Fashion | I Get a Kick out of you

Rustic Cool – Get the Look

March 23, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I’ve tracked down a few worthy products which would look very much at home in my lifestyle lust hit-list. Just need to make a few pennies now! Venetian Chandelier, Pale & Interesting £180 Select your own mirror, The Dormy House from £95 Han Cabinet, OKA £335 Cafe Lamp, Pedlars £65 Pin Up Girl Poster, All Posters £28.99 Peony Dressing Table, The White Cottage Company £240 Next week, another Hollywood icon, or in this case a St Tropez resident, I wonder […]

Categories: Interiors, Photography2, vintage • Tags: all posters, art, craft, design, diy, dressing table, Fashion, hollywood icon, Inspiration, Interiors, lifestyle, oka, photography, pin up girl, shopping, style, vintage

Leave a comment

Lyn Gardener, Melbourne, Vintage style, rustic

Rustic Cool – Lifestyle Lust Part 2

March 21, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Here is the second part of my lifestyle lust. Today it’s rustic cool – although, surprisingly, only the last one is actually in the countryside. So enjoy the delights of interior designer and shop owner, Lyn Gardener in Melbourne, interiors photographer Laura Resen in upstate New York and Karen Harrison in Sussex. Meanwhile I’ll be thinking up some accompanying inspired buys for the end of the week…. Photographs: Lyn Gardener – Tim James for Living Etc Jan 09, Laura […]

Categories: Interiors • Tags: craft, culture, design, diy, Fashion, home, Inspiration, Interiors, laura resin, lifestyle, Living etc, lyn gardener, photography, style, travel, vintage

Artisan Homes – Get the Look

March 16, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Following on from my Lifestyle Lust, I thought it might be an idea to investigate some Inspired Buys. Ok, so if you were really one of these creative ladies you would just happen to stumble across these treasures, no doubt from a skip or a backpacking trip up Katmandu – but if the skips round your way don’t elicit much excitement, you have a little cash to burn and you want it NOW………some ideas to ponder: Eiko Cabinet, Anthropologie £1198 […]

Categories: Interiors, vintage • Tags: art, craft, culture, design, diy, dressmaking, Fashion, Inspiration, Interiors, jewelery, lifestyle, photography, shopping, style, vintage

Leave a comment

Mia Widlake, South Africa, Lifestyle Lust

Artisan Homes – Lifestyle Lust Part 1

March 15, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I moved a year ago and I now finally have the time to get to grips with my new abode. I have always found that the period and build of a house dictates my interior choices. Which is why we moved in the first place, from a very period Edwardian house, to a more ratty Victorian one. I’m not an ordered chintzy kind of gal – I like my creative “stuff” and I like it around me – much to […]

Categories: Interiors, Photography2, vintage • Tags: Amy Butler, Ariele Alasko, art, Carpentry, craft, design, diy, dressmaking, Elle decoration. Living etc, Emma Cassi, Fashion, history, Inspiration, interior choices, Interiors, Jewellery, lifestyle, photography, shopping, style, Textiles, vintage

Ulyana Seregenko, Autum Winter Collection 2012

From Russia With Love

March 12, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

I normally lust over the March editions of fashion magazines – identifying the summer trends I like and then searching for affordable options in the high street supplements. It’s a twice yearly routine. But I have to be honest, other than the flapper dressses and the fifities crop bustiers, this year has left me a little cold – I’m not sure why? I was starting to think maybe it was an age thing – which is never a good road […]

Categories: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Fashion • Tags: art, Brigitte Bardot, clothing, cotton dresses, culture, design, Fashion, fashion illustration, films, history, knitted sweaters, movies, photography, russian crafts, style

Bell Jar, industrial style, wooden cabinet

The Bell Jar

March 9, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Whenever I see Bell Jars, I think of Sylvia Plath. I studied her works for English Literature and it’s extraordinary how things that you have studied long ago, which you thought of at the time as just throw-away, seep into the unconscious and resurface at a later date. The book is often thought of as a “roman a clef”, or in lay-men’s terms, a written parallel of Plath’s own life and her descent into mental illness. Whilst the book ends […]

Categories: Interiors • Tags: art, bell jars, books, craft, decor8, design, Fashion, history, Interiors, lifestyle, literature, nature, photography, reviews, style, sylvia plath

Leave a comment

Emilia Wickstead, Red and Pink, Autumn/ Winter 2012

Strawberry Daiquiri

March 7, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

Inspired by Emilia Wickstead’s Autumn Winter 2012 collection, today’s inspired buys are all strawberry flavoured. Two colours which should be a no-no – pink and red, work gloriously – from the Mae West Salvador Dali sofa to vintage Audrey Hepburn. This is a vintage colour combination – think red nails and lips with a pale pink ensemble. And some strawberry treats to tempt the purse strings – just in time for spring! APC Top 180E Plumo Jackson Dress – £215 Chanel N05 […]

Categories: 1950s, Fashion • Tags: 1950s, apc, art, Chanel, design, Fashion, fashion illustration, films, Glamour, history, Interiors, kurt geiger, movies, netaporter, photography, plumo, shopping, style, vintage, vogue

Showtime

March 5, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

“Gonna rouge my knees and roll my stockings down……and all that jazz”. Those words are ringing in my ears and probably will be for a few weeks! A few of us from PUSH performed three numbers from Chicago for an evening’s entertainment and to raise money for the PUSH Foundation. Needless to say it was fabulous and fun and a little nerve-wracking. Although I knew a little about Bob Fosse, the great choreographer and director of such shows as […]

Categories: Dance, Fashion, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: art, books, burlesque, Cabaret, Chicago, Costume Design, culture, dance, design, dressmaking, Entertainment, Fashion, fashion illustration, films, Fosse, history, Liza Minelli, movies, music, style, vintage

Leave a comment

A Dress of Envy – Atonement

February 29, 2012 by igetakickoutofyou

My very gorgeous cousin in law was going to a wedding at St Paul’s Cathedral and she asked me to make her a dress. Aha, I thought, another one to add to the recreating vintage list. When asked what sort of dress she would like, she replied “that green dress in Atonement”. Hmmm – not just any dress, that green dress in Atonement – who doesn’t want that green dress? I have lusted after that dress since the first time […]

Categories: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Fashion, vintage, Vintage Inspiration • Tags: 1930s, Atonement, books, craft, design, diy, dressmaking, Entertainment, Fashion, fashion illustration, films, history, Kiera Knightley, movies, photography, reviews, style, vintage