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Wilf Marriott
Wilf Marriott runs his family's cocoa growing business in St Vincent. He has launched Islands chocolate bars in the UK and developed a new range of cooking chocolate drops, used by chefs and cooks who value its seed-to-bar credentials, but most of all love the taste!
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🔫Hannah Ennis🔫 @hannahennis_menswear 💁🏽 Single handedly launching a Menswear brand, London College of Fashion graduate Hannah is known for her colourful and playful aesthetic which has caught the eye of fans and press alike, elevating her name in the Dublin fashion scene. Inspired by her Irish heritage, Hannah draws on the tensions between traditional craft and a modern Ireland. Her designs derive from sportswear shapes, leading to a new shirting range launched last month. These silhouttes are inspired by Jockey and rugby jerseys (with a size and gender inclusive fit in mind). Additionally, the shirts are made from 100% up-cycled materials in collaboration with Oxfam Ireland and Germany. ‘The colour schemes form organically from what I find and combining the different patterns in their placements is what makes the craft process most joyful.’ The Forty Foot jumper vest (shown above) has rapidly become an icon of the brand. Made from sustainable Merino wool in the UK, Inspired by the historic Dublin bathing spot featured in Joyce’s Ulysses and cherished by many today. Hannah is excited to launch more designs this year. Follow 👉🏼 @hannahennis_menswear
25 Mar
🔫Jemima and Ali Herbert🔫 🌷🍽🌷🍽🌷🍽🌷🍽🌷🍽 @laylondonltd LAY London is the city’s first tablescape rental service, delivering dazzling, curated settings to your door. From a fine-dining feast, to an afternoon tea fit for royalty, LAY transforms celebrations with luxurious, ‘ready-to-lay’ looks, ensuring nothing gets forgotten. Created with a firm belief that hosting shouldn’t mean hassle, LAY delivers more fun, less fuss and no waste. It’s what dinner-party dreams are made of! Follow 👉🏼 @laylondonltd www.laylondon.com
21 Feb
🔫Rose Gordon🔫 @patch.potato 🥔 🥔 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 Rose is a qualified Early Years teacher and has been a voluntary radio DJ at Evelina Children’s hospital for 3 years. Her love for arts, food and children combined have encouraged her to write and illustrate children’s books. Her first book “Patch Potato” is published and available worldwide with 5 star reviews. The story follows a lovable potato, teaching children vital lessons about food waste and the importance of individuality. Rose is currently working on the rest of the series and hopes to have published 2 more books by the end of this year. Patch is available to buy on amazon through insta page 👉🏼 @patch.potato Rumour has it that this potato is one to watch so keep your eyes and ears well and truly PEELED 👀🥔🍠🍟
20 Feb
🔫Matilda Carr🔫 @_by_matilda 💐👧🏽👩🏽🌾👩🏽🍳💐 🍁🌷🌸 Matilda is a private chef known for her unique and beautiful table design and distinctive floral decorations. After 5 years working at de Gourney she made the brave decision to leave and set up her own business. She spent an initial few months in the kitchen designing menus and locating organic, local suppliers. ‘by Matilda’ was launched in the spring of 2018 and she spent the summer cooking for local friends and designing their tables. Ever since, her business has grown organically through word of mouth and Instagram and she now has a small team working with her. She is just as happy doing a small cooking job as she is doing a bigger event involving table design and flowers. Each job is totally unique and she loves the process of creating the menus, flowers and tables for each of her customers. She is based in London and Gloucestershire and travels all over the UK and the rest of the world. Follow 👉🏼 @_by_matilda
10 Feb
🔫Tattie Rose Isles🔫 🍁💐🍁🌷🌼🌸🌺🌞🌻🌹🌼🌷🌸🍁💐🍂🍃🌼🍁🌸💐🍂🌹🌹🍁🌼🌸🌷 Founder and creative director of Tattie Rose Flowers, mother of 2 and soon to be 3 (under 3) 🌼🍁🌻🌸🍁🌷💐🌹🌹🍃🌷🌸🍁🍁🌹🌸 Tattie and her team travel the country and beyond creating flowers and botanical sets for luxury parties, events and weddings. “We hunt for the bounty of each season and create living tapestries with trees, flowers, structure and other ingredients. Our flowers move people with their beauty and scale. We have a strong emphasis on sustainability and believe in using local flowers and foliage whenever we can and we banish all floral foam (a horribly toxic tool) from all of our flowers” . 🍁🍂💐🌹🍂🌼🌸🍁 Tattie Rose Flowers is made up of a highly skilled team that combine various disciplines to make more than just flower arrangements. A limited number of commissions are taken on each year to ensure perfect results. “London’s best kept secret of the flower world”. 🌼🍁🌸🍂🌺🌷💐🍂🌼🌸🍂🌺🌼🌻🌷🌷🌷🌷 Tattie herself is shy of the spotlight and likes to be behind the scenes choosing the ingredients for her designs, checking the final details of her beautiful installations and teaching her little boys about the wonder of flowers and trees. 🌼🌳🌸🌲🌸🌳🌸🌲🌼 Follow 👉🏼 @tattieroseflowers
