Over the weekend I visited The Vintage Fair (Custard Factory, Birmingham)

On offer was a range of stalls, handmade jewellery, a vintage hair salon and tea and cake.

What more can a girl want? Tea, shopping and cake!

With A/W around the corner it’s more than likely time to update your winter wardrobe. Vintage fairs are the perfect way for any trendsetter or fashion follower to get hold of unique and current items for a fraction of the recommended retail price.

 We all know the first rule of fashion is that it repeats itself.

The multiple number of times I’ve heard my mum tell me..“I used to have a pair of those when I was younger…”

 So why not visit your local fair?

Current trends are more than likely inspired by styles adopted from previous generations.

It’s a fun diversion from your usual high street shopping schedule.

Retro inspired designs continuously re emerge on the catwalks so vintage clothes are great investments.

 I managed to get my hands on a few goodies.. check out my best buys:

 Vintage shirt in light salmon – Urban Village Sale Shop £3

http://www.urban-village.co.uk/

Patent Horse Belt – £3

Love me do Vintage 

Photo Frame Ring – £4

Chain Stone Ring – £5

Both from MACnificent

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Joy Division Vest -£15  (Variety of designs available in the Oasis Market)

Must have vintage inspired looks for A/W 2011.

1920′s - THINK FRINGING. 

Keep your eye out for a 1920′s flapper dress

This frock stays timeless whatever the era.

Chanel Fall Runway 2011 at Grand Palais

Black Flapper Dress with transparent V neckline.

Photo courtesy of style.com

Cambridge

The Vintage Furniture Flea – 12^th November The Cambridge Guidhall

Time

TBA

Leeds

The Vintage Kilo Sale

 Saturday 15^th October Headingly Methodist Church 10.00am – 4.00pm

London

Bethnal Green’s Affordable Vintage Fair

23rd Oct Bethnal Green

York Hall

London

Early Bird 10.30

General 11.00 – 16.30

Manchester

Manchester’s Affordable Vintage Fair

Sunday 30th October 2011

The New Cavern Emporium

17 Wrigley Head, Failsworth

Manchester, M35 9BS

10:00 – 5:00

Free entry/ Free Parking

Nottingham

The Vintage, Antiques and Arts Weekend

Fri 7th – 9th October 2011

The Hopkinson, 21 Station Street,

Fri – 19:00 – 23:00

Sat/Sun – 11:00 – 17:00

Sheffield

Judy’s affordable Vintage Fair – Saturday 26^th November, Sheffield City Hall

Time TBA 

If you missed the event, fear not as I managed to get the business cards on the stalls that caught my eye.

LOVE ME DO VINTAGE

www.lovemedovintage.com 

THE VINTAGE DIRECTORY 

www.thevintagedirectory.co.uk 

SPANKT VINTAGE 

https://marketplace.asos.com/boutique/spanktvintage

ROCK FOLLIES VINTAGE

www.rockfolliesvintage.co.uk 

Stay posted for updates on the latest vintage fairs, student lock-ins and anything else that might tickle your fancy.

Kanye West debuted his womenswear collection in Paris Saturday, in front of an audience that included the designers Azzedine Alaia, Joseph Altuzarra, Alexander Wang, Dean and Dan Caten, Olivier Theyskens, Jeremy Scott, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, plus Anna Wintour.

During his after-party that evening at Club Silencio, West grabbed the microphone to make the following speech: “Thank you for anybody that didn’t believe, because they motivated us to break our boundaries. We don’t know what the reviews will be, we don’t know what they will say, but I got a chance to go to Italy and feel those fabrics. I begged Louis Vuitton to let me do more shoes after my shoes sold out in two weeks, and they did not. I begged Nike, I begged this company to let me do it. And I took out motherf*cking loans to get the best models, to get the best designers, to get the best venue. I gave you everything that I had.”

He continued: “This is my first collection. Please be easy. Please give me a chance to grow. This is not some celebrity sh*t. I don’t f*ck with celebrities. I f*ck with the creatives in this room, the amazing people who spend every day of their life trying to make the world a more beautiful place. The amount of people that tried to get me a celebrity f*cking deal. They said, ‘You need to do boot-cut jeans, or you won’t sell.’ Shut the f*ck up ! Or Hedi Slimane in the motherf*cking Mercer, sitting with me, saying, ‘Stop giving them your ideas, Kanye. Do your own thing.’ Hedi Slimane! To feel so frustrated. And I thank anybody who came to this party, everybody who supported, everybody who believed, because people thought it was a joke, and maybe people still do, but I can only grow from this point.”

The reviews came in later, and there were some criticisms. Suzy Menkes noted: “Mr. West followed the sexual energy of the Balmain style, with well-made clothes in fine fabrics. But a celebrity tag and a lively audience filled with music-business friends, does not cut it in Paris.”WWD wrote: “A white dress with a strip of a racer back and a pair of colorful leather pants were nice. But in general the leathers and cuts were too clunky. The rest of the collection cribbed from the work of the designers he admires, many of whom were sitting in the audience, and whose ranks he intends to join.” The New York Times‘s Eric Wilson blogged: “There was one good-looking pair of color-blocked pants in blue and coral, but it was obvious that most of the clothes suffered from a poor fit.” And from The Wall Street Journal: ”A vast quantity of luxury materials can’t blind people to a lack of creative marksmanship.”

Cathy Horyn writes that the day after the show, West acknowledged criticism like the poor fit and the casting, and: “He was completely open about the learning-curve problems and indicated that he planned to deal with them.”

Article written and sourced from www.Fashionologie.com

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