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Q&A with Sandra from 5 inch and up
Fashion chameleon Sandra from 5 inch and up possibly possesses the most enviable shoe collection of the whole blogosphere! The Finnish blonde freelance stylist and personal shopper mixes Miu Miu platforms and River Island jumpsuits with ease, and her blog ’s vibrant photography take us through her stylish life in London. We asked Sandra a [...]
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Q&A with Sharon with My Passport To Style
Sharon from My Passport to Style is a style consultant whose blog is dedicated to all sorts of fabulous things. Her site offers great inspiration for decorating your home, finding a unique look and interviews. Filled with girly pictures, DIY’s and ethical fashion advice, My Passport to Style is a firm Covertcandy favourite! So we [...]
Q&A with OUTSAPOP.COM
Finnish fashion and accessories designer Outi Pyy from Outsapop.com is one of the best bloggers around if you are looking to customize your vintage finds as well as create quirky, runway inspired jewellery. With her easy tutorials, she makes having a unique style super easy! Here at Covertcandy we are all about sustainable fashion [...]
Quite Contrary – Question and Answer
How old were you when you started to love fashion?
There is a picture of me wearing colorfully dotted leggins and a huge knitted sweater with a teddybear and hearts on it, I was about 12 – so I guess I was older than 12
Who are your vintage style icons? / What celebrity, across [...]
Question and Answer: College Fashion
How old were you when you started to love fashion?
I have always loved fashion – as a kid I was always doodling dress designs in my notebooks and playing dress-up. But I didn’t really know so much about designers or the fashion industry until my senior year of high school when I lived with my [...]
The Real Teal Deal
There is a widespread panic when it comes to wearing the colour ‘teal’. I must admit, it can be a pretty tricky colour to pull off, not to mention how hard it is to match other colours. Nevertheless, many a fashion forecast states we are sure to be rocking the ‘Teal Deal’ in 2010.The lush [...]
More Leather Jackets
I found this interesting paragraph from Guardian fashion columnist Rachel Holmes about The Leather Jacket and the Glunge trend, as I have mentioned in previous posts. The Guardian write a weekly email newsletter called Fashion Statement. I highly recommend signing up!
You’re aiming for a fierce look: lots of black leather and mussed hair. Think a [...]
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Hardy Amies
In 1965 Saville Row tailor Hardy Amies published the “ABC of Mens Fashion” setting out the rules and advice for men to achieve sartorial perfection. Recently the book was republished, and the Guardian ran an article testing whether these classic rules still apply. You can read it here.
Amies is a pretty interesting character. He first [...]
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The Leather Jacket
The leather jacket remains an iconic classic, moving from military bomber jackets in the 1950s to fashion uniform for rockers, punks, grunge kids and hip-hoppers alike. With each new trend, the leather jacket has been adapted and evolved – a longer, blazer cut in the 1970s for example, or tassled and studded in the 80s. [...]
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The Modern High-Street
Today the high-street is dominated by brands like Topshop and H&M that cater to the constantly changing trends of young people. Its easy to see the appeal of this market, especially during the current recession. A recent article in The Independent newspaper, evaluates how certain brands have fared during the first crucial months of ‘The [...]
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Generation X
Since that initial ‘identity crisis’ in the 1980s, brands consistently targeted young people, their trends and sub-cultures as a goldmine of potential profit. Some trends lent themselves to this commercialisation more than others. Hip-Hop kids, as I have said, took pride in consuming and displaying affiliation with brands. It was therefore easy for brands like [...]
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Logo-Mania
Hip-Hop’s embracing of particular brand logos from the early 80s, soon became a youth culture staple. Overt logos on clothing denoted the wearers affiliation with a particular trend in the same way Teddy Boys and Mods had reappropriated vintage clothes to signify their look.
In Britain, the Football Casuals favoured Armani, Burberry and Ralph Lauren [...]
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Hip-Hop
In the early 1980s, the American mass-market suffered a huge “identity crisis” (Klein, 2000). ‘Household’ brands found that the customer loyalty they had built up since the 50s, suddenly dissipated during the 1981-1982 recession. According to Klein, analysts found that the only goods to ‘hold steady’ during the recession, were “beer, soft drinks, fast food [...]
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Mods and Rockers
A few more brief notes on how today’s vintage trend developed from the desires of young people to set themselves apart from accepted ideas of fashion, that as I’ve said, really kicked off with the newly liberated Teddy Boys of the 1950s…
In the 1960s, Mods and Rockers took over as the predominant genres. These subcultures [...]
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Teddy Boys
Over the next few posts I thought I’d move away from talking about current trends, and explain more about the history of vintage fashion. I’ve chosen a few brief passages from my dissertation (yep, I wrote an entire dissertation about vintage clothes!) that illustrate key moments over the last fifty years that have made the [...]
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The 90s
Oh my goodness, would you believe it. It seems after only a short season dominated and inspired by 80s clothes, fashion journalists and trend analysists are already predicting a shift towards the 90s. Although the 80s trend will undoubtedly remain a steadfast feature of the highstreet for the near future, the indicators are already there [...]
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Lucile
A side-step from my usual ramblings about the trend for 80s clothes, I thought I’d blog about something a little more vintage.
The Victoria & Albert Museum have just published a book of archive material from original Edwardian fashion designer Lady Duff Gordon, also known as ‘Lucile’. From the 1890s – 1930s, Lucile controlled a vast [...]
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Christian Dior
Following on from the 1980s/1940s connection I talked about in my last post, the latest Christian Dior Autumn/Winter 09 Couture show typified this mix of vintage trends exactly.
John Galliano has consistently produced incredible couture collections since taking over as head of design at Dior in 1997, a move that coincided with the labels 50th anniversary.
Back [...]
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The 40s
The interesting thing about our current love of everything 80s is that, back then, fashion had its own vintage trend – the 1940s.
During that era, fashion was far more utilitarian. Given that war dominated half the decade and women were encouraged to make-do-and-mend, its easy to see how fashion reflected the sobriety of the time. [...]
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Q&A with Dylana from Nana in Wonderland