Curating vintage : fancy dinner show-stoppers and fun party numbers

The Party 60s dress

Between the latest Paris cold streak (had to take out my fur you guys!) and post-terrorist attack madness (don't get me started), the best thing to do is look forward to the next big distraction.

To me, it is my upcoming birthday next week.

For the rest of you vintage and fashion lovers, it's probably the last part of the winter sale season. And, of course, shopping with Valentine's Day in mind!

I can't say I'm a big fan of this holiday that everyone seems to hate and yet they somehow end up celebrating...

Yet I can't really ignore it - every year I find myself wanting to do something to either protest it or embrace it. Like 'oh, I'm gonna buy myself some flowers! and cake!' or 'I'm gonna do something cultural like go to the Cinemathèque!'.

But I somehow always find myself dressing up for the occasion.

So whether or not you were planning a romantic dinner with your SO, a stay-in TV marathon or a night out with your friends, here are a couple of gorgeous vintage finds to make you feel like a superstar while doing it!

Just click under the photos for direct links or simply head over to the shop!

Happy shopping!

Midnight in Paris silk dress

Liquid Sky velvet dress

Boogie Nights 1970s maxi dress

The Party Maxi 60s dress

Puce Moment 1970s dress

Saturday Night Fever jumpsuit

 

Mel silk velvet dress

Celine et Julie jumpsuit

Blue velvet maxi skirt + tank

La Dolce Vita lace tank + skirt

Shop Update : Baby It's Cold Outside

Twin Peaks skirt

I know Paris is still stuck in eternal November weather, but after experiencing -20C and 20cm of snow back in Romania, I have acquired a renewed love for the cold season. Spring may be on everyone's minds, but for now baby it's still cold outside!

The shop has been updated with a lot of cozy, cold-weather friendly wares as well as cool transitional pieces : wool skirts, chunky sweaters and midi dresses.

Check it out!

Bande a part skirt + Rushmore beret

Samantha skirt

Metropolis skirt

An American in Paris dress

The Searchers western dress

Johnny Guitar 70s lace dress

Flashdance bodysuit

Sons of the Desert sweater

Conte d'hiver sweater

Conte d'automne sweater

Black Friday SALE! And a cool peacock

OK, so everyone's doing Black Friday; even in Romania where it's just a big shopping event with no connection with Thanksgiving or anything whatsoever. They don't even translate the name! Crazy, right?

So in order to be in tune with the rest of the Internet, I'm offering Last Tango in Paris customers 25% off their purchase with the code BLACK25 at checkout! Ends 12/03. Starts tonight!

And of course this picture of another big exotic bird - the peacock you can sometimes spot wandering about without a care in the world at Parc Floral. Pretty cool, huh?

 

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Fancy Florals - ranunculus and supermarket roses

I always had a thing for floral arangements; well, maybe not so much for arrangements as for flowers in general.

I never liked the neat, long stemmed flowers, neigther the standard half-dead roses - I was more into wild flowers or stolen garden roses with short stems I would put in jars and tiny old milk bottles.

From what I see on Pinterest now, this type of floral style is gaining quite some popularity; I always wanted to document my bouquets outside my art projects, so setting up the "studio room" for a new vintage goodies shoot (more on that soon) seemes like a good opportunity.

As much as everyone in Europe likes showing contempt towards Valentine's Day, last evening going into Dia (the cheapest ghetto grocery store in France; tho they have good plants) after a thrifting session to get icecream, I ended up buying roses - two bouquets for the price of one! Now that's what I call effective capitalism!

At least the cashier lady was nice enough to shout at my absent-minded-disco-blasting-in-my-headphones self about the offer. I also ended up buying an air plant! (or rather rescuing it, considering the poor thing was GLUED to this fugly ceramic claw-like structure -who does that??)

Funny thing is that right as I went up I realized I had forgotten my thrift store bag, then ran down and stood in a big line at Picard among local couples stocking up on gourmet frozen food; I guess I wasn't the only one having Picard for V-day dinner, not that I really cared.

So having all this flowers super-motivated me to take photos today; I'm pretty happy with the result, although I think this little setup might be the best thing about it. Also I had the ranunculus for 2 weeks already, crazy how two of these guys are still alive!

Enjoy these for now and who knows, I might actually turn this into a regular thing!

 

January sale!

                  


... in the end my cold turned out to be more resilient than I had expected, so I wasn't really apt for editing photos and updating the shop just yet.

However, I decided to do a little sale in the meantime, so if you saw something you liked, now you can enjoy 20% off your order by simply entering the code COLD20 at checkout.

Happy shopping!