Kit Petit's Fashion & Fabrics

21/10/2023

Can’t wait to reveal our beautiful range of fabrics, patterns and so much more at 🥰❤️🌈 celebrate with us at Yamama tomorrow night from 5.30 onwards with music, Kit Petit cocktails AND a fashion and fabric fair 🎉👗

16/10/2023

KIT PETIT STORY ♥️🧵

There will be a day where I’ll have to try not mention my mum in everything I do here, as like I said, it’s not a shrine but a shop. But before I can step forward into this exciting new journey, I’d like to make one post that says all I need to about how Kit Petit came about and who the magnificent woman was that quietly created the most beautiful things and who never got to reveal them all in her time.

It’s much easier for me to see pictures of her from before I was around. In that way I’ve discovered a new and objective awe of who she was and all she did, without the more raw reminder of the person I actually remember and lost so suddenly this year in January.

It took until this point of my own life to truly understand how unique and gifted my mother, Linda Nicholas, was. I grew up knowing she was a painter/muralist, a poet later in life, but it’s not until I was left sifting through all her items, photographs and writing, that I discovered new depths of her deep and insightful soul.

When I reflect on mum I feel my own incredible sense of urgency and realism when it comes to expressing myself fully in this life. To realise we leave all our unlived potentials behind too, and it’s no one else’s duty to fulfil those.

Yet I feel very overwhelmed by what mum left behind, all she never got to share because of doubt or timing - especially the illustrated book she worked tirelessly to complete just before she left. One day I must publish it for her. But one foot in front of the other, I wanted to start here - with Kit Petit.

So with all that said, Kit Petit is about breathing new life into a situation that once felt too difficult to handle and focussing on the immediate joy of creating, expression and fashion!

A process of turning the un-lived potential of all these fabrics into something beautiful and useful for a local community of makers, just like my mum.

🧵 Visit the shop at Red Brick Market open 7 days a week

👗 Come along to the Kit Kit Petit Shop Launch / Party this coming Sunday (22nd) 5.30pm onwards at .co ♥️🎉🎶🍸

🪡 help spread the word by sharing with local makers you may know! Or give this page a follow or on Instagram

14/10/2023

14/10/2023

🎉 LAUNCH PARTY 🎶❤️💃

I’m so excited to announce I’ve opened a SHOP at !!

Come and celebrate the launch of “Kit Petit’s Fashion & Fabrics” next Sunday (22nd) for a little tipple at .co 5.30pm onwards🍷✨

Setting this up has been a cathartic way to channel some creativity while honouring the legacy of my beautiful mum - a way also to relieve the task of moving on quality fashion and materials to those who’d know how to use them best!

Aside from all other amazing skillsets my mother possessed, initially she started out as a costume and set designer for theatres like the Bristol Old Vic. I don’t know anyone who had an eye for detail like my mum, so if THIS is the space to honour her unspoken gifts while connecting with a growing community of DIY’ers surfing the avalanche of fast fashion, then I guess there’s a silver thread being stitched through the heavy clouds that have hung over this year.

Ps it’s not a shrine - it is a shop… but I definitely will be showcasing my mum’s handmade tweed blazers! When I was sat amongst the mountainous valleys of unused fabric, feeling very overwhelmed, it dawned on me that each beautiful item came with the intention of being made into something. It was either throw it out (too painful) or see it go to local talent that could stitch some love into a rather precious and rare collection of georgettes, moleskins and William Morris prints.

Always more to say, people I must thank* and I’ve spent the best part of a month sewing buttons to pink card but before anything I should stop to say (!!!) :

Please come join me on Sunday (22nd) to celebrate this exciting new journey! The stall is open from 11-6 however the party is around the corner at .co (upper parliament st) 5.30pm onwards! Music, drinks, pure joy. Don’t be shy, come on down!! ❤️❤️❤️

(If you know any seamstresses, dressmakers or crafts folk please do tag ‘em and spread the word!) ✨