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Style Crush – The Girl From Love Street

June 10, 2013 by igetakickoutofyou

I experienced a real stab of nostalgia while watching Mad Men this week. When Megan appeared in her indian hippie dress, it really took me back to my school and university days (an indie trend you understand, I wasn’t born until the seventies!) and a whopping great infatuation with all things bohemian. In sixth-form I had a huge girl-crush on a friend called Polly. She was in my English class and knew her literature like noone else, particularly poetry. She […]

Categories: 1960s, Fashion, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1960s, art, arts, beauty, Bohemian stye, craft, culture, design, dressmaking, Entertainment, Fashion, film, films, Hippie style, Inspiration, lifestyle, movies, music, Pamela Courson, photography, style, The Doors, vintage

George Hurrell – Shadowcaster

June 3, 2013 by igetakickoutofyou

“A Hurrell portrait is to the ordinary publicity stills what a Rolls-Royce is to a roller-skate”. This is how George Hurrell, MGM’s main man, was described in Esquire magazine in 1936. Marlene Dietrich Veronica Lake George swept into town with the intention of becoming a painter, only once he started photographing heiresses, with his signature dramatic spotlight, creating sculptured cheekbones and glowing skin, he never looked back. Carole Lombard By 1929 he had a contract with […]

Categories: 1930s, 1940s, 1970, Fashion, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1930s, 1940s, art, arts, beauty, celebrities, culture, Entertainment, Fashion, film, films, George Hurrell, Glamour, history, hollywood, Inspiration, Jane Russell, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, marlene dietrich, movies, photography, veronica lake, vintage

Eclectic Makeover, Italian Style

May 16, 2013 by igetakickoutofyou

Check out this stunning 19th century villa in Reggio Emilia. It manages to mix glamour, salvage and antique style all into one. In fact, I pinched this from Elle Decoration Country – and I’m totally loving this magazine. I’m not massively into designer interiors and this is just full of the electic, collector-style homes. Right up my street – and I think the second edition is out soon, so keep your eye out for it. Images by Fabrizio Ciccioni/ Living […]

Categories: Interiors • Tags: art, arts, craft, design, diy, Elle Decoration Country, Fabrizio Cicconi, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, photography, style, vintage

Somerset House, Boden Style

May 9, 2013 by igetakickoutofyou

I have just returned from Somerset House, where my good friend Emma and I were able to sample preview pieces from the next Boden Autumn Winter 2013 range. Forgetting the clothes for just a second, the styling for this event was “amazing”. The rooms were decked out with loads of quirky details which have just given me inspiration overload. What do you make of this? So now I know what to do with David’s collection of old tapes! And I […]

Categories: Fashion, Interiors, Photography2, vintage • Tags: art, arts, Boden, craft, design, diy, Fashion, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, photography, shopping, Somerset House, style, travel, vintage

Carolyn Everitt, Card illustration, pin up girl with lace-cat ears.

Project X Goes Live

May 6, 2013 by igetakickoutofyou

Firstly the pole shoot went well (I think)! I have yet to see the pics but we worked our backsides off and made a pretty good team, I might add. So I’m hoping there must be some money shots there. I certainly have the bruises to prove it! Watch this space people…. Secondly, I can now finally launch Project X. I have been collecting a few of my illustrations which people have “liked” on the blog and decided to get […]

Categories: Fashion, Illustration, vintage • Tags: art, arts, Ballet, beauty, burlesque, craft, culture, dance, design, diy, Etsy, Fashion, fashion illustration, Glamour, greeting cards, illustration, Inspiration, Lace cat ears, nudes, photography, shopping, style, vintage

Perfect Pointe

April 30, 2013 by igetakickoutofyou

How gorgeous is this shoot from an equally gorgeous blog called Travelling Mama? Makes me want to turn back the clock, be a ballerina, live in Copenhagen and ……organise my wardrobe while on pointe (perhaps not!) Love those colours and I’m all over those leg warmers: I have my own pole shoot on Friday and I’m hoping to include a few pics on pointe (if I can bear it!) Haven’t done that in a while, I can tell you. The […]

Categories: Dance, Fashion • Tags: art, arts, Ballet, beauty, culture, dance, design, Entertainment, Fashion, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, photography, style, travel

Josephine Verine Gutzburger, interior design, Living etc magazine

Once A Lowly Cattle Shed

April 15, 2013 by igetakickoutofyou

I’m afraid my blogging may be a little sporadic over the next few months, what with the extension and all. As we speak, a log cabin in being built in the back garden, to house some of the furniture which has no where to go, and I have been allocated a two day slot to prime and paint – the inside and the outside! So from tomorrow it’s going to be a case of pole and paint! On the subject […]

Categories: Interiors • Tags: art, arts, Burgundy, craft, culture, design, diy, Inspiration, Interiors, Josephine Verine Gintzburger, lifestyle, photography, restoration, style, travel, vintage

Juergen Teller Adventure

April 10, 2013 by igetakickoutofyou

Apologies it has been at least two weeks since I’ve blogged and I’m usually a lot more punctual. The reason being a) maybe it’s the weather but I haven’t been hugely inspired lately b) the builders have arrived and I’m trying to pack up my kitchen so that it will fit into a tiny study upstairs and c) I’ve been doing a lot of drawing for something called Project X which I will elaborate on in a future post. Anyway, […]

Categories: Fashion, Photography2, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: advertising, art, arts, beauty, celebrities, culture, design, Fashion, Inspiration, Juergen Teller, Kate Moss, photography, shopping, style, vintage