Hopeless Lingerie - Hip Hip Hooray

One of my favorite and one of the most inspiring Australian handmade labels turned three today, and so I thought I'd give you all a quick look at whats currently floating my boat from Gaby's collection. Her photo shoots are sometimes spooky, sometimes sad, sometimes wistful, but always awesome.

Have seriously been considering getting these for roller-derby. All the girls would be SO LELLOUS. :)

See what I mean about styling? And that bow - the talented lass also has an accessories range, but she might have discontinued it because I cant find it right at this moment, although I did do a feature on it back here.

The gorgeous photoshoots are often the brainchildren of the photographers Gaby employs to present her handmade wonderfuls in the best light possible - I'd love to have a label that not only promoted myself, but others in the independent creative scene too! Love the cut-away details of this piece - a regular feature of Hopeless designs.

The colour palettes she chooses for her collections are always unusual - but they work so well, you almost dont notice them unless you pay attention.

This is what I mean about the spooky.

These would also get some use as outer wear at rollerderby practice methinks... that triangle panel on the side is actually see-through mesh! Awesome...

Further Info:

Website

Flickr (for perving on more of the stunning photography)

Tumblr (for more vintage/retro/nostalgia inspiration images than you can poke a stick at)

the Blog (for inspirational pin-boards, photoshoot-behind-the-scenes, plus debuts of her new works)

Facebook (her updates are always awesome)

Twitter (for whatever thats for :P )

and of course the Etsy and bigcartel stores for buying.

Flamingo on Dress.

via here.

No wonder Harry has the hots for her.

awesome!!!

Lame-Arse Lyric Joke

Oh Sophie, I'd murder you on the dance floor if you wore this out of sheer, green eyed jealousy.



Seriously, I mean white tights, awesome MJ shoes, antique-y brooch at the middle of a peter pan collar, tiny little puff shoulders, pin tucked pleating down centre of dress and lovely red lips! However, I am disappointed with your bag choice. Shame on you to wreck such a perfect ensemble with bad bag selection.

She does have a wonderful sartorial style... google agrees!

xx L

Inspiration - 15th September

burdastyle.com :: best of august :: by iroiro

A Letter From Acorn

Shoes shoes shoes shoes. I promise at least 5 new pairs :) - and they'll all be unisex style, so wingtip dress-shoes, bowling shoes, and golf shoes!

Plus I have some exciting news about Acorns Vintage I'll be sharing on Friday too, right here on the blog!

xx Acorn
(my alter ego)

Skirts are for Flirts

I can't wait for warmer weather so I can bust out all the skirts in my wardrobe that dont lend themselves to being worn with tights.

Thanks to BurdaStyle for the inspiring image collection. xx

Magazine Marvels : Antler Issue 3 February

Titled "vintage", its easy to guess what the theme of the mag was, and as I've come to expect it was filled with whimsical, washed out imagery. Which although is a little overdone now in the indie world, I ADORE IT!. And yes I know it was published way back in Feb, but I only just remembered to check my online mag list today (its down the bottom of the right hand column of this blog).

Sometimes I get bored of reading artist interviews, I guess they need to be pretty special to catch my interest nowadays, having read them all the time from Etsy and Frankie/Peppermint. Antler does ask some really cool questions, like "tell us a random thing about your work" - which gets some interesting replies! But there are a lot too many in there for my tastes (Antler doesnt have anything except interviews and photoshoots - so really thats to be expected), so I skipped over more than half of them, I can really only stomach about three in a row with my attention span, I might go back and read them later if I'm in the mood.

Photoshoots. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH MY HEART ACHES. Not just Antlers ones, but photoshoots in general make me very happy. Especially couple ones where there are a boy and girl model playing pretend, I don't know why it's enjoyable to watch two rediculously good looking people together but it is. There are two different styles of photoshoot in this issue - the washed out whimsical, and the black and white crisp coture style. I like both, and I really appreciate the mix. Good work Antler.

Plus one of them is named after a Fleetwood Mac song. Extra Points.

Travel. Well I think its travel. There's a cool photojournal titled "7 minutes of being a geisha" - kind of a fashion shoot, kind of a photography exhibition, kind of a travel log. I liked the photos of random Japanese things, as thats what I end up doing on all my holidays. I end up not having any sweeping panoramas, happy snaps or food photos, just weird micro-scale things like mailboxes and flowers.

I have many favorite pages, but this one took my breath away, literally. I sat there dumbfounded for at least 40 seconds, drinking it in. You need to click on it to see it in its full-size amasingness.



So spooky and beautiful and dreamy and symbolic... a perfect last page.


So there is my first magazine review. What do you think? Should I do more, or just link to things I like and leave you guys to figure it out for yourselves? If you read it, can you tell me what you think too?

xx lauren

EDIT :: duh. forgot to link to it.
http://issuu.com/antlermagazine/docs/vol3vintage

Etsy Finds Feature

I am delighted to announce that my vintage store has been featured in Etsy's "Shop Local" etsy finds for Australia.

http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-from-a-land-down-under-6818/

A pair of shoes I was consigning for a friend were featured, and to my delight, sold the same day (today!)

Although what I find strange is it wasn't a "shop local" buyer... these little beauties will be heading off to the old US of A tomorrow!



If you wanna check out the rest of my vintage goodies, heres the link.

OSIER in X-Press magazine

SO EXCITED! Osier has now been featured in X-Press magazine, go out and get yourselves a copy folks!

Thankyou to Pam from Get Silvered who sent me the scan, and to Peta from Petrafanella who will be giving me some hard copies.
Also a BIG thankyou to Emma from Dropstitch who wrote such an awesome piece about my work, she is such a talented girlie.

