The Event has started!

Its on! The FIRST annual Luxe for Less sale is on - site wide markdowns up to 70%!
Screw the malls - stay in your pajamas and go shop NOW

Contest Results

These 4 ALL have won a $25 Gift Certificate

From her blog entry @Hanako66 for Crazy couture
@nfenton for Couture Extravaganza sale
@bastylefilegirl for Vanishing Vintage Sale &
@RenaissGourmet for Vintage Extravaganza

On Twitter RIGHT NOW I am running a final showdown for these last two: @KatAragon Luxe for Less Sale &
@LuvSunflower Year end couture sale

The winner by your vote will get $100 and the runner-up $50

You can vote here too!

Huge Sale and A Mini Contest!!!!

I have compulsively decided that I will be running a all new ANNUAL event once a year (hence the annual part) to clean out the racks and get the site ready for new stock for the new year. ALL the designers that work with vintage will be taking part and pretty much every vintage item on the site will be marked down. This is NOT a 10% off event - this is a almost every item is 20-60 and even a few are 70% off event! I shit you not. My vintage, couture and the reworked vintage need to get to their new girls and I have way too much new stuff to list and I don't want the site to get too bogged down.

Now everything is in place and I just need a NAME for the event. I figure that you are far more brighter and creative them I am so I have decided to run a mini contest for today only. Leave your name suggestions in the comments and if your name is the winner I will give you a $100 Gift card to use on ANYTHING on the site! You can also facebook your suggestion or tweet it to me but all entries have to come in today and the winner will be announced tomorrow morning!

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PS
I created a Sale Archive this week too so when you go cruise through the site you will not have to slog through pages of sold items.

AND

Thank you for all your lovely support this year
I love what I do and its because of all of YOU!
xoxoxoxoox

Gorgeous Outfit Alert

I have just listed these two fantastic pieces and I had to photo them together because that is how the original owner often wore them! The coat is Malcolm Starr and the dress is Pat Sandler and they do contrast wonderfully together don't you think? Each is shot through with gold thread and the camera does not come close to picking up the sheen the piece have. Its this same gold thread that acts as a neutral and makes the pieces work together too.
Its when outfits like this come in that a curse my too big curves!

See the Malcolm Starr Coat here
and the Pat Sandler dress here

Its an Ossie Clark day!

I have just listed this spectacular and MINT two piece Ossie Clark suit. Its black moss crepe and piped in bright yellow satin. Its just f*&king fabulous

See it in all its glory here

Psssssst

There is a MAJOR update going on over at Shrimpton Couture

Lots of new items - these are just SOME of them!!

Click HERE to jump now

I Die!

This story is on the NY Times Style Magazine blog today - I think I am in heaven!
AND I am soooooo proud of my latest designer team
- Silhouettes & Profiles -
their beautiful items deserve the accolades!

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Shop Talk | Silhouettes and Profiles

By LYNN HIRSCHBERG

December 15, 2009, 1:48 pm

Courtesy of Shrimpton Couture

The designers behind Silhouettes and Profiles made “The Kira” with leftover metallic lace from an Oscar de la Renta collection.

Since I wear only vintage clothes, I spend a lot of time at Silhouettes and Profiles. The brilliant Irene Tcherniakhovsky has been perfecting my wardrobe there for the last 10 years. Recently I was bringing in a pile of repairs and I noticed this dress on display. Assuming it belonged to a customer, I checked for a label, but Irene told me that she and her co-worker, Anna Drugovahad, designed the dress. It’s called “The Kira” — black lace with a slightly empire waist and a wide grosgrain ribbon that subtly shapes the garment and makes it flattering to every figure. It’s the perfect party dress. It comes in four different fabrics, including a metallic lace left over from an Oscar de la Renta collection, and the quality is on the level of couture. At $500 dollars, “The Kira” is the best dress I have seen in a long time. It almost looks vintage.

