Top secret!

Exclusive preview of Des Moines autumn 09! Amazing fabric, amazing cut. Really excited about newness right now!

Sleeves on a plane!

If you wanna know up-to-the-minute news on what happening with your favourite label, check our twitter and you'll be the first to know when Shenae Grimes appeared wearing a Des Moines skirt on 90210 or when Kiera Knightley and Rupert Friend came to shop at The Lazy ones!

off the wall

Square pie!

New silhouette

We can't wait to show you our latest new dress, this is a sneak preview! And we have this rather nice crop top to show you too. Also don't you think those shoes are so Des Moines? available at The Lazy Ones soon.

She's never read my poems

Update:Kiera Knightley and Rupert Friend browsing at The Lazy Ones for almost 20 min. Wanting to really get thread dress navy.Branding our dresses as "lovely".

Once upon a time!

I was the other day in the store and this cool girl comes in and tells me she was going to a party and she thought on wearing a jumpsuit and i was like, "hey, i got the right thing for you", and i showed her my Des Moines knitted jumpsuit which by the way is out now in it's 2nd edition,



and also the light denim one, and she was like, "hey i really like this one but i'm not sure if denim might be a bit stiff to wear for a party". Not at all, i said, we take really good care of sourcing the best fabrics for each garment and i can asure you wearing this denim feels like you have nothing on!. Then i smiled, it's always best to smile after you've been a bit technical, you know.

She looked at me like i was alan sugar's last week fired apprentice and told me she still wasn't convinced. My "you're losing a sale" bell rang loudly so i said, Girl, i'm gonna prove you wrong and at the same time show how Marc Jacobs it's not the only designer out there who likes a stretch.




So i was like you can do this, aaand this, and most surely you can also do this and......

.... just as i was going down with dog, she told me she was convinced and she bought it and left quite quickly! God how am i like?! She also left before i could show her all you can do with my one-off cut-out tees!

Or though probably the best you can do with a tee it's chilax! have a nice day!

Buy me online!

Crazy week! New s/s 09 Des Moines designs are now available at Pixiemarket.com , be quick because first delivery sold out in 24 hours! click on the link and make your purchase, so easy! Also a limited edition velour postpunk top out now and only available in London at Topshop Oxford Circus. Coolio, we are off to twitter , see ya there!

I can't control myself!

A new collection of one-off tees and shorts is now available at The Lazy Ones. Also, most of the first batch of pieces of s/s are now sold out! Remember all Des Moines garments are limited editions! So new versions are out now and will be posted shortly after we finish our little dance to the new yyy's album, in fact we have done a rather remarkable megamix of it's a bliz! and The Horrors's primary colours, yes we fancy that one too (though previous one was so bad).
Anyfashionbiz, next week new Des Moines s/s pieces will be out on Pixie Market, which is as cool as it gets right now on the web world, let's be honest!.

5 years!

Today makes 5 years that we opened The Lazy Ones on Sclater st. so many memories and so many more to come!
happy b-day little cutie shop!

Something for the girl with everything!

She walks on me!

a ray of light

New collection! And omg! Erin Wasson just left The Lazy Ones!!

Je voulez!

The new trends for this season are twin brows, pretty woman hooker chic and lots of Des Moines little gorgeous things. And next week we will unveil more items from our new summer collection(denim jumpsuit anyone?). In the meantime don't pluck your eyebrows.

Cutting edges again!

To celebrate London Fashion Week we have been cutting tees again! and shorts! Come to The Lazy Ones in Brick Lane to get yours quickly because they'll be available for a limited period only.

Le jacket!

Hot stuff!

absolutely fabulous!

This is hardcore!

