Champney's Mother & Baby Event

Childrensalon are delighted to be working in association with Champneys spa and supporting their Mother and Baby Event, which is being held on Wednesday 27th May, from 6.30 to 8.30pm.

Located next door to our store in Tunbridge Wells, Champneys are offering the chance for new mums in the area to meet and socialise, whilst enjoying an evening sampling some of their luxurious pampering products and treatments. As part of this, Childrensalon will also be offering some special discounts for those who attend - so if you’re local to Tunbridge Wells, why not come along for what sounds like a lovely evening!

Childrensalon supply clothes for Tatler

Childrensalon was recently contacted by renowned British fashion magazine, Tatler, to supply some of our beautiful traditional coats for a 14 page couture fashion feature in the magazines May issue that paid homage to the film, Funny Face, a Hollywood classic from the 1950s starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire.



Below is the image used in the feature entitled 'Vive Le Couture'. We happen to love the movie and the stunning image they recreated!

To read more about our involvement and the shoot, click here..



Click here to see the traditional coats on our website.

Window to Easter

Jemma - one of our talented staff members - beautifully decorated our shop window for the Easter holidays. She wrote some words describing her process and inspiration...



Visions of Easter are a mood-enhancing tribute to the awakening of spring, blossoms, buds and the return of colour after the sombre monotones of winter.

Children Salon is a fantasy atelier of the finest brands brought to life, this is an inspiring basis that lends itself perfectly to creating your own mini world in a window. My starting point was our fabulous Children Salon tissue paper, which somehow blossomed all by itself into a little dream land of Children Salon flowers and bold, bright clothing set against whites, creams and overcast greys.

In many ways I’ve found that window dressing is about illustrating one side of Children Salon’s personality as a story, it’s a little landscape that doesn’t exist in reality, but captures a mood or theme that does.



Using my forgotten craft skills, I turned my living room into a flower factory – I had pipe-cleaner and tissue paper coming out of my ears – to create a flower carpet and decorated ivy climbers as little May poles or Easter trees. In love with the illustrations of Jeffrey Fulvimari I brought some of his kitsch style into creating little bunny masks for a surreal, candy-land background.
Choosing outfits and accessories was easy with so much dramatic colour and joviality within the collections – all shades of elfish green prevailed as did vibrant, daffodil yellow, dressed up with dapper tailoring and all manner of shape and form that has made the collections so exciting.

Perhaps the most satisfying motivation is the amazing encouragement and support of my ideas from the whole team – Thanks guys!

Twitter Your Mind

So, the latest buzzword in the fashion industry is Twitter. Everyone seems to be twittering away about their latest musings.

Not only is it the place to have a flowing update of what your friends are doing and thinking, you can also get live catwalk reviews before the show has even finished, be in-the-know with gossip you would never normally hear.. AND you can even find out what's on Karl Lagerfeld's or Marc Jacobs mind. (For anyone who has read our blog previously, you will know how much we love Karl Lagerfeld, the genius Chanel and Fendi designer). Or perhaps you could follow what your favourite musician is doing today?

And now you can get daily twitters from Childrensalon too! We will be announcing when new stock arrives on Twitter and other useful details, so that is the place to really be first-to-know. The only warning is that it can become a tad addictive!

Childrensalons Arabic Blog

We have grown in the big blogoshphere world. We wanted to share our blog with more customers around the world, so we've now got our very own Arabic blog! And the Japanese blog is already in progress..

You can see our new blog here: http://childrensalonuae.blogspot.com/

Why Childrensalon loves Karl Lagerfeld

We've always been intrigued with everything about Karl Lagerfeld. His distinct style, behavior, his undeniable talent as a designer who has successfully kept Chanel running as the classy fashion house it started as, yet translated so well into the modern day.



Another trait that always delightfully entertains and captivates our interest is what he has to say... about anything and everything! He's so insightful. A wonderful and rare mixture of wise yet with-it, profound yet lighthearted, visionary and certainly sharp-witted.

Some facts on Karl:
Karl is 71, the designer for Chanel, his own Karl Lagerfeld lines and also has a longstanding collaboration with Fendi. He owns 300 iPods, photographs and creates all his own advertising, in the year 2000 he lost 200lbs so he could wear suits by Hedi Slimane and he never goes out in public without sunglasses on.

