Berlin and Paris

Well, what a week. 

A busy three days in Berlin, followed by a busy four days in Paris. I got the chance to represent Norse Projects at the "(capsule)" shows in both cities - meeting lots of store buyers and taking orders for AW12. 

In between shows we ate some good food and saw some cool spots, alongside getting the chance to look at some exciting new product from some of my favourite brands. Best of all, I have met and thoroughly enjoyed hanging out with some great people.

Here are some of the photos I managed to take on my phone. Enjoy!

AW12 Vans delivery:

AW12 Insight Promo:

AW12 Insight Promo:

More Vans:

Bread and Butter, Berlin:

Giant denim:

The main hall:

The main hall:

(capsule), Berlin:

Mmm beer:

Norse Projects. (capsule), Berlin:

(capsule), Berlin:

An incredible three course meal, thanks Pointer.

Niki and Kenneth stoked on the champagne:

A new Norse look perhaps:

The bus to the plane:

The flight from Berlin to Paris:

Mr. McNairy just so happened to sit in front of us:

Norse Projects. (capsule), Paris:

(capsule), Paris:

(capsule), Paris:

(capsule), Paris:

(capsule), Paris:

(capsule), Paris:

Bleu de Paname showroom, Paris:

Pointer showroom, Paris:

(capsule) show:

The lovely Martin from Levi's Vintage hooked me up with some new jeans:

colette, Paris:

All in all it was an amazing trip. 

In terms of clothing, the collections that really caught my eye included Mark McNairy New Amsterdam, Warriors of Radness, Sidian, Ersatz and Vanes and Nigel Cabourn. Plus, I saw strong offerings from Folk, Oliver Spencer, Yuketen and Gitman Vintage. 

Now back to the daily grind at the office! Copenhagen Fashion Week is next week, so things are going to get crazy again. I will be doing more selling at Gallery, the show I did in August (back in my first week of living here). We are releasing a lot of new product and collaborations which is very exciting indeed.

Now I better catch up on some sleep.

Royalty

Yesterday, Denmark celebrated 40 years of their Queen on the throne. I went out to see what was going on and here are some sketchy pictures I took on my phone!

In the evening I had a crack at making a homemade curry. I was pleasantly surprised at my culinary abilities. (Please now refer to me as Ainsley).

Busy Busy Busy!

Busy busy busy! Where to start?

I left Copenhagen on 23rd December, after finishing off most of the odd jobs I needed to do before the Christmas break. The Spring 12 Pre-Collection was released (something I was responsible for) With a lot of help from my co-workers, the collection was launched and people were happy.

We had a few nice breakfasts in the office:

And we had a lovely visitor in the apartment just before I left:

Christmas was great. I was back home in Woking for a few days, with family friends in Newbury, and then in St. Alban's for the rest of my Christmas break. It was a well needed rest and I ended up going back to Copenhagen feeling much healthier than when I left 10 days beforehand!

We went to the theatre for Ellie's birthday:

My first week back was packed, as expected, with the January sale in full flow and lots of sales planning going on for AW12. Insight AW12 collection for Men and Women arrived in the apartment:

The buyers are currently at Pitti Uomo (Florence) to do the majority of the buying for Norse Store. As for Streetmachine, they will be doing a lot in Berlin from Wednesday next week. 

Some very exciting news... I will be representing Norse Projects at "Capsule" in Berlin and Paris! I will be selling to existing stores and showing the collection to potential buyers, alongside Kenneth, the commercial manager. So, I leave for Berlin on Wednesday 18th, fly to Paris on the 20th and come back to Copenhagen on the 24th. This will be my first time at the trade fairs so I am pretty pumped about meeting lots of new people.

Last Friday I got back to the apartment after a long day in the office, only to find Ellie there! Surprise was an understatement! We went to Malmö, Sweden, on Saturday, and had a really good weekend hanging out. We went to a museum / art gallery / aquarium which was super cool, and ate lots of nice food!

Check out the last photo - that painting was pretty creepy. Anyway... very good times indeed. 

My next post will be about my travels. I hope to take lots of photos, but I might not be able to take many because everyone is going to be very sensitive in regards to photography (seeing as the product I will be seeing isn't out in stores until August / September 2012). I'll see what I can do, just you can get the idea of where I went! :)