Kelly Hoppen Ideas Book Winner Announced!

The past few weeks seem to have flown by with the lovely sunny weather putting an extra spring in our step, but we are now excited to announce the very lucky winner of the signed new Kelly Hoppen Ideas book! First we would like to thank everyone who took part in the competition via our social networking sites, it has been a good way of connecting with you :)

Onto today's winner...The lucky winner has just been picked at random and we can say that today's winner is...

Alina Rus via facebook!

Congratulations to Alina!! Hope you enjoy this book :)

Do not despair if you have not been today's winner - we have been able to get another signed copy and will be giving that away with another Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture purchase! So if you are still looking for the perfect summer outfit along with inspiration to improve your home, then visit our site and we will give away a signed Kelly Hoppen Ideas book with any Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture purchase!*

Happy Shopping Everyone! :)

*only one book available for the first purchase

Win Signed New Kelly Hoppen Ideas Book!

We are very excited to be able to give away signed copies of the great new Kelly Hoppen Ideas book to two lucky winners! There are two ways of getting your hands on this perfect book to creating a home that reflects you and your lifestyle. Please see below for further details.

How to enter the competition:
1. One signed copy will be given to the first Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture purchase from today Wednesday 20th April, 2011. Simply be the first to purchase your favourite garment from the Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture collection* from this date and we will send you a signed Kelly Hoppen Ideas book as the perfect extra!
*the garment needs to be purchased from www.earth-couture.com

2. The second signed copy will be given to one lucky winner via our social networking sites. To enter simply tweet, write on our facebook page or our blog entry the following: ‘I want Kelly Hoppen’s new book – Ideas - #Earthcouturecompetition’. The winner will be chosen by random in two weeks and announced online on Thursday 5th May, 2011.

Good Luck to Everyone!

Royal Wedding Jacket

To celebrate the upcoming royal wedding and the lovely sunny spring weather, earth-couture.com is exclusively stocking our Royal Wedding Jacket! This hip length jacket with puff sleeves and wide lapels has a belt at the waist to accentuate the figure perfectly. To complete this glamorous cut, this jacket is also made from our super soft organic cotton velour. In short, this jacket will make you feel like royalty, instantly!

Our Royal Wedding Jacket is available online today in Royal Blue and Black for only £99!

Our Royal Wedding Jacket in Royal Blue

Our Stockists

We are very happy to announce a new stockist - The Clothes Parlour! As we have recently mentioned on our Twitter and Facebook pages, we are so proud of Joan for launching the gorgeous new website for this multi-branded online luxury fashion store. Attached below are a few images from The Clothes Parlour launch party that took place in The Hoxton Pony in Shoreditch last month.

Centre: Joan Liley, the founder of The Clothes Parlour

We don't want to forget our other fabulous stockists though! Currently Earth Couture can also be found at Ananya, Daisy Hill, Harrods, Kuati, Lovestretch, Tik Lee Clothing, and the Yellow Room. We are very excited to say that we have a few more stockists lined up for this year (we will give all the details soon!) but do check our website for further details on all our stockists.

Love the Layering!

It has been a while since our last entry...the weeks seem to be passing quite fast but hope everyone is having a very Happy New Year! 2010 brought us much excitement and we hope 2011 will only continue that way. We have been busy finalising our new collections over the past months and, as the new collection has already received much positive press, we thought it was about time we delve a bit more into what to expect this year!

We were very happy to see that Glam UK recently picked our extra long short sleeve top with button detail to feature as part of its loveable loungewear to outerwear article! This piece, like the rest of the collection, is a versatile classic style that can be worn by itself, or layered with other pieces from the collections to create your own personal style. Below is possibly a perfect combination: our extra long short sleeve top with button detail with the cropped bodice tricot cardigan with front zip and thumb holes.

Left: extra long short sleeve top with button detail currently available in taupe, black, charcoal and white. Right: cropped bodice tricot cardigan with front zip and thumb holes currently available in white and black.

In our previous post Press Breakfast at Harrods dated Tuesday, 23^rd November 2010, you’ll remember images of the new Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture collection. These images, along with the few sneak peaks below of other pieces from the collection, portray the integral part layering plays with these designs. As with the current collection, the beauty of these pieces is that everything can be worn together. Whether it be the sleeveless racer back top under the thumb hole cardigan or long sleeve top, the endless ‘mix and match’ aspect really makes these collections truly timeless necessities in your wardrobe!