This is more of a sample piece. We loved the fabric, a nice floral jean but like Tina we like it nice but we like it rrrrough, so Nat grabbed a cutter and looked decidely at me, i got a bit scared, i mean, i know i was guilty of not doing the dishes for a week but, did it have to come to this?! Luckily i think it was more of an eureka look as she just stared at the piece and ripped the frontal panelling. Of course, frayed jean!, pheeewww!
Also, if you wanna know a little bit more about us and our store, The Lazy Ones, there's an article in london.unlike. from the lovely Kirsty "that's just my vibe" Mckie. She also did some shopping, so check out her blog to see what she snapped up!

say hi to your new clothes

It's chilly out there!
You can now become a fan of Des Moines on facebook where you can post your des moines outfit or add your opinion on our discussion board!
And for worldwide shoppers go now to pixiemarket.com to buy our Thread Dress. Exciting 2009!

Undressed in Dresden

It's almost 2009! how are you going to celebrate? With an amazing new Des Moines dress of course!

Dressed in Dresden

It's almost x-mas day and almost nye! let's dance!! They are perfect days to wear Des Moines for sure, but which one! Lots of you are loving the thread dress, some versions are now sold out, like the white one and a new remix has pop out, the thread dress last version. It's such a winner!. As well as being available at our usual stockists in the U.K, it will also be available in the U.S. at Pixie Market. As you can see i'm trying to sound all international here to impress the family over x-mas.

The cocktail dress(below left)! Thanks god a picture is worth more than a thousand words 'cos i can't really type much right now as i'm serving customers at the shop!. Below right is the new version, less vintage and more edgy, of the flow dress, which as well you can buy in the new york and L.A. stores of pixie market (r u reading that mum?).

Bye bye x-mas topshop Best seller!

Torso of the week!

The Lazy Ones are at full throttle designing! This 2008 we have created more than 100 different pieces just for you! We hope to make even more next year! But present is first, that's our latest ideas, the Des Moines Bodycon dress and a gold and sequinned number with a twist!.

It's our time, our time!

We present you more fascinating designs from Des Moines xmas collection.


And the limited edition of the LDN dress (the blue ldn, on the left below) has been so well received that we have decided to add the same detailing to the original design and look how fantastic has turn out!

i wanna go to cool places with you!

What a nice new dress! it's the Flow dress. Those sleeves are so arty....so 70's, with the collar..magnifique!
The two dresses from the last post, the thread dress and the blue ldn dress, provoked quite a riot in Topshop last week, most succesful launch of a collection ever for Des Moines in Topshop. So exciting! We are working on new ones and we can't wait to show you. In the meantime go to see Heartbreak at the ICA.
And are you one of the few girls that got her hands into this limited edition pieces?

Fight for your right to party (season)! xmas 08 collection.

We present you the first Des Moines designs from the party season 08. Exciting! stunning!
We are working on more so we keep you posted!
The first design is the thread dress, can you believe the top part is actually jersey? It's such an amazing fabric, paired with the most delicious pure silk with gold stripes. All the trimmings are vintage and very exclusive.
The second garment, the blue ldn dress, is a limited edition and a rework of the lovely LDN dress. The skirt is shorter than the original and made out of crepe de chine. The top part is a really rare thick jersey, when you have it on it acts almost like a corset on you. Also we made it with an open back cos it's sexy!.
The third one is the puffball feather attack! so luxurious!.

In other news, our U.S. adventure is going great! Pixie Market sold out of the snakeskin print top the first week and a second order, with aditional designs, is already available in their stores! go buy it!

Awesome!

Des Moines is available in the US!

From today, thanks to the lovely and talented people at Pixie Market we are available in New York and L.A., and also online. Their website ships across the globe so you can shop from any country you are in. Our postpunk top, the ange after dark dress and our classic mini-skirt are living the american dream! Awesome! We are very excited about the news, y'all!

This are the store locations

New York

100 Stanton Street(between Orchard & Ludlow)

New York, NY 10002

T: 212 253 0953

Store Hours: Mon-Sun 12-8PM

Los Angeles

7950 west 3rd Street(between Fairfax & Edinburgh)

Los Angeles, CA 90048

T: 323 782 1718

Store Hours: Mon-Sat 11-7PM Sun 12-6PM

Virtuality!

hi, lots of amazing new things happening to Des Moines, that's the main reason of the slow posting this october, but we'll tell you all about it later.
This is our new video for our new song virtuality, a tune about online shopping! i love it, it's so crazy!.

