Brand Spotlight: Bottoms up! The most beautiful, loveliest brand; Beautiful Bottoms

What beautiful bottoms we must say! Beautiful Bottoms is a brand we have had a crush on since pre-Attollo.

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Not only because it offers stunning designs and product shapes, but it accentuates feminine lines with its beautiful prints, materials and laces. All the delicate little details lingerie should offer.

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We adore their website and blog; both the simple, but elegant layout and the user friendly set up.

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But our favourite aspect of BB is its story; it is one we can relate to on many levels.

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It was founded by two best friends from The University of Newcastle. Two girls who didn't study to become fashion designers or business founders, but two friends who joined forces to bring a brand to the market that they saw and felt was missing.

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We have so much admiration for this pair of beautiful girls and when we look at their website, their stocklist, their designs, their blog and their story and we pray that someday Attollo will have a similar story and we can say 'We did it!', rather than saying we are doing it!

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The Dream Team

Meet Poppy Sexton-Wainwright and Lauren Skerritt.

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Their Products

 

In the Press 

They have featured in magazines from Vogue to Tatler to Glamour to Cosmopolitan to GQ and everywhere else in between. There aren't many places which haven't featured Beautiful Bottoms.

 

 

 

Thank you ladies for being a constant source of inspiration. We adore your brand more and more and are so excited to follow you as you re-brand to become Asceno.

Pink October

Today marks the end of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and what a great month it has been. We wanted to use this post to look back over what has been achieved over the last 31 days of Pink October.


Every Friday we have seen offices, banks, and fundraisers dressed in pink across London, raising awareness for this great charity:

The Natural History Museum

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Tower of London

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Tower Bridge

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The London Eye

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10 Downing Street

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London, you did good!

According to Breast Cancer Campaign, over 570,000 people living today have been diagnosed with breast cancer, which is the most common form of the disease.  1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime- that's 50,000 women per year in the UK!  The likelihood is, if you haven't already been exposed to it, at some point it will touch your life.  That's why raising awareness and doing your bit to help is so important.

You can help by:

1. Donating to Cancer research- this can be as simple as giving what you can or as fun as a Race, or cake sale- because everyone loves cake!

2. Encouraging friends and family to Coppafeel!  One of the best ways to fight breast cancer is to nip it in the bud and catch it early- so don't be shy ladies!

Breast cancer in men, although rare, still occurs and breast cancer awareness month is a great way to raise awareness about this disease.

Emma Watson's inspirational United Nations speech drew attention to gender equality meaning that people should feel free and comfortable with who they are. So men, don't be afraid to Coppafeel! too!  This is key, as being familiar with what's normal for your body is so important for all genders and crucial in stopping cancer in its tracks.  

We can't wait for next year's Pink October!

Brand Spotlight: Bottletop

We had the incredible pleasure of listening to and meeting the founders of Bottletop this week. We attended an event at the London Business School where the sustainability of the luxury goods market was discussed.  We had the amazing opportunity to hear a unique insight into the luxury goods industry. 

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Bottletops isn’t just a luxury brand. It was founded as a charity that expanded from the grassroots up into a fashion and retail luxury brand. 

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They describe themselves on twitter as: “@Bottletoppers: Sustainable luxury. Empowering women and young people through design. Join the family” 

It wasn’t their stunning and beautiful designs that captivated us but it was their story. Cameron Saul, co-founder drew attention to this saying:

“Only is your story going to give you a competitive edge....your story comes into its own. You can talk about your product for days and days - you know every aspect of your narrative. Your competitors can't."

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"We all have the best jobs in the world" because we do what we love. 

Their History & Story

The Bottletop Fashion Company was founded by Oliver Wayman and Cameron Saul in 2012. They set up their company through the charity first, Bottletop Foundation, introducing the retail element later.

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It all came from an idea Cameron had on his gap year.

Cameron and Roger (Mulberry founder) set up the Bottletop Foundation in 2002 through a collaboration with Mulberry. It started with a handbag made using recycled African bottle tops, and lined with Mulberry leather. Feeding from the enormous success of the bag, it fueled grassroots education projects in Africa.

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The fashion company provides funds to support the Foundation which uses contemporary art and music to raise awareness for education projects, tackling teenage health issues in Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Brazil and the UK.

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Their Products

Bottletop produces bags, belts, purses; any leather good that can be covered in bottletops!

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Their latest collaboration is with Narciso Rodriguez...take a look at how beautiful these designs are!

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Bottletop have promised to bring in some more entry point priced bags so hopefully we can afford to be the owners of such wonderful handbags and be a part of this wonderful, sustainable and ethical story. 

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What a wonderful brand that is helping to inspire the foundation we hope to set up through Attollo. 

We're feeling 22

It's birthday week for my lovely, wonderful best friend.

We both have best friends that go back until we were yay high and practically crawling around.








So what is extraordinary is that we have a friendship that feels like it's gone back to the year dot but is in fact only a few years old.

But what a few years we've had!

So...to kick celebrations off, Friday night was party night.

We dined and wined at Cafe Rouge with Fleurette's closest and bestest school and uni friends and family.

We had the yummiest French food...

We even got treated to a lovely bottle of bubbly

What a lovely evening we had, giggling and laughing from start to finish. Happy Birthday Fleurette! We all love you lots and lots xxx