calling all manchester mavens!

Given the scores of linen aficionados who came out of the woodwork when we needed feedback on our products a few months ago, I'm guessing there must be a lot of people who have a thing or three to say about bath towels.

We're currently in the process of putting together a range of terry towelling treasures (unnecessary alliteration = too many coffees before lunch...) for the EV shop and we might need some neutral parties to give us advice. Just some feedback on what you look for in a decent bath towel, how often you'd shop for new towels, what sort of towels you'd consider buying as gifts for other people, how many old towels you've accumulated in the boot of your car that you have no intention of ever using after a shower but which might 'come in handy' one day... (we don't really need that information but, come to think of it, it's one of those facts of life that rates alongside the missing-sock-in-the-wash and buttered-toast-always-landing-face-down, isn't it?)

If anyone is keen to have a chat with us and inspect some of our towels, drop us an email - ruwan@enfantvilain.com - and we'll be in touch!

beyond the bedroom... to the bathroom

The EV team ventured out of the office this week with the rather exciting mission of checking out some new inclusions in our product range.
Could anything be more comfy and tactile than Egyptian cotton sheets? Apparently so... Egyptian cotton bath towels! It looks as though our supplier will be offering us some seriously soft and absorbent towels in eight colours, ranging from face washers right up to bath sheets. Not sure on the specifics yet, but I'm already anticipating our gas and water bills skyrocketing once i get my hands on a couple of those bath sheets and suddenly need to shower three times a day...

Aha! People actually read this thing?!

We were positively beside ourselves when we received a response to some out-loud musings published on this very blog last week. We had been struggling to decide on an appropriate name for the sheets-formerly-known-as-Baby-Blue and then we received the suggestion of Bambino Blue. Unanimous thumbs up all round. Why not extend our cosmopolitan references beyond French to Italian?!

Our new member Emily was kind enough to email us with some enlightening information about the colour blue that briefly made us realise how darn cool it would be to work for a paint company and get to invent the 2,623,690 variant names for cream and beige. Awesome. So Bambino Blue it will be, very soon - we're just about to update the site now.

And no, we're not just going to poach Emily's great idea, pretend we thought of it ourselves and leave her empty handed. Emily wins a set of pillow cases for her good work, so let that be a lesson to all of you...!