This spring, I teamed up with fellow one-woman business powerhouse Bees Knees Apparel to create a spring summer 2021 lookbook celebrating independent fashion and jewellery.
Model Ellie Bartram wears The Alessandra Cross Chain Necklace, Sara Green Cross Necklace and La Spiaggia Handmade Crystal Pearl Anklet. Shop her outfit here.
Bees Knees Apparel is a Bristol-based indie brand that sells a hand-picked selection of true vintage, reworked and upcycled fashion, as well as items from a carefully curated range of local-based brands and artists.
The Bees Knees Apparel Homepage
To celebrate our latest collaboration, I'm sharing three things I love about Bees Knees Apparel. The first thing is the amount of love and effort that goes into styling and shooting every item they have for sale. The label's founder, B, is a POWERHOUSE when it comes to breathing new life into vintage clothes, with each new drop of stock getting its own full-on, unique campaign shoot, which makes the website look as much like a digital magazine as it does a shop.
Model Aaliyah Blair wears La Principessa Handmade Crystal Pearl Necklace, La Contessa Necklace, Alessandra Pink Cross Necklace and La Spiaggia Anklet. Shop her outfit here.
The second thing I love about Bees Knees Apparel, is their commitment to a greener fashion future, and their message of reduce, reuse, recycle which influences everything they do. As the fashion industry is the second largest polluter in the world, second only to the oil industry, this message is so crucial.
Model Ellie Bartram wears The Maria Medal Chain Necklace and the Il Sole Handmade Crystal Pearl & Chain Necklace. Shop her outfit here.
As stated on their website:
"We all have a responsibility to look after our planet and buying vintage and recycled clothing is a small and easy step we can take to help protect our future!"
"There's nothing to say you can't have the best of both worlds, that's why we offer you ZERO new materials used in ANY of our reworked collections, and all genuine vintage sold."
Model Steven Stone wears the Sara Green Cross Necklace. Shop his outfit here.
The third thing I love about Bees Knees Apparel is their commitment to working with small, independent brands like Vellva. All of the jewellery and accessories used in this shoot that isn't sold by Bees Knees Apparel themselves is sourced in this way in order to support and promote brands with similar values.
Model Aaliyah Blair wears the Maria Medal Chain Necklace. Shop both outfits here.
See the full lookbook here.
Lookbook credits
Clothes and styling: Bees Knees Apparel founded and ran by @ezbeezee
Photography: Emily Parker, check out her website and her Insta
Models: Ellie Bartram, Aaliyah Blair and Steven Stone
2 comments
It was a perfect blog. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful blog.
Babe, your a super hero! Thanks for your lovely words, what a perfect blog too! Our stuff doesn’t half jam together well eh!? ;)