A short film featuring Toast’s autumn/winter 2012 menswear. We were in St Ives, Cornwall – down on the misty coast and then in the light-filled Porthmeor Studios – where Francis Bacon, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron, among many others, once worked.
First we travelled to the high plains and hill towns of Abruzzo and then to the Tusheti mountains of Georgia.
This small film – which features pieces from the Toast autumn/winter 2012 womenswear collection – was filmed there by Nick Seaton
Tamasyn Gambell has taken the iconic preserve of high-end fashion houses – the silk scarf – and has found a completely new approach to them. Her scarves are the opposite of those that are shinily new and mass-produced in garish designs; rather, her scarves are reclaimed, sourced from a textile recycling unit in the north of England and then hand-printed with her own designs using organic dye.
Tamsin Blanchard.
You know you’ve always wanted that perfect shirt dress. And why is it that you have never got round to buying a classic poplin short sleeve shirt, the one that you know you will wear all the time, particularly with the right jean with a slim or straight leg (depending on the slenderness or otherwise of your own legs)? These are the workhorses of the wardrobe – pieces that you will never regret buying and will always look the part…
With our Great British Weather veering from snowy blizzards to icy sunshine to flat gray skies and drizzle, and seemingly no intention of settling into a predictable pattern, it’s tempting to forget about dressing well and instead resort to pulling on the same pair of jeans and a warm jumper every day…
Carmel Allen.
Where fashion design leads, interior design usually follows. Take colour for example; while the catwalks have been awash with neon brights and block bolds for a few seasons now, the home deco world is still debating whether elephant-ear grey has the edge over mouse-back beige. The same is true of mixing and matching: In fashion terms it would be considered seriously démodé to have matching handbag and shoes…
Tamsin Blanchard.
As a fashion editor, show time can sometimes be a bit of a headache, and I’m not complaining about the loud music. It’s only February and already the New York shows are underway and we are about to start on London. The weather is chilly to say the least, but as fashion folk, we are all expected to be wearing a full-on new season wardrobe. Without wanting to look remotely silly (well, perhaps just a little bit) I have found salvation in Toast’s new season collection…
Daisy Garnett.
“You’d hate to run into someone you knew…” the photographer and artist Deborah Turbeville has scrawled at the top of one of the photographs that appear in her autobiographical book Casa No Name, taken in and close to her Mexican house of the same name. “It would ruin the spell.” Luckily for us, no matter how hard you scrutinize a Turbeville photograph, its spell remains intact…
San Miguel de Allende, high on Mexico’s central plains, and thrilled to discover that the house we were to shoot in – the house that had initially drawn us to Mexico – belonged to the great photographer Deborah Turbeville. Great fans of her work, freshly arrived in the country and feeling slightly like strangers in a new (to us) land, this felt to be both an inspiration and a reassurance – we must be on the right track! Delightful days of work followed – and some hours of conversation with the elegant, super-alert and erudite Ms Turbeville. Thus the opening pictures in our new catalogue, this little film…
