Gift Focus inc Attire Accessories - July/August 2020

23 BRAND SPANKING NEW JARAPA RRP: £100-£130 The new diamond range of lamp bases from Jarapa offer an exciting fresh perspective for interior lighting. The lamp base is made from 100% recycled glass with a beautiful raised diamond pattern. Covered with either a chrome or brass finish top, the lamps offer an elegant touch to any room. The flex, rather than being a necessary part of the lamp becomes a design element, curling around inside the lamp it offers interest and is available in an array of colours. Jarapa currently offers the lamp in three gorgeous colours, deep petrol blue, dainty pink and clear. The lamps can also be complemented with a lampshade designed by the company’s in-house designer. www.jarapa.com ACCESSORIES BY PARK LANE RRP: £12.95 Accessories by Park Lane is extending its range of Italian made clothing and has recently added a collection of summer weight cotton mix ponchos in some fabulous new colours. Pictured is the Bella in colour Sapphire. Accessories by Park Lane is a family-owned and managed British company, established in 1994 and located in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The company supplies retailers and resellers including department stores, mail order companies and leading retailers in the UK and worldwide. The company can design and manufacture costume jewellery for customer’s own designs as well as supplying an extensive range from stock. www.parklaneonline.com DEMI+CO JEWELLERY RRP: £18-£20 DEMI+CO online jewellery brand has launched a limited- edition range of jewellery boxes. The company received customer requests and feedback directly from social media and emails, as, at a time when people are spending an increasing amount of time at home decluttering and organising, storage has understandably become a priority. Co-founder Sim explains, “Due to COVID-19 we have had to make a few changes with hygiene and deliveries as well as gift receipts and personal notes for customers who are sending gifts. “Luckily as an online brand our customers are still continuing to shop and buy gifts. This situation is unprecedented, and we wanted to make sure that we continue to give the experience and the products that our customers want. We recently held a survey online and ran some polls on social media to get feedback from our customers. Many of our customers mentioned organising and having nifty storage solutions to help keep all their trinkets safe and tidy. That is when we realised, we had to launch our own collection, after much design and research we managed to create our own exclusive range.” The new jewellery storage collection features a selection of large jewellery cases, chic jewellery boxes and travel jewellery cases. Each jewellery case has handy slip pockets, stud plate for stud and small earrings, storage slots and adjustable compartments. Sim explains “Our customers required jewellery boxes that were not just pretty on the outside but practical too, we ensured that the boxes and travel cases we sold also had adjustable compartments for adaptability. We also intended our jewellery cases to be flexible so that they could be used for other types of storage too. Throughout this pandemic we continue to keep close contact with our customers through emails, social media and responding to their requests is always going to be high on our list.” www.demiandco.com TOP TRUMPS RRP: £5 A new edition of Top Trumps , honouring COVID-19 key and essential workers, has hit the shops. The game lauds and applauds those key and essential workers who have saved Britain during the pandemic, from doctors and nurses to less high-profile professions such as pest controllers, midwives and sea merchants. Politicians, who are depicted on the Top Trumps card by Boris Johnson and journalists, are also included. One of the four scoring sections in the new game is ‘Unsung Heroes’ and in that category it is the partners of key workers who come out top. They get a maximum 10 out of 10. Binmen and binwomen scored a point lower at nine out of ten. Less unsung heroes like doctors (8), nurses (8) and police (7) fare lower. In its card citation Top Trumps point out that being a partner of a key worker is “stressful and worrying.” Claire Simon from Top Trumps, says, “Every single front-line key worker is, of course, a heroine and hero and would each score 10 (or even 11) out of 10 by any reckoning if we had devised a Hero category. “By creating an Unsung Heroes category we have ensured varying marks, in keeping with the game’s core classic and its unique and much-loved branding. “From our research, which has been intensively conducted over the six weeks, partners of key workers came out top in this section. There are an estimated one and a half million partners of key workers in Britain so that’s a lot of Unsung Heroes and Heroines. “Many of the public we spoke to pointed out that partners are also putting their lives on the line, albeit less directly. As well as being there physically they are providing emotional support. For that reason, we listed partners as key workers.” E: claire.simon@winningmoves.co.uk W: www.winningmoves.co.uk