Categories / Retro Women's Fashion

Get a retro registry office look

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Nice article over at the Bridalwave website for anyone looking for a retro look for a registry office wedding – but be prepared, it doesn’t come cheap!

The dress isn’t actually a wedding dress, but this Moschino Jacquard Cocktail Dress should provide just as much impact. it retails for £805. The 60s vibe is matched by these Giuseppe Zanotti’s ivory button pumps, retailing for $450 at Saks Fifth Avenue and a sparkly diamante headband, which is a more affordable £20 at Monsoon. The flowers can be picked up locally.

Now you’re all set for that proposal!

Via Bridalwave

Categories / Design and Interiors

Umpen Editions Victoriana birthday cards

Umpen_numbers Hopefully you saw our feature on the vintage London Transport greetings cards from Umpen Editions recently. Well, it’s not the only new range for 2007, they also have the Lucky Numbers birthday cards.

The cards are available in ages 0-13, plus 16, 18, 21 and every decade from 30 through to 100. If the typeface looks familiar, it’s probably from some 60s-based merchandising or advertising, with the numbers referencing the colourways and decorative typefaces of 1960s pop Victoriana.

Simple, but very stylish and effective. The cards should retail for around £2 each. Check out the Umpen Editions website for your nearest stockist.

Visit the Umpen Editions website

Categories / Design and Interiors

ILVA Curve wooden armchair

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You can pick up just about anything for your living room in wood, from record decks, TVs and radios through to sideboards and wood-effect sofas and. And you can now add armchairs to that list – or more specifically, the ILVA Curve wooden armchair.

Built to fit into your designer living room rather than for comfort, the Curve armchair is in a walnut veneer that should match your expensive vintage sideboard, with a chrome frame for matching most room accessories.

The chair is actually in the sale, retailing for £198. If you want something that offers a little more comfort, there’s also a black leather version for £250.

Find out more at the ILVA website

Categories / Retro Men's Fashion, Retro Women's Fashion, Sportswear

Royal Elastics Andy Warhol trainers

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I can’t honestly say these are particularly fashionable, but if you’re after a pair of novelty trainers, they don’t come much more novelty than these Royal Elastics Resi Warhol trainers.

Based  on Warhol’s famous banana, they feature an upper of two tone cracked leather, molded rubber outsole and extra thick foam sockliner, not to mention a Warhol signature on the sole. You can buy them online for $125 (around £65).

Find out more at the Royal Elastics website

Via Complex

Categories / Design and Interiors

Vintage Royal Court Theatre mugs

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Art Meets Matter is celebrating the 50th anniversary of London’s Royal Court Theatre with a range of mugs featuring some of the theatre’s most talked-about productions.

There’s a diverse selection available, but the most obvious one to pick up is the play that opened the theatre all those years ago – Look Back In Anger by John Osborne, arguable the play that marks the starting point of modern British drama.

Not badly priced at £8.95 each.

Find out more at the Art Meets Matter website

Categories / Architecture, Design and Interiors

Alvar Aalto Exhibition at the Barbican

Aalto Finnish architect/designer Alvar Aalto is one of the leading lights of modernism – a fact that’s being recognised by London’s Barbican Gallery, which is hosting his first UK retrospective, curated by contemporary Japanese architect Shigeru Ban.

The exhibition primarily focuses on Aalto’s architectural style, featuring models, drawings, photographs and artefacts from 14 key projects across six decades, including Paimio Tuberculosis Sanatorium (1929-33), Villa Mairea (1938-39), AA-System Houses (1937-1945), Experimental House (1952-53), North Jutland Art Museum (1958-72) and the development of the urban centre for Seinäjoki (1952-87).

But Aalto is probably just as well known for his interiors, which are also featured. Items on display include his famous stacking stool and other furniture, as well as glassware, light fittings and textiles, many of which are still manufactured today by Artek. Also featured are works by the exhibition curator, heavily influenced by Aalto’s past work.

The exhibition runs from 22nd February – 13th May 2007, with tickets priced between £6 and £8. The gallery is open daily from 11am – 8pm, excluding Tue & Thu (11am – 6pm).

Find out more a the Barbican website