26/04/06

WANT IT NOW express deliveries for Londoners

The delectable pink Spring blossoms through the window, and a last minute but delightful bike delivery to a stylist a few days ago, have inspired the new WANT IT NOW service. Glovedup glove maker and major cycling aficionado, is now ready and willing to cycle your glove orders to your central London door. No customer satisfaction guarantees or promises, but if you need your gloves right now, then it's just a matter of a phone call (07940 776346) to see what can be done.

 

22/04/06

The Extraordinary Dancing Bazaar

Glovedup was back at the Old Blue Last (Vice Mag) pub last weekend to join in the action at the Extraordinary Dancing Bazaar, where Emily's motley crew present their amazing array of wares in between dancing, chatting and generally having a lot of fun. Glovedup took along a glove box of gloves, garters, and wrist bands to sell at otherwise unknown low prices. Amongst the fashion fripperies for sale was a fabulous spherical fish bowl, a bag of Damien Hirst pills, and a super suite of classic breakdancing records. The Extraordinary Dancing Bazaar will be happening every Saturday at the Old Blue Last (corner of Curtain Road and Great Eastern Street, London, EC1) from noon till late. Glovedup will be there again on Saturday 6th May - so come along and say hello.

04/04/06

Glove Spy Spring Summer 2006

The fingerless glove bug is spreading far and wide; Italian vogue doyenne Anna Piaggi and Chanel supremo Karl Lagerfeld are rarely seen these days without stylish mitts, and Glovedup has spotted (always knew it was coming) a growing trend for fingerless gloves on the catwalks. Click on the thumbnail for a round-up of the Spring Summer 2006 fingerless gloves.

 

02/31/06

Glovedup at London Fashion Week

Commissions came from 3 designers for their London Fashion Week AW 2006 shows and collections. Glovedup put gloves into the sleeves of Ezinma Mbonu's first collection. PVC bags were crocheted into necklaces, corsets and brooches for Robert Cary-Williams, and for BodyAmr, extravagant puff sleeved gloves were fashioned from the finest cashmere, leather and silk.

01/12/05

Glovedup T-shirt transformer at PIMP mag's 'On the 7th Day'

PIMP magazine presents part one of its 'On the 7th day' exhibition and boutique. Starting with fashion, the exhibition features a clutch of inspiring London-based designers; Rubbish Fairy, Chrisette, Red Mutha, Prangsta and of course Glovedup. A circus style ring was made for the opening night fashion show; super-styled by Celia Arias. The Glovedup glove machine was full throttle, as guests were treated to made-to-measure t-shirt glove transformations.
Every weekend throughout December, Glovedup will be at the 'On the 7th Day' boutique to sew on demand and tranform old t-shirts into fashion-forward fingerless gloves. Click on the thumbnail for more info and pix.

24/11/05

Glovedup open studios

For the first time ever, the Glovedup studio opens to the public. From 24th November and throughout the weekend, the doors will be open to the entire Cockpit Arts building so visitors can wander around the studios and check out of the work of almost 100 artists/makers.

27/10/05

The Refuse Collection: Glovedup crochets bin bag suit for good cause

Organised by A National Voice and hosted by Tate Britain, the Refuse Collection show seeks to end the practice of UK local authorities that equip children in care, with nothing more than bin-bags each time they move home. Glovedup worked with red bin bags, to create a jacket, trouser suit and stilettos for contemporary dancer, and model Samina

27/10/05

Glovedup Tombola: Adventures in the Beetroot field

KOKO (formerley Camden Palace) plays host to a novel night of film, theatre, music and jumble sale featuring the most stylish ever Glovedup tombola. The film night kicks off the Adventures in the Beetroot field 4 day festival.

21/09/05

Robert Cary-Williams London Fashion Week

Glovedup creates the accessories for the Robert Cary-Williams Spring/Summer 2006 collection. Fingerless gloves from RCW t-shirts, wire knuckledusters, leather garters and armpieces and wire-stitched leather epaulettes with a century of 100 year old Napoleonic toy soldiers. Click the thumbnail to see pix or go to Vogue.co.uk to view the catwalk show pix and video.

18/09/05

London Fashion Week Off Schedule at the Foundry

Glovedup dresses the windows of East End arts bar the Foundry, located on the corner of Old Street and Great Eastern, two giant posters were made using the images from the Girl and Boy Tee Gloves. Click on the thumbnail to watch the movie. Music by Cantankerous and Lethal B.

