Showing posts with label luxury goods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label luxury goods. Show all posts

Friday, 25 October 2013

Billboard 26: releases of the week



Martin and Claudia are lawyers -- and ex-lovers -- who find themselves put at risk after they join the defense team for an international terrorist's trial.



David Bond is concerned. His kids' waking hours are dominated by a cacophony of marketing, and a screen dependence threatening to turn them into glassy-eyed zombies. Like city kids everywhere, they spend way too much time indoors - not like it was back in his day. He decides it's time to get back to nature - literally. In an attempt to compete with the brands, which take up a third of his daughter's life, Bond appoints himself Marketing Director for Nature. Like any self-respecting salesman, he sets about developing a campaign and a logo. With the help of a number of bemused professionals, he is soon selling Nature to British families. His humorous journey unearths some painful truths about modern family life. His product is free, plentiful and has proven benefits - but is Nature past its sell-by date.


One Chance

The true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night who became a phenomenon after being chosen for - and ultimately winning - Britain's Got Talent.


Nénette

Nnette is a little girl aged 60. A problem at birth made her different. Nnette has a mental age of eight, and has always lived with her mother, who raised her alone. She has a job as a cleaner in the village school, and her best friend is a tortoise. But when her mother dies, everything changes, and Nnette has to go into a retirement home. The home doesn't allow pets so Nnette heads off with her suitcase and her tortoise to look for her father. When Nnette finally arrives at the address, she discovers a pharmacy, and not her father but her father's son, Paul Brard, an uptight pharmacist who is thrown into a panic by the arrival of his half-sister.



Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Alabama is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America's most creative and defiant music. Under the spiritual influence of the 'Singing River' as Native Americans called it, the music of Muscle Shoals changed the world and sold millions upon millions of copies. At its heart is Rick Hall who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, he brought black and white together in Alabama's cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations while giving birth to the 'Muscle Shoals Sound' and 'The Swampers'. Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge, Gregg Allman, Clarence Carter, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Bono, and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals' magnetism, mystery, and why it remains influential today.


A Magnificent Haunting

The only dream of Pietro is to become a famous actor. 28 year-old Pietro is so obsessed with becoming an actor that he does not mind trying every single way. He comes Rome and starts to work in a bakery. Also, at the same time, he tries to be an actor. At first, he stays with his cousin, Maria , but then he rents a house. Nevertheless, in a short time, something weird happens at the house. As if the furniture moves by itself. Then he realizes that the house was haunted by some ghosts, so with it, the adventure itself begins.






Wednesday, 23 October 2013

Webbing availability

You know that Hardy & Parsons gives you the chance to design you own belt. Every belt is made by hand, one by one, that's why you can choose the colour of the leather, the webbing and the stitching.

Today we'd like to show you the webbing availability, so you can start to imagine how your Bredon belt will look like. There is a great variety of colours and styles between the elasticated and non elasticated webbing offer. Check it out!














Monday, 21 October 2013

Style: Robert De Niro, the icon of the week


Maintaining the tradition of selecting one icon of style every week, this time is the turn for Robert De Niro. American actor, director and producer, well known thanks to his role in The Godfather Part II, where he played the young Vito Corleone.


If you haven't watched the movie yet, don't postpone it any more. You'll find his role in this film amazing. We particularly like to see how Vito Corleone, who is a poor guy in the beginning, became a well know "capo" of the Italian mafia. 

A change, that we also can find in his dressing: at the beginning he appears with humble clothes, though he always had a great elegance. We particularly like the hat he's wearing in the following picture:


And we know he always had a great sense of elegance because when he became richer and more important, he wears different clothes without changing his very personal style, as you can see below:


If you like Robert De Niro's style, you have many different options to look like him. To be like Vito Corleone when he was younger wear the Stetson Hatteras:


To feel like Corleone when he was older and more popular, wear this Leonard tie:


We also like his military look in Deer Hunter... 



...that remind us of Sam Browne belt...





Monday, 7 October 2013

Style: Marlon Brando, the icon of the week

We like Marlon Brando, and certainly we also like his style. That's why we've chosen him to be our second style icon. 


Marlon Brandon was an American screen and stage actor. He is widely regarded for bringing a gripping realism to film acting and is generally considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century.


And apart from being one of the best actors we have ever known, he was a style icon because no matter what he wore he always was able to give it his own style interpretation. From the military uniform in Apocalypse Now to the dinner jacket in The Goodfather or the camel coat in Last Tango in Paris. 

We specially like him in this scene of The Wild One. No one knows how to wear a hat like that and a leather jacket with that style!