Hot & Cold

We are proud to present our first knitwear range of this winter, that we funnily named comme des moines. It's a very versatile piece, it's more of a throw as we wanted something that you could make your own easily but with enough attitude to wear it as it comes. And have you seen its killer bows, they are amazing!

After starting our series of fashion capitals with the LDN dress, we continue it with the Paris dress which is the one on the second picture. Red and white chiffon, blue creppe and a contrasting bias binding in the collar, tres chic , non? The perfect dress if you wanna stop being demode.

Fashion designer loses the plot!

East-London fashion designer Nat Colom lost the plot as she was trying on her own new creation. The member of the creative duo The Lazy Ones was shooting in her studio pictures for the launching of her new LDN dress, a red jersey frock with a rather funky frontal pannelling, when she started shouting "i'm feeling so light, this is soooo Agy!" and "yoooou better call Katie Graaand right now!". The situation took a dramatic twist as the Ange dress designer headed to the window in, what is rumored, was an attemp to emulate Laura Hollins in her latest spread for Pop magazine where she jumped from a 5th floor. Luckily everything ended up well as Diego, the other member of The Lazy Ones, remind her that he was no Ryan Mcginley and most importantly that there was no safety net or any fake snow for that matter.
The LDN dress is safely in stores now.

Cutting edges!

We have created a collection of cut-out t-shirts to celebrate london Fashion Week. Exclusively at The Lazy Ones, they are limited and will surely give you that extra edge needed in this town when the tube is full of models going to castings! Also we have a new version of the lacy dress, as the first batch is sold out!

Bolero Mix!

This is the first Des Moines bolero jacket, very dark romance!
the body of the bolero is made with an amazing thready-furry luxurious fabric and the sleeves are black chiffon. The applique is a vintage taffeta corsage flower.
Nat is not hidding like Angelina, we just have been too busy lately to be able to shoot our designs in our typical arti way, but we will soon. In the meantime we are filling the world with new garments for you, so you look the coolest this autumn

FResH & WilD

These 3 new pieces are amazing! they were put together in 24 hours! Nat woke up at 8am last thrusday and did the 3 patterns for them(we call them Party, Arty & Aggy or 3-Y, ha! fashion joke!). We then went to buy the fabrics and took them to the studio. Then there's all that cutting and joining thingy with the sewing machine. And the pressing.
By friday at midday they were already in Topshop and at The Lazy Ones. we love it!
That's one of the most exciting things about Des Moines (& The Lazy Ones too!) We are MADE IN LONDON! All the materials are bought in London, every single garment is manufactured in London....In fact, we can safely say that when you are buying Des Moines you are buying a piece of ALBIOOON!

Taking the fashion world by storm!

There was a lightning storm the day we shoot the post with the new a/w 08 designs. I filmed it and took stills of it. It looks photoshopped!aaaamaziiing!Also why the background looks like stonehenge?

teen vogue baby!

The post below are obviously pictures of our latest designs for Des Moines. We forgot to mention here that it's now been one whole year working alongside Topshop, hopefully the future will be as promising as the last 12 months!
Style bubble was on teen vogue and she was wearing Des Moines!

We did a few weeks back a photoshoot for the september issue of ASOS magazine for a feature called "stars of the internet", well they said that!, we don't believe it, but it's a nice thing to label us into, although the best support ever was this e-mail from a few weeks back! we love you!!rock and roll!

Sent:	25 July 2008 22:45:26
To:	thelazyones@hotmail.com

HEY
Just wanted to say...I fucking love your stuff. It's not often you find a shop where you like everything in it. Just wanted to show a little appreciation
SEE YA SOON

She's got that vibe (new autumn 08 collection!)

The new Des Moines autumn 08 collection is here. Here are some of the first pieces!

tribal dance!

That's the best make up for the day.

