Events : KAREN MILLEN IN MALTA

If you haven’t heard, Karen Millen came to Malta or at least her store did with all its fantastic, brilliant clothes. The store is in Valletta, right next to Tico Tico a bit further down from Marks and Spencer. It has been brought over to Malta by Retail International Group and both they and Karen Millen themselves are super proud of this amazing location.

The clothes and accessories are wonderful, the quality, which is made using Italian materials, Italian skins and a huge attention to detail is pretty impressive. I hadn’t seen this collection yet and I wasn’t expecting it to be quite so amazing. In Malta, Karen Millen has always had quite a high reputation, especially as regards dresses but it’s really a lot more than dresses, there are some truly lovely pieces – coats, shirts, sweaters, beaded tops, lovely bags and lots more. As regards pricing, the prices here are actually the same as in the UK which means we don’t need to feel exploited in any way, as sometimes happens. The prices are in general great, for what you’re getting, in terms of quality and design, the price points are really very decent.

The fashion bloggers got a chance to meet with Mike Shearwood the CEO of Karen Millen and he mentioned some interesting facts : Karen Millen never buy prints – their printed pieces are hand-drawn or hand-painted, exclusively for them. Most of their items run in very limited quantities and in Malta especially, around one in each size or even less is being brought over of each item. Karen Millen employs its own pattern cutters which is quite unusual and attention is made to ensure that clothes fit perfectly across all the different sizes.

New stock will be arriving each week and we actually have quite a large part of the collection – sometimes due to space limitations, in Malta we tend to have limited stocks of certain brands but this is quite a large shop.