Category: UK
Southern Retro – a photographic project documenting the retro way of life
Although not everyone who likes vintage lives a retro life in a sense that they wear vintage styles every day or have a home decorated in a certain period, but it’s fascinating for anyone to get a glimpse into the lives of those who do. Fabulous website Southern Retro is a photographic collection featuring portraits [...]
Ladies, gift your chaps a vintage make-over this Valentine’s
Perhaps the man in your life is a little shy about going vintage shopping with you? Or he might not have a clue as to even where to start? Enter the Vintage Style Doctor! Actor and vintage personal shopper Colin Reed – otherwise known as The Doc – runs the Vintage Style Surgery, London’s first [...]
The BIBA phenomenon
BIBA designer Barbara Hulanicki recently launched a capsule collection with UK high street brand Topshop. Angel Middleton takes a look at a designer still going strong after over 40 years in the fashion business.
Rummage vintage jumble sale: burlesque special
Hot new craft location Superette and burlesque tea party specialists Time for Tease have invited London’s finest burlesque dancers & cabaret performers to clear out their costumes and spring clean their sassy pads for a very glamorous jumble sale on Sunday 6 June.
Sixties cult classic at the BFI: Bronco Bullfrog
A leading cult film of the Sixties and the only record of suedehead culture in British cinema, Barney Platts-Mills’ tale of teenage lovers with no money and nowhere to go was largely improvised by a non-professional cast of young East Enders. A wonderful time capsule of late Sixties London , Bronco Bullforg is filmmaking with a spontaneity, wit [...]
Postcards from the past: A snapshot of time
Before the instant gratification of Facebook, mobile phones, e-mails and even before most people had a telephone hooked up in their homes there was the postcard. Not just holiday souvenirs, in the first half of the 20th century this classy method of communication was the best way to keep in touch with the day-to-day goings-on [...]