21 Jan
🔫Tor Dashwood🔫 🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺 @houseofpartyplanning 🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺 Tor has just launched House of Party Planning (HOPP) with Ted Morrison. “We’re revolutionising the world of events,” she says. “Think of HOPP as a matchmaker between party hosts and the suppliers they need – the florists, caterers, entertainers, bands, prop suppliers, photographers and so on – to make it a success.” 💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺 During her years in party-planning, most recently with Bentleys Entertainment, she realised that the most valuable thing event planners have is their little black book of suppliers. Event planners know from experience which suppliers can deliver an OK event and which can deliver an unbelievable one. You’re paying for their experience and judgment. Online directories have tried to replicate that but, says Tor, “Giving you a list of 50 caterers within 20 miles is worse than useless. We’re completely the opposite. We list a small number of the very best suppliers – the most trustworthy, creative and experienced ones – the ones the party planners would have at their own party.” 🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼 For each of their chosen suppliers, HOPP provides a profile page showcasing their work, answering the critical questions, and giving testimonials. For users, HOPP is free, but you have to register to access the site. Anyone who has done a Google search for e.g. "Party bands" and been faced with 20 pages of results, will understand the value of a curated site which only lists the best. But Tor points out that saving time, while helpful, is not the real raison d’être of HOPP. “The real point is that you only get one chance with a party. If you hire a mediocre band, the dance floor will be empty and the evening flat. If you hire a brilliant band, the dance floor will be full and the evening a success. HOPP is about getting those crucial decisions right.” 🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼🕺💃🏼 www.houseofpartyplanning.com
20 Jan
🔫 Lara Robinson🔫 👩🏼🎨🎨👩🏼🎨🎨👩🏼🎨🎨👩🏼🎨 @lararobinsonart Lara studied the traditional method of painting in both Florence and Barcelona, graduating with a painting diploma from The Barcelona Academy Of Art. Here she explored still life, landscape, figurative and portraiture. A deep knowledge and practice of the essential principles handed down from the past, allows her freedom to express and develop, combining her own style into her academic training. Having moved to London In May 2019, Lara is currently exploring other techniques, looking to pursue her personal work towards the contemporary art world. Lara takes interest in researching the idea of impressionism with the use of concept, composition and colour. It’s all about playing! Producing work that is thought out, taking decisions on representation and finding that most interesting way to reflect a subject matter is key to Lara’s own practice. Lara will be full on in the studio this year. Whilst accepting commissions of all sorts, she has exciting plans to hold her first solo show in November 2020. Let her know if you would like to commission work or to get that invitation for Lara’s first solo show. Follow @lararobinsonart https://www.instagram.com/lararobinsonart/ Website: https://lararobinsonart.com/ Contact: lara@lararobinsonart.com Facebook: @LaraRobinsonArt https://www.facebook.com/LaraRobinsonArt
8 Jan
🔫i and i Jewellery🔫 👁 @iandijewellery 👀👁👀✨ “It is cliched to say that I wanted to create jewellery that I couldn’t find elsewhere but it genuinely started by making very delicate pieces for myself that I wanted to wear and then friends/people I met asking where I had bought them’ explains Kirsty on starting her jewellery line i+i. Feminine but with an edge – i+i’s pieces are intended to become an extension of the person wearing them, something they can wear every day, in every situation and never need to take off. Described as the ‘new cool’ by Vogue, i+i’s gold plated charm hoops adorn all of the most stylish of ears and make the perfect gift, and her diamond and gold stack rings, necklaces and hoops are those classic pieces that will remain a favourite forever (just make sure you hide from your daughters!) Every time someone buys an item of i+i they have directly made a positive impact on someone’s life as 10% of all i+i profits are donated to Set Beautiful Free, an organisation that rescues women and children involved in sex trafficking by empowering them and teaching them skills to begin a new life. Whilst living in India, Kirsty had the opportunity to spend time with some of the ladies themselves as well as the outreach workers and was blown away by the work they are doing and so wanted to help in any way that she could. Follow 👉🏼 @iandijewellery This Black Friday, 100% of all i+i profits are being donated to 3 different charities: Set Beautiful Free, NACoA and Virunga.
