Thursday, March 8, 2007

To Milan for (a buying) lunch



I flew to Milan for lunch yesterday. Got the 7:40 flight from London Heathrow, landed in Milan Linate at 10:30. From there it's just 7km into the city centre. I wandered the shops, ate wonderful pasta and then boarded the 17:35 back to London.

As grand as it might sound, it was actually for a buying appointment with Basso & Brooke. While the design duo Christopher Brooke and Bruno Basso are based in London, all their viewings are done in Milan.

It so exciting to be stocking their electrifying prints from SS07. But it's not just their prints that are incredible, their basic solids and knits are just lovely too. Before the buying appointment I kept telling myself "stick to prints, don't look at the plains, stick to the prints". But there was nothing plain about the "non-prints". They are high quality and just as moreish. The initial delivery from the Basso & Brooke collection will be available on Brittique.com shortly.

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