Puckoo Couture at Box Park, Shoreditch with best in British fashion curation, Secret Emporium

Ladies and gentleman with a keen eye for the freshest in independent fashion, you have one weekend left to find us at Box Park, Shoreditch, units 1-3 with Secret Emporium!

Tonight you will have till 8pm, for late night fashion fun.

 We've been there since March 15th, and, with the lovelies at SE deciding they don't want to leave just yet, we are happy to announce we will now be staying for the Bank Holiday Weekend, till April 1st !

pic by SE

We are there lovin’ life alongside the rest of SE's ‘top 20 British Independent Designers’, such as Spanglewear, Lucy Peacock, E.A Burns, Izzy Webster and Rosa Bonita.

For those of you who haven’t heard of Secret Emporium before (you really should have, but everybody gets one ;) ), Secret Emporium believe in supporting independent makers, championing what they do and promoting what they sell. They always search for grass roots designers; the talent of the future and look to designers who are on the fringe and underground. This lovely lot seek out and initiate collaboration between designers and creatives. They hand curate events and produce immersive market spaces, for example, Box Park.

If you manage to tear yourselves away from mass chocolate bingeing (yes, we all know that is what Easter is really about) and have a look at what we’ve got going on, you will be in for a bigger treat, in the form of…

Samples from our Bladerunner Couture collection (all of which are made to order)!

Bladerunner!

You will also see items from our never-before-seen Summer in LA 2019 (S/S13) collection and Fiesta Dress range, which includes hot pants, unitards and leggings fit for that special occasion, be it festival, club night, house party…or maybe you just like to dress up to do your groceries, like we often do!

SSLA19 sneaky peak! Pic by Kevin Voller

Animals on acid! Kevin Voller

“ There are designs taken from our Couture range, but simplified and created in more affordable fabrics, to make the pieces over all more accessible. As festival season is fast approaching, our collection has been inspired by letting go of our inhibitions and running free in a field once more. So think animals on acid... Bright, metallic, sparkly, garish, clashing colours, prints, feathers, hair and lots of animal prints!” - Puckoo mumma, Dionne Thomas.

We really like the space we have, and are in our element in Shoreditch! “Secret Emporium wanted to keep the space similar to a gallery, akin to a blank canvas. With help from the in house architects, An- Architecture, we have some really sophisticated ways of displaying our items” says Dionne.

“Its been great exposure. I've always liked Shoreditch, its quirky underground scene really suits Puckoo Couture.  It’s the heart of London’s independent arty and fashion scene, and that fits well with what we stand for as a brand.”  Dionne adds.

You can check out our Box Park on facebook here.

Also, not only do we have this amazing pop up shop together, but we also have shops at their festival events throughout the summer, and Christmas markets too. And, they  have just asked us to sell on their online shop, so look out for us there!

Massive thanks to everyone who has supported us so far, and to our beautiful fellow pop-uppers!

Have a good Friday! Jenny xx

Dressage and Cult Mountain, all in a weekend's work.

                                Images in this post by shotaway.com

Last Saturday night saw us dancing till we dropped at Lakota for Dressage, Horseplay's homo disco extravaganza, with a playful equestrian theme. We saw thousands of my little ponies filling every nook and er... tranny... and a large amount of fabulous people trotting around donning reigns, bits, whips, tails and brush mohawks. As well as the amazing decor, which also featured horse themed visuals in the form of a video installation (by the mega talented Jak Flash) we spent most of the night gawping at in wonder (especially at the 2 piece patterned crop top and legging outfit worn by a contortionist crawling through My Little Ponies and at the lady in blue, one of our fave models, Aiyla- Beau. ), there were cutting edge performances on the stage, including the best male pole dancer we have ever seen (ok he may have been the first male pole dancer I have ever seen, but he rocked it). 

Music ( house and disco, of course darlings) was supplied by the likes of Pardon my French, Shambarber, and the Horseplay guys themselves.

             Our head designer Dionne (centre) and me (just! on the left) dancing the night away

We were sad to have narrowly missed dressing the dancers for the main stage, due to be being too busy with our Fuze fashion show, but hey you win some, you lose some. 

The cherry on the top of our night was when we found ourselves dancing with two of the walkabout performers, who teased us, got down low for us, then had a hilarious interpretive dance style argument. They also had on two hella fabulous outfits! We would love to meet them again for some style tips. 

 The walk about performers

We also loved these three outfits

The night taught us that gays really do have the best fun! Well gays and us, of course!

The next morning we dragged our hungover asses on to the coach to head for London, for the opening of new artist emporium, Cult Mountain, in our capital city's vibrant Bethnal Green. 

Read our next blog for more on that, including an interview with wicked and bad performers, My Bad Sister. 

Jenny (for more by me see jennyelleggit.wordpress.com) xx

Independent Women

Here at Puckoo, we are proud to be independent!

Our independence doesn't just mean that we haven’t sold our soul to bloody corporation, it means that we know that our garms are created with our own love sweat and tears, and we’re not going to rely on the help of unknown factory workers, who are often sourced outside of the EU, in many places where regulations of conditions for those working in the garment industry are seriously not cool . We find long hours hard enough, and can’t imagine what it would be like not to have the lush comforts of our studio to do it in!

Obviously, independence doesn't only exist in fashion. We find that there are  opportunities to buy local and independent in the majority of what‘s on our shopping lists. 

The 'Mad Hatters Tea Party' protested the opening of a new Costa in Bristol, wanting to keep our high street local

We love the real sense of community that comes when shopping independently, there is so much more of a story to be told, and so much more of a passion for the work. 

This video sums up what I'm talking about perfectly! It’s filmed in Gloucester Road, which is just up the road from our studio, and is the longest line of independent shops in Europe.

Such an amazing city to be a part of! 

Viva independent Bristol!      

Jenny (for more by me go to jennyelleggit.wordpress.com) xx