29 Nov
🔫 Emily Ames & Kate Hamilton🔫 @sonderandtell Sonder & Tell is a content and communications agency that helps story-driven brands find their voice and express themselves. It was set up in 2017 by Kate Hamilton and Emily Ames, who spent five years working at SUITCASE travel magazine before spreading their wings. “We noticed a lot of brands were producing editorial and crossing their fingers that it would stick. They weren't thinking about their unique story, tone of voice or identity before they put words out in the world". Today Sonder & Tell’s mission is to help brands develop a positive culture and communicate in a way that adds value to customers' lives. They work on internal brand identity (setting things like a brand story, personality and tone of voice) as well as consumer-facing content for clients including Airbnb, Jigsaw and Cath Kidston. "We're all exposed to so many words day to day that if brands aren't educating or entertaining consumers they're just adding to the noise". It's a philosophy which is threaded through Sonder & Tell's own content – with a journal that features story recommendations from prolific storytellers and a newsletter full of writerly advice. Follow 👉🏼 @sonderandtell Photo credit 📸 Eva Schwank for Rogue Matilda
6 Nov
🔫 Phoebe Dickinson🔫 👩🏼🎨👩🏼🎨👩🏼🎨👩🏼🎨👩🏼🎨👩🏼🎨👩🏼🎨 Phoebe has held four successful solo shows, which she curated personally. In 2013 she was selected to appear on the Sky Arts programme ‘Portrait artist of the year’ produced in conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery. She has exhibited in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters annual exhibition three times; in 2015 showing her portrait of Carson from Downton abbey which is part of an exciting series of painting commissions documenting the making of the iconic ITV series. Phoebe’s portrait for the Cholmonderley children at Houghton Hall was chosen for the BP Portrait Award 2018 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. In 2019 she won the Burke’s Peerage Foundation Award for classical inspired portraiture at the Royal society or Portraiture painters exhibition and was highly commended for the De Lazlo Award. She continues to exhibit regularly at renowned galleries in London and beyond and is due to have a solo show in New York this Autumn. Follow 👉🏼 @phoebedickinsonart PHOEBE DICKINSON www.phoebedickinson.com
16 Oct
🔫Flora Fellowes & Ella Hadsley-Chaplin🔫 @reincarnatefashion 🧥🥼👚🧥👠👢👡👞🧦🥾👟🥿🧣👕👖🎩👜🎒 Meet Flora Fellowes & Ella Hadsley-Chaplin the duo behind new concept Reincarnate – a series of curated secondhand luxury womenswear pop-ups. With access to industry insiders wardrobes expect up to 85% off retail prices with pieces spanning all price points and sizes. RTW, shoes, bags and accessories will be available to purchase from an array of brands from Reformation, Ganni, Joseph to Gucci, Saint Laurent and Dior. Don’t miss Reincarnate’s first pop-up at Pergola Olympia on 28th October, ticket available to purchase from link below. The sale will also be supporting Smart Works charity. https://www.designmynight.com/london/whats-on/pop-up/reincarnate-pop-up
11 Oct
🔫Georgia Hearn🔫 👩🏽🍳👩🏽🍳👩🏽🍳👩🏽🍳👩🏽🍳👩🏽🍳👩🏽🍳👩🏽🍳 @cleangeeg Georgia is a freelance chef based in London with a passion for entertaining and baking. After originally learning the core skills with Leith’s at school, she taught herself to cook by testing out new recipes on her friends when hosting dinner parties at home. With an interest in healthy eating she qualified as an IIN health coach before going on to work for various food start ups and developing her own recipes which she shares through her Instagram and website. Georgia’s dream is to one day have her own TV cooking show teaching people delicious, seasonal recipes and to publish her lengthy restaurant review book she’s been writing for years. Currently completing a course with the London Cookery School, she is available again from October for dinner parties, canapés events, country weekends, holidays abroad, freezer filling or any cooking job you might need her! Follow 👉🏼- @cleangeeg
30 Aug