Models at the press breakfast in Harrods wearing pieces from the new Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture collection. Left: short stocking dress in light khaki with maxi rib dress in black; Middle: sleeveless racer back dress in dusty pink with extra long short sleeve top with button detail in white; Right: long sleeve top with back slit and velvet trim in dark khaki with straight stretch trousers with velvet trim inside waistband in dark khaki.

A further sneak peak into the new collection. Left: sweat hareem pants in grey melange. Right: sleeveless top with back slit and velvet trim in dusty pink with maxi stocking dress in light khaki.

Another sneak peak into the new collection. Left: sleeveless racer back top in white with sweat hareem pants in grey melange. Right: Asymmetric dress in black.

Along with developing these layering style strengths, the above images show that the new Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture has also added a dash of colour. With shades of khaki, pink and purple, the layering between pieces becomes a styled story. With dresses that can be layered with each other or different tops or even the popular mesh detail leggings, which have been carried over from the current collection, the possibilities of loveable loungewear also being outerwear are really endless this season.

So why wait, love yourself or your Valentine with some Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture loveable loungewear!

Our Fabulous Christmas Giveaway!

Start your festive season countdown with our great Earth Couture Christmas giveaway!! Up for grabs to one lucky winner is this week's best seller, KH 17 in black, which retails at £227. If you love this Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture piece with a cropped bodice and long sleeves with thumb holes (like we do!), then enter this special festive draw to be in a chance to win one for yourself in time for Christmas!

Model wearing KH 17, cropped bodice tricot cardigan with front zip and long sleeves with thumb holes, in black

To enter all you have to do is 'like' the Earth Couture facebook page and leave a comment on the Christmas Giveaway post (dated 1st December) telling us your favourite garment from our collections!

This draw is open to everyone and the lucky winner will be picked on Wednesday 15th December.

Good luck to all! :)

Press Breakfast at Harrods

Apologies for the lack of entries over the past months – things have been a bit hectic! This therefore calls for a proper entry of our latest event, the Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture press breakfast at Harrods in Knightsbridge! You might have already read some bits and pieces in the press about the event that took place last Thursday, but here is the roundup of the morning with some photos...

Starting with preparations early last Thursday morning, the models were dressed with pieces from the latest Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture collection while the remainder of the collection was displayed beautifully in the centre of Harrods swim room on the first floor. Check out the photos below to get a view of the models looking great in some of the new pieces as well as Kelly with her new collection...

The models wearing pieces from the newest Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture collection

Kelly and mannequins with pieces from the newest collection. This photo also gives a view of our space that morning (ps. the lovely layered maxi dress look was a real hit!)

We then spent the morning meeting and showing Kelly’s newest collection to press. While discussing the gorgeous new collection, and the celebrity fans such as Victoria Beckham it has already gathered, Earth Couture's ethical commitment was not forgotten. With every sale of Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture, we at Earth Couture donate much-needed mosquito coils to families in Nigeria helping to protect them from life-threatening diseases such as malaria, to which young children are particularly vulnerable. Needless to say, we could not have been more excited to talk about the collection and our ethical stance with the likes of Vogue, The Telegraph, Stella, Harper’s Bazaar, and Bang Showbiz to name but a few! Check out the photos below to see the atmosphere and interest...

The buzz of the morning - press gathering around the new collection!

Kelly discussing a piece from the new collection with Sarah Mower from The Telegraph

As hinted in the photos above, we are bringing in more colours for the new season! Don’t you just love the combination of the KH7 extra long sleeveless top in powder blue with the loose KH11 drawstring waist charcoal trousers on the model pictured below?? With powder blue, dusty pink and deep purple among the list of new colours, please do keep your comments coming in to let us know which one is your favourite!

A model layering KH7 in powder blue with KH14 in white and KH11 charcoal trousers

Our Meleni with the collection behind!

We are very happy that the event in Harrods was such a success and cannot wait to receive your comments on the collection! The new Kelly Hoppen for Earth Couture collection will be available online in 2011. Until then do keep checking our blog as we have some other events coming up soon!