I went to Bubble London on Monday, which is a bi-annual trade show for kids clothing, shoes and accessories mostly, with a sprinkling of children’s decor. It’s interesting to see how fashion and interiors influence each other, and I had a great time looking at the ‘moods’ created by different clothing brands. Some of these could easily be translated to children’s rooms – I will show you how in a later post.
Whereas the Kleine Fabriek trade show in the Netherlands a couple of weeks ago screamed colour at me, the mood at Bubble London seemed a little bit more subdued overall. Here are some of my personal highlights on the interiors side of things: 
Olive Loves Alfie launched their new VOC free, anti-bacterial paint range in collaboration with The Nursery Paint Company. Their display was awesome and the colours no less (no subdued-ness here!). More on this in a later post. Over at Cristina Rohde I found patterned storage boxes from Daisy Copenhagen in a range of blues, lilacs and pinks. I admired bedlinen at Lulu & Nat’s display, still loving one of their older designs shown here, the floral design. And tucked away at Minihaha, I fell in love with lace printed vintage furniture by Jo Gibbs.
(images: room to bloom)
I have always thought how interesting the cross-over of fashion and interiors is. But then I found that funky technology also takes its cue from them. When apple first launched the iPod everything was in white. Then they came out with all colours in the rainbow. It was at the time when minimalism died a death and wallpaper came back in fashion.
I salute it!!
“It’s interesting to see how fashion and interiors influence each other, and I had a great time looking at the ‘moods’ created by different clothing brands. Some of these could easily be translated to children’s rooms – I will show you how in a later post.” I look forward to this!!!
Have you read Elle Decoration’s March issue with their Fashion Report 2012? It mentions how it used to be a one-way street with fashion influencing interiors, but now it seems to be happening the other way around as well. I thought I saw this at the Bubble London trade show too. There’s been lots of foxes in children’s interiors for a while now, and at the show I noticed quite a few fox prints appearing on baby’s clothing and knitwear too. Fascinating stuff.