🔫Tallulah Ohea🔫 💆🏼♀️🙏🏾💆🏽♀️🙏🏾💆🏻♀️🙏🏾💆🏾♀️ Lulah started her massage journey during uni - she began her course in London at the Richdales Institute and from there has begun to build her own style and brand @tallulahrosemassage. Her vision is to provide clients with a unique treatment focusing on their problem areas and offering her knowledge and skills to improve their health and wellbeing. Lulah's technique gives her the ability to relieve deep and soft tissue pain whilst introducing an element of relaxation in the process. She has developed a small range of massage oils using carefully chosen essential oils such as Lavender, Peppermint and Wild Orange mixed with a carrier oil to enhance the effects of the massage. The oils can be tailored to the clients needs. She loves the daily interaction with her clients and enjoys meeting wonderful people along the way. She offers mobile massage and also works in two clinics, The Berkeley Clinic and Summit Wellbeing. She encourages a holistic way of living, maintaining an equilibrium of life through combining exercise, meditation and yoga. Follow 👉🏼 @tallulahrosemassage 💆🏼♀️
22 Aug
🔫Issy Croker🔫 📸🥮📸🍮📸🥐📸🧀📸🍔📸🥞📸🥧📸 Issy is a food & travel photographer based in London. She has travelled the world shooting for publications such as Suitcase, Lonely Planet, Conde Nast Traveller and National Geographic, and has just recently returned from assignments in Palestine, Greece & Istanbul. Issy has recently opened Narroway Studio, a photography studio and community space in East London, where she is often shooting cookbooks and hosting photography workshops. When she isn’t photographing food she is probably baking (or eating) sourdough. 🍞 Follow 👉🏼 @issycroker
20 Aug
🔫Millie Carr🔫 Pink Piglet Collection, founded by Millie Carr offers unusual, ahead of the curve earrings for the wondrous mind. Influenced by fine art, travel and artisanal craftwork. Millie’s collection provides people with a timeless aesthetic, so that people can express themselves in a powerfully irresistible way through the magic of unique pieces. Pink Piglet’s mission is to sell luxurious earrings that tell a story and champion local production. To create a visual identity, build loyalty and stay true to Millie's vision. Travelling around the world has been deeply influential, especially visiting India; "It was different to what I knew, from the people I met, their fashion, work and what knowledge they gave me. They have such a strong influence for jewellery with rich colours of semi-precious stones and superb craftsmanship. I became very interested in the Indian artwork and their rich culture”. Millie believes in crystal healing of the soul. Her earrings consist of a variety of gemstones sourced ethically in India, cut and then polished by Indian craftsmen embodying the rich Indian heritage. Gem-stones have been believed to hold metaphysical properties. They alter our moods and remedy a spectrum of ailments for thousands of years. Based on the brand ethos of timeless jewels, these are the pieces that should be in your day-to-day jewellery box to stand out amongst the crowd. The exploration of the relationship between design, fashion and these jewels is the ethos that has driven the brand since its inception in 2017. 🐷 Follow👉🏼 @pinkpigletjewellery
14 Aug
🔫Emily Broughton🔫 💦 💧 💦 💧 💦 💧 💦 Emily launched @savingthegrace in June 2018 after she finished her Masters in Paris. She is on a mission to save the world and it’s waters through sustainable living. Saving the Grace is a blogging, youtube and instagram platform focusing on five areas of change: lifestyle, food, fashion, wellness and how we can lead more sustainable lives. Emily is on a mission to help individuals feel empowered to make a positive impact and save the world and most importantly its waters… we are 70% water after all! Follow 👉🏼 @savingthegrace
12 Aug
🔫 Lucie Holtermann🔫 👶🏼 🍼 🤰🏽 🍼 👶🏼 Lucie is a birth and postnatal doula based in London. Having trained after becoming a young mother herself, Lucie spends her days with pregnant women and families, with newborns, in hospitals, at new parents’ homes and meeting with other birth workers. 👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼 Lucie is often frustrated with the misconceptions surrounding what a doula is; the biggest one being that they are ‘anti’ certain types of birth and postnatal care. Doulas support all kinds of birth, they attend inductions, and c-sections - they provide help with bottle feeding as well as breastfeeding. 👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼 Lucie’s focus over the last couple of years has been