Cape Moth: Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop: The Cherry of My Eye

So I start this, my blog about anything and everything, with one of my favourite things. Fashion.

On the 21st November Topshop released their capsule collection designed in collaboration with Meadham Kirchhoff and it is safe to say I have been obsessed by it constantly checking eBay and Topshop for new pieces or returns! The 89 pieces released by the duo were each as wacky as the last, it led me to look at their latest collections and I think I have a new favourite designer.

Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop

Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff, two graduates from Central St. Martins created their collection for Topshop for a fictional girl band called 'The Cherrys'.

The four members of the band, 'Cherry Blossom', 'Cherry Cherie', Cherry Satanika' and 'Cherry Pikka' each have their own style, I think I'm definitely more of a Cherry Blossom gal!

I was up bright and early on the 21st but not early enough! The collection came online at silly o'clock but luckily 7am was early enough to get most of what I coveted!

So what did I get and what do I still crave you may ask? Well I went a bit mad and did a 'I'll buy everything and then send back what's no good' but I've definitely kept more than I should, including a pair of shoes that are too small for me but I'm just so in love with them to part company!

To be Cherry Blossom I will wear:

Eye Lip Mini Dress

Close Up Detail

This little slip dress under the eye dress not only avoids its sheerness but also adds a pretty lace frill to the bottom of the dress.

I originally bought these to wear with the short sleeve eye dress but reluctantly swapped the short sleeve dress for the long one as who can go about their daily life in elbow length gloves!?

See, I told you it looked cute!

I think this fluffy bag has to be the best fluffy bag I have ever seen.

I think this is definitely the nicer of the two rainbow blouses they did.

I plan to wear this skirt with the blouse above as a cute little skirt suit.

To be Cherry Pikka I will wear:

This PVC playsuit, but as of yet I have no clue what else to wear with it?!

To be Cherry Satanika I will wear:

Pretty impressive I think, but as with the heart playsuit, at a bit of a loss as to how to wear these!

There were a few things which did have to go back unfortunately.

This cherry shirt, as I bought it to wear under the playsuit but in real life the stalks of the cherries are green and the frill on the playsuit is a duck egg blue, it just didn't look right!

This PVC jacket, as although it is fabulous the photo just does not prepare you for how unflexible it is! I couldn't bend my arms and I couldn't move without rustling!

This photo does not accurately display how much it stuck out at the back either!

There were a few things I haven't managed to get which I would love to own at some point in the future. These are:

Namely this little (or rather big if you look at the photo below) as he's utterly gorgeous but they only made 10! Sobs forever~

Refreshing madly all day and I still just missed out.

The eyeballs are so macabre yet kawaii at the same time.

Green glittery face platforms, need I say more?

Yes, they only made four and half of them ended up on eBay but the real reason I could never own this is because it is real fur. Very unhappy with Topshop about this. Would love to own it if it were faux though.

CUTE

Again, I would love this if it were not real.

FURRY PASTEL STRIPEY BOOTS

These gorgeously outrageous pink brogues.

So all of this Topshop x Meadham Kirchhoff excitement led me to look at pure Meadham Kirchhoff and I can see why this collection for Topshop was such a hit, as it is pure undiluted Meadham Kirchhoff.

Taken from www.vogue.co.uk about the duo's Spring Summer 2013 collection:

"MOULIN ROUGE met Little Bo Peep this afternoon at Meadham Kirchhoff's spring/summer 2013 show – one that continued with the super sweet and flowery trends we’ve been seeing at London all week.

There were screens placed all the way down the catwalk with bunches of flowers arranged just so beside them and an ornate armchair for the models to elegantly loiter around or linger upon as they made their entrance. And when they did, they turned out to be some way between Mary Poppins, Minnie Mouse (though that reference was on purpose and part of a special celebration collaboration), and Can Can girls. But that’s the thing about the Meadham Kirchhoff duo, Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff – you know you’re going to be taken into some sort of surreal world but you can never quite be sure of which one. You just have to stay tuned and go with it.

The models played along for today’s game, walking airily and mystically down the catwalk in their over-smothered ribbon boaters; their embellished Edwardian bodices atop be-bustled short skirts, petticoats layered over the top; huge puffy-sleeve corseted jackets; and layers and layers of frills and flounces, feathers, bows and ribbons.

It was a very concentrated collection to begin with – of all things embellished, ornate, decorated, textured, jewelled and encrusted, but then it worked its way into the more wearable realms, still loud and proud but less costume-y. So jackets turned into white denim variations of what we had just seen and bodices were worn over T-shirts, those full skirts worn with just a long-sleeved grunge one. It didn’t last for too long though.

With Shirley Temple ringlets in their hair and every type of ornamentation going, these boys were certainly in the running for the sweetest collection of London Fashion Week."

Here are just some of my favourite looks from their catwalk that season: