Les 100 Ciels Blog

Les 100 Ciels SS14 collection focuses on feminine styling in lightweight cashmere, cotton, linen and silks. Cashair, our luxurious featherweight cashmere also makes its debut in the SS14 collection. The new season collection sees a fresh take on Spring knits, offering soft muted neutrals to vibrant pinks, yellows and blues. Keeping to Les 100 Ciels design philosophy, where emphasis is placed on classic shapes with a unique twist, their key blocks have been cropped, given subtle cut out details and voluminous layers added to create a relaxed energetic feel. The clothing celebrates women who are comfortable in their own skin, with Stella Tennant as the muse for this collection. – “A model and mother with natural elegance and attitude.”

St Christopher’s Place store supervisor, Alaksha, gives us a run down on her key wardobe pieces and what she spends her time doing when she’s not in store… What are your staple wardrobe items? Alaksha: Difficult question, as I absolutely love clothes, as girls do. I would have to say my skinny jeans, which are so easy to wear with anything, and most definitely a little black dress, which again can be worn for any occasion throughout the year. Be casual, or get jazzed up, these two pieces will always work. What song do you love right now? Alaksha: Being a dancer I love all music, old or new. At the moment I would have to say Beyonce’s new album has reached to my favourites. Her amazing style and sassy vocals are so powerful that you have to love her songs. The best right now. What is your favourite piece from FW13? Alaksha: I have a few favourites from Les 100 Ciels, it’s all so warm, cosy and extremely versatile. I will pick the Unicres Jumper. I love the colour and the fine detailing on the cuffs which makes it unique. It is so comfortable, and the cashmere feels amazing. Where’s your ...

“The metaphorical meaning and inspiration of ‘Les 100 ciels’, is the sky: consistently there and the same, yet always changing (like an essential product).” How did you get into design? ‘The Les 100 Ciels design team is a spontaneous Paris based team made up of a combination of maturity and experience and the freshness of young assistants, the common point is that we are all passionate by designs, quality and finishing!’ Why Cashmere? ‘We have a wealth of experience working with cashmere and as a vertical company we have control all the way through to the goat farms. Due to this we are able to create  the highest quality cashmere, at unbelievable prices.’

With the first drop of our Spring / Summer collection in store now and available to shop online very, very soon, here’s a look behind the scenes of our look book photo shoot. We spoke to Maria, shoot stylist and member of the Paris based design team… “To describe the atmosphere it was exciting. There was a great buzz created! It was a multicultural day; a Canadian, an Australian, a Russian model, Chinese lunch break, and reggae music, in the theme of summer ! It was difficult to get a western style coffee, so dried squid snacks became our energy boost for the day! It was rushed…as every photoshoot is, but we all had fun and ended up with a great group of photos and a lot of laughter. The model, Luba, was adorable!” Hair and make up…  Shoot… Our gorgeous model… Keep an eye out for the complete look book coming soon, both online and in store.

It came and went like a whirlwind, as fashion week came to a close in London at the weekend we look at some of our favourite Les 100 Ciels pieces spotted around Somerset house on those in the know when it comes to styling cashmere.  ‘JABI’ 100% cashmere, padded colour block coat.  ‘EGGCASH’ 100% Cashmere           ‘SWEATER – 1′  100% Cashmere, luxurious double-layered camouflage print sweater.     ‘EGGCASH’ 100% Cashmere colour block jumper.              ‘HOODY-1′ 100% Cashmere, luxurious double-layered camouflage print hoody.    Don’t sacrifice style for comfort, or vice versa! Pop in store and talk to one of our team, ask one of the lovely ladies to show you our new SS14 collection and find out how to style your Les 100 Ciels cashmere.

We invited you, you came, we learnt to knit and it was a lovely evening. See the lovely ladies that attended in action below and keep an eye out for our next event! Our yarn tree.    Our friendly teacher Dizar helping one of our knitters with the garter stitch.     Some of the more experienced knitters sharing some tips.     Happy Knitters!   Tasty nibbles and colourful cashmere.    Have a look below to find your knitted square, kindly stitched together by Dizar. We look forward to our next event and hope to see you there.