largely postnatal work, which she feels is hugely lacking in London. As opposed to a midwife, or a maternity nurse, a doula is all about emotional, physical, spiritual, informational support; it’s about advocacy and listening. She says “of course doulas will change nappies, and demonstrate newborn care, but most importantly doulas empower families to make the decisions best for themselves, whilst making sure that everyone (adults included!) has eaten nutritious food, had adequate rest and feels held, respected and listened to, at their most vulnerable.” 👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼 Lucie feels passionately that a familiar face, either at your door in the weeks after birth, or by your side during labour, can be the difference between feeling totally overwhelmed, and feeling confident; a doula can feel like an emotional touchstone. On a practical level Lucie often takes care of visitors, laundry and the ever growing to-do list in a household, whilst the parents focus on their new family. 👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼 Lucie has experience with homebirths, c-sections, twins, long fertility journeys, single parenthoods and everything in between. Visit her website or get in touch with Lucie directly if you’re pregnant, have more questions, have just had a baby or know anyone who may need support in any way. 👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼👶🏼 Website - www.lucieholtermann.com/ Follow 👉🏼 @lucieholtermann_doula
9 Aug
🔫Lucy Wright🔫 🍇🍷🍇🍷🍇🍷🍇🍷 @drink_nice Lucy is the Co-Founder of Nice. Nice make good quality wine, in cans, that people are proud to be seen with. Lucy came up with Nice after scrolling through Instagram one day (very millennial of her) and stumbled across a brand of canned wine in the US. Having become immediately obsessed with the concept of wine in a can, Lucy was amazed to see that is didn’t really exist in the UK yet, despite the Brits love of having a drink on the move. She also realised (after further research) that the UK wine market had been crying out for change since the Spice Girls were a thing and decided it was time to bring a bit of disruption to it. Nice launched in March 2019 and can be found nationwide in @sainsburys as well as train stations, festivals, clubs, events, bars & online. Nice plan to be the #1 canned wine brand in Europe in 5 years and they aren’t going to stop until they get there. Lucy can be mainly found in her pink home in Brixton or working in Borough with her Co-Founder @jeztherez and team @charlie_payne_ & @erinkyrantonis .... in mainly pink, obvs. 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 Follow 👉🏼 @drink_nice
5 Aug
🔫Laetitia🔫 🎨 🍑🎨🍑🎨🍑🎨🍑 🎨 @shoopy.studio Laetitia is a French designer living in East London. After studying at Central Saint Martins School and working in the fashion industry, Laetitia has crafted a unique aesthetic using different mediums. Her work focuses on the intricacies of the female figure, her personal relationship with "L'Art de la table" and of course her passion for colours and bums!! 🍑 Follow 👉🏼 @shoopy.studio
2 Aug
🔫 Charlotte Carnegie Brown and Ella Donald 🔫 @duzi.studio 👩🏽💻👩🏼💻 Charlotte + Ella started freelancing together after graduating from Graphic Design college. What began as a design duo soon became an independent creative agency working with the mission-led brands of tomorrow, collaboratively striving to put some beauty back into the world — and not just in the aesthetic sense. Focusing their attention on purpose-driven businesses, Duzi Studio holds the believe that a highly considered Brand Identity + Strategy will drive a brand above and beyond their sales and consumption, and instead help work towards a bigger and more meaningful long-term goal. As two female founders within an industry that is predominantly headed up by men (only 0.1 % of Creative Agencies are owned by women and only 11% of Creative Director roles are held by women), Duzi Studio is proud to have worked with some incredible female-first brands including: Comfort Zones (alongside Sonder+Tell and Jigsaw) The Pink Protest, The Lady Garden Foundation, Birdsong London, The Deck, and Bumble. You will find Charlotte + Ella at their offices at The Ministry in Borough, listening to Dolly Parton, drinking tea and (most likely) wearing black. Follow 👉🏼 @duzi.studio
31 Jul
