TopShop gets Vintage for the London Fashion Week 2010

Here you are with another collaboration between a fashion retailer, TopShop, and a fashion collector, Vintage Academe, specialist in the very best of 20th Century women's fashion and haute couture from around the world. 

Pieces from Vintage Academe, including Jeanne Lanvin, Chanel, Ossie Clark, Azzedine Alaia and Balenciaga will be showcased in  a week long pop-up shop at Topshop’s Oxford Circus store starting Feb 18th in occasion of the London Fashion Week.

The installation will be curated by Clare Nicholls from Vintage Academe, author and fashion historian, while Judith Watt will be in-store to give the history behind some of the clothes and the designers who created them.

Some pieces can be tried and available to buy with vintage-styling advice from Topshop Style Advisors.


Where:
TopShop Oxford Circus Store
London
When:
18th-23rd  February 2010

Sale! Massive Vintage Sale by Angel Retro. London 6th February

This is a 'must go' event, a sale that London vintage lovers can't absolutely miss out. Angels Retro, famous for dressing the entertainment industry since 1840 and for its collection of costumes and accessories, by far the largest  in the world, will host a massive retro SALE in its Wembley warehouse next Saturday, 6th February.

Over 25,000 items of clothing and accessories featuring fashion items from the 1950s all the way through to the 1990s, including suits, skirts and blazers from the 1980s; 1970s coats, trousers and dresses; 1960s coats and skirts; and vintage handbags.



Items will not be individually priced but customers will be free to fill special plastic bags with whatever they desire. Medium-size bag will cost £ 20 and a supersize bag £ 50, but of course, you can fill as many as bags you wish to!

Doors open at 8:30 and entrance ticket  is £ 5

Where:
7 Courtenay Road,
Wembley,
HA9 7ND
London
When:
6th February 2010

Are the 1990s Vintage?

Selfridges pronounced sentence: the 1990s are Vintage! And, in collaboration with Rellik and Beyond Retro, London's legendary vintage stores,  it is celebreting  the 1990s with a Vintage Concept Store. Launched with a big party last 8th January (Peaches Geldof was, of course, one of the guests!) the store will be running till  29th January. As reported on Selfridges website,  a selection of  vintage pieces including 90s Chanel,  M.A.C's iconic Twig lip liner, HMV's Top 50 films of the 90s (with Titanic on the list) and an exclusive collection of YBA print's including Damien Hirst's Spots will be on sale.

Where:
The concept store can be found on the ground floor of Selfridges, in London's Oxford Street.
When: 8th- 29th January 2010