So lacy!

let's get silly!

illusion of a heatwave

style bubble came to The Lazy Ones last saturday,and she looks so lovely on Des Moines!
I love her new "speed-shopping" approach, we do the same!it just needs a bit more concentration than bargain hunting, but surprisingly you get it right more often, well..... not that day that Nat bought the ugliest bat-sleeved, turtle-neck, rhinestones jumper on earth, hahaha.

Relevance

We are still putting our final touches to our new collection. It will be in stores from saturday, not all of it, we will slowly drop designs after and actually before! i forgot there is one new design already on sale. The good thing about having a label that its run entirely in London is that you can move so fast. Fashionwise i mean, because moving from A to B isn't as easy as it seems in this city. That's why we can create The Others. The Others are what we call to variations of our best sellers, that way there is a always a little bit extra love and exclusivity in our designs.
Check out Karine from Coffee&cigarettes wearing a rare and limited version of the postpunk top.
Karine is so cool, she once hugged Ian svenonius, went on a date with a teens of thailand and has a pic with grace jones cos she toured with her dad!

As i said, we are having fun with all the new ideas Nat has come up with. This collection is a big responsibility as it will be not only our most creative but also most relevant for us to date. We have two more companies interested in Des Moines and that is always a good thing. Let me tell you, we love a challenge, i mean, you are talking to a man that was queueing 3 times a week for a brownie down the bagel shop and now wakes up everyday at 8am to go to the gym. Yes i now, my mum is proud too! that's our studio right now.

who's back?

what happens when you mix the amazing skills of these two ladies, nat's illustrations and you combine it with some arnold place squaters?


You end up with a bunch of screen printed lazy tees! check out my "blue still" pose! We have many more designs, come to The Lazy Ones and you could see them, try them on and for only £25 take them home!


And next week, almost everything you've seen here will become old news as we will unveil the first pieces of our winter range.

chopped!

oh yes! a Des Moines ruffle skirt, and yes, it's not a mini! And while skirts are now available in a longer design, nat's hair has gone shorter! She looks so different! the "anja" works so well on her!
We are always working on new designs and this week we have some very exciting ones, we'll keep you posted!

Welcome to the jungle

They are Des Moines skirts and they are new! there is a ton of new colour combinations and they all have that perfect Des Moines length, not too long not too short! hey, we spotted one at the Macbeth two weeks ago.
If you must know we have joined the gym! Funnily enough it has a weird effect on our musical taste. Nothing trendy makes our muscles move so while training we ditch chromatics or the teenagers and we feed our ears with the 80's hour on virgin radio!

Pumping Iron

Contrasting pictures of Nat taken the same day . Here we have the Grace dress, a beautiful bias cut skirt with a sexy see-thru blue chiffon top. And the Kyra dress, with our classical puffball shape the top is the stunning fabric we used for the gold post punk top with a black pique skirt. the trimming on the neckline is so luxurious!.

The Last days of Colour

After finally watching sci-fi cult movie Liquid sky we felt inspired and we shot some of our latest designs that suited that mood. As you can see we got carried away with the hairspray!

we love duos!

Somebody else

Emerging stylist Lee Joo Young used some of our clothes for one of her latest projects. And it looks so good!
ejoong.blogspot.com

Lazy Sample Sale

Hey, thanks for keeping us so busy, last May was a winner! We have tons of new designs and will drop the pics soon!
But first remember ONLY today saturday 7th and tomorrow sunday 8th of june we are holding a Des Moines sample sale at The Lazy Ones. up to 70% cheaper. Soon will be one year of our topshop deal and we thought it would be cute to have our first ever sample sale, so there, come!.
102, sclater st E1 6HR London
nearest tube station liverpool st.
buses 8, 388, 48, 55.
a minicab can drive you door to door.
and to find out it something that you wanted from past collections is on the sample sale call us! 02077296937
And now to something fresh and new that we have just created for the hot months of the year:

