Vamps undergo revamp to celebrate the official launch of Interior Refurbishment Specialist Trendenza

Edinburgh based interiors refurbishment specialist Trendenza is holding its official launch event on Thursday 17 July 2008 between 6.30 and 8.30 pm.

The launch event held at the company flagship Edinburgh showroom will be every bit as creative as the company themselves.

 

Becki Linley Trendenza’s Creative Director thought what better way to demonstrate some of their new and existing stockist ranges including fabrics, wall coverings and Ceramics, than to create a bespoke gown to bring the items more vividly to life and enable guests to see the materials at close range.

To be worn by a model at the event the elaborate dress, which was designed by a trio of theatrical costume specialists was made from the Tektura* eco range of vibrant wall coverings, an incredibly durable and tactile paper with a velvet finish and interjected with the fantastic Easy Tiger range from *Nono. The dress consists of a corset with ornate detailing, flowing hooped skirt and bushel. It will be complemented by a bespoke choker and bracelet design, made by Edinburgh based jeweller Cathy McCarthy using the luxury Bisazza** glass mosaic tile range combined with silver, beads and pearls. The overall look will be completed with dramatic makeup and an elaborate powdered wig by Norman Preston of Preston Hair.

Trendenza clients are mainly City professionals, Modern Families, and Architects, however they also provide private schemes for developers and corporate environments. They have already completed several high profile projects in the cities of Edinburgh, and Glasgow and Aberdeen including a townhouse property, schemes for a boutique hotel group and work for property construction companies and serviced Apartment Groups. With several more high profile projects already in the pipeline for coming months the company is already on track to expand their services as planned across Scotland

Trendenza offers a unique personal design and interior refurbishment service, visiting clients at their homes or offices to talk over and progress their desired design concept for their interiors. Once the budget and criteria are agreed the property is surveyed and assessed, after which the layout brief, scheme and timescale are established before the companies in house team of specialists carry out the completion of the design which is all project managed and completed in house rather than out-sourced.

On average most design projects normally take between six and twelve weeks to complete depending on the complexity of the design brief agreed by the client. The company are specialists in all aspects of Interior Specification, Design, Refurbishment and Project Management work and are renowned experts in their field in Designing & Custom fitting Bespoke Kitchens, Bathrooms and Wet rooms.

They are also stockists of Wall coverings, Fabrics, Ceramics, Floor Coverings and Interior Furnishings as well as made to Measure Window Dressing.

Becki Linley is Trendenza’s Creative Director.
She has extensive knowledge in the interiors/ refurbishment market. With experience of both retail and business management Becki has worked across the Uk and abroad. She enjoys a hand’s on approach to her work and takes a real interest in all clients and their projects. She has also worked extensively in the fashion and cosmetic markets for over 12 years and in particular with design, boutique and high street brands across the board.  Her skills have been honed as a manager, buyer and UK Operational Manager with a clear understanding of brand markets, consumer needs and trend related products.  She passionately believes in offering clients fantastic products at competitive rates. Becki assisted with the set up of sister company Complete Solutions (formed in 2001, the company has now successfully upgraded in excess of 1800 properties over the last five years) with Stuart Neave and Brian Goonan. The company is today one of Scotland’s most respected companies in their field.

Norman Preston is a renowned and respected figure within the Scottish Hairdressing  and Edinburgh Social circuit. He has been creating hairstyles for over 25 years and remains as passionate today for his work as he did when he started out. Norman and his creative team work with a host of high profile clients and are based at ''Preston Hair'' in Edinburgh's Stockbridge area

Cathy McCarthy has been making, designing and teaching jewellery in Edinburgh for over 10 years. All Cathy's pieces are hand made using the highest standards of craftsmanship. They are designed to enhance the wearer's individuality, with an emphasis on unique, bespoke or limited edition pieces, making the jewellery a personal and special treasure. Her designs and one off commissions have been exhibited and sold across the UK.

Eleanor Neil, Mojdah Ziai and Gail Glenwright are graduates in theatrical costume design at Edinburgh’s Telford College. They recently exhibited their end of year designs to critical acclaim in the capital. Collectively they bring a diverse range of experience and influences to the design they have created for the launch dress. On completion on her two year course of theatrical costume design and interpretation Eleanor was awarded Best Student Award, previously to this dramatic change in career, Eleanor had a career with RBS in corporate banking. Mojdah is a freelance costume maker who has worked with various theatrical companies and designers in and around Scotland. She originally trained in fashion design but fell in love with costume making instead. Gail spent 16 years working in TV before returning to her first love of creating clothing. Recent work has included making designs for principal characters in theatre productions around Scotland. The trio have extensive experience in costume design, construction, corsetry and millinery and have worked on private commissions they are now about to launch their own theatrical costume business.

Model: Kirsten Neil - Textiles Student

The entire Bisazza luxury glass mosaic tile range is stocked by Trendenza.

Bisazza is one of the most authoritative luxury design brands, and a world leader in the production of glass mosaics for the decoration of interiors. The Le Gemme range used for the jewellery are 10X10mm. Prices start from £359- £3759 m2. For a selection of images of the full range of products stocked by Trendenza visit www.trendenza.co.uk

Tektura is just one of the extensive range of wall covering names stocked by Trendenza. This particular style used in the dress is Eco Velvet, which as its name suggests is an ecologically friendly wall covering made to environmentally sensitive specifications. This is an inspired wall covering collection for individualists with a passion for extravaganza, maximalism and a bold expression. Created by Bjorn Nilsson the result is an exclusive, luxurious and textural collection from £167 per roll.

NONO The fabric used is the Easy Tiger range, a heady assortment of faux animal fabrics in dramatic and bold colour ways, resulting in an eclectic mix of high glamour and tactile materials, including Zebra, Puma, Metallic croco – retails at £24.95 per m

Guests invited to attend the party will be able to sample the specially designed Black Russian style cocktail as well as champagne and canapés.

There will also be goody bags to take away to celebrate the launch which will include amongst other items the newly created Trendenza scented violet and black pepper Candle