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Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Wedding inspiration: Ten 60s celebrity weddings

It's no secret that I love the sixties. I've blogged before about sixties style, hair, dancing, guys, boutiques, and even how to have a sixties Christmas.

Now, here's some awesome sixties wedding photos for you to enjoy and possibly take inspiration from.


Audrey Hepburn & Andrea Dotti, 1969

Cilla Black & Bobby Willis, 1969 (She wore the amazing feather trimmed dress to her church ceremony and a red velvet mini with white tights to the registry office).

Elvis & Priscilla Presley, 1967

Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash, 1968 (her dress was blue lace!)

 John Lennon & Yoko Ono, 1969

Lulu & Maurice Gibb, 1969

Mia Farrow & Frank Sinatra, 1966

Patti Boyd & George Harrison, 1966

Pete Townshend & Karen Astley, 1968

Raquel Welch & Patrick Curtis, 1967

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Hmm... what can I show you?

I haven't had much to post lately, because I've been working on making my wedding dress (!) and I don't want to show any photos of that process until after the wedding! I've also been working on some bridesmaid dresses for someone else's wedding, so that's another project I don't want to share until it's all done. So... what can I show you?

MAR13

My March 2013 collection rack is starting to fill up... don't worry, it's not ALL tie-dye. I just haven't finished the other stuff yet. I'm a little bit behind my original schedule, because I made those plans before I got engaged so didn't factor in the wedding dress! I think this collection will be called Angie. I'll be starting to list items in the Etsy store over the next few weeks.

Bell Street- countess top

This is my favourite piece so far. I've called it the Countess top because the neckline and flutter sleeves were inspired by a dress worn by Cora on Downton Abbey. I love that show!

MAY13

Speaking of collections, I've got a bit of a moodboard going for the next one. The map was painted by my mum for our storybook inspired wedding invitations. I had already decided on the colours for the collection before I realised that the map fits in perfectly!

A couple more things from around the apartment:
plants, books & vintage clock

I'm very much liking this corner of the living room. The whole room needs more plants and more books.

world map with fairy lights

This world map, with black dots for places visited, has been on my wall in four different apartments now. I thought I'd fancy it up with some fairy lights.

stormy

It's been nice and cool in Manila lately, and raining on and off all day today. I realised that I can get a bit of a panorama shot by taking photos from different windows! The area we lived in Sydney was very residential so I'm still getting used to seeing so many buildings in every direction. It's never boring.

Monday, December 3, 2012

Moodboard for March 2013


Thought I'd share my moodboard for my next collection. It's inspired by busy cities like Tokyo and will feature hand-dyed textiles in moody indigo and grey, with touches of citrus yellow. Geometric shapes and sharp angles balance out the watery look of the fabrics. It'll be a small transeasonal collection - a couple of dresses, some tops,  light outerwear, a couple of skirts and a cute pair of shorts. I'm aiming to have it all finished and in the shop by early March. I've got a lot of other projects to work on at the moment with settling into our new apartment (yes! we moved in on Saturday!), making my wedding dress (!) and a bit of custom work, so I'm giving myself plenty of time to get it all done. Now I just need to wait for my sewing machines & other equipment to arrive so I can really get started!

I should mention that the photos used above & their original sources can be found on my March 2013 Pinterest board.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Sixties hair inspiration

I love all the amazing hair styles of the sixties. There were the super edgy, modern short styles popularised by Twiggy (top & bottom left), Edie Sedgwick (centre) and my idol, Mary Quant (top right)...

... the hilarious, so-much-hairspray-I've-created-my-own-helmet look seen on TV housewives...

...and the cute blunt fringes (or bangs, as US readers would call them) favoured by Cathy McGowan (top left) and that girl holding a giant pocket watch for no apparent reason (bottom left... as if she needed pointing out).

My favourite style is the loose, slightly messy layered styles full of volume, done to perfection by Brigitte Bardot (left), Jean Shrimpton (top right) and Steph from Quadrophenia (bottom right). How perfect is that beehive-ponytail in the orangey-yellow photo? I can never get my hair to do that.

I can, however, get a pretty good half-up-half-down beehive going when I make the effort.

         

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Dancing Mods


This post would probably be more accurately titled 'Pictures of people in the sixties dancing and looking awesome'. Because I just love looking at pictures of people in the sixties dancing and looking awesome. I hope you do too.

Oh yeah, I also love The Who.












All of these photos come from the Dancing Mods Tumblr... which I actually made myself a few years ago, before I realised how time consuming tumblr is! I did leave it online though, and there is a button to submit so if you come across any pictures that fit in, send 'em in!

If you want to see GIFs of people in the sixties dancing and looking awesome, check out my Quadrophenia post and my 'Dance Like a Mod' post.

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Things to look at on a Sunday night

The title says it all - this is just a random selection of photos, art, fashion and design that have caught my attention lately.

1960s London by Tripendicular


Amethyst by The Pairabirds

 Miu Miu in Dazed and Confused (via slow motion crawl)

Clementine by Ashley Goldberg

I don't know where this photo is from. It's cool though.

 Explore the Universe, via Etsydudes

 Awesome girl with a clock, via Tripendicular

Bend chairs (via Elle Decor)

Collaged map artwork by Matthew Cusick (via but does it float)

Krisatomic's map of London


Kasimir Melavich
Suprematism (Supremus No. 58)
1916 (via Hollywood Babylon)

New York by Bianca Gomez (via Grain Edit)



It was my birthday on Friday. I had a 60s party.