If you are looking for those Anti-Moth and Lovely Wardrobe Care items look no further!
Black Padded Clothes Hangers
Anti-Moth Ovals (1 free with every dress from Extinct)
Anti-Moth Essential Oil Infused Drawer Sachet
Anti-Moth Drawer Liners
Anti-Moth Wardrobe Hanging Sachet
You’ll have your wardrobe transformed in no time!
Along with some Ella, Dolly, Dusty, Doris, Astrud, Nina, Patsy, Brigitte, Petula, Peggy, ABBA a gaggle of girls arrived at mine this weekend for a new way of shopping for vintage…
With lots of new stock to try on, colours and shapes to discuss over mojitos, vintage and costume jewelry, bags, shoes and hand knitted lovelies – I felt right at home… in my new boutique styled house-home!
Also set up a little “Powder Room” in the sun room where guests had the oppertunity to have there nails done!
It was lovely to hear the responses from everyone and really highlighted to me how important that kind of customer contact is!
I want everyone who buys from Extinct to be more than thrilled with their purchases and offer full refund on all vintage items if not!
I will be hosting more parties in the future if you would like to know more or would like to be added to the invite list email me heather@extinctdesign.co.uk and let me know you wanna come!
Places will be limited!
Next time… there will be a vintage hair stylist, make-up, more hair and nails!!
I found lots of different mojito recipes online this was my fave…
Fabulous blog featuring all the glamour and wonder from bygone times… wonderful just to wander trhough the pictures and posts and feel positively more beautiful!
Check it out here www.beautybombshells.com This was from their Friday Fashion posts that are simply stunning!
So pleased they featured my Beret Fraise and my Gold Hair Bow.
I love designing costumes, theatrical pieces and OTT outfits. Whether for someone I have known for years or someone I’ve just barely met. It’s like working with a blank canvas and with no fashion limitations! Simply splendid!
I jumped at the opportunity to custom-make a 10+ piece costume for a client who was looking for something dressy, wearable, unique, without being too feminine to wear to the London Burlesque Festival. It had to include some frills, a bit of class yet totally commanding…
So I designed just that! A straight corseted torso with low bulbous shaped skirt, formed by the netted frill underskirt ~ The Manbulb. Made to measure to ensure an excellent fit and shape.
I wanted to create a new sort of outfit that wasn’t gender specific. Also I’ve always loved the idea of reversible clothing, or items of clothing that can be used in a variety of ways, not only does it give life to different looks but it’s fun to reuse them with other existing items in your wardrobe. The individual pieces work equally well as separates, such as teaming the frilly shirt and cuffs with some worn denims, wear an existing vintage tee with the over-sized bow or neck frill, or the net skirt with something more flouncy! The costume and the separate pieces could easily keep re-inventing themselves.
To see more photos and read more about The Manbulb
If you are interested in having an original, just made for you costume or piece just get in touch – we’ll have a chat heather@extinctdesign.co.uk
So now that the costume was ready it was off to the shows! We were only allowed to take a few inconspicuous snaps really as the night was a sort of “Turn of Phones, Forgot your Cares and Take in the Sights!”
So we did just that! First port of call was The Vauxhall Tavern for a night of Twisted Cabaret. Arriving fashionably late to an nicely packed out space, we all had to huddle in which was not too unpleasant. We even managed to cop a squat (not sure that’s Burlesque speak but ho hum…) near the front. I like that I always manage to find the perfect spot. Ha.
I was wearing a blue and silver vintage crochet dress that was quite heavy and my new smelly Vivenne Westwood shoes which were also blue and silver.
Each act was very different from the other, ranging from Japanese computer cartoon character like performances to flaming nipple tassels. My favourite performance of the night was a beautifully costumed and regal courtship dance of the “male” and “female” set to a backdrop Renaissance harpsichord music!
Above: Pic of peacock blue fan dance just before a spot of walking on broken glass… Twisted Cabaret indeed.
The second night had us setting off for the beautiful Bush Hall, Shepherds Bush and a night at the Sexy Sideshow Circus in store- lots more traditional burlesque acts, cheeky, fun and very amusing all made for a great night at the Circus with Armitage Shanks compering.
Some pretty in pink pictures of performers performances with Beeby Rose (who concluded proceedings with a spine tingling pink feather shimmy!) & Chaz Royal (the producer and founder of London Burlesque Fest)
If you’re thinking of going next year…. do.
Heres some more photos and review from the Guardian.
New items in store now! Yeah, yeah I said it once, I’ll say it again!
Listen to a bit of Nina as you browse… bliss*
Imagine just having in your hands the type of notebook used by the great, thinkers, artists, poets, among them Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Bruce Chatwin. A simple black rectangle with rounded corners, an elastic page-holder, and an internal expandable pocket: a nameless object with a spare perfection all its own, produced for over a century by a small French bookbinder that supplied the stationery shops of Paris, where the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the world browsed and bought them. A trusted and handy travel companion, the notebook held invaluable sketches, notes, stories, and ideas that would one day become famous paintings or the pages of beloved books.
The legendary Moleskine notebooks have been lovingly up-cycled with hand painted oh-so-pretty vintage wallpaper!
Only one of each style available!!
I really like the colour mixes of these papers as well the designs which are reminiscent of many contemporary designers and high street designs.
The perfect little vintage notebook for all you ideas led creators!
From the fabulous world of Suzywan – these necklaces are the future! With a great sense of colour and fun her work is distinct, original – I just feel happy looking at it.
I think the range blends really well with vintage items, its all in the mix!
Handmade from her Swedish studio, (from the top) Classy, Dancefloor & Octopus.
Now available at Extinct Design!!