TOP SECRET

It's fancy to look back at your work and to see an evolution of the things you create. i remember when we were doing those lovely one-offs for the shop with fabrics found here and there, or our trips to dalston market to buy lace and trimmings for the ts launch. Then over x-mas we started doing less heavy cotton and more silky and also all those quilted fabrics and bold adornaments, like the satin dress with that artdeco triming in the neckline or the puffball quilted dress itself had a bow with a vintage botton made of checoslovaquian crystal, heavy stuff!. After that it was the mood change era, bare and settle, with lots of chiffon, layered chiffon, ruffled chiffon, printed chiffon....and now, well we have sooo many new ideas, you can see a return to lace with the nude-ity dress, and prints we love, proper vintage prints, i mean when you spent 3 summers of your life selling vintage dresses in Brick Lane, let me tell you, you know what a proper print is.
Maybe, maybe, maybe....that's the answer a friend of mine has to everything, lets leave all in the air....

This is a sample of a new style we are working on, we never show samples but we are so excited about this one, it's so cool you can't apreciate it much but the skirt has such a nice cut, it's in an angle but its not bias cut, very flattering.

Gold & Fire

God we do like a cheese title! hahaha.....
The postpunk top featured a few weeks ago is sold out in all its options, success!. We like to keep things interesting so instead of buying another fabric and make the same, we thought it be cool to give it a revamp, and now it's a dress! with a rope belt! the fire option went straight to the stores on friday and there was no time to take proper pic, fashion is so fast! the gold option was finished like and hour ago so it'll be in stores tomorrow tuesday.

we're living in a bubble/let's go outside!

Style Bubble posted about us 2 days ago, so lovely! our blog views have escalated so much!hi to everybody old and new!The first dress ,nude-ity, is amazing, a lovely A-shape nude chiffon with an antique black lace applique, and will hit the stores on monday 12th. The second one is the oh-so-famous ange dress with a fresh combination of coral and deep red, we call it ange tropical!we are a bit high on vitamin d, sorry for the crazy names.

This a print, print, print....

This is red, red, red.......

We have obviously been listening too much Glass Candy, but "beatbox" is their best collection of tracks ever!. we missed chromatics the last week, bah!.

(designs featured: DM postpunk top & DM Cape dress)

Mood swing

Flushin' Mcs down the loo!

Last friday, one of my "wouldn't it be amazing if..." dreams of mine became true, when Dizzee Rascal came to The Lazy Ones and i could take a pic with him in front of my "you can't rap if you ain't black" wall. Hey! and he bought 2 Des Moines dresses for his girlfriend! sweet!

One piece

Last week the press was going mad reporting the new trend of light denim and now they can't stop writing about the one piece being the next thing. You knew, we knew. Our denim sensation design ticks all the boxes and is on the stores since february!

Still, press always helps to those who are still unsure as sales of the item have increased so much this week, it's almost finished! run for yours 'cos as always there is limited stock!

lazies does cambridge

This was happening in London last saturday night at 9pm, some kids decided to break one of our 7 foot glass sliding door for no reason other than to stress us out more for our launch in cambridge. They broke the glass and left like that, empty-handed. We were upstairs at that moment and saw them leaving, but what can you do? i wasn't going to confront them as they left pretty clear they were mad! If only it had been the scooter squad from bond street....we would've made it to the free papers! oh well, nobody was hurt and nothing was stolen either. Now it's fixed and is business as usual!

Last thursday 27th of march Topshop was opening a new store in Cambridge and Des Moines had been chosen to be there until september!We had to work hard to get all the stock ready but still we were so excited! Especial thanks to Louise who will look after our rail, to Helen concession manager at ts cambridge and of course to Lisa in London, super ts boss who makes everything possible!

some dirty dancing going on.

The Lazy Ones hit single Omg! i married a horse!


We are all over the place because Nat also has been asked to be the new sara cox for one day and present Hidrogenesse new video "Fuig llop fuig llop fuig".

They are huge in Spain, you know... their videos have 20.000 hits on youtube!. We have dressed them in numerous ocasions AND they wrote a track, "Los perezosos", half-inspired by us ,half inspired by monkeys on trees.

