What do you want to be when you grow up? If an astronaut or fireman is not of your like, this Catalogue of Marvellous Trades may help inspire you. All trades are important. The janitor is as necessary as the doctor, as long as everyone brings something positive to society.
The Catalogue of Marvellous Trades is our new Autumn-Winter 2020 collection.
It is a celebration of creativity, possibility, and freedom.
These next trades may go unnoticed but they are essential and require serious skills and a deep vocation:
TRANSLATOR OF UNWRITTEN WORDS
You should share unimagined stories in every language there is for kids around the world to enjoy. If the challenge of literary translation is to stay faithful to the original while evoking the same feelings, things get worse when the original does not even exist.
CLOUD SCULPTOR
You will be responsible for people spotting sheep, horses and vessels drifting through the skies. Make sure every cloud is puffy and has its silver lining.
COLLECTOR OF BEAUTIFUL WORDS
You’ll be in charge of catching beautiful words with a butterfly net and preserving them ‒ an endangered species nowadays ‒ for future generations to enjoy. You and your friends can trade words with each other.
LOST THINGS RECOLLECTOR
You will be in charge of taking the lost things to the secret place where lost things go. Prepare yourself to gather many pencils, umbrellas, good pieces of advice and balloons that have gone up in the air.
PILLOW TESTER
You must sleep with a different pillow every night. Try sleeping in bed, sitting on a chair, standing inside the wardrobe. In the morning you should evaluate both the quality of the pillow and the quality of your dreams.
BIRD TUNER
There is nothing more disappointing than a lovely picnic in the countryside on a sunny summer’s day and birds singing out of tune. Your job is to tune the birds accurately so that a Cockatoo Parrot doesn’t sound like a rusty old trumpet.
SHADOW REPAIRER
Losing one’s shadow is kind of a problem. Shadows are soft and they tend to peel off. Carry around your thread and needles to help kids with frayed-elbow shadows.
LUCKY STAR DISTRIBUTOR
You shall open the telephone book on any page at random. Then close your eyes and pick a new fortunate person. Call to congratulate.
STRAIGHT LINE BENDER
Give a little twist to everything that is boringly uniform and straight, such as lines, roads, horizons, ideas, etc.
MOON SUPERVISOR
Moon feels glad when looked at, but nobody cares about her anymore. Keep an eye on her, write her poems so she doesn’t feel neglected.
DINOSAUR SHEPHERD
Tend, herd, feed and guard flocks of terrible lizards. Dinosaurs enjoy being scratched behind their ears. Keep a watchful eye out for poisonous plants or falling meteorites. Keep an eye on your herding dogs too.
ABOUT THE COLLECTION
This season stands out for a full variety of patterns, from the most iconic to new and fancy ones: voluminous dresses, pleated skirts and rain poncho, bright and colorful knits, cozy coats, reversible water resistant parkas, quilted jackets with removable sleeves and cotton touch jackets with sheepskin lining. Embroidered details all over and jacquard and Intarsia knits are some of the artwork techniques of this collection that pays tribute to creativity.
Accessories include eclectic tights, earmuffs, neck warmers, passport bags and sheepskin sandals to help you step confident and hard towards adulthood.
THE BOOK
The magical universe of Bobo Choses is born out of original stories and poems. Eventually, the characters come to life in the form of prints, shapes, and products. With each collection, we also publish a book with the story that inspired it. We love good old printed paper!
The Catalogue of Marvellous Trades is our eleventh publication. Discover you can be whatever you want to be in this insightful illustrated book with retro reminiscences.
BOBO CHOSES COMMITMENT
At Bobo Choses we have always been responsible for our social and environmental footprint. We strive to create products that are friendly to our environment and constantly work to improve the sustainability of our production processes.
Here are some facts, which improve year after year:
66% of AW20 cotton yarn is organic *GOTS certified
90% of the cotton used in AW20 Baby collection is organic *GOTS certified
90% of AW20 production is made locally (76% Spain, 14% Portugal)
100% of the AW20 footwear is made locally in Spain
Fabrics include denim, alpaca and mohair wool, terry corduroy fleece, 100% recycled polyester and lyocell, an eco friendly and biodegradable fabric made with wood pulp from sustainable tree farms.
Want to know more about how we do it at Bobo Choses?
And you, what do you want to be when you grow up?
Let’s hear the ones that will shape the future of our society: our kids!
We sat with some of them living in different countries and we asked: If you could invent a job, what would it be? What would you love to do when you grow up?
Harrison (@melissasonico) from the US explains what a Lost Things Recollector is about. Did you know that when you lose something it goes to a secret place?
Iza and Finn (@izzypugh) from the UK explain what a Lucky Star Distributor is about. A Lucky Star Distributor is a person who is a magic star and… Well, they’ll explain it better.
Francis (@quartiercollective) from the US explains what a Cloud Sculptor is about. According to him, it’s a really great job, as sometimes you wake up in the clouds!
Maali (@tajinebanane) from France explains what a Bird Tuner is about. Maali plans to train them to create Live bird shows. Tickets are not available yet.
Noah (@sammy_noah_manni) from the UK explains what a Moon Supervisor is about. Moon loves bedtime stories, and Noah is ready for it!
Valentina (@stefbrunetti_) from Australia explains what a Collector of Beautiful Words is about. Please, Thank You, I Love You. Oh wow…