Im excited for this summer as I have a great selection of shows that I will be attending.
For me there is nothing better than being out with my stand, meeting new peolpe and being able to show case my products.
Are you looking for some Christmas shopping inspiration this year?
I have put together a little list of my top gifts, some I already have the pleasure of owning and some I hope might be under my tree this year!
The end of Summer Sale starts @midday Friday 1st October.
The sale will consists of ex-demo and show stock in various colours and sizes. This is a perfect oppertunity to grab an early Christmas present.
I am looking forward to heading down to Devon to The Grange, for The South West Iberian Show on the 2nd – 5th September. I am sponsering a class on the Saturday and am taking the oppertunity to go along and hand out my rosettes and prizeses in person, while having a mini holiday.
I am very excited to say that a selection of ‘The Moorland’ riding skirts will be heading up to Scotland and will be at The Land Rover Blair Castle Horse Trials.
We are getting ready to hit the road today to head down to Devon, to set up for our first trade show!
Devon County Show runs from – Fri 2nd, Sat 3rd & Sun 4th of July.
To celebrate Nouvelle Habit’s 1st birthday. I am launching a Limited edition Hoodie.
The ‘Madeline is a luxurious Navy and Gold Hoodie. Named after my super pony Maddie
These photo’s was taken at the shoot for my new product, Maddie just couldn’t resit being part of the team and followed us about so naturally ended up taking center stage. It was at this point that I decided to name the hoodie after her.
A huge thanks to The Gaitpost for featuring me as part of their “Meet the Maker’ series.
Click on the link to see the article –A day in the life of Odette Insoll
During the making of ‘The Moorland’ riding skirt, I had the idea that it would be great if you could get a wax cotton walking skirt.
Myself and my partner love to go camping and walking and are not put of by the weather. My partner has some water proof trousers but I don’t as I hate the idea of wrestling my muddy boots off to then peel off wet trousers. The idea of the skirt was much more appealing. The skirt would have a similar design and concept to ‘The Moorland’ a wrap around waxed cotton skirt that I could simply pop on and off over what ever Im wearing and hang it up easily to dry when I was finished.
Thank you to Rural Life magazine for this lovely feature of ‘The Moorland’ riding skirt. If you would like to view the online Spring issue click the link below
Hand made with love
All our skirts our hand cut and sewn by myself ‘Odette’ I’m the founder, designer and owner of Nouvelle Habit.
Here are some of the reasons I choose to hand make every skirt.
This traditional method of waterproofing fabric has definitely stood the test of time. The waxed cotton look has become intertwined with traditional English past-times and the look reminds me of being in the country side.
A huge thank you to the wonderful Dressage Anywhere, who have kindly given me a 10% discount code to share with you guys.
*Congratulations Emily Sandford on winning our Christmas giveaway*
We are running a Christmas giveaway over on our Instagram account Nouvelle Habit
Are you looking for some Christmas shopping inspiration this year?
I have put together a little list of my top gifts that I would love to see under my Christmas tree this year.
This was photo-shoot No4.
I was excited about this shoot for a few reasons; one being, I love moorland, especially Dartmoor. Two, it was going to be the first time having two models and to see the Navy and Vintage brown side by side. And finally, it was the first shoot where a model already owned her skirt, so we would get to see it once the wax cotton has been – broken in. It is one of the things I love about wax cotton is how it becomes more supple and soft as it is worn.
We would like to welcome Sapphire to our team as our first brand ambassador.
Sapphire volunteered for herself and her lovely pony Eleri to be one of our model sets for a brand photo shoot. It was during this shoot that I asked if Sapphire would like to be an ambassador for Nouvelle Habit. I was so impressed with Sapphire’s level of dedication to her horses, it was so obvious to see the love between her and her pony. It was lovely to meet someone with such passion and drive from showing at a high standard to riding across the rugged welsh mountains at her home.
For our 3rd shoot, we were up in North Wales in a breathtaking location on the edge of Halkyn Mountain.
My Photographer for this shoot was the extremely talented, Martha Lily photographer. I was excited to work with Martha as I had been following her Instagram account for a while, as she offers super photography tips and, I had been trying to improve my skills. So I was looking forward to meeting her in person.
Our 2nd shoot was up in Peterborough with the wonderful Jody and her handsome horse Ferguson. Our photographer for this shoot was Laura Fiddaman, who has a great style of capturing beautiful natural photos.
After the fun we had doing our original photo shoot, I wanted to organize a new shoot but using a new model, new horse and new photographer. I wanted to offer the opportunity for some of you guys to be involved and so I put up a post on social media asking if any one would like to model with there horses. It was lovely to have such a big response, but I then had the task of picking.
Over September and October we have several photo shoots lined up, with some of you guys as our models and we can’t wait to see the results.
We want to take this opportunity to thank every one that got in contact with us on our social media platforms to volunteer to be involved in our photo shoots. It was such a success that we are going to do it again in the future so keep an eye out on our Facebook and Instagram plus sign up for our newsletter to receive updates and offers.
We are excited to announce that our design for ‘The Moorland’ riding skirt is officially a UK Registered Design.
Design number 6088000
We have made a small collection of one-off riding skirts for our collaboration with Shop Curious.
Each riding skirt has been made using some curious fabrics, from the outside they are normal business but each skirt has a been lined with fabric to add a little flare. These are one of a kind garments.
Sadly this years 2020 show has been cancelled due to Covid – 19.
June SXC online virtual show is here and we are sponsoring a class.
Class is now closed.
Throughout the design process I was inspired to create all sorts of extra finishing touches.
As Nouvelle Habit, my dream business came closer to reality; I decide that I would make sure that those little extra finishing touches were part of my final product.
The official photo shoot was coming up; I had everything crossed that the weather would be kinder this time.
I booked two full days to give us a greater chance of good weather, hoping to get the shots I needed for the launch of my website.
Celine, my friend was flying down from Glasgow to model for me. Avril would be my photographer and I was going to direct and be on horse duties. The Nouvelle Habit branded clothing had arrived and looked stunning thanks to Team Equestrian
I buckled down to designing the straps for the skirt fastenings.
I wanted my design to mirror the shape of my logo, to have in-built slits as keepers* so as not to have to attach keepers.
On the morning of our test run I washed Jester from head to toe, much to Jesters disgruntlement. I carefully wrapped him up and hoped that I had done enough to keep him clean in the January Mud! The location was at Kate’s (my lovely yard owner’s) house, which was a 10min hack up the road. As we set off, a thick cloud of drizzle rolled in over us… Not ideal.