Flamingo Hotel

Had to have this Tropical delight from Tiger Shop in
Hammersmith and the best thing is it only cost a £1.


Flamingo dress from Just Cavalli 08/09 A/W



Parrot Print from Belle and Bunty

Tropicalia Seating

As part of the Moroso installation came across furniture from Patricia Urquiola. Here is her Tropicalia collection for Moroso.

Loving the colours, pattern using woven plastics and leathers.

Tropical Bag Lady

BnnGirls are enjoying this tropical London weather but deep down yearning for the Island girls in us. Accessorizing with our summer bags takes us right back to the beach.



View from the mainland


Beach bums>>>>>>>>>BnnGirls







We have loads ...............................................................


Vintage shopper from beyond Retro


Woven basket with removable strap charity shop find


Vintage hard case bag with weave pattern charity shop find


Every time we go to the Caribbean we love to support the local crafts and purchase these hand made woven bags with raffia flowers.


Love the lining




These ones are old maybe from the late 80s, I forget which family relative brought us back these



Currently our fave just a shame it can't hold much, loving the colours in this bag from Oxfam Wembley



Vintage orange with perspex buckle another Charity shop find

Gotta love the Lemon

We wish we were on that Virgin flight this summer

Parrots

As a designer I’ve seen the recent over kill of birds, in fashion, interiors, wall stickers, stencils, giftware etc. They can be seen perch on your shoulder, flying over your head adorning walls and window displays everywhere, but have you notice it’s the usual quaint English swallows, robins and wrens.

Its now time for the tropics, beautiful hummingbirds, parrots, scarlet ibis with vivid bold colours all native to the islands of the Caribbean.



Continuing the trend Tribe carnival band has just launch their presentation for Trinidad 2009 based solely on tropical birds (check saucy carnival blog for pics of launch).


Picture source

So a few months back I was pleased to see in the Tiger shop in Hammersmith this £2.00 scarf. I loved the parrots placed among the oversized lush tropical leafs. Last week I decided to knock up this skirt.