I love Vérité Vintage. Some seriously cool vintage finds from the friendliest of folk.
I simply love the selection, sparklery 70s tops, pretty orange camis and an effing necklace! What more do you want?
I recently won this pretty silver locket from Vérité Vintage’s facebook page! Make sure you add her to your friends/fan pages for updates and latest looks!
Exciting News!!
I’m the sparkly brand new Branch Director and Host of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in North Wales!!
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is the little New York art event that has become the world’s premier alt.drawing movement. Started in 2005 by artist Molly Crabapple, the concept is simple. Artist’s draw glamorous burlesque dancers, compete in contests, and win wacky prizes. From it’s humble Brooklyn beginnings, Dr. Sketchy’s now has over 100 branches around the globe, including Los Angeles, London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, and Melbourne.
When many artists think “life drawing,” they think of sterile rooms, bad lighting, and bored, silent, models with nary a hint of personality. Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School North Wales is here to change all that.
As most of you are aware who visit this blog know I love to fuse art & fashion, creative costumes & comedy in my work and Dr. Sketchy’s will bring all this to life!
Picture below of the Dr. Sketchy Event in NYC featuring Raquel Reed
This new venture ties in perfectly with the Extinct Design, like its fabulous cool older sister, one that wears corsets…
And guess who’s going to be there….?
also introducing headstrong, mystifying , wayward ways of *MISTY FIANT*
Go Book yourself some Early Bird Tickets £8.50 (advance ) via paypal to heather@extinctdesign.co.uk
£10.00 (on the door)
Do bring your sketchpads, pens n pencils although we’ll have plenty to dish out on the night!
Drawing is for everyone! Do come and have a go!
WHOOooooooHOOoooooooo!
I was so incredibly excited to receive a postcard from The Time Lord himself!!! I practically “Whhoooooooooooohoooooooo”ed the place down when it arrived this weekend!
Look you can tell he wrote the address on the envelope too!
Want to see what I sent him? Check out my Bow Ties are Cool post.
This months MUST HAVE is this Poolside glamour goddess sarong!
I love this colour combination, unmistakably vintage. Extra Large too, which is great to cover up on the beach or by the pool ~ wouldn’t look out of place walking around the local shops on your holidays too!
Made from water-resistant fabric, originally from Hawaii!
If that isn’t the coolest already… I’ve giving away these vintage sunnies FREE with this July Must-Have!!
Money can’t buy you cla…ass!
Anyone whos been watching the Real Housewives of NYC will of course be having a fabulous time (I’m totally addicted, it is for me the very best telly since Jem & the Holograms – and thats saying a lot.)
Although I’ve had my favourite moments with all of them – I do find myself checking out Countess LuAnn’s clothing and accessories more than the others… they have a distinct French feel about them..
Chunky jewelry and no fuss dresses makes for a classy look.
It just so happens the Extinct Vintage Jewelry section has a number of very LuAnn like adornments – JUST IN!
Vintage Dresses from a selection at Extinct
Hula Girl – Photograph Available From PhotoLiz Etsy
Aloha Pedicure – Photograph Available From Swirling Thoughts
Fabulous Gil Elvgren Showing us just how cute and sexy hula girls can be
Amazing Alberto Vargas stunning hawiian goddess picture
Gil Elvgren the master Pin-Up artist, I always imagine him and Vargas as friends sharing their love of beauty and female curves. All the women in the pictures look like they are having great fun, feeling empowered, sexy, not at all a victim of the men’s stare… I do so wonder how some women today feel unease with pin-up, burlesque and the like – for me it appears the women the are the ones in control and having a great time! It feels great to feel fabulous both in and out of your clothes and whenever you’ve got the chance to flaunt it – DO IT!
Parisian Fashion designer Baptiste Viry has got me all hot under the collar with these stunning drop bow, bow-ties…
I love his clever use of mixing and re-using vintage items to create his designs!!
I’ve sort of gone into shock – but also feeling very inspired…
So there you have it – The Time Lord himself confirms it! And he has seen it all, every corners of galaxy, every time, dimension and species… Bow ties are cool.
The beautiful new 11th incarnation of the Doctor (I will not pretend any longer that it’s just a TV show on BBC – that’s what they want you to think…)
So being the sharing, giving kinda gal I am I thought I’d share my love and passion for the coolness that is the dickie bow and send him some from my stash. So I’ve done just that!
Here at Extinct we’ve know it for a while…For more bow ties that are cool… unearth some in the Extinct store (before that crack widens and swallows us all ~ can’t wait for the last episode of the season!
Ever dreamt of a swimming costume that is so utterly gorgeous you’d look like a Fifties Starlet on the beach?
Well, New York designer Norma Kamali has recreated the fantastic look with designs which hark back to the Fifties, when women were well groomed and demanded good tailoring. The Fifties glamour puss had an hour-glass figure and rarely wore a bikini.
The swimsuits of the Fifties were often apron-style and had flattering detachable, halter neck straps with ruching at the front.
Norma Kamali has definitely made a beautiful job of re-creating the starlet look for the women of today. This swimwear is so stunning we here at Ollie&Agnes would be scared to get it wet, however we do live in hope that it would detract attention from the body IN it! We also know we would feel a million dollars in it with all it’s ruching, attractive halter neck and diverse shape.
Norma Kamali has been creating innovative clothes for 15 years, and is most famous for her sleeping bag coat, and for using actual parachutes to make clothing. As well as the starlet-style costume, there’s a massive selection of really original pieces.. something with ruffles and frills or a leather look, black costume she has everything! Sections include Swim Jersey; Goddess Swim, Swim Ruffle and Foil.
PS: If you fancy an Original swim suit check out Extinct Design’s Glamourous vintage tiger print number!
Ode to a skirt
You have lived with me like a sister
But now time’s we part
Your beauty is incomparable and likened to some art…
I love selling vintage clothing and do view each piece as mini rare works of art and none more so than the skirt above, from my own private collection sold to my lovely new model, (I don’t think I could of parted with it to anyone else!)
It’s a striking piece and reminds me of still life paintings from the Middle Ages…
Flemish painter – Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568 – January 13, 1625) sometimes called “Flower” Brueghel, and “Paradise” Brueghel, of which the latter two were derived from his floral still life’s which were his favored subjects. Packed with symbolism, flowers representing both the beauty, fragility and ever turning circle of life. Often in the paintings there would be insects, such as for butterflies represents transformation and resurrection while the ant hard work and attention to the harvest, often dead or dying insects (and later sculls, watches, candles burning down, fading fruit) really enforcing that life is transient, capturing memento’s of beauty…
The flowers in themselves too offer symbolic meaning, which we are often aware of but have no real recollection how we know what they mean; rose (Virgin Mary, transience, Venus, love); lily (virginity, purity of mind or justice); tulip (showiness, nobility); sunflower (faithfulness, divine love, devotion); violet (modesty, reserve, humility); columbine (melancholy); poppy (power, sleep, death).
So many paintings were produced in this way with the dark background, giving more vibrancy and “life” to the still lifes. It was Monet and Renoir
Below are pieces by Jan Frans van Dael was another Flemish painter – whos works I think are particularly stunning!
Looking to buy your own modern piece of art? Here is a round up of fabulous black floral finds on etsy.
1. Vintage Sparkle Red Bombshell Dress
2. Vintage Floral Heels
3. Vintage Micro Mosaic Floral Tile Brooch
4. Vintage Black Embroidered Peplum Blouse
5. Vintage Floral Tin
