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Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage. Show all posts
Jan 16, 2013
Jan 14, 2013
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
Dec 13, 2012
Nov 26, 2012
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
I love it so much I bought it (off Craigslist).
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| via New York magazine Dec. 1980 |
Nov 13, 2012
Nov 7, 2012
Nov 5, 2012
Some Vintage Stuff I Left Behind
1970s Lane
Scandinavian stainless steel bowls
leather and oak recliner and ottoman
teak and stainless cutlery
teak record cabinet
lamp - it was free at the end of the church sale but it was broken
Scandinavian stainless steel serving trays
Nov 2, 2012
Oct 31, 2012
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
Oct 11, 2012
Sep 29, 2012
Sep 15, 2012
Sep 4, 2012
Aug 23, 2012
An Inspired Knock Off
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| 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.
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.
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.
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.
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| 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
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