Categories / Art and Photography, Books, Women's Fashion

Paris Vogue: Covers 1920–2009 book

Paris Vogue covers

Vogue is well known for its heritage in mapping changing fashions. Couple that with a touch of French style and this book, Paris Vogue: Covers 1920–2009, is tantalizing prospect.

It's been written by Sonia Rachline with foreword by current French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld and, over its 208 pages, it illustrates shifting trends in both clothing and magazine design. There masses of famous faces that show up, from photographers like Man Ray or Guy Bourdin, to cover stars like Twiggy, Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn.

A great book to sit and flick through, it costs just £14.22 from Amazon

Categories / Design and Interiors

Retro Valentine’s cards from Hello! Lucky

Hello lucky V's cards

It's that time of year again, when you can't fail to notice the shops are festooned with strings of hearts. Looking for a way to express your love in retro style this coming 14 February? You may well be interested in these Valentine's cards from Hello! Lucky.

Other cards feature creatures like lions or raccoons and have the same kitsch Fifties style as the couple of examples shown above … and similarly bad puns too! The letterpress cards cost £3.25 each. 

See them online

Categories / Design and Interiors

Verpan Pantop pendant lamp by Verner Panton

Pantop

Yesterday we covered the reissue of the Verner Panton Pantop floor lamp. What we didn't know then was that the Verner Panton Pantop pendant lamp was also being reissued.

It's much the same in terms of design, a 1980 piece with that bell-like shape made of aluminium, an all-new set of colours to choose from and some transparent cabling to hang it.

Like the floor version, Verpan sells this with an engraved Verner Panton signature and sells it for £230. A glass version is also available, which sells for £305.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

Categories / Film and TV, Music

Tony Palmer’s 1970s The Wigan Casino documentary now available on DVD

Wigan

Not just 'a' Wigan Casino documentary, Tony Palmer's The Wigan Casino is still the definitive documentary about northern soul's most famous venue, purely because the filmmaker was in the right place at the right time.

Admittedly, it's been around on bootlegs for a few years, but this is the first official release. For the uninitiated, Tony Palmer went into the Wigan Casino in 1977 to produce a short documentary for Granada as part of its 'This England' series of shows, mixing footage of the club with vintage photos of a deprived Wigan and reminiscenes of elderly folk of that time. It wasn't much better in the mid-70s, but the Casino footage shows how life can be better – even just for a night.

Electric Roulette managed to get an advance copy of the disc and a review of The Wigan Casino is online right now. If you like what you read or already know you want this in your collection, it's available to buy right now from Amazon for £7.49.

Find out more about the DVD at the Amazon website

Categories / Sportswear

25th anniversary Reebok GL 6000 running shoes

Reebok

Back in the 1980s, Reebok was knocking out its sports footwear from Bolton, where a factory shop brought rich pickings for locals. No such joy today – you'll need to pay full price to secure the 25th anniversary Reebok GL 6000 running shoes.

Yes, straight out of the 80s and into the modern era in a special edition, it still has that distinctive 80s profile and colour scheme, as well as an authentic woven tongue label, suede and synthetic mesh uppers and for the collectors, limited numbers.

Yours for £64.95.

Find out more at the Hanon website