Click on the image to read the article and see the pictures....

BurdaStyle's Best of 2009

I really enjoy sewing, and unfortunately dont get to do as much of it as I'd like, so I tend to live vicariously (or, at least sew vicariously) through the projects of members of sites like craftster and BurdaStyle. They've released their "best of 2009" since I was there last, and I loved this so much had to share... she did it with no pattern! Amasing!


EDIT:

Just thought of something. New Year's Resolution.

I resolve in 2010 to sew at least 1 accessory or item of clothing per month, and to post my progress here on my blog.

Anyone want to join me in the "once-a-month-sew-and-tell"?

xoxo enjoy your New Year's celebrations tonight, and dont forget to stay safe!

See you next year! (I swear, that never gets old!)

I Imagine This Would Be Quite Heavy

Heavy... but very pretty.

Its from a newly discovered (well, by me, I tend to be behind trends by about 5 months, haha) online mag called ANTLER. Enjoy :)


I wish I could rock the liquid eyeliner.

Yesterday was Grand!

Hi All,

Had great fun at Unwrapped, got sunburnt on my arms and on the end of my nose, so I'm Christmas themed, just like Rudolf!

Got a couple of features yesterday too, which is always appreciated SO much, thankyou from the bottom of my heart!

Front Page on Etsy!

Plus the lovely (and well dressed!) Emma from Dropstitch did a little write up on Unwrapped and included some photos of me and my 'Ingrid Pattern Portrait' necklaces, click the banner below to read it, and make sure you read her blog from now on :)



xo to you all, and I hope you're Holiday shopping is going well/finished!

Lauren

No Opinion, Just Stunned.

I know lots of you may think I've had my head in the sand for the past year or so, but I only stumbled across this amasing person today.

Tavi Gevinson.

13 years old, sits at fashion shows seats away from Anna Wintour and Gwen Stefani. And her favourite label is Comme des Garcons. Which I simply dont have the capacity to even look at as fashion; coture at its most extravagant I just look the other way and let the people who know about such things look instead.

I'm not sure wether to be impressed, sickened, saddened, happy, wildly jealous or excessively greatful.

On a slightly less confusing note, the best thing that came from this whole experience is learning about a tv series called Freaks and Geeks (one of her favourites), and that one of the characters is Sweets from Bones. But younger. Much younger.

Hello, I am Really Really Busy.

... and really, shouldnt be blogging about being busy as it is just one more thing to do, but have decided to show you tidbits of what I am up to and will continiue to do until Saturday arvo!

Pretty please come to visit me, you can do your X-mas shopping in the city at the same time.

Just hop off the train in the city centre, and head over Roe Street into the Cultural Centre, and keep an eye out for our fake grass floor marquee!!!

What I Wore Today

Yep, hopping on the wardrobe bandwagon!

Dove Love Necklace from Me.
Black Singlet from Cotton On.
High Waisted Denims from Ebay.
Floral Top from Target.

Unseen: Bright Green Thongs from Havaianas.

Summer is coming! Summer is coming! Yay!

kisshug Lauren

p.s. Did some laser cutting today. Was fun.

Budget? Whats a Budget?

Hmmmm, I'm thinking of dropping my Yen subscription for a Peppermint subscription instead... Two issues left on my Yen subscription, and just signed up for a year of Peppermint. So far the only other mag I subscribe is Frankie...




What do you guys think?

xo

Noa Noa - be still my Heart

Oh my lordy.

This stuff is really nice...

... and it has, hands down, the most beautiful styling and photography I have even seen in my 20 years...

Thank you dearly Haute Design Blog.

Take a look at it all here, and their latest stuff on their website.

They even do kids stuff. Almost makes me want to change my mind about not pro-creating.



But not quite.


p.s. Niina! "Pugs not Drugs!" :)

New Things that are Old

You know how yesterday I was whining about being tired... well I forgot to mention that it was also because I had been to uni, printing poster/sign stuff for Made On The Left in addition to poster bombing AND I also went op-shopping on the way home at my very favourite bunch of op-shops (which I'm going to keep secret, sorry!)

And although I didnt find as much as normal (being tired makes me not see the "potential" of a piece so easily), I came away with items that are probably part of my Top Ten Things I've Found At An Op-Shop.

A beautifull camelia ring that is REALLY good quality and will be easily moulded for future OSIER adventures, and some spunky Art Deco style 80's enamelled earrings!

Oh how I love a good find.

Sad side to the story: There were 12 or so AWESOME orange vinyl stackable dining chairs in the furniture section of one of the shops... for $2 each. I had nowhere to store them and it made me sad that I had to leave them behind. I stood there staring at them and patting them for a good minute or so trying to justify buying them, but I just couldnt do it. I cant wait to decorate my home with op-shop finds when I move out. Maybe by the time that happens the set will have found its way back to the op-shop again, albeit with a few more knicks and bumps. Who knows.

So... Pretty...

Oh how I wish I had enough money that spending $295 USD on a single peice of clothing was even remotely justified.

It has all the credentials of a great coat:

red.
handmade.
thick fabric so I can be toasty.
NOT polar fleece (that stuff is almost as bad as crocs), it is instead wool, which is excellent.
high collar.
big buttons.

Plus some cool extras like puffed shoulders and a big slouchy hood. The only gripes I have are its not belted (with my figure I need a belt or else I end up looking like I have a bun in the oven), and that the pockets are a little weird-io.

So for now it looks like I'll have to make do with my Nanna's vintage red coat and alter it. I'll show you before and after pics later shall I?

But first comes ....folio.

I've got knots in my stomach just THINKING about it.



xoxo

p.s. silly me, didnt mention where the lovely coat is from... Little Houses at Etsy