Posh Girl Vintage

For this Wednesday Vintage I would like to draw your attention to one of the internet’s most wonderful vintage webstore’s: Posh Girl Vintage. This is a family owned store run by people with a passion for quality vintage clothing.

To quote their webpage:  “After shopping on-line myself for vintage clothing I realized what I wanted was not on the web. I found either dirty thrift store quality clothes with really poorly designed websites, or really expensive museum quality clothing. So I set out to build Posh Girl Vintage clothing store. My goal was to build an on-line store that was modern & easy to use with clear pretty photos &, of course, to sell great unique wearable quality vintage clothing, designer clothing, & accessories at a fair price… neither too cheap, nor too expensive. I have a bit of an obsession with really pretty vintage dresses, especially informal vintage wedding dresses so my site reflects that. We sell vintage clothing from the 1920’s to the 1970’s, and a few pieces from the 80’s that are really cute. The 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s are our favorite decades! Formal & cocktail gowns, and vintage prom dresses are also our specialty.”

Sounds pretty good, non?

You can find the store here: www.poshgirlvintage.com

And here is a collection of what they have to offer:

Love, Elin

Vili Flik Design

Dress: Decadence Design by Mari Elise Baustad

 

Donna Karan

Today’s designer is an American woman, Donna Karan (1948), creator of both Donna Karan New York and DKNY clothing lines. Imagine that? Having two labels. Oh, one day, I tell you… But until that day, (and further on) let’s all enjoy the dazzling beauty Donna Karan shares with the world.

Donna Karan launched her first label in the glorious year of 1985 (one of the greatest years the world has hitherto seen), after having worked as an assistant designer for Anne Klein since the 1960s.

Donna Karan’s expressed desire for her excellent design is to mix comfort with luxe and the practical with the desirable. And the names of her labels make quite obvious, she is also inspired by the city of New York .

Donna Karan is also very taken with accessories (as are we all), which is basically “Everything you need to pull yourself together.” Here’s a few examples.

gotta have the tights

shoes - the most important part of you

a purse for the book we always tell you to bring

And the list goes on – accessorize people!

Anyway, I want more clothes, and I’m assuming that so do you. So let’s have a looksie, shall we?

Splendidness indeed.

Love, Hanna

Edward Scissorhands

This Friday’s film suggestion is an oldie but goodie. You might have noticed that we here at Vili Flik have a healthy obsession with Johnny Depp, and today is no exception. So for tonight’s entertainment I recommend that you watch Edward Scissorhands (1990).

The story goes like this: Peg makes her living selling make up door-to-door in a pastel suburbia. Finding no good costumers in town she figures that the reclusive, old castle up on the hill might inhabit someone with a need for make-up. It turns out that the castle’s only inhabitant, Edward Scissorhands, is in need of a lot more than make-up. Peg brings him home, idealistically believing that she will be able to give him a family. This will turn out to be a bad idea. As the name implies, Edward has scissors for hands, and is as such a marvelous sculptor-maker and hairdresser. However, he has no social skills and this will ultimately lead to a tragic ending.

The film is wonderfully sweet and sad and Burtonesque, and absolutely a must-see for anyone who haven’t yet done so!

Love, Elin

Diana Vreeland

Hello most scrumptous of readers! Today’s hottie is a very fashionable one, the ever-awesome Diana Vreeland (1903-89).

The marvelous Vreeland spent her career in fashion, first working for Harper’s Bazaar from 1937-62, then as editor-in-chief for the glorious Vogue from 1963-71, and finally as a consultant for the Costume Institute of the Metropolian Museum of Art from 1971-84. All of which, jobs I’d (almost) kill to have.

Of course, spending a career in fashion demands that you’ll be well-dressed. Not a problem for Diana.

Diana Vreeland, like us at Vili Flik, adored the 60s. Lucky for her, she actually got to experience them (at Vogue nonetheless) and said that for her the awesomeness of the sixties was that it celebrated uniqueness. We like uniqueness.

Did you know that if it wasn’t for this genius we may not have had the glorious Oscar de la Renta? She told him to stop working for others and start on his own instead. What a great advice – and luckily he took it!

mmmm, pretty Oscar de la Renta

Before she died, this awesomely stylish and brilliant lady found time to write her autobiography, D.V. – a must read for everyone interested in fashion, and a brilliant, interesting tale of life among the great dressers in the world. Before you run to amazon to buy a copy, I shall leave you with some Diana Vreeland wisdom:

Love, Hanna

Tights

Here at Vili Flik, we are eagerly awaiting spring and the chance to wear the shoes and dresses we love – something that can be hard to do when it’s cold and windy, and the streets are covered with ice. High heels and ice are a combination only to be attempted by the exceedingly brave. Or impossibly stupid. Spring also has the added benefit of allowing us to wear wonderful thin tights without freezing our lovely behinds off. And tights can be an amazing accessory to any scrumptious outfit.

