...sshhhhhh...

...remember that thing we can't speak about?...
the thing we don't mention and mustn't know?

...well, it's happening soon people! 

Special December Horse Edition

FAMOUS:
Tom & Henry, Essex based Trakenhers of extreme gorgeousness :
Tom:Holme Grove Constable
Henry: Holme Grove Gwygion
Bred in Biggleswade.
Kept in the lap of luxury.

Fashion and the Tom & Henry top

TOM & HENRY:
Women all over the country have fallen in love with the boys, here are a few comments from the M&S website, where more stock has had to be sent, due to a high demand.



...this must be from Susan or Barbara xx

Special Edition: Legacy

TOM & HENRY:
...and how life doesn't always work out how you imagine...


 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

Dear Jo,

When you keep Trakehners, you never quite know how your life will turn out.

On the one hand, they are superbly talented: athletic, clever, brave, fast, move like a dream...

 

...then on the other hand, they are stunningly beautiful.

 

 

So it was Tom and Henry had to choose between the usual career path of a Trakehner: dressage, showjumping, eventing, super-hacker...or to follow a different path completely, into modelling.

 

Well, everyone says it's an impossible dream, but here we are and the iconic photo of Tom & Henry is immortalised in fashion, on a front print t'shirt for M&SWoman.

 

Funny old life!

Shelley.

 

In semi-retirement from work now, Tom & Henry will have their memoirs ghost written sometime in the future and they have plans to start their own fashion line too: rugs!



Special Edition

FASHION & HORSES:
The Tom & Henry top will be available soon at M&S Woman, but here's a sneak preview...

...and it all began with an iconic photograph taken by John...

...now if you want one, you'll have to be quick, because I'll be buying them for my friends and family.

TJCpart63 June issue:

IT'S FASHION DARLING...
Skinny and gorgeous, a supermodels' life is full of fabulous opportunity and excitement.

This piece has been written for the next issue of Trakehners UK Magazine a 4 times a year publication.

As you can see from the June cover of 'Vague' magazine, horses are the newest fashion iconography.  It wont have escaped your attention that imagery of equines are appearing on fashion items from handbags to jewellery and womenswear....and this is the story of how two 'ordinary' boys from Biggleswade have made it into high fashion.

Check inside this new issue too:

...born with star quality, Tom & Henry have been on a detox since January.  Their bodies are temples of sveltness and they are glossy with health.

They are sleeping well, eating healthily: Tom & Henry are both strict vegetarians, having regular cardio-vascular work-outs around their field...a personal trainer is so last season.

It is no coincidence then that they were selected at a casting out of all the horses in the world to become icons of fashion for M&S in the form of front print t'shirts.

The models themselves T&H, who don't get out of bed for less than a bowl of dinner with carrots julienne, expertly chopped by their personal assistant (me), remain very down-to-earth...well they do like to roll!

Fame has yet to take it's toll on them.

So cowgirls...listen to what happened next.

Naturally, as I work in a design room I was able to provide the teams with the perfect subjects for these tops, namely the most gorgeous and charismatic Trakeners of them all...Tom & Henry!!

Images were poured over by the teams and a few made the cut...this was a very nervy time for me I can tell you, I'd have to be the one to break the news to the boys themselves if they'd been unsuccessful in their attempt to go from 'pets' to superstars.

Luckily the creative teams found just the images they were looking for on this blog, and the T&H images were put into work to become a permanent part of M&S fashion.

The first top to appear is the 'Tom' top for Indigo Collection, modelled here next to Tom himself by his PA (me), a modern style for every summer wardrobe and easier to look after than a real horse!

Tom & Henry are trying to keep things 'real', they don't want fame to change them, they just want to be treated like....I was going to say normal horses...but they have never been treated like normal horses...because they are not normal..they are T&H!  They have breakfast in bed some mornings when they're just too famous to get up on their feet to eat which my neighbours find hilarious.  I just slide their bowls under their noses and they eat lying down.

Tom & Henry may be the first Trakehners to make the transition from dressage potentials to fashion models, but they'll never forget where they came from though:  New york, London, Milan, Paris and Biggleswade!

little note...just before you go straight off to the newsagent to try to buy 'Vague' magazine...it's an amusing invention of my own..sorry to disappoint!

TCJpart57 it's Fashion Darling

THE 'TOM TOP':
You guessed it....I have famous as well as super-gorgeous horses....

HORSE IMAGERY is so on-trend:  and this is the story of how Tom&Henry are about to become icons of fashion. ..well that was bound to happen wasn't it?

It won't have escaped your notice how horses are appearing on fashion items everywhere from dresses and tops, knitwear and jewellery, and metalware in the shapes of stirrups and bits on handbags too.  High street to designer brands, the imagery of equines is everywhere.

Naturally as a horse owner working in a fashion design studio in London, I was ever so slightly influential to the team around me as to the actual horses that were used for these trends at my place of work, Marks and Spencer...namely Tom & Henry. 

             
                                                              




...well, where else would they find such stunning images of horses?

If you are a regular visitor to my blog you will recognise their images immediately.  

Tom & Henry appear on t’shirts and loop-back tops throughout the season, and I will add photos as they become available in-store.

The first piece to appear was the 'Tom Top', a Spring12 Indigo Collection for M&S.

...you can just about see the old bungalow next door in the background!



...and here he is, the real thing Mr Tom, totally unchanged by his fame, he has decided he just wants to lead a normal life and be treated like a regular horse,  he will sign photos though! ...

When the next top comes out in Autumn12 it will have both of them on it, I wonder if Henry will take being a fashion icon quite so humbly?

Who would have thought owning horses would take such interesting turns?

Tom appears totally unphased by his fame...but I do have to adore him a little more...that's not hard! 

He has breakfast in bed some mornings when he's just too famous to get up, I have to put his bowl under his nose while he eats lying down....

..and finishes it lying down...then I clear away...

...and he's stretching and lying out flat!!!

Those boys!

I have bought these for all my friends and my Mum has one too!!!

Such handsome chaps those horses. xxxx

...it's OK Henry, your T'shirt will be on sale in September xxx

                           ...Henry doesn't care so long as I don't wake him up!