ALSO we did our BBC debut on a.. errr...Matthew Wright show, Inside Out, talking about shoreditch new development craze.
And if you are still reading about our own arses i will tell you that Nat appears on th last issue of cult style mag Street!

i'll take u to the fabric store

Living la vida fashion is so dedicated. We love to do everything ourselves, so you always have a huge list of things to do in order to keep on selling your product and to keep on physically having it. For example, since we opened the shop now 4 years ago, Natalia has done by hand every single t-shirt, jumper or lazy bag we have sold, and that's a lot of ink!. And as you know, with Des Moines it's the same story. We do every aboutthe design, from the pattern to the sample to getting the buttons, to chose which fabrics it will be made with... and that, chosing the fabrics, is probably the most fun (making the pattern is always the least wild!).
Last week we spend our record time getting fabrics, about 5 hours!. It's not that it's difficult for us, in fact when natalia was doing her BA, textiles was one of her fav subjects, it's just that you don't want it to end!.You go from white against white, first cotton but then you change your mind and you love chiffon. Black against grey, then it's all about royal blue and after, here comes stripes!. We had to get it so right because we are launching in another Topshop, this time in Cambridge, it's a brand new huge store opening the 27th of march, we are excited!


We ended up getting lots of pique, chiffon, crepe and a lovely shade of dark grey satin. Although the fabric store you see in the pics, where we went this time is a far cry from Mr. Bophal in brick lane. He would love to scare lost fashion students off so he doesn't have to get up from his chair, he would go :how many meters? how many meters? and people would go, mmm can i see the fabrics first? you want white cotton? yes i have, i have white, blue, red...how many meters?. Hahaha....he is charming,though! He gave us 3 pears once and always tells us all the gossip about other brick lane fabric dinasties.

The New Mood: ange ou demon

The New Mood

100% silk, there are only 10 of these available, you know where to get yours!

fashion is blue and there's nothing i can do

we are emo! paramore loves us!

yesterday checking gossip at ontd! on livejournal we came across some news from the band paramore and the singer was wearing a des moines skirt! she wore it at the mtv pre-grammys party. She's being interviewed by Tim Kash!

preview

This wonderful new Des Moines piece will available from next week at topshop in that version you see in the picture and also in a lovely shade of light denim. An inside source tells me a one-off copy of each will be put on sale at The Lazy Ones over the weekend. Reserve your copy now as it will be limited units available.

separates are fantastic

It's not a dress! it's the latest Des Moines tops and skirts designs, isn't it fun?. As loyal customers might have notice we now offer a wider range of skirt options as we are doing smaller runs but more often. The leather ones are brick lane favorite while oxford circus prefers nautical ones!.

We saw yesterday Sweeney Todd and when we arrived home, the blair witch project started on tv and we watched that as well. i wikipedia-it today and nobody from the cast of tbwp has done anything else, not even the directors, i mean it's not super amazing but normally when a movie has that much commercial success people then get to do a bond movie or mission imposible.
I'm gonna go more often to the cinema now to see any rubbish as i'm in a row with my local dvd place. they wanted to charge me £40 for a movie i forgot to return, give me a break! i hope they don't fancy a shave any time soon. did you know my shop, before it became a travel agency and then the lazy ones, was a barber's place?, no wonder my basement is inaccessible! haha.

where is senyora?

The Lazy Ones are having fun with cameras and flashes and we have decided to make videos of the 10 tracks that will be on our 3rd album "invisible green" out soon. Also freeview only shows repeats, outside is cold, i'm still hangover from new years eve and is sales time so work is not as crazy. Also! nat is too hot to ignore, she's ma muse!

resort me up!

i know you wish it badly, but sales are not going to last forever. It's time to let it flow, let the new season begin! resort collections time, that thing between xmas party season and spring. Here is a preview of what will be coming in the next weeks under des moines label.

