WW pt 2

+Good by flower arranging HELLO  hand modelling. 

Love this photo that has popped up on the ORACLE FOX blog

More photos from the amazing Winston Wolfe launch I couldn't resist over sharing with you. 

 

all photos via Oracle Fox 

Power to the People

I am a power to the people person. Yes its true. Urge footwear says so. 

The other day the Urgeys came over and we shot this little project together for their Winter 13 campaign. Its a campaign that celebrates individuals. I think it celebrates individuals for being awesome and for... nope just for being awesome.

CHECK IT OUT!  

PS. GUESS WHAT?

THERES A VIDEO!!!!!!!!

HOLLY HIPWELL X URGE FOOTWEAR from URGE FOOTWEAR on Vimeo.

AND THERES LOTS OF PHOTOS OF ME MAKING THE VIDEO!!

IS VIDEO EVEN A WORD PEOPLE USE THESE DAYS? AM I SAYING IT WRONG?

VIDEO!!!!!!

 

Thank you Urge for a fun day and for wanting to share my pip-squeak chipmunk voice with the world.  I promise to use my new 'power to the people' powers wisely.

Winston Wolfe x The Flower Drum

A while back, Kristie AKA Mrs Wolfe AKA the babe with the brains emailed me to say that she was hosting an event in Sydney for her brand Winston Wolfe. She said that from day dot, she had wanted me to create something for her. She also reminded me of the second time we met and I said something along the lines of "I love flowers so much I just want to rub them in my face." Great way to make a good second first impression. 

(I am such a proffessioNAIL bizznizz woman)

Anyway, the upcoming campaign launch was to be that day that I made something. 

The campaign was shot by Pierre Toussaint and the vibe was all deluxury leather, boobs, cups of tea and static telly, so of course she needed flowers.  We met up at the studio and she told me about how she wanted her launch to be in a secret garden, but when I looked around, it was nothing but white walls. She wanted to transform the space and hang giant images, and I wanted to make a tunnel.

You see, most of the time I really have no idea what I am doing. I have my lightbulb moments and I open my mouth and say things like "LETS MAKE A GIANT TUNNEL INTO THE GALLERY" and the client says "YEAAAHHH" and then I leave the meeting thinking what the heck! 

Why did I say that?! I've never made a tunnel.

Well listen here guy who made the Sydney Harbour tunnel, theres a new tunnel maker in town!

See... everyone wants to hang out in the flower tunnel. It makes people happy and beautiful. 

Move over flower wall. Flower tunnels are where its at.

HH hits HK

Last month I went to Hong Kong.

Well I actually started writing this post last month. SO... a couple of months ago I went to Hong Kong!

See, this is PROOF!

Anyway, I was there on family business. My half sister was having her bat mitzvah. 

Now, I've never been to one of those before, so I thought it was an event not to be missed. 

I hope I haven't lost you already, because I know that you didn't know that I had a half sister, nor did you know that I used to live in Hong Kong. 

ANYWAY. Hanna wanted me to do some flowers for her big deal day, so I went to the flower markets. In Hong Kong

I don't think they can grow much in Hong Kong, apart from teddy bears to make teddy bear bouquets, so they import the good stuff from all over the world. It was wonderful to reconnect with my out  buddies-  Mrs Ranunculus, Lady Anemone & Mr Peony. There were a bunch of others there too.

Get it. BUNCH.

I couldn't believe it when I ran into Steve Martin!  Just kidding. Thats my dad.

He loves shopping.

AND I LOVE SHOPPING TOO. That must be where I get it from. Thats a joke too. 

My mum has been training me since I was three years old.

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 After we stocked up on flowers, vases and teddy bear bouquets, Harry Highpants and I headed back to Chabad lubavitch where I made up the arrangements and felt extremely not Jewish. 

My dad sort of helped. And by helped I mean, he showed me some stuff on his ipad. 

He tried to do some bouquet modeling (on the left), but he didn't quite have that bouquet holding je ne sais quoi. Am I right?