Oh là là
Filed Under Stuff | December 14, 2007
We’re smitten with the newest entry into our online shopping oeuvre — Enfant Terrible. At first glance you’d assume this newly launched chic kids boutique hails from Paris or Montréal, but it’s Vancouver-based.
Enfant Terrible is the creation of Vancouver mama and British transplant, Shae Duffy. Combining European style with a sustainable sensibility, Duffy offers toys, clothes, décor and books prefaced by words like undyed, organic, fair trade, handmade, bespoke, ethically sound and one-of-a-kind. Duffy, who’s busy raising a two-year-old and completing a Masters degree in Human Values & Contemporary Global Ethics, found her degree influencing the choices she made in her own life and for her store.
The site itself is both sustainable – with a hosting solution powered by renewable energy – and sassy. When you try and order something that’s out of stock you’re told, ‘sacre bleu! It seems there aren’t any more!’ And if you’re not as chic as Duffy, she’s put looks together to make it easy for you. Choose from combinations like “a look to have a cuddle in” or “a look to toddle about in“. Downloadable colour-it-in illustrations are also thoughtfully provided to distract your petite enfant while you do a little shopping.
We’ve got our eyes on Tamar Mogendorff’s collection of cotton and linen birds and bird houses. And we’d love to find matching mama and child felted wool slippers from Pia Wallen under the tree. While le train fantôme’s one-of-a-kind collection of dolls and animals make us wish we were a bit (okay, a lot) younger.
Alas, these aren’t small indulgences, bespoke and one-of-a-kind doesn’t come cheap. But if we subscribe to Enfant Terrible’s sentiment of being more selective and less acquisitive, then going more minimal and carefully choosing a few lovely things seems a lot more appealing than going all out at the mall. The only problem with that theory? The whole collection makes us feel terribly acquisitive.
Enfant Terrible: www.enfantterribleshop.com
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