Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts

Jan 16, 2013

Quote of the Week - Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions, not by his answers.



Jan 14, 2013

Vintage Yves Saint Laurent

1970 Paris
Vogue France
photo: Jeanloup Sieff
model: Charolette Rampling




Jan 1, 2013

Digital Graffiti | Architecture | Thought Rants | Fashion | Design



Tagging a gravestone, locking locks on a fence, sticking gum on a wall. Why do people participate? Self expression? Community? Dopamine? Are Facebook, Tumblr, or Foursquare forms of digital graffiti? Why or why not?


image via my tumblr via here
  • be fearless
  • go beyond the obvious
  • never assume
  • look for hints transform them to innovation
  • ideas for ideas' sake are worthless

The day before I left for my holiday vacation two of my instructors took me out for drinks - which somewhat turned into an intervention. They told me my job was sucking the life out of me. I appreciated their candor because I'm a tough love kind of chick.

Time for some changes - 2013 will see me up in front of a class again. I'm looking forward to making my students' brains hurt. I'll be teaching into the digital marketing program I created so expect to see a few thought rants like this one. I'm also going to be creating a new e-retail program which I'm really looking forward to as that's where my business was born. Besides thinking, I'm also passionate about design, architecture and fashion so I'll be blogging more - which is also a passion. Oh - and I'll also be opening shopbijouliving.com Three cheers for the entrepreneur!

Happy New Year to You! I really appreciate you sticking around and following my ups, downs and circular motions! The best is yet to come.



Dec 25, 2012

Merry Vintage 1980s Christmas

80s Girl Friends
from me -  in my Molly Ringwald meets The Cult phase.

Dec 13, 2012

Italian Mid-Century Barware - Gio Ponti Style


1950s 4 piece silver plate bar set
buy it here




Nov 26, 2012

Quote of the Week - Dark Shadows

 
via Meghan on Pinterest


She likes to pretend she's rock'n'roll, but she's a Carpenters kind of chick for sure. Carolyn




Nov 22, 2012

Design Lover - 1979 Bang & Olufsen Turntable Cassette Radio Combo

Designer: Jacob Jensen
more of Jensen's Bang & Olufsen work (including the 7000) is in the permanent collection of the MoMA view it here
Manufactured: 1979
Rosewood and aluminum
Made in Denmark


via New York magazine Dec. 1980



Nov 13, 2012

Quote of the Week - Carl Jung

Pilsner Pup
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.




Nov 7, 2012

Vintage Pierre Cardin


1987
Pierre Cardin



Nov 5, 2012

Some Vintage Stuff I Left Behind

west van church sale coffee table
1970s Lane
sally ann west van danish stainless steel
Scandinavian stainless steel bowls
sally ann west van leather chair and ottoman
leather and oak recliner and ottoman
sally ann west van teak cutlery set
teak and stainless cutlery
sally ann west van record holder
teak record cabinet
west van in the end it was free but busted
lamp - it was free at the end of the church sale but it was broken
west van danish serving trays
Scandinavian stainless steel serving trays
west van paragon timer clock 

Paragon timer

Nov 2, 2012

Oct 31, 2012

A creepy little kid

Photobucket
  - who is actually me - wishes you a Happy Halloween







Oct 29, 2012

A favourite place for inspiration in Vancouver


check out that front door

chandelier bits

vintage doors - great for tables

army canteens and weather instruments
plant skeletons

Heritage Home Supplies - 3662 West 4th Ave.



Oct 27, 2012

Vintage Calvin Klein

1989
Vintage Calvin Klein
supermodel



Oct 11, 2012

Today is my birthday



and I will be kind to Little Stacy.

Sep 15, 2012

Sep 4, 2012

September 1989 Vintage Ungaro

Fall Winter 1989

supermodels


Aug 23, 2012

An Inspired Knock Off

Perry Ellis 1985

My orange high school locker was my inspiration board. It was 1985, and the orange background only enhanced the already kaleidoscopic menagerie of 80s fashion, Calvin Klein underwear ads and my bobbed hair crush, Marcus Abel

Fast forward twenty years to a Black Crowes after-party, and I'm debating the difference between knocking off and inspiration with one of the designers whose sexy ass black and white ads I'd always had hanging in my locker (no, not Calvin Klein).

Three months earlier, the designer's assistant purchased my entire collection of vintage leather jackets at the Manhattan Vintage Clothing show. I wouldn't have known otherwise, but being a nosy Canadian, I asked her if she would wear all those jackets. She replied that they weren't for her but for Designer X, who'd be knocking them off. Trust me, I know what you're thinking.

I do not regularly attend parties to accuse designers of knocking off vintage clothing. 

But here we go.
As a result of early 90s industrial dance sessions at Luv Affair (now a Shoppers Drug Mart), I have a terrible case of tinnitus. Therefore, when the designer introduced himself at the noisy party, I thought he said he worked for Designer X. But alas, he was, in fact, Designer X. 

Here I thought I was having a pleasant conversation with one of Designer X's assistants about the New York vintage show and how designers knock off vintage clothing. After all, he asked, "Where do I know you from? You look familiar." Seeing as I had a terrible time with face recognition, I thought I'd met him in New York at the show and was just going to ride that train.

I didn't know I was talking with the real Designer X until a groupie approached him. 

Damnit.

To backtrack on my words and apologize for accusing/debating with him would've been super uncomfortable. The conversation had already evolved past that. He didn't seem to care anyway and had enough integrity to admit he buys vintage clothing to get 'inspiration'. Needless to say, I continued chatting along my merry way, pretending I knew who he was from the start of our conversation. Of course I couldn't hear what either of us was saying because my focus was on how friggin' embarrassed I was.

In 1985, I won the Langley School District fashion design competition. 

I don't remember how I actually got into the competition. I remember being instructed to design something for Home Economics Sewing class, and my creation - a skirt - won. The venue, Langley Senior Secondary. The designers had to walk the internationally famous and notoriously challenging catwalk in their creation. I remember doing that. I also remember not paying attention when the winners were announced and having someone come and find me to let me know I was being summoned. 

I won a Mary Kay makeover!

Last night, I pulled out the January 1985 edition of Vogue, looking for some blog inspiration. The first page I opened slapped me with a fistful of memories. It was a Perry Ellis ad - an ad containing the winning skirt. I took the ad to a local sewing shop, searched out a pattern for a similar skirt and altered it a bit.

I didn't knock it off, I was inspired by it.

The striped skirt and winning ensemble. Note the nautical theme topped off by the hat.



PS Kids - if you're going to dance beside the speakers, take this old hipster's advice and be the geek who wears earplugs. Your parents were somewhat right, you will go deaf, but first you will be plagued by a torturing, constant ringing in your ears - even when you have earplugs in.

Jul 16, 2012

Vintage Chloe 80's


 
1982 Chloe 
by Karl Lagerfeld

But who are you?