GORGEOUS Shrimpton Couture Client Vintage Spot

One of my most favourtisest tasks on this blog is to post pictures from Shrimpton Couture clients in their fabulous Shrimpton finds. I adore knowing my dresses are out there once again living life whilst being worn by their new fabulous owners!

A few weeks ago I sold this dress to Maradene
who I also ended up throwing a trunk show bash for too
earlier the same day that she debuted her find

She sent me these two photos and I am posting this one even though its a bit of a blur
(isn't real life that way too sometimes though?)
Don't you just love this shot with her sister Lisa in the background?

And here is Maradene with her sister and daughter - gorgeous!!

Thank you for sending me these Maradene! You look beautiful in your dress!

I am completely enamoured

I popped over to the Jak & Jil Blog and saw this pictorial on Catherine Baba.

First she is spectacular.
Second she is wearing vintage
Third the pop of red is fantastic
ans forth she magically manages to ditch the red coat - where did it go?
Did she somehow mind melt with me and its on its way to my house at this very moment?
OK probably not but I had to post these to share.

LOVE

Rumours are aswirling

That it was uber fan Victoria Beckham that purchased the couture Givenchy LBD at yesterday's Audrey Hepburn auction for the bargain price of £60,000. The Chantilly lace cocktail dress was worn by Audrey in How To Steal A Million in 1966.

Personally, my fingers are crossed that it was Victoria that bought the dress. It will suit her to a tee and you know it will be properly stored and cared for. People do not realize the responsibility that comes along with truly great pieces. They have to be stored and cared for and respected. Victoria has the means and the sense to look after it properly. Although if I where her I would be a little annoyed the mask was not part of the deal.
Wouldn't you be?

Much Fun Had by All

Gorgeous intern Alli in a dress from Silhouettes & Profiles
See the full collection here

Things and life have been a bit of a whirlwind lately.

I jetted off to London to hunt for some new vintage frocks for Shrimpton Couture (watch the site this week for some of those to appear), partook in intimate Trunk show for a client and her friends and have brought a brand new line to Shrimpton Couture called Silhouettes & Profiles - they design drop dead one of a kind gorgeous dresses using vintage fabrics that they source from all corners of the earth.

Shrimpton Couture also made a bit of a splash here and there on the web this week. Wendy B posted about her and I finally meeting in real life (and she is wearing a dress from Shrimpton Couture so that alone is worth the jump over). I lent out some vintage and the last remaining harness from Norwegian Wood for Shrimpton Couture for a photoshoot for Toronto Magazine Eye Weekly (the online version is here but sadly only has the teeniest of photos - I am trying to get more and will update if I do - meanwhile here is the online article). And the Northwest Herald mentions a Glamourai Ring for Shrimpton Couture in its article on "Investing in one Great Piece!"

Tons of beautiful dresses listing this week!

Gorgeous Client Post

Look at the gorgeous Daphne in her Glamourai ring for Shrimpton Couture! She looks fabulous and it really shows how terrific these rings look on!! I love it!
Click here to see more pictures of Daphne on her blog

Once in a Life Time

From Vogue UK today:

AS FAR as rare and covetable pieces of clothing go, those created by designers including Hubert de Givenchy and Valentino - and then worn by style icon Audrey Hepburn - are among the desirable. Some of the actress' most famous dresses will be auctioned next week in London with 50 per cent of the proceeds going to The Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and Unicef.

There are more than thirty of pieces for sale, dating from the early Fifties to the late Sixties, including clothing, accessories and personal letters written by Hepburn during the period. Also included in the sale is a wedding dress she never wore, made for her marriage to James Hanson - which Hepburn called off weeks before it was set to take place.

Hepburn asked that the dress be given away, "to the most beautiful, poor Italian girl you can find - someone who couldn't ever afford a dress like mine" and the recipient - Amabile Altobella - wore it and kept it in her family until it was tracked down by the family of the dress' creators, the Fontanas, in 2002.