We think Marlon would have liked this combination made with Stetson's Alpha hat, and Hardy&Parsons' Besford belt. Perfect to complete his look!



Friday, 20 September 2013

Billboard 20: releases of the week

Mademoiselle C


A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld.


Diana

The last two years of Princess Diana's life: her campaign against land mines and her relationship with surgeon Dr Hasnat Khan.



The Last Fall

The Last Fall tells the story of Kyle Bishop, a journeyman professional football player who retires broke at age twenty-five with no idea what to do next with his life. Forced to move back home and reconnect with his loved ones, Bishop struggles to deal with life's complexities after his professional career is over.



Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Special products: Conical Flask

Apart from the Tantalus, there is another special product within the Drinks Cabinet section. It is the Conical Flask.


Handmade in England in bridle butt leather, the conical flask consists of a leather case lined in suede and a conical drinking glass flask which fits inside it. 


Designed to be attached to the saddle, it can be opened easily with one hand using a thumb whilst still holding on to the reins with the other. 

Don't you think it's a perfect idea for a perfect product?

Friday, 13 September 2013

Billboard 19: Releases of the week



Freddie, a desperate, naive young man, hires Bainbridge, a ruthless crime coach, to mould him into the perfect criminal.



In 1946, Jackie Robinson is a Negro League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player. As both anticipate, this proves a major challenge for Robinson and his family as they endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike. As Jackie struggles against his nature to endure such abuse without complaint, he finds allies and hope where he least expects it.



An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voiceover star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.



Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s. Based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt, and his methodical, brilliant opponent Niki Lauda. The story follows their distinctly different personal styles on and off the track, their loves and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die.






Borrowed Time




The story of two totally contrasting figures who come together in the most hostile of circumstances, only to form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles. It is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and rediscovering youth in parallel, united by the subconscious desire to seek out the missing elements in their lives.
 





What if you got back home... and there was nobody there? In 1975, the first Russian cosmonaut on the Moon is unable to make his way back and is declared missing in Space. However, through ghostly radio messages, he claims to have come back to Earth and found it empty, not a living soul. His unrealistic presence and his voice will little by little destroy the world of his beloved ones.



The Artist and the Model is a meditation on mortality and artistic inspiration. It focuses on the encounter between Merc, a young woman who has left behind a war-torn Spain, and an old French sculptor when she starts to model for him.



Thursday, 12 September 2013

Ready to go! Goodwood

Well, we are ready to depart!


Today Maurice Greig head for the south coast. Close to Portsmouth, he'll be in Goodwood,  the world's greatest celebration of car culture event!



From Friday to Sunday The Goodwood Revival will take place, a really magical step back in time, a unique chance to revel in the glamour and allure of motor racing in the romantic time capsule of the world's most authentic motor circuit. 


During this event, fashion and trends of motoring and aviation of the time will be exhibited. Goodwood is one of the most favourite client of Maurice Greig, the owner of Hardy&Parsons and a car lover. That's why he wants to be there supporting and enjoying this vibrating exhibition. 



Maurice Greig invites you to come along to spend a fantastic weekend surrounded by the most beautiful cars. Hopefully it'll be sunny and you'll be able also to enjoy some of the last days of the summer in the nearest coast, Porstmouth. 



See you in Goodwood!

If you need to know how to get there, just click here. 





Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Special products: Choker

We like special products, designs that are different and unique. We already showed you the Quick Release Belt. Hardy&Parsons is renown for this iconic piece that owes its origins to the firemen of the early 19th Century; as well as, the Drinks Cabinet or Tantalus that combines the skills of a cabinet maker and a master saddler. 

Now it is time for another special product: the Choker.


Handmade in England in bridle butt leather, this piece is special because it combines the classics dog collar and lead in one. One end of the strap has a ring and through that ring goes the rest of the lead. That creates a circle, where the dog places his head. The ring moves, so depending on the animal's pace, the lead will loosen or tighten. The other end of the lead has a handle.

This model is also available in webbing and leather combination. You can see all the detail photos here.


Why not try a new way to walk your dog?





Friday, 6 September 2013

Billboard 18: releases of the week

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth


Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman’s journey from her birth in a paper thin shack in the cotton fields of Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the twentieth Century. Walker made history as the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple. A universal story of triumph against all odds not that different from Wlaker’s own. Born, the eight child of sharecroppers, her early life unfolded in the midst of violent racism and poverty during some of the most turbulent years of social/political changes in the U.S. The film offers a penetrating look at the life and art of an artist, a self confessed renegade and human right activist.




Any Day Now


In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he’s never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child they have come to love as their own. 




Ain't Them Bodies Saints


The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met.



About Cherry


A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.