 

 

18/06/05

Emilie's & Julie's Extraordinary Jumble at the Griffin pub, Shoreditch

Once again, Glovedup joins in the fun at this extraordinary jumble sale. This time an altogether more summery affair; the jumble will take place outdoors on what promises to be one of England's hottest days in 2005. Glovedup will be there with a suitcase full of fashion fripperies at jumble sale prices. The Griffin, 93 Leonard St, off Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 4RD (Saturday 18th June 2 till 7pm, and then sort of monthly)

15/05/05

Joining up the divided city of Nicosia

Glovedup joins 13 other European designers in Nicosia (Lefkosia/Lefkosa) the last divided city in Europe. Since 1974 this ancient city has been divided by a UN buffer zone or the 'Green Line' as it is locally known, which cuts the island in 2; the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Republic of Cyprus (Greek) in the south.

Curated by Anna Polydorou (owner of Occhi Gallery in Athens) The Two Half Two exhibition will take place on the 20th in and around the city centre Green Line. Between the 15th and 20th, the designers will work with local craftspeople on both sides of the line, sharing skills and techniques. Over the five days, the groups will work together create the exhibition, which will be an expression of their attitudes toward the social and political situation.

23/04/05

Emilie's & Julie's Extraordinary Jumble at the Old Blue Last

Fine threads, books, records, djs, booze, and a right old knees up; Ben Fat Truckers Tombola, Kate and Ella's manicures & makeovers, Laura Lees the offensive embroiderer, Nova (shag the dj) and her knitting machine. and a host of DJs. With a suitcase of fingerless gloves, garters and other experiments not sold anywhere else Glovedup joins in the fun at Vice Magazine's pub in London's east end (38 Great Eastern Street 2-7pm). MUCH LATER ... Great fun was had at Julie's Jumble as patrons, visitors and Jumble stall holders got Glovedup and danced to the sounds of DJ Steve Cotton, who spun a wild mix of musical treasures past and present. Big thanks to super model Calvin, who set the trend for the day unleashing a mini glove craze: Click on the thumbnail to see the pix.  

01/04/05

Web mistress in distress

Ever since the journey from Amsterdam to London, the computer (Glovedup life support system) has been acting up and making web updates very difficult. After overcoming a near fatal crash in December, the poor old computer finally gave up last month, taking some treasured files and memories with it. If you recently signed up for the Glove Letter mailing list, but didn't hear anything, please do send in your details again just in case they were lost.

11/03/05

Hoxton Boutique

The collections of Eley Kishimoto, Vivienne Westwood, Carlota Joakina and Robert Cary-Williams (Glovedup fave) make Hoxton Boutique an inspiring/exciting place to shop. When it came to creating a look book for Hoxton Boutique's own label AW05 collection, designers Alison and Louise asked Glovedup to make some tough looking leather rocker gloves. Made from old leather jackets, two new styles were created; strappy gloves and studded gloves. Currently on show in Japan, more leather rocker gloves will be in the Glovedup shop later this year.

09/03/05

London Fashion Forum Select Profile 5 Catwalk Show

Supported by the leading labels of the UK high street; Top Shop, Hobbs, House of Frazer and Debenhams, the Select Profile gala show presented a handful of top new designers. Working with the show stylists, Glovedup created fingerless gloves for three of the designers; Grace by Clairey, Daniela Benson and Michael Azu.

17/02/05

Glovedup Gloves on TV

The UK's ITV "This Morning" style section looks at fingerless gloves and the panel decide unanimously that Glovedup's Tee Gloves and Long Gloves are the best of what's on offer.

01/02/05

Graffitti Gloves

When NYC stylist requested gloves to style US skate hero Corey Duffel, Glovedup seized on the chance to work with neighbour and graffiti posse ONIT Design. Using the tee gloves as a base, Graffiti artist Roy Christie designed and sprayed the gloves with his trademark curly arrows.

12/12/04

Downmarket at Upmarket

As any London fashionista well knows, the pulse has shifted East and London's Brick Lane pumps with fashion action on Sunday's where the street market and resident independent boutiques proffer street to sophisticat and everything in between style. The transformation of the Truman Brewery car park to fashion market UPMARKET lured Glovedup to take a stand. Filled with independent designer/makers Upmarket draws a style-conscious crowd and like bees to honey; glove lovers and fashion addicts have flocked to buy the many one-off pieces Glovedup has made for fashion shoots and shows.

