I recently discovered ThriftCapeTown which is a vintage clothing label in Cape Town South Africa and they have stunning items that you can buy!
Here is a shoot they did recently… and as you can see by the shoot all the items are one of a kind.
Last week we visited Trash & Treasures during the Amsterdam International Fashion Week. Trash & Treasures, a Downtown programme, is a garage sale where you can find new and vintage clothing, shoes and accessories.
The best shops, brands, work of young designers, artists and many more are a part of this event. We spotted Lilyscloset and Les Tai Tai. There was also a signing session with designer Bas Kosters.
Trash & Treasures is inspired by garage sales in Brick Lane in London and Mauerpark in Berlin. They started 1,5 year ago and now you can find this lovely event (almost) in the whole country.
An ideal place for special items and a lot of other treasures.
Pretty sure you recognize the “totally nothing to wear blues” ?! And really lose control because you don’t have a clue what you should wear to that special party? Have you got that feeling? You look into your wardrobe and you still haven’t got anything to wear… no expenses spared. This feeling won’t leave until you buy something new! Okay let’s face it… that is pretty bad. but worse… when you also received an invitation for a wedding!!! Before you go totally out of your mind.. you decide to go shopping, because you remember the words: “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue” Okay “something new”!
This is a sign.. this means you can go for shopping! You get lost and suddenly you are in a small street.. You look into the window…AND THERE HE IS… IT’S NOT TO BIG, NOT TO SMALL.. He is one of a kind! (It’s a ones in a lifetime opportunity) But he is not that young anymore (“Something old”) and it’s from leather. (The most beautiful bag you have ever seen, His name is Bally). Revintage is very hot at the moment! So you decide to go in that lovely shop.. You look around.. until.. “Something Blue”!! Someone is flirting.. And you are flirting back!
You can‘t hardly resist Oscar..! His beautiful skin, WOH! And then the pattern and his colours.. You can see his true colours.. You are in heaven! You can see those two are dancing with you at the wedding! You never know what you will find at this place.. At Van Gendt Vintage Boutique in Leiden everything is possible!
Maybe you can borrow the bracelet of your best friend…
You will be overwhelmed by this happy feeling which you feel immediately by entering this lovely vintage shop. Really something else! This one of a kind bag and dress bought by Van Gendt Boutique!
For vintage & new clothing & accessories by Camila Goncalves Sam Paio & Anneke van Ulden. Really word the visit! For brands new and old. Vintage clothing and Accessory: Eileen Fisher, Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Emilio Pucci, Max Mara, Prada, Mag & Maggie, Seven and new clothing of Stella Forecast.
Van Gendt Boutique
Burgsteeg 8
Leiden, The Netherlands
Opening times: Monday – Friday 12.00- 18.00
Saturday 12.00-17.00
Are you a real vintage-freak? Than you should defiantly take a look at the ilovevintage.nl website. ILV, as they abbreviate themselves, sell products that already experienced more than 1 life story. They are also offering unique and handmade items made and handled with love and care. Some products are altered in a separate workshop to a new and more wearable item. On the website you will find things that used to from the 50s to the 90 dates. Times like the Baroque, Romanticism and Art Deco are a major source of inspiration.
Ilovevintage distinguish itself from the mass production in the world of retail. Buy or order a product at ILV and you will have the Security not show up anywhere with the same item as someone else.
In March a little shop will be opened at the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, but if you can’t wait take a peek at the ilovevintage.com website, place an order and they will send your request trough the mail.
Ilovevintage is the perfect combination of fashion and emotion.
It was as if they could put ‘their arms’ around my feet and warm up my heart, fill my stomach up with food or make me forget about hunger. Emptying up my bankaccount wouldn’t help one bit. I can’t afford them, not even if I used every penny I own ,and go without food for a while. They cost more than 500 dollars, often more than a thousand. That’s way above what I’m willing to pay for shoes. Tabitha’s shoes are beautiful, refined. They seem to look at life as I do. As if their place in my life has been predestined. I can feel them already, hanging on my feet. They weren’t born in lonesome factory halls, but woven together in the sun at a working place of an Italian family company.
Very Cherry is an amazing store in Rotterdam at the Pannekoekstraat all the style divas get their outfits in that store. Their style is like Marlene Dietrich meets Dita van Teese. The shop has a second store with vintage clothes at the Botersloot.
The shop also has a online shop and the coolest thing is: it is cheap!
The clothes are on of a kind so there is only one piece of every garment so you are unique as well and we loooove that!
So when you don’t have time to travel to Rotterdam just visit the website and shop till you drop.
Fashion girls, run to the store for a pair of heels. Better is it to buy a pair in a secondhand shop.
Then customize the pumps with a bow or crayon the heels in a fabulous color. Create your own heels!
It is a hit!
Tracy Penwell is the artistic brain behind “Dressed up cat”. After 20 years of banking she opens a gallery 2000 named “Rima Fine Art” in Scottsdale. In 2005 she began designing artistic vintage handbags.
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The countdown for the Fesjon Boutique has started… fesjon.com will soon open there virtual doors to the Fesjon Boutique.
The Boutique will contents global brands witch are still unknown. We shall open our doors with a Dutch jewelry brand, limited edition shoes and bags made of vintage kimono’s from Austraila, cashmere/organic cotton womencollection from Germany and an one of a kind artistic handbag collection from America, celebrity stylists Niki Shadrown and Christine Matsunaga from Los Angeles used the bags for there clients.
The Boutique collection will be expand with more beautiful and exclusive brands. Every day there will be an article about the brands.So keep up with the latest news about the Boutique on fesjon.com.
