Terra Plana’s Choolips shoes & bags made with our fairly traded fabrics are now availabe in Terra Plana’s online store. www.terraplana.com
They are stunning and a superb match to our dresses. Hence we’ve teamed up with our friends at Terra Plana to give away the following prize to one lucky winner:
1 Choolips dress
1 Terra Plana Choolips Bag & 1 pair Terra Plana Choolips Marti Sandals
Enter the competition Here
The 1st week of our online pop-up adventure has started and the boutique is cooking! We have been on tender hooks and our first week of CHOOLIPS’ Head to Toe has been exciting. A lot of work has been done to get to the first week in our production cycle.
The dresses & the prints for our seasonal fabrics have been designed here in our London studio. Liters of coffee and buckets of blueberries later, our Pattern Cutters have worked their magic to shape the charming styles. Then Jenny our model lent her beautiful body for us to make them the perfect fit for you.
I have been back and forth to the Golden Coast of Ghana to test the fabric colours, sign-off the formulas for the perfect shade and oversee the carving of the stamps for the batik prints with Juliana & her batiking team in Cape Coast, a former Slavetrade point. Its full of tense moments as both Juliana and I are perfectionists. We have different ideas of what grey looks like or even red and pink let alone the yellows. Stories to tell another day!
I will have left with sunburnt nose and heavy bags filled with bright coloured yards off to train the tailors and seamstresses on our new silhouettes. They work in Accra, the Capital of Ghana. They will have made our dresses, the Spring Summer collection for this year ready to show to the world here on Western Shores.
And then…well fabulous collaborations happened with Terra Plana! They loved our fabrics and made bags and shoes… 9months passed and we all know how that ends;)
Our shop opened and here it is our first week OPEN and besides the first week it is also my favourite as it goes back in time, its all back to the beginning. Only that this time YOU design your dress, choose the shape, choose the colour and print and place your order. We start production! We calculate the yards we need for all the orders placed so far. We buy enough plain white Cotton, dyes and chemicals to get ready for the next week – the week that’s all about the colours & prints.
Our shop is cooking! with Terra Plana’s launch of Choolips’ bags and shoes today available from their online store www.terraplana.com
We are ready to match it up with CHOOLIPS dresses. Our Batiker Juliana in Cape Coast, Ghana is getting fabrics ready for your orders. Bulks of bright white Ghanaian cotton to be dyed into colourful shades and prints for your special dresses. Its a georgeous day, Treat yourself.
We are ready for you. Start shopping
visit CHOOLIPS’ ‘Head to Toe’ online boutique
We are proud to announce the opening of our online POP-UP boutique ‘Head to Toe’ go to and our first collaborations with Terra Plana & Funky Mutts celebrating Head to Toe Eco Fashion. Available for Spring/Summer, we have joined forces with the like-minded brands to make dressing head-to-toe in sustainable fashion easy.
Choolips’ online “pop-up” boutique will present our first exclusive collection of limited edition dresses available. The site, which will only be live for one month, will also feature a range of one-off Terra Plana shoes and bags using Choolips fairly-traded fabrics. These are only available online from 25th April through the Terra Plana website: www.terraplana.com
In addition you will be able to purchase matching accessories made with our fairly-traded for your Mutt or Mog from www.funkymutts.co.uk
You will be able to create a personalised dress; choosing from a combination of silhouettes, colours and prints, and then watch step-by-step as we produce the garment from design through to print and production. You can see first-hand the fair trade, sustainable supply chain that is making a real difference to our producers (batikers, tailors, seamstresses etc) in Ghana.
‘We all like something beautiful made especially for us – a proper exciting treat. Personalised products are my answer. To add to the excitement we like to invite people to get a real impression of what it takes to make their garment. This way we offer the best of both worlds – a personalised garment and transparency to our buyers, all the way through our supply chain. Our ethics run much deeper than this season’s fashion. The idea is to revive textiles traditions by building chic, fair-trade collections that make a conscious difference at grass-roots level, without compromising the thrill for good style.‘
Choolips & Terra Plana are currently working on a new “Head to Toe” collection for SS11.
Here at Choolips we champion Terra Plana and love their beautiful products. This young, dynamic company is constantly pushing boundaries with innovative styles that respect traditional shoemaking, the environment, and the body. All products come complete with an eco-matrix to show the environmental components of each shoe. Check it out www.terraplana.com
We also love Funky Mutts for loving the four legged kind. Using a selection of Liberty & Choolips delicious fabrics, Funky Mutts brings style to the ‘dog walk.’ All collars are carefully handmade in the UK by the small Funky Mutts team using locally sourced materials where possible. The product range includes dog collars, dog leads, made to measure harnesses, matching hair slides and headbands for humans and cat collars. Visit www.funkymutts.co.uk
To visit CHOOLIPS ‘Head to Toe’ online Boutique