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Vintage About Town?
By Shrimpton Couture at 17 November, 2009, 12:12 am
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – Life at the Shrimpton Couture studios has been a little bit of a jet-set whirlwind lately. Since my last column I have jetted off to New York for a week, attended an invitation only opening of the new Burberry shop in Toronto, sat on a panel discussion at The [...]
Read More >>Shrimpton Couture: Halloween is a four-letter word for vintage
By Shrimpton Couture at 30 October, 2009, 1:32 pm
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – Halloween is a bad, bad word around my house
For a girl who deals in vintage on a daily basis, this holiday creates a sense of dread. Not the fun, scary movie kind, but the girl-on-a-mission-to-rescue-perfectly wearable-vintage-from-the-ghouls-and-goblins-who-do-not-know-better-and-she-might-just-fail-at-her-task, kind of dread.
As soon as the leaves begin to turn, my buyers and I [...]
Fashion Now, Vintage sooner
By Shrimpton Couture at 17 October, 2009, 8:08 am
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – When the air begins to turns crisp (and it has!) I can’t help but to start thinking of fall frocks, fabulous coats and boots galore! It’s hard not to when you look out your window and see the colored leaves falling from the trees, not to mention being inundated [...]
Read More >>SHRIMPTON COUTURE: Second chances.
By Shrimpton Couture at 11 October, 2009, 9:41 pm
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – The subject of this column was supposed to be my whirlwind weekend in London with My Guy, filled with anecdotes of discovering the vintage secrets of that glorious city and tales of our adventures. Instead, the entire trip was canceled and my column is weeks behind its regular schedule. [...]
Read More >>SHRIMPTON COUTURE: Fashion Week Musing
By Shrimpton Couture at 12 September, 2009, 8:47 am
NEW YORK (Herald de Paris) – Unless you live under a very non-fashionable rock, you are probably aware that it is Fashion Week in New York City. These are THE shows of the year, with editors, clients, bloggers and media all vying for the right invites to the right shows and it is a [...]
Read More >>SHRIMPTON COUTURE: Q & A With Wendy Brandes
By Shrimpton Couture at 2 September, 2009, 8:09 am
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – Wendy Brandes loves vintage and I love Wendy Brandes’ jewelry, so I asked her to indulge me with an interview.
Because I like to be unique, I conducted this interview differently than a normal interview (see my last column on being considered odd as reference to this idea). I decided to [...]
SHRIMPTON COUTURE: The Odd Landscape of Vintage
By Shrimpton Couture at 14 August, 2009, 10:05 pm
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – My step-daughter made an interesting confession to me a few days ago. She told me that when she first met me, seeing my archives and shop, that she thought I was a bit odd. Weird, actually. She wondered what her father was doing with someone who was obsessed with, “old [...]
Read More >>Shrimpton Couture & Vintage label resurrection.
By Shrimpton Couture at 29 July, 2009, 8:22 am
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – I am sure that by now you have heard that the recently revived Ossie Clark label will soon be no more. Too many of us in the vintage world, that news came as no great surprise. I say that with a bit of sadness, being a silly sentimentalist that [...]
Read More >>SHRIMPTON COUTURE: Behind the Seams.
By Shrimpton Couture at 16 July, 2009, 7:53 am
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – Sometimes, my vintage dresses get to do far more exciting things that I do. Like go on photo shoots, where they get to share the spotlight with the beautiful girls who wear them.
Recently, I was contacted by Angela Y. Martin of AYM Photography. Angela is a freelance photographer whose fashion [...]
SHRIMPTON COUTURE: Hooked For Life
By Shrimpton Couture at 6 July, 2009, 12:31 pm
TORONTO (Herald de Paris) – My first experience with buying vintage was at the thrift store level. I was 16 and could not afford to buy much in the way of new clothes. So I was looking for an alternative. I have always been obsessed with fashion even when I barely knew what it [...]
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