80s Moschino

Moschino
1987

because you're simply mahvelous

Those of you that follow my blog - and might I mention you're mahvelous - may know I'm going through a mood and am clearing out basically everything I own. I've received some wonderful encouragement from you and I thank you - Harbourmaster, Emily and those that emailed.

I mentioned in a recent comment that I was going to sell my entire vintage collection. Well, because you're so mahvelous I've decided to save some and offer it up to you through online contests/giveaways (sorry don't know the proper marketing jargon) throughout the rest of the year.

I'm moving this week so keep your eyes posted I may have time to upload one in the next few days.

Thank you again for your encouragement.

Stacy

How to Tie a Bow Tie

Thanks to Teen Wolf for helping out.

Quote of the Week - Jean Paul Gaultier

It's always the badly dressed people that are the most interesting. Jean Paul Gaultier

You know you have

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... too much stuff when you unload your storage unit only to fill your entire apartment that you've already emptied once. This is from our sale on Saturday.

I'm in a mood - lucky you!

MOVING SALE!


That's it. I'm out of here.
Saturday 1 - 3 pm





pics of the extravaganza hopefully will follow

Vintage Schiaparelli

Schiaparelli
1970

9 Top Credenzas

You may remember me mentioning that we've lost about 95% of our furniture this month.

The low teak dresser in the first photo below is what we used as a credenza in our living room. My dad and I refinished it two summers ago, and I'd just completed giving it a once-over after our hot summer. We used to put our television and West German pottery on it.

My task in the coming months is to find replacements. 

Below are nine credenzas that are tickling my fancy at the moment.

Our old teak credenza/dresser

Style Inspiration - Pierre Clémenti

Pierre Clémenti - Actor
1942 - 1999

Quote of the Week - Diana Vreeland

Elegance is refusal. Diana Vreeland

Interior Design Show West 2009

Last night my husband and I went on a 'double date' with Rockelle and her spouse. It was fantastic to get out after being trapped for nine nights by my psyche, an uninhabitable apartment and a hotel room designed around polyester hues of sage and Tuscan sun. After sushi at Kaide we headed down to IDS West, which, after losing 95% of our furniture in the last ten days, was highly anticipated.

Design shows in Vancouver = superior craftsmanship (particularly woodworking), the environment, pastels, and clean lines.

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Kurt Dexel fresh off the pages of October's DWELL.
The table would go perfect in our new place.

BoConcepts 'side table'. I call it a cat bed.

Rockelle's pics of the show.
She left with a Dyson cat hair picker upper.

FRAME commissioned a booth from Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Interior Design Program.

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The work of Oregon's Christopher Marley

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Designing Inside the Box

Designing Inside the Box

Brent Comber

Fin

Vintage Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent 1980

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Design Lover: The Camel Stool

rosewood and blue leather

Reminiscent of the work of Brazilian designer Jean Gillon, this particular camel stool was offered up for auction in 2006. You can buy a similar piece here.

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The Smoking Slipper vs The Evening Pump

(l) Cecil Beaton in black patent leather evening pumps
(r) David Niven in velvet moccasins

So, which is it?

The velvet smoking slipper, originally designed for the Victorian gentleman's smoking room, has stepped out from the chamber and onto the Fall Winter 2009 runway. In my part of the world, smoking rooms have returned. Smoking slippers and denim, perhaps.

Dolce & Gabbana velvet and grosgrain moccasins
Buy them here.

The black patent leather evening pump, sometimes referred to as the opera pump, was once reserved for black-tie affairs and silk socks, yet like the velvet smoking slipper, it's sashayed its way onto the Fall Winter 2009 runway.

Both the opera pump and the smoking slipper were in vogue in the 1930s. During the Great Depression men took the shoes and paired them with more casual attire, a sentiment to the dire economic situation of the time.

Fashion repeats itself.

Tom Ford's black patent leather evening pump
For stockists

A great history of the gentlemen's smoking costume can be read on Cigar Aficionado here.

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Quote of the Week - Epictetus

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. Epictetus

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