I didn't mean to drop into Beyond the Valley yesterday. The prism formations in the window along with the mountains and the roses drew me in. Actually, let's talk about these mountains and roses... all I could think of when staring at Beyond the Valley's own collection's S/S 10's most mesmerising mountain print was somewhere in those snow-topped mountains, Sister Maria singing about raindrops and roses. Let's ignore the fact that whilst there are roses, the BTV team were probably not even depicting Salzberg at all. Let's also ignore the fact that Sound of Music was on over Easter Weekend and I err... watched it for what is probably the over-100th time...
We may be fast forwarding our brains to A/W10-11... it does feel good to be talking about stuff that is ACTUALLY in stores and in Beyond the Valley's case, the S/S 10 collection full of mountains, roses, crystal formations and op-art prints has arrived fully in store and online...
Weirdly enough, the night before, I had googled KaPowWow!, my favourite ruff-meister (my only ruff-meister?) to see what they were up to and found no new news. Then I popped into BTV to, find out the designer has been travelling around India collecting plenty of fabrics to make ruffs with as well as using Beyond the Valley's own collection of S/S10 fabrics to make these ruffs for them...
From mere window browsing, the mountains and roses got to me in a big way... how DO you solve a problem like a Maria-addiction? Get a S/S silk kimono-style piece of course with this particularly invigorating print, which also magically slots another piece into the kimono jigsaw puzzle that Shrimpton Couture half-solved. And yes, I may just be adding a little bit of confusion to the oh-so-popular 'Are you Japanese or Chinese?' question, but for the time being I can't' see this fluttering jacket with anything other than a top knot, some loose layers and these rocking horse sandals.
(Worn with Peeps.Org top, Uniqlo heat tech top, Michael Angel stripey mesh skirt, Acne trousers, Vivienne Westwood x Melissa sandals)