Auction experts predict the sale could raise in excess of £100,000, because authenticated Hepburn pieces so rarely come on to the open market. The pieces are currently part of a touring exhibition in Sotheby's New York and Paris and will be exhibited at La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade on Pall Mall, London on Sunday December 6 from 12 noon - 5pm before being sold on December 7 and 8 at the same venue.

See www.audreyhepburn.com for more information on the charity. See www.kerrytaylorauctions.com for more information about the sale.

i am a deliquent blogger

I know I know I am sorry - I have been terribly busy and I tend to twitter before I blog (insert pathetic promise to blog more here)

Here are some pretty pics to tide you over till I actually do blog proper again:

Forget the other girls -Marisa Tomei is in vintage Jean Desses

My gorgeous Rachel is in Pucci here

This is Meredith Melling Burke who works at Vogie, in a Christian Cota dress with a Rick Owens jacket. None of it is vintage but I like it anyway

Here is courtney love looking all grown up and elegant
also not in vintage but she looks so fab I don't care

And if you prefer to read -you can always jump to the latest installation of the Shrimpton column at the Herald de Paris

A Shrimpton Couture (Reworked) Vintage Celebrity Spot!

Because I am somewhat technically illiterate I can't figure out how to pull the pictures from the fabulous Lainey's haute gossip site - Lainey's Gossip so you must click on over and see a sneak peek of Lainey wearing this Anita Quansah frock. Lainey loved it so much that she is actually going to let the world see it on her regular gig on ETalk tonight! If I can snag some video I will post or link t0 it tomorrow!

Come see The Glamourai & I
TONIGHT
if you happen to be in the New York neighborhood darlings - we will fest and sip champers while we sneak peek at the new collection of reworked antique kimonos coming to Shrimpton Couture later this week! Tons of your favorite NYC bloggers have RSVP'd their attendance so its looking to be a smash up of a meet up!

Oscar Oscar Oscar

My friends over at the Bag Snob asked me to share this with you - they have snagged the great Oscar De La Renta himself and YOU get this rare opportunity to chat with him

Join in at www.bagsnob.com between 10am and 12pm tomorrow!

PS can someone please ask him to send me the archives for
ummmm research yeah that's it - research (giggles)

Spotted - Dita Von Teese

Love this vintage inspired dramatic gown by Malandrino gown that Dita wore at the Cointreau Brazil party in Sao Paulo.

Celebrity Vintage Spot - Katy Perry

Katy Perry looked grown-up, glamorous and gorgeous in her vintage LaCroix
(that I suspect may not be so old, but what the heck, its being reported as vintage in the media and any media mention of vintage is a good thing in my books!)

GORGEOUS Shrimpton Couture Client Vintage Spot

Check out the beautiful Elena showing of her baubles from The Glamourai collection for Shrimpton Couture! I have such fabulous clients no?

Dharma Dharma Dharma

The beautiful Kelly, the designer behind The Glamourai line borrowed back one of her own self-designed neck pieces to use in these shots!

Need to own it? Click here

Feelin rather flapperish........you?

PSST notice the harem pants? and you thought that was a "new" trend - silly young thing you!

There is so much new stuff.....

........in the shop right now its sort of nutty!

I have been working like a mad vintage couture clad computer geekazoid to get it all up for all my lovelies to see! The easiest way to view all the new pretties is to pop onto my
What's New This Week page, but I did want to show you these three pretties especially:

A gorgeous Cruise 1993 Cashmere Chanel twinset in PINK!

This fabulous early stenciled velvet jacket with lace trim

And this fabulous full length Jean Muir Jersey gown that I am in love with!

I also wanted to share this picture with you. The Glamourai did a post this morning to celebrate the launch of her new fine jewels ring collection for Shrimpton Couture and not only is she wearing an example of one of those pretty pieces, which she paired it with my 1950s Beaded Couture Skirt that you can find here

How gorgeous?