16-Jan-2010
Posted by : TFG
The Big Swish is the UK’s first clothes swapping roadshow, touring the country from now until September. A fantasic and ethical way to have a great evening out and update your wardrobe – all for the price of a £5 ticket!!
Tiger Tiger, Picadilly, will play host to London’s Big Swish on 21st of January. There’ll be nibbles & drinks a plenty, music from The Phoenix Rose and ethical pop up shops, including our friends from Peruvian knitwear!! So start routing through your wardrobe, for fabulous clothes that no longer inspire you, but may be just the piece that someone else is looking for.
Click on the image above to see all the details on the flyer, and if you can’t make London follow this link for more dates in more cities. You can buy your tickets here too!!
p.s If you attend a Big Swish Event we’d love to hear your stories – the clothes you went with, the clothes you went home with…..
26-Dec-2009
Posted by : TFG
Merry Christmas to all our readers. We hope you had a wonderful day yesterday! We thought that, as it’s always a bit sad when the excitement of the present unwrapping is over, we’d offer you the chance to win another, beautiful gift.
Amanda Ruiz from Peruvian Knitwear has offered us this beautifully, soft and lightweight Alpaca scarf to see one of our lucky readers looking cosy and gorgeous during those cold and drizzly winter months yet to come.
What we’d like you to do is follow the link to Amanda’s site, have a look around and simply tell what is your favourite piece and why.Then come back to TFG, follow this link, fill in the form, put Peruvian Knitwear in the subject box and your answer in the comment box. The competition closes midnight 26th January 2010. Good luck
15-Dec-2009
Posted by : TFG
When Amanda Ruiz contacted us to tell us about her company Peruvian Knitwear, and the beautiful knits and accessories she sells made from Alpaca fibre, from the Andes Mountains, we were completely intrigued and wanted to find out more
Amanda told us that Alpaca fibre is lightweight and warm and is softer and smoother than cashmere or angora. She sent us pictures of some of the beautiful designs which she oversees being made in factories in Peru. What Amanda was too modest to tell us at the time, is that she is a multi-award winning business woman, her products have been endorsed by Marie Claire, Woman & Home, The Telegraph, The Mail and Time Out Magazine – (to name but a few), that she speaks fluent spanish and her work with factory owners in Peru promotes fair trade links, ethical working conditions and improved social and environmental standards. Amazing achievements.
The story of Amanda’s company began when she married Manuel, who comes from the Peruvian capital, Lima. They were given beautiful Alpaca pieces as wedding gifts, ponchos, chullos (earflap hats-big story this winter) and cardigans. Amanda saw how admired her wedding gifts were in the UK and began to source items to sell over here.
So let us introduce you to Amanda’s beautiful site. We love this cobalt blue, 80’s inspired, batwing jumper and all of the berets, ear flap hats and scarves.
