Hello 2012!!

We hope all you lovely people had a fabulous Christmas and a smashing New Year and that your year is filled with lots of love, luck and bags! Our 35% sale is underway, so please have a look and see if anything tickles your fancy before it all goes.

We thought you’d like to get to know Mimi a little better by asking her what she did during the holidays.

Q. How did you spend Christmas?
A: I spent Christmas in Cumbria with my family and stayed at the most beautiful house (we have attached some photos so that you can ooh and aah). It was hired through the Vivat Trust, have a look at www.vivat-trust.org.

Q. What was the best thing about Christmas?
A: Being with my family at the house, and being on the Borders. The countryside was utterly stunning.

Q. What was your favorite present this year?
A: We had a secret Santa this year, so everyone just bought one present. Names for each recipient were drawn out of a hat months ago!

Q. What did you do on NYE?
A: Cooked and had quiet drink in my local pub. We had a big party on New Years Day, so lots of prep needed.

Q. Any resolutions this year?
A: Um, not yet…

We would love to hear from you and what you got up to during Christmas and New Year. We will be launching A/W 12 online in February so please keep an eye out for lots of gorgeous new Mimi pieces!

With best wishes from all at Mimi HQ x

The Cross Shop’s Christmas Pop Up Shop

The Cross shop front
image taken from The Cross’ website

We’re very pleased and excited to announce that we are going to be part of The Cross’ Christmas pop up shop. It’s taking place from this Friday (the 2nd) until Sunday the 4th of December 2011, opening from 10am until 6pm each day.

There will be a spectacular line up of The Cross Shop’s stockists on sale including footwear, jewellery, knitwear, fashion, homewares and toys from The Jacksons, Penelope Chilvers, Queene and Bell, Dandy Star, Catherine Tough, Jane Wheeler, Lilly and Lionel, Wilbur and Gussie, and Petra Boase, amongst many others. Come down and see us and get Christmas wrapped up in one go. Hurray!

The pop up shop will be at 12, St. Albans Grove, London W8 5PN, near Kensington High Street at the (now closed) Wodka restaurant site. Please see A on the map below for location of the shop.

It was our birthday and we’re now ten!

happy birthday candles image

So, a couple of posts ago (Happy Birthday to us!) we mentioned that it was our birthday. In case you missed it, we’re now ten years old and we’ve had a few things lined up to help us celebrate.

Some of our very good friends have got involved too. We had our very limited birthday card designed by Rob Ryan with our special edition Tatty Devine leather ‘Mimi’ lady and ‘Dora’ dog birthday badge attached to it which is currently available to buy at the showroom on Winkley Street, through our website and online at Tatty Devine. There are only a few left so you’ve gotta be quick!

We also had a wonderful party where lots of our friends and members of the press came down to see our Autumn/Winter 2011 collection. This also marked the beginning of our Mimi Berry pop up shop at Tatty Devine. Tatty are very kindly hosting us until just after Christmas at their Brick Lane shop (236, Brick Lane, London E2 7EB. T: 020 7739 9191).
Here’s a map in case you don’t know where it is.

So for all of you who are missing the heady smell of leather in the old Mimi shop and for all of our new customers, do please come down and try out all the new season’s bags. You can pick yourself a lovely Tatty necklace at the same time. It will be very nice to see all you regulars as well as meeting all the new faces!

Festive Woes


It’s nearly that time of year again where we all scramble to find that perfect gift. And lets face it, the men in our lives, whether it’s Dad, Brother, Boyfriend or Husband, are the hardest one’s to shop for. Worry no more, we’ve got you covered with this fool proof man guide.

Pictured:
Grover Wallet
Elmo Wallet
Patrick (please call for mail order)
Brando Washbag
Leather Baggins