What is Pippa up to?!

I left work to night with Pippa waving goodbye and telling me to "check out for my next blog!" I assumed that she meant TONIGHT!! I'm dying to see her pictures we took this afternoon.

Last night we were down at Trisha's to see All About Eve Babitz play and it was excellent cause Liza and Cheryl are back in town and I didn't get to say hello to them till then.

I look a little bit too excited.

Also it was lovely to see Sarah come down. She has been a regular customer at The World According To... for a long time and she has a sense of humour that we well appreciate! Last time she was in The World According To... with me, I was crying laughing with her about a knitted grey tube dress with sleeves longer than the hem and a pair of jeans she had tried on once in from the sale bin. That reminds me - Pippa was not wearing that dress today!!

Sarah told me a wonderful story from when she was three years old. She decided to give herself plastic surgury by shoving the nose off her rubber Kermit the frog up her own nose thinking that it would transform her own face into the wonderful curvy pac-manesque profile of Kermit the frog. Sarah ended up in hospital having Kermits nose removed from her own.

And last for tonight, here are some pics Paul took in Ireland of Paperrad while they worked on their installation one night.





COOL! If you didn't check it already, watch the Paperrad video that they made with Paul spoofing Pippa's fashion video!

xx Emma

BODYMAP

Woohoo! Another Shop At Maison B exclusive! This time we have the new limited edition Bodymap hand knits from Stevie Stewart coming in mid November-ish. Pippa and Stevie have known each other for a long time so I will leave all the gossip and history of Bodymap to Pippa to write about.

Seriously, there will be a waiting list for these hand knits. If you want one email us = madame AT shopatmaisonb DOT com [sorry for not putting a live email link but we don't the spam] and Pippa will get back to you. i-D will be shooting the "Tit Jumper" on Monday. We are super excited cause we love i-D. When I was still at college back in Tasmania I would stalk my local newsagent to get the latest copy [there were only ever a few delivered a month] to the whole state. And even then the issues were 6 MONTHS behind!! Dear lord... I still have every copy back in my mothers house in Hobart and she keeps threatning to sell them on eBay.

So - Pippa and I did the "Tit Jumper" movie earlier in the evening. I have to admit that we were drinking rather large glasses of Blush Pinot Grigio [sp?] from a local establishment [but I can't say which one cause we didn't take the glasses back yet] and we went from silly to stupid quite quickly!!


Here is Pippa modelling her number one favourite dress of the day - an Eley Kishimoto silk tea dress. It is GORGEOUS and a lot of girls have had their eye on this one, and a black one that is quite similar. This dress will also look great in winter with an old Shopgirl long sleeve thermal or something underneath [if you are one of the girls who still have these kicking around - i know I have a few!!]

Oh I would also like to add a disclaimer: I do have a life, it is just that it revolves around CSI [all three series], Law and Order, Criminal Minds and the JEWEL in the crown The Sheild. When these are not on T.V. I am happy to make any kind of mischeif in a Soho basement. :)

And while I have been messing about with our YouTube account, here is another movie I uploaded from Trisha's the other night of Pippa's band All About Eve Babitz performing "Sunset Strip".


Finally - Max and Pippa are away in Paris and get back very late on Monday evening. Let's wait and see what pictures Pippa brings back with her for her Flickr pages!! I await with baited breath till Tuesday!

xx Emma

what a week!!

Wondering why i'm feeling so tiiiiired today but the last couple of days went so fast with not much sleep and lots of excitement so, one minute i was chomping hula hoops feeling a bit spare
down at Maison Bertaux, then Kumi and Miyuki turned up from Japanese Elle to shoot the new shop...and Miyuki brought her little boy down who slept like a ragdoll all through our last shoot at The World According To... and this time was like a little dervish sliding across our lovely shiny floor squealing and being really hilarious!!


Then had to organise with Emma a mini-shoot with Alex, one of my best friends for a newspaper piece on our favourite shopgirls, and she stepped up to the challenge in an ensemble almost entirely bought at Maison B and TWAT, what a trooper! Then Rebecca came down too so they had some light refreshment upstairs at Maison Bertaux - it's so great having a cafe upstairs!!!

That night my band All About Eve Babitz played at our favourite drinking den Trisha's on Greek Street. I think it went really well, Emma's already been a complete star and put some footage up here. This is her and her husband Paul, they filmed the show and Katrina pouting for Australia!

So many good friends showed up, it was the most shitty rainy day, wanted to thank everyone for braving the rain, especially Glen Matlock and Howie who i don't know very well yet but made my night by showing up......
pippa xxxx

My Lucky Day

Today on the way to work I saw a penny on the pavement and I purposefully stepped on it thinking it would make me lucky. I had a pretty good day! I got loads done at work, some nice people visited and then I had Vietnamese for dinner on Wardour Street. Then at 8pm I met up with Pippa.

Pippa's band All About Eve Babitz did a small gig in what they refer to as their "living room" Trisha's the late night bar just down the road from the shop. I wonder how much they all spend there drinking late at night???!!!



I have a few more songs recorded too and I can't wait to make something of them after watching the clips back on the camera. My favourite All About Eve Babitz song is "Strange Idea Of Love" and I think I will make a "proper" video with this one - this song always makes me nearly want to cry when I hear it. Paul B. Davis [my husband - not to be confused with Paul "The Look" Gorman aka Bobby Brown] made a really bizarre recording of Strange Idea Of Love. 10% of the song is a shot of a picture of Pope Benedict XVI on the wall - Daren is in it a bit when he sways into shot. 5% is a couple of tight shots of Pippa's arse in a tight skirt. 15% is James' face studiously playing the piano. The the remaining 70% is just the graphic on the front of Sefton's cool Billion Dollar Boys Ice Cream T. Then when I asked Paul about it afterwards all he could say was he wanted to yell out the whole way through the gig "Show us your tits... ... SEFTON!!" Are guys weird or what?

xx Emma

Videos and Secrets

Well I told you that there would be some video from the party and here it is! This is the first night I have had a chance to check out what Chris O.C. recorded on my DV camera. Chris only managed to record 5 minutes worth at the beginning of the party. I guess the bottle of Whiskey he hid under the turntables along with the fact he was lovin' the party may have had something to do with forgetting later on...
This is just from the first half of the party that took place at the official opening in the new room next door to Maison Bertaux and of course Shop At Maison Bertaux underneath. Michelle from Maison Bertaux served champagne and little strawberry and fruit tartlets la famille de Maison Bertaux had prepared earlier that day.

I'm not sure I can post the video from the "secret" after party at Soho House anywhere online! I'm going to have to show it to Max and Pippa first cause it is pretty mental. A brief description: First Max, Pippa and Paul B. Davis played a ping pong DJ set. Then Nervous Stephen [of red bearded fame] played a weirdo set of carousel music, square dancing and old English pub songs. Everyone in Soho House went insane and were dancing to bongo and brass bands like they all didn't have to get up early the next day [I for one had to get up at 7am to be at London Fashion Week at the Natural History Museum... but that is another story.] It was like everyone was getting more and more revved up - like wind up toys all about to burst a spring. Then the staff at Soho House had a word with Mark Eley and asked us to leave. Mark made a big declaration, "We've been kicked out from our own party for having too much fun!! Come on!! We're all going to Trisha's!!!" And so they all did. [FYI - Trisha's is the basement bar "somewhere in Soho". Or maybe it should be called a drinking den? I don't know - but it is a fabulous place. Pippa had her last birthday party there.] I did not go to Trisha's and nor did Pippa but we sent each other a text along the lines of "I'm SO tired" and something about champagne.

That's enough from me. I got to get up for work tomorrow.

x Emma