Since we decided to make out fashion models out of paper, we couldn’t leave ourselves behind. But trying to find the right papers that fit with your personality is still quite a challenge. Especially since we build up quite a collection of origami papers these last months. So here we are, Spela & Andreas as origami, being the faces of Mimoods.

And being from paper is great I can tell you. You can just change yourself so easily. Getting a different hairstyle, just takes a different paper and some glue.

In between participating in workshops, knitting scarves and folding origami, we’ve been busy making a web-store to start selling our handmade scarves.

So last week we have been photographing all the scarves in our studio (part-time studio in fact, most of the time it functions as a canteen or a music rehearsal room) and dressing them on our origami top models.

But after a hectic week, we are almost done and tomorrow we’ll present our new scarf collection and launch our web-store. So see you tomorrow!

We had our very first street sale with Mimoods at the Modetent in Rotterdam. This is an event organized by the shop Nieuwe Ontwerpers. Because we are going to start selling our clothes at their store, we were asked if we wanted to participate in the street sale. All in all it was a great day (unfortunately with not so great weather), because it was the first time we could show people Mimoods and see if they liked our things. Thankfully we got nothing but great reactions and a lot of interest for our knitwear. A big “thank you” to everybody that bought, or wanted to buy, but couldn’t (next time we’ll get a pin-machine), a Mimoods piece!

We are busy preparing the final little details for the Modetent #4 tomorrow. It is going to be our first street sale, so it’s quite exciting for us. We’ll be selling a variety of items: unique sweaters, t-shirts, leggings, IPod socks, and because (unfortunately) autumn and winter are slowly approaching, also a lot of scarf’s and hats.

If you are in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam, come visit us and who knows, you might find something you’d like

Yes, we are back from our holiday/honeymoon, and we have some good news to report. As you can see from the above picture, one of our knitted tops (available at designers-united.com) was used in a beautiful photo shoot. We love the picture very much and wanted to share it with you.

The photo was made by Dafne Ederveen, who makes some great photos. Its worth to check out her site at www.DafneEderveen.nl. The styling was done by Odette Simons and you can check out her site at www.odettesimons.nl.

It has been a bit quite from our side the last weeks. We were very busy promoting Mimoods, and this took up a lot of time. But now we are back and have some great news. From this August we are selling a one of a kind collection at designers-united.com! Designers United is a high fashion online boutique presenting the latest fashion for todays busy, modern woman.

Our collection consists of 2 shirts, 1 cardigan, 1 skirt and 2 dresses made especially for them. Each piece is unique and is limited to only one piece!

It’s official: we have launched Mimoods on the market! Cheers!

What started as a dream one year ago, has now finally been realized. We have launched our little knitwear brand into the world. As you can see, the blog has been moved, and in its place is now our website with our first collection! Be sure to check it out (you can zoom in on the clothes for a more detailed view). We are very happy that we have reached this point. Now the hard work will start: making sure everybody gets to know Mimoods. So spread the word around and if you know somebody with a shop who might be interested in us, let us know. We greatly appriciate that!