Gorgeous, but a bit too cold for winter and freezing winds

Tights have been around for centuries, but they were originally a garment for the male population.

 

As demonstrated here

We’re kind of glad that trend has passed…

 

…or has it..?

Tights for women only became popular in the 20th century when women could finally show some leg – and the invention of nylon in 1939 meant that prices fell and tights, or usually stockings, became a must for every woman.The lovely and sexy stockings with seams down the back probably stem from this time, as each stocking had to be sown together – they were not made seamlessly the way they are now. This became such a staple look that, as I’m sure we’ve all heard, during the war, when nylon was used for more practical, war-like things than women’s fashion (as if something could ever be more important than that!), women often drew a stripe down their leg to imitate tights.

 

Like this. Only drawn on.

The seamless look came later, when the technique with which to make it had been perfected.

In the 1960s, lycra was added to the fabric, which made it stretchy and more comfortable to wear. It was also about this time that tights took over much of the market from stockings. And from then on, tights have come in all shapes and patterns. Let’s take a look at some lovely ones, shall we!

 

Fancy tights

Flowery tights

Flower power tights (I want these!)

Elin’s peacock tights

Polka dots!

…and more polka dots!

Lovely, Burtonesque emo-skull-tights

…and, don’t tell me you weren’t expecting this: TARTAN!

Love, Mari

Hermés

The sun is shining in Trondheim today, and for the first day in months I can wear heels without fearing for my life on the stupid ice. That has put me in a very good mood, which can only be further improved by giving you all a fabulous designer day. For today, therefore, I’m taking you back to one of the oldest fashion houses still existing: Hermés.

This is Thierry Hermés - the founder of the brilliance

Hermés was founded in 1837, and first concentrated on making and selling harness for the fancy folk of Paris. In 1900 they also started making bags, and actually held the exclusive right of using zippers for leather goods and clothing. By 1918, Hermés was designing clothing as well. And that is, after all, what we want to see, right?

In 2004, Jean Paul Gaultier presented his first, glorious collection for Hermés. Gaultier has remained with Hermés up until now, but will in September this year be replaced by Christopher Lemaire.

By the way, did you know that Hermés also produce the Birkin bag?

I need to own one.

But, some more clothes, shall we?

Varied and lovely and excellent.

Love, Hanna

Heidi Klum’s Halloween

If you’re like me, you would prefer to have most celebrations happen in the form of costume parties. Sadly people tend to think that Halloween is more than enough. So I thought that, even though Halloween is far away, it is never too early to begin planning costumes. And if it is someone who knows how to dress up, it is Heidi Klum. Her Halloween costumes are always creative, extreme and, well, noticeable.

So please enjoy and be inspired by these awesome costumes:

A scary mouse:

A witch:

Kali:

A vampire:

The garden of Eden:

Yes, that is Seal as what one can only assume is Eve.

Lady Godiva:

A crow:

Betty Boop:

A gold alien:

Is she not awsome?

Love, Elin

Vili Flik Design

Dress: Read! Redesign by Hanna Marie Volle.

Greetings Faithful Readers

Greetings to all you wonderful Vili Flik readers out there. We have been running this blog for a few months now, and we are proud, happy and grateful to have a steady readership. Or at least we think we do. The thing is, although we can see how many readers we have from day to day, we have no idea who you are and where you’re from. We know many of our friends stop by, for which we are eternally grateful, but based on the few comments we have on the site, it seems as though there are several readers out there who we have never met in real life and who has no personal relationship with us. This is of course the glory of the internet: it doesn’t matter where in the world you’re located – we can still meet and communicate online! And we are extremely happy and pleased and humbled by the fact that we seem to be able to be relatable to a greater internet community. Thank you all for stopping by and reading our rants and posts, and a particular thank you to those of you who have commented or subscribed to this blog – simply by being here, you have all made our lives more interesting and fulfilling in the past few months, and we hope you keep it up!

And now for the issue (I have never been one to get quickly to the point): we are very, very curious girls (in both senses of the word, really, but in this case: nosy)… We really want to know who you amazing Vili Flik readers are! Obviously, you are intelligent people of great taste and knowledge, otherwise you wouldn’t be here, but we crave more details. So this is a summons to you all to please leave a comment for us. Nothing big (and you do not need to leave any personal details as the internet is not always the safest place to do so), it would just be very nice to know who you are and where you come from – and perhaps how you came across our blog. So that is our request today: please help us transform this one-way communication into two-way communication!

In advance, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Love, Vili Flik