Poppy-Power

I love Poppy Flowers. 

 

Apart from the fact that they come in a great shade of scarlet red, they bring back many childhood memories. We used to don poppy-esque buttons in school- a local english school i attended in my elementary years- in remembrance of an English War. 

Every year I'd look forward to buying my "Poppy" badge (**all proceeds went to charity) and would wear it all week. 

Kenzo is bringing back the Poppy apparently. Long known as it's symbol, Kenzo are apparently holding a poppy festival. Kenzo believes in the concept of bringing nature into the urban space and will install a field of 20,000 poppies in Toulouse France on September 4th and 5th to promote their new scent targeted to women, ironically called "Flower."

Passerby's will be allowed to not only view those amazingly artistic and ever so nature-ful installations, but they will also be invited to pick a flower and make their own.

They've apparently taken this show to Paris, Madrid, London and Moscow.

I'm wishing they'd bring it over here; maybe put it in Avenues Mall (**there's no better place really, it's air-conditioned, airy and big...) 

*Sigh* 

A girl can only dream. 

xx

Baroque 

Ps. "The poppies are worn because in World War One the Western Front contained in the soil thousands of poppy seeds, all lying dormant. They would have lain there for years more, but the battles being fought there churned up the soil so much that the poppies bloomed like never before."  -BBC 

PPS. Perhaps something good can come out of the bad. 

Photo Credits: Chic Report and Luxuo