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Jet Setter Suit by Mode Merr

Posted on 3rd February 2010 | 1 Comment

Suits have unfortunately received a bad reputation for many of us, being more of a workwear requirement than a fashionable wardrobe choice. Thanks to retro styling, though, there are plenty of suit options for men and women with all the chic they once had.

This Jet Setter Suit by Mode Merr is an irresistable option for fifties and sixties fashion lovers, treading the line between sex appeal and sharp professionality well. The dress is made from stretch cotton lycra, with the skirt section made from a light grey mini plaid. A matching cropped jacket with grossgrain tie neck is cute and covers up just enough.

Get this online from Mode Merr for $136 for the whole outfit.

Find out more from the website

Angels Retro Sale in Wembley – 25,000 vintage clothing items up for grabs

Posted on 3rd February 2010 | Leave a comment

If you can get to Wembley this Saturday (6th February 2010), you might want to do just that – for the Angels Retro Sale.

A massive 25,000 items will be cleared out, with that stock dating from the 1950s to the 1990s, along with uniform items in a separate room at knockdown prices. Clothing in the sale will be in sections grouped by type and gender, none of it priced. Instead, you buy a £20 bag or a super-sized £50 bag and fill it. There's also a £5 door charge to get you in.

Everything in the sale is 'good quality' and much of it has featured in screen or stage productions over the past 50 years. Doors open at 8.30am and the address is 7 Courtenay Road, Wembley, United Kingdom, HA9 7ND. For an idea of what to expect, check out the video below.

Angels Retro Sale website

Angels Sale 2010 Preview from Susie Bubble on Vimeo

Categories / Homeware, Toys and Games

Tetris Mirror by Sonar Ozenc

Posted on 3rd February 2010 | Leave a comment

We've featured many Tetris-inspired products before, from chocolates to tiles. Here's another way the game can creep off the Game Boy and into your home: the Tetris Mirror.

Designed by Sonar Ozenc, it's made from laser-cut acrylic and comes in thirteen panels, using the shapes so familiar from the game. It's then up to you whether you display them as one rectangle or break it down into the different parts. The temptation would be to keep re-arranging them for optimum (theoretical) points!

The mirror is available in silver or gold and costs £39.85.

Buy it from The Hidden Art Shop

Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors

Greetings cards featuring classic British buildings from Obiko

Posted on 3rd February 2010 | Leave a comment

From the De La Warr Pavilion to the Post Office Tower, Obiko's range of greeting cards includes many of the British buildings that regularly feature in various forms on this site.

Obiko are a Hastings based company and their seaside location clearly has a strong influence on their designs. The buildings shown are actually part of a series called 'seagull sites'. Happily, they're favourites with us, as well as the gulls, and also show Battersea Power Station and Brighton's Palace Pier, amongst others.

Each card is executed in the same delicate style and costs £2.90.

Buy them online

Categories / Men's Fashion, Sportswear

Puma G Vilas 2 trainers reissued

Posted on 3rd February 2010 | 1 Comment

I'm guessing only seasoned tennis fans remember Argentinian player Guillermo Apolinario Vilas, but this star of the 70s and early 80s did leave behind a legacy oh hip footwear, including the Puma Guillermo Vilas trainers from the late 70s and the newly-reissued Puma G Vilas 2 trainers.

The latter dates from the early 80s, the tennis shoe quickly becoming a terrace favourite with its more slimline profile (compared to version one), a mix of suede and leather for the upper, gold branding, one piece label and lace guard and perforated toe box.

A limited edition, you can pick up a pair in navy of green for £55. See over the page for another angle shot.

Find out more at the End Clothing website

Categories / Design and Interiors

Louis Poulsen PH Gold Artichoke suspension lamp for the filthy rich

Posted on 3rd February 2010 | Leave a comment

We though the glass version was pricey, but that seems like a bargain compared to the Louis Poulsen PH Gold Artichoke suspension lamp.

PH of course stands for Poul Henningsen, the designer of the original lamp 50 years back for the Langeliniepavillonen restaurant on the Copenhagen waterfront – those leaves becoming an icon of 20th century design.

This ultra-expensive version is a limited edition of just 50, all numbered, 840mm in diameter and with leaves gilded in 24-carat gold over the original copper surface, the finished with a clear varnish. How expensive? Well, only Premier League footballers and Lotto winners need apply – it's £100,000.

Find out more at the Panik Design website

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