Second article published for Demur Magazine online! Magazine will be out soon, check it out!!!

http://demuronline.com/demur/2012/07/your-winter-wardrobe-demurpopshop/

My First ever published article on the Demur Magazine website 

http://demuronline.com/demur/2012/07/first-london-collections-men-schedule/

Enjoy! 

Vintage Fashion???

Right so I am about to have a little rant...here goes...

As the demand for vintage fashion increases, what constitutes as vintage fashion does too.  Then I find myself wondering what is vintage fashion? When I first began shopping for vintage clothing, I would class 50s, 60s, 70s, even 80s as vintage, especially when I wanted to claim my mums old clothes were a new vintage find.  Now is seems that anything up to 2000 can be labelled as vintage fashion.  Has the definition of vintage clothing changed or is it just the demand causing people to take the definition too far? Ebay sellers and ASOS Marketplace label many items as vintage and sites such as ATELIER-MAYER.com sell ‘vintage’ from 1900 all the way up to 2000!  Even buyers of high street brands easily label their clothes as ‘vintage’ just because they may resemble something they once saw in an old photograph! 

Vintage was described as something at least 25 years old, which would technically include the 90s, but some take it far enough to claim something from two seasons ago is vintage, that can’t be right, can it?

Vintage, to me, was always something that was one of a kind.  Something you knew no one else would be wearing whatever the occasion.  Two seasons ago wouldn’t really mean much to me, as I still have clothes from five years ago hidden in the back of my wardrobe, maybe I could pass those off as vintage now.  

It seems to have become more of a matter of opinion and not something you can give a true definition.  Just make sure whatever you are buying with a vintage label is what you would constitute as a vintage piece.  For me it will always be from at least the 80s, a piece I have had to rummage through the charity shops for.  One thing I must confess about the increasing popularity of vintage fashion, is that vintage clothing shops like Rokit and Beyond Retro are my fashion heaven.  The online shopping makes it so much easier to get the vintage look I want, so I guess the love for vintage fashion soaring isn’t all bad.  As some people would say vintage should speak of the era in which it was produced of a certain quality, standard, fashion, design and aesthetic.  If you are happy that the vintage clothing you have bought represent the best of that fashion era then no harm is done! 

Bicester Village

So I took a trip to the fashion outlet shopping city Bicester Village this weekend and I wasn't sure how to rate my trip.  I had heard so much, but in the end it is just another place filled with outlet stores and if you can't afford the full price designer, the discounted versions aren't really going to be in your reach either.   It was probably more naivety on my part that everything would be high street prices, and that of course was not the case!

It was however one beautifully laid out, actually looking like a village (probably the point) and I got rather excited when I saw Gucci like a little tourist taking pictures of it all.

Then seeing Vivienne Westwood shoes which were adorable...

The highlight of my day have to be when I finally knew what people meant by love at first sight with this Burberry jacket, this was just WOW.

I can't say I didn't reach my objective going to Bicester Village however, as I did get my graduation dress :D which show there are one or two affordable shops!

But I won't be revealing what's inside until the day sorry guys!!!