sea blue, Kermit green) combined with the carefully selected lycra based fabrics gives an almost beachwear quality to the range.  

livebylove offers comfortable versatile lingerie for the fashion conscious woman. The concept is outer underwear, created to allow the wearer versatility in their styling. It’s about offering style conscious women a way to enhance their individual style and look.  

Livebylove is unique in that the designs are created here in Ireland and manufactured both here and in Europe using only fabrics of the best quality, that are easy to care for and long lasting.  Website: www.livebylove.com

 

Pink Mechanic Fever!

After years of being ignored, female drivers are finally getting recognized by the auto industry as an important part of the market. What could make more sense, then, than an emerging market for women-specific automotive tools? 

The Pink Toolbox Co. packs its GBP 24.99 Pink Car Kit with essential emergency supplies such as jump leads, mobile charger and hammer—all in girly-girl pink. California-based Safety Girl, meanwhile, offers the more whimsical USD 29.95 Safety Girl Roadside Emergency Kit, which includes breath freshener, lip balm and chocolate as well as utilitarian items such as an emergency blanket and instructions for changing a flat tire.British Love My Car, on the other hand, offers an interesting variation on the theme by zeroing in on young women driving their very first car.  Four kit options are available with such useful “Make Me Safer” tools as a safety hammer with built-in torch, phone charger, UK map book and de-icer. Prices range from GBP 24.75 to GBP 55.  

We’ve already got someone in mind for one of these kits for Christmas! You know who you are!

What goes on in Photographer’s Heads?

For all of us who wonder just what’s going on in our photographer’s heads, check out Altar Narrative, the new documentary wedding photography blog from Roger Overall Photography.

For a busy, busy photographer, Roger does a great job of posting some of his favourite wedding photos and explaining the stories behind them.  It’s a great opportunity to learn more about the individual sytle of one of the countries top photographers!

Restaurant Closes, and opens, and Closes…

So here’s an idea that we really, really love. A new restaurant recently opened on East 63rd Street, Park Avenue, New York. Within three months, it will close. And reopen. And close. And reopen.

With each season, what was formerly known as Park Avenue Café will be reborn as a new restaurant. Park Avenue Summer, as it’s currently named, is part of the Smith & Wollensky restaurant group and is supremely in tune with the seasons. While most restaurants adapt their menus to accommodate the available foods and prevailing moods of the time of year, Park Avenue takes seasonality to a new heights and will also completely revamp its décor, staff uniforms and place settings. Currently, waitresses wear sundresses, wall panels are yellow, and guests are served Lemon Sole and Peach Sorbet. The restaurant’s interior was created by design agency AvroKO, which took cues from theatre stage sets to help facilitate the transition to Park Avenue Autumn in September.

Park Avenue Summer reminds us of InterContinental’s Hotel Indigo, which features mood elements that change to reflect the seasons. If you’re in hospitality, take a cue from the pioneers and see if you too can radically transform with the seasons, or with a more arbitrary timeline. Do it well, and customers will keep returning to experience your latest twists and turns.