30/11/04

Two See London Stockist

Presenting some of the best of modern British design, Two See is a fairly new boutique to open in Covent Garden's Monmouth Street. Alongside House of Jazz, Hoxton Boutique, Preen, Laura Lees, Emma Cook and Aimee McWilliams, Glovedup presents one-off gloves inspired by these most-desirable AW04 collections.

24/11/04

Occhi Gallery Athens Glovedup Exhibition

Occhi gallery presents Glovedup fingerless gloves; the past, present and future with a party and exhibition in its Athen's gallery.

31/10/04

Jumble Exhibition Tokyo

Glovedup Tee gloves made from Glovedup's very own t-shirt prints are revealed for the first time to the public in Tokyo at GAS curated Jumble exhibition.

14/09/04

London Fashion Week gloves for Victim Fashion Street

Once again Glovedup joins forces with London-based designer Mei Hui Liu to make fingerless gloves for her label Victim Fashion Street. The SS05 show takes place in a beautiful Mayfair hotel. The inspiration for the collection is weddings and brides, and Glovedup goes back in history to the 18th century to revive the then popular 3/4 mittens with scalloped edges. Images of St Brides Church spire (the inspiration behind the tiered wedding cake) are printed onto pastel coloured gloves, and white cotton dishcloths are transformed into lacy mitts with bride and groom cameo patches.

15/04/04

London bound

Glovedup's Amsterdam sojoun has come to an end. The partnership between Laura and Rick also draws to a close, as the two go their own separate ways; Rick will pursue some of his own photo and graphic design projects, while Laura will carry on with Glovedup - like she started - on her own. Marking the end of an era, and making the most of a good opportunity to party, the duo pulled together some of their fave all time records in their DJ set at launch party of Amsterdam-based new photographic/art magazine Capricious.

16/02/04

Heatherette at New York Fashion Week

US designers Heatherette once again commission Glovedup gloves for their AW2004 runway show at New York fashion week.

   

09/02/04

Iconique.COM

Rotterdam based fashion website Iconique, makes a flash feature movie with the latest Glovedup glove designs.

06/02/04

Foret Gallery Tokyo

Photos by Jiro Fujita from the Travelling GAS shop exhibition Jan 2004 at the Foret gallery TOKYO.

 

01/02/04

Occhi Art Space Athens

The Occhi art space is a gallery and boutique. Nested in the old city of Athens, Occhi's owner and curator is Anna Polydorou, who was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. As an journalist in the arts, Anna observed the difficulties artists and designers encountered when trying to find suitable platforms for their work. This drove Anna to create Occhi as a totally flexible art space, where all fixtures and fittings are movable so that the artworks and products define the exhibition character and personality, rather than adapting to an imposing house-style. Occhi has no rules or regulations when it comes down to curating and product selection. All sorts of pieces are shown: lights, clothes, jewellery, gadgets, t-shirts, prints, etc., as long as they work together to build the exhibition vibe.

All items in the store are hand-made, unique and tend to have an artistically playful character. According to Anna, the experimental and playful nature of the Occhi space comes from the Greek and Cypriot artists and designers (Joanna Louca, Christos Kyruakides, Kyriaki Costa, Re-form, Filio Kehayia) who tend to be much more free with colours and materials. Anna also selects artists and designers from other parts of Europe (Glovedup, Krvkurva, A Forest and Fevered Deviant) to mix with the local creative talent.

Glovedup gloves are now available at Occhi, see stockist info for address details. A special Agent Anonym/Glovedup exhibition is planned at Occhi for Autumn 2004.

16/01/04

Glovedup in Tokyo

Glovedup gloves including our latest range of recycled t-shirt gloves, join a full range of GAS products, as well as handmade items and artworks collected from around the world at the Foret gallery.
Venue: Lapnet ship in Foret 4F, Harajuku, Tokyo
Address: Foret Harajuku 4F, 1-8-10, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Date: 16th Jan 2004 - 29th Jan 2004
Opening party: 16th Jan 2004 19:00 - 21:00 Live event by Ten + DJ: 18th Jan 2004 14:00 - 16:00