And omg! che is recovering from her cold, and will make posible our lovely new tee designs. screen printing for the first time ever!

summer up

i'm so dangerous when i watch a few too many european films, like a don quixote, i want to create a fake world where imposible things happen, in my case there's no windmills but a fantasy world where we live in black and white, and every one is so pretty even the lady at the off license looks like Nadja Auermann. Happy 2008 Des Moines way:

made for you

The best present we can give you is a garment! cheesy! or a song! arti!

Another week full of designs

Hey we are creating new shapes like crazy!
Our Des Moines skirt gets a metallic makeover. Our rara dress is made with a super luxurious vintage silk fabric that used to cost £32 a metre, it ain't getting any posher than that!. And the 2-layered dress is a fun alternative to dress up this season, the huge bow give it that added romantic factor and we have sewed in a vintage medallion, because we want to.

party season final weeks

You might still not have you argos catalogue but here in designers world we are already thinking about spring! We started a/w with lots of hard fabrics, puffiness, ruffles and now for the party season we are hooked to sheer, satins, quiltiness,big bejewelled bows and bias skirts. And for spring... we are doing...jean dresses, yeahhrrr!

bleeding love!

we've made a little video to show some of our party season designs!

CATFARER!

Not from the creators of kitler comes the catfarer! let your cat be the new chloe sevigny or nicole ritchie with this cool creation!
THE CATFARERS!!! SO CRAZY RIGHT NOW!

After months of research our marketing department have concluded that glasses for cats is what pet owners desire the most since dressing your dog took off 4 years ago. Poor cats they can't be dressed but nobody says they can't be acessorised! In fact we say they should be! with a pair of catfarers at all times, i mean, they can see in the dark anyway!.

"hi, i'm infante, i'm 3 years old and i live in brick lane, east london. Since i wear my catfarers i have had much more success with female cats at the vicebar. it's just amazing! a whole new experience! Sometimes i even pull in the daylight, sober, at coffee@ or queueing for a bagel just because i'm wearing my catfarers. Damn! how i wish i had balls again!"

Let's recap!

We haven't updated for so long, obviously because we never stop! Everyday there is a ton of things to do in order to get our product out there, even though we are having fun along the way. Sadly we are not living up to our name and might change it to The Busy Ones! Above is what has been new in stores minus the skirts which are always in such small runs it's imposible to keep a track of them. hey! don't forget that if you are in Glasgow you can buy Des Moines at Doll boutique!
Also, we are working so hard to bring you the best for the party season, and we have come up with so many new ideas, one already looks like a best-seller, maybe it will outdo the macrame dress!

We made it!

We were excited when back in june, Topshop showed interest in Des Moines and asked for some samples for a possible collaboration.

We sended 8 units and waited nervously for a response, that arrived on the 15th of july with Lisa Honey confirming we were taken onboard at TS Oxford Circus as a concession, and that we were launching there on the 6th of august with a 6 linear fixture. 3 weeks to make 90 garments and some other 30 for stock!
Natalia had a clear view of the look of the collection. Hard cotton fabrics, puffball shapes contrasting with flowy short skirts, antique haberdashery detailing on some dresses and vynil bits on others. A clear hard but romantic message. All very unique and handmade by the two of us and a couple of friends!

And just at the final week Natalia decided we needed to add a show stopper, and she went and cut some bit from the bedroom curtain and voila! the macrame dress was born.

And it has become our best-seller! Luckily enough this week we found a stall in dalston market that sells the same trimming in a roll, just when the last curtain was being butchered! This first week after the launching has been amazing, we've been to topshop everyday!. Seing so many people loving what we do has given us so many new ideas! Topshop is busier than brick lane on sunday market!
Then, today we saw they have put 2 of our dresses in the main mannequins in the ground floor, you can see them from oxford st!

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DES MOINES!
A Parisian silhouette with a London attitude, Des Moines has achieved in their s/s 09 collection a balance between hard and romantic, garments that are unthreatening yet interesting.

Made and sourced in London, the label never stops experimenting with unusual fabrics paired in eye-catching colour combos adorned exquisitely with a vast collection of vintage haberdashery that makes each piece truly unique and individual but somehow always achieving an effortless and timeless look.

