Award winning designers Annalise Harvey and Holly Young will be selling off exclusive designs from their collection at a fraction of the cost during a weekend long sample sale on 8/9 March 2014.  A special preview evening will be held on 6th March from 6-8 for you to peruse the collections and book appointments to try on dresses over the sale weekend...

Designs from the Annalise Harvey Nostalgia collection will have to 70% reductions  - as well as two exclusive vintage dresses for sale, along with original vintage veils, accessories, and an array of top quality silks and laces for the home sewer at fraction of the retail cost.  

Holly Young's popular millinery designs have graced the heads of the rich and famous and will soon be seen in Warner Brothers cinematic blockbuster - so this is your opportunity to purchase an exclusive design to cherish forever!

Bring your Mums, bring your sisters, bring your dreams and ideas and we can help you make them happen and save you money in the process!

Contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more information and check out their Facebook pages for images of samples and designs going in to the sale!

www.facebook.com/Annaliseharveycouture
www.facebook.com/pages/Holly-Young-Millinery-Accessories

www.hollyyoungboutique.com
www.annaliseharvey.com

I spent ten years designing costumes for ballet before I set up the studio and as such the movement of each design is paramount.  As a bride you really want to make an impact on your wedding day - whether it's in the flutter of a silk chiffon sleeve, or the swish of beautifully cut skirt.  I often get requests for my commissions to make that 'Szhuszhy' sound as the client will walk down the aisle.  

Over the next few weeks we'll be sharing little tasters of some of our more popular dresses - which will give you an opportunity to get up close and personal to these glorious dresses which are all breathtakingly beautiful works of art in their own right.

First up it's Evangeline - a glorious 1920s confection of Chantilly lace and jersey silk tulle, with hand cut and finished detailing on the bodice and a wonderfully romantic sense of movement in the skirt.  

Enjoy!

It's the kind of evening that Cornwall needs much more of - top quality fashion events in beautiful heritage surroundings with a stellar cast of designers and models all raising money for a good cause.

Kindly hosted by Sir Ferrers and Lady Vyvyan, I was delighted to close the show with the Nostalgia and Couture Collections.  It was held on the 15th March in a marquee outside their ancestral family home, Trelowarren,  on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall 

The weather was truly awful all day - and we lost half of the changing room space in a howling gale, but the dresses survived and the audience would never have known what chaos was ensuing back stage!   Holly Young (headwear designer extraordinaire) and I travelled down together and really enjoyed the day doing what we love  - as Holly said to me ' Fahion Shows and Photo - shoots, that's what it's all about!! '

Ashley Hampson was on hand to record the event (a very pleasant surprise!) and you can see a selection of his pics below....  and fellow Princes House resident Simon Burt turned out too to do some social diary pics of the evening for the press coverage to come.

It was lovely to see Daphne Skinnard too - Deputy Editor of BBC Radio Cornwall who did an admirable job MCing the event.

All in all it was a truly great evening - with lots of money being raised for the NSPCC and i was delighted to be a part of it.  Enjoy the pics!

Delighted today to read about Nostalgia on Cornwall's fabulous wedding blog - Pasties and Petticoats

If you haven't yet caught up with these wonderful dresses   Donna's brilliant and inspiring blog is a great place to start - but don't forget you can read more about each individual design on the collections page too!

And just because there are so many wonderful images from the collection shoot that I couldn't share with you - here's another to keep you inspired to 'reclaim vintage'.  

This is our lovely Zoe modelling Grace in a beautiful vinatge tiara by Sarah Drew.  Picture by Ashley Hampson

Just a little something something to make YOU smile this dreary Friday Afternoon ...  Here is our lovely model Rain behind the scenes at the Nostalgia collection shoot at the Rose in Vale Hotel in November.    Isn't she dreamy?!  The pic was taken by long standing Annalise Harvey friend - Andrea Pennington more of whose work you can see here

When I said to her that she looked like a true red-carpet A-lister she replied-

It's what the dress brings out in you - wearing it is pure unadulterated self indulgence!!!

Now that's an endorsement that's got ME smiling too.  

Have a great weekend all!

I was totally thrilled today to see that the wonderful West Weddings has written a very flattering critique of the new collection on their blog for brides in the South West.

They've totally grasped the aims of the collection and fallen a little bit head over heels for Lulu - which is proving a very popular design for sassy fashion conscious brides who love a retro vibe!

You can read all about it here 

The full collection can be seen on the Collections page of this website and prices start from £600 with all dresses
fully customisable in fabric choices and embellishments meaning that you can truly have a bespoke feel on your wedding day.

Don't forget I offer a fittings service in London as well as in Cornwall, so if you like what you see please do get in touch by calling the studio on 07979 20 55 74 or drop me a line at [email protected]!