Lereese Atkinson 25 year old moved to the city three years ago ,Im sharing my love of fashion from eras gone by, and styling, through my blog GIRL.STOLE.VINTAGE. my mission is to source and present one-of-a-kind vintage pieces at affordable prices; there’s no need to pay a fortune to enjoy vintage. I sell through my boutique ASOS Marketplace.
My collection is Vintage, retro, Pre-Loved, whatever you want to call it Girl Stole Vintage has it. We brings you one of a kind, handpicked vintage items. Some pieces are from my travels in Europe to my vintage thrifting adventures in London, everything has been chosen with a passion and love for all things vintage. Girl Stole Vintage provides vintage from a range of eras in a range of styles and sizes, at the same time keeping it modern, fresh and affordable.
Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway today announce a new ‘central’ home for their award-winning Vintage festival. The festival, which celebrates the best of British creativity and culture across the 1920s-1980s, is moving to central England to the grand stately home of the Boughton Estate in Northamptonshire for 2012. The Vintage Festival is one of the most content rich festivals in the UK, with an emphasis on cutting edge Fashion, Art, Design, Style, Film, Food and, of course, Music, celebrated across the decades.
The iconic British designers are moving the festival to the site on 13-15 July 2012 to allow more people in the UK to experience the event that won ‘Best New Festival’ last year. The Hemingway’s also want to involve more local businesses and community groups across the country in the festival and is encouraging people to bring their vintage contributions to the event.
“Vintage is a different type of festival, it is like a big dressing-up box, a creative feast for all ages where you can dance the dances of the decades, watch world renowned bands, buy fantastic vintage clothes and accessories, take part in creative workshops, eat wonderful food, watch iconic movies, enjoy catwalk shows, see the cars, the designs the art that helped make Britain the world’s creative hotspot. It’s about having a glamorous, fun, celebratory and uncompromisingly comfortable time in stunning surroundings. We believe that we have found those stunning surroundings in our new home and look forward to having more people from across the country to celebrate Britain in 2012.”
Tickets are now on-sale for Vintage 2012 at www.vintagefestival.com . Tickets are priced at £139 for weekend adult camping, £89 for weekend young person camping, £125 for weekend non-camping and £75 for weekend young person non-camping. Children, up to and including 10 years old, go free.
Blitz is a barely month-old vintage superstore that's just opened up off Brick Lane. When we got an invite to their press and media launch last night, we couldn't wait to see what gems their team had been picking out and filling the store with over the last few months. Needless to say, we were blown away by the quality and general gorgeous-ness of their stock. Pat on the back, Team Blitz!
Spread over two huge floors, the shop boasts a library (stocked with beautiful books on food, fashion & art), vinyl collection, vintage furniture emporium and more chunky jumpers, sequined dresses and leather boots than you could shake a stick at. We particularly loved the collection of gleaming brooches and onyx costume jewellery, as well as the saucy vintage lingerie. Downstairs boys can get their hands on varsity lettered jackets, blazers, satchels and even the odd fixie.
We spoke to Blitz's resident blogger (below, right) about the launch, and found out they put just as much work in as you'd think; individually steaming each piece and polishing every shoe is what we'd call commitment. The hard work shows, with guests on the night milling about happily to the sounds of 1920s jazz and more than a handful of journo types walking away with new purchases. In fact, we're thinking it's about time we headed back to get a lovely leather case we had our eyes on last night...
Find Blitz at 55 - 59 Hanbury Street, E1 5JP, off Brick Lane. They're open from 11am - 7pm every day besides Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays when their doors don't shut til 8pm. Keep up with their news on their blog, Facebook andTwitter pages. Thanks to the Blitz team for having us and holding such a successful night.
You're probably not going to believe this one, but the darlings over at GiGi Vintage have let us know they're putting on a sale of their beautiful vintage pieces for a limited time tomorrow. No joke, all items included in their 7am to 7pm birthday sale will be going for £7.
If seven wasn't always your lucky number, they're about to change all that. Since the brand focuses on uniqueness, there's generally only one of each item found in the sale. You know what this means: get those alarm clocks set and ready then get clicking from 7am tomorrow morning.
The sale kicks off in about seven hours right, here.
This webstore literally only went live about a few minutes ago. It is an online fashion store created by a South London couple. It features some knock out one off pieces for both sexes.
They've taken inspiration from the 80's to avoid the droid-like rails and repetitive high street robots that have swept the country. T&P items are all handpicked with love and promise to deliver precious vintage goods at extremley reasonable prices.
Street Casuals have just stocked in a fab range of Herschel vintage bags. Prices start from £60. These are great for college, university, travelling as they are strong and durable.
This morning I was thinking about investing in some new sweats...then I saw this.
Alpinestars 'grease monkey' SS'11 collection.
With over 40 years of industry excellence, Alpinestars knows a thing or two about motorsports and this season sees the brand's fashion label go back to the mechanics shop with their range of stylishly worn and oil slicked pieces alongside classic streetwear basics.
Collection highlights include wardrobe staples like the worn-in ‘Deep Six Crew’ Sweater with it's vintage engine print and subtle grease worked edges available in steal blue or rust and the ‘Remixx Shirt’ which offers a new season shift on everyone's favourite plaid, with an all over oil stain effect across 4 colours. The brand stays true to it's roots with the Alpinestars Vintage label featuring across chino smart walkshorts and key accessories pieces like the ‘Supply Trucker Cap’, with plenty of subtle detailing throughout the line including worn steel buttons and chevron striped linings.
We're loving NastyGal's covetable combination of handpicked vintage pieces and unique new designer clothing. Their funky shoes by Jeffrey Campbell and Irregular Choice as well as their rare vintage dresses by the likes of Teen Witch and Betsey Johnson make NastyGal the perfect collection for the naughty girls on your Christmas shopping list.
Our pals over at Canoe sent over these rad vintage Fila tops, which have reminded me of my school days when all the cool hot boys in my year would be rocking them.
It is Fila's AW10 Vintage collection. The Settanta Mk 1 is an actual re-issue of Bjorn Borg's 1976 collaboration jacket, with the others taking style queues from other original pieces in the Fila archive. You can buy these Bjorn Borg's 1976 jackets here.