It's Atelier Fashion; short dresses, ruffle tops and paper-bag skirts coming from a young and vibrant label founded in 2001 by fashion-graduate Nat Colom and her partner Diego Tellez in a little corner of east London.

Des Moines is currently selling their s/s 09 collection at Topshop flagship store in Oxford Circus (their 5th for the high-street king) and at the brand-own store The Lazy Ones. Also, their international presence is palpable now that Des Moines is available at Pixiemarket.com where items sold out in the first 24h of being in the site.

Des moines is about something universal, femininity and something concrete, city-life, which has already attracted the likes of Peaches Geldof, Kelly Osbourne or Alexa Chung among others.

Des Moines previous collections have already been featured in Dazed and Confused, W magazine, SelfService or Elle Italia and its heavily present in the blogosphere.


THE STORE!

The Lazy Ones is a new concept of store situated in Brick Lane’s east London.
The idea of the shop opened in 2004 by creative duo Nat Colom and Diego Tellez was, on one hand, to provide to fashion-concious people an cool selection of vintage, mainly dresses for girls and shirts for boys, but promote also the owners artistic side with a range of illustrated gear (tees, sweatshirts shoes and bags) and a womenswear collection (Des Moines).

Thanks to their great location in one of europe’s most "happening" areas, the store is favoured by celebs like Kate Moss & Pete Doherty, Alexa Chung, Peaches Geldof, Kelly Osbourne, Fearne Cotton, Amy Winehouse, Jarvis Cocker, Gael garcia-bernal, Samantha Morton & Tracy Emin.
As well as supermodels such as Erin Wasson, Daul Kim, Gemma Ward, Iekeliene Stange, Grace Small, Eugenia Volodina, Kim Noorda & Luca Gadjus. Fashion people include Camille Bidault-Waddington, Gareth Pugh, Matthew Williamson or Marjan Pejoski among others.
Also bands like Be Your Own Pet, Maximo Park, Basement jaxx, Dizzee Rascal and friends like Patrick Wolf or Bishi, and all the band members from Franz Ferdinanz but Kapranos for some reason.

Or though the highest celeb moment The Lazy Ones have experienced was when they ate a piece of madonna's 48th b-day cake that she celebrated at the Loungelover. It was a lemon cake.


The Lazy Ones have appeared in Dazed and Confused, W magazine, SelfService, Elle France, Elle Italia, Elle Sweden, Elle Korea, Pimp magazine, Amelia’s, Neo 2 and El Pais among others. In the media their clothes have been used most recently in a 90210 episode and in the past were used for channel 4's Nathan Barley(hilarious!) and in numerous videos for catalan bands Astrud & Hidrogenesse.

In august 2007, a new chapter for The Lazy Ones started when Des Moines became also available at Topshop flagship store in Oxford Circus.
In october 08 Des Moines made its US debut in the hands of Pixie Market. You can buy a selection of Des Moines best pieces in their New York & LA stores as well as online at www.pixiemarket.com.

THE BAND!
Back in 2001, Nat & Diego created a fake band in a friends studio and decided to call it The Lazy Ones because although it was basically an antifolk album, even the tambourine was from a keyboard. They wrote their own lyrics and melodies though!. "You don't even know" included hits like"The balloon farm" which was played on Michael Goodstein's radioshow on WFMU in the United States.
In 2004 a revival of their "musical project" occurred when they handled some copies to music insiders, which culminated in a mini hoxton tour. After playing live with a real band they went back to basics and recorded a midi covers album,"MIDIocre xmas 04", with midi tracks downloaded from the internet and with a cassette recorder plugged to their pentium II as a microphone.
In 2006 The Lazy Ones became a virtual band and they lauched their 3rd album "Invisible green" through myspace and youtube . The album talks in songs like "i wanna have a shop" or "virtuality" about the ups and downs of the retail world, its customers and online shopping or in "senyora" how to get rid of a cat when there's no space for her in your new flat. "Invisible green" named after their shop front colour paint also includes crazy danceable fun tracks like "omg!I married a horse!".