Some quotes we love:
"Vanity is the healthiest thing in life"

"The most important piece in the house is the garbage can."

“Personality begins where comparison ends.”

"Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time."

"My people are the cool ones... I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring, and cannot follow the evolution of time and mood."







Whilst we are lucky enough to stock baby accessories by Fendi - where Karl is at the helm - we hope that he will venture out into designing clothing for children one day in the not-so-distant future!

Drapers Etail Awards 2009

Childrensalon made it through as a finalist of - the most entered category - Best Specialist Etailer. Naturally, we feel rather chuffed at the achievement and recognition since we love what we do and work very hard at it :o)

The glittering event was held at Sketch in London. The converted 18th-century building played host to a gathering of more than 250 guests. The awards was hosted by the glamorous, fun-loving soul singer Mica Paris. Drinks flowed freely at the Moë Hennessy-supported champagne reception and mini hamburgers and tempura kept stomachs lined.






If you look carefully, you can see Childrensalon written on the wall!


Affie - our lovely shop manageress - having fun.


Sorcha and Zain.


Mica Paris and model, Caprice, presenting an award.


The Mulberry team.


The Childrensalon bunch!
Left to right: Bonnie, Affie, Zain, Gracie and Sorcha

Day 2 in Italy

On the second day in Florence, we attended Pitti Bimbo fashion trade show to hunt down the best of the best that was offer...

It was extremely busy, but we had a great time! We ordered some truly fantastic stuff, and some VERY exciting new brands that will join our offer in July (more about that will come later...).


This was the queue to get in.


Bonnie having fun trying on some hats we ordered..


The brands always have great props, and there is always delicious ice cream and treats available, but NO English tea!







In the evening, we went back to the market to see the lovely sights again. We loved this traditional carousel, still run by a small family-owned business.

Bonnie and Michele arrive in Italy

Day 1 in Florence.. The fun begins..



Today was the our first day in Italy. We are staying in Florence, which is a charming city! We have already fallen in-love with the architecture, historic boutiques, and fantastic ice cream parlours (which are everywhere!).

Tomorrow the sight-seeing ends, and we will embark on two days of serious buying at the fashion trade show, Pitti Bimbo. Here we will be buying for Autumn/Winter 2009.













Watch this space for more pictures...

Buying Trip to Burberry

Yesterday we set off to London to buy the Burberry collection for Autumn Winter 2009.

We always have fun at Burberry! It was a fantastic collection, and as usual we all fell in love with so many pieces. Zain - our boyswear buyer - found himself at home with a tartan scarf. And the women of the buying team: Bonnie, Michele and Sorcha, found love in the form of a bag. The new Burberry tartan changing bag. Fabulous!

As always, there was plenty of other mouth-watering distractions: Sweets! Lots of sweets! Eventually Bonnie had to remove the colourful treats from the table to stop us from finishing the lot...







We spent all day there, and eventually left at 7pm.

The Autumn/Winter 2009 collection starts arriving in mid-June. We can't put pictures of the products online until closer to the season, but watch this space. Pre-orders will be available as well, as stock is limited.

See our current Burberry collection online here.

Winter at the Warehouse

It suddenly become remarkably cold here at the warehouse. Every morning, everything in sight looks like Jack Frost has been very busy at work! Hollie and Rachel - two of our warehouse team - braved the cold to pose for a photo so we could show you.

Is it just because our warehouse is based in the country, or are you experiencing the same weather?

We would love to hear from you, wherever in the world you are, and how mother nature is treating you at the moment.

The Party Invitation

We thought we would share the staff invitation to our Christmas party, as it certainly provided everyone with a good giggle!



Can you spot who is who? (Hint: there is only one non-staff Bond character!)

The Childrensalon Christmas Party

We had a bit of a festive Christmas soiree for the whole team on December 20th.

The theme was James Bond, which gave an added excuse for getting dressed up! Most people opted for a slick or extravagant look... except for Kailas - our studio creative - who daringly came dressed in a kilt.





We all had great fun, and would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas from us at Childrensalon!