Annie Get Your Gun! The Fall 2013 Look Book

Annie Get Your Gun! is a vintage collection of  '70s prairie dresses, spiced up with Austrian 40s style cropped cardigans and a patchwork '50s skirt.

It borrows the name of the colorful 1950 George Sidney/Busby Berkeley musical and relies heavily on country/western imagery , as well as hippie Gunne Sax dresses and Joanna Newsom.

We shot in a wild corner of the Parc Floral, a beautiful botanical garden located in the Bois de Vincennes, as well as along the Seine towards Nanterre. The concept was to find tall grass and autumn vegetation as much as possible, in order to give it a more wild look. The result is a modern take on hippies and cowgirls, in a vague nameless urban surrounding.

The items will start appearing online as of Friday, so keep an eye on the shop.

Also, there are 4 days left to enter the GIVEAWAY  if you haven't already!

Fall 2013 Look Book Preview : Annie Get Your Gun!

       Hello everyone! 

Hope you had a nice weekend.

Here are the promised shots from the upcoming Last Tango in Paris fall look book, heavily inspired by Western imagerie and early Joanna Newsom in Gunne Sax dresses.
I still have a lot of editing to do as we always take too many photos and then it takes me FOREVER to pick, choose and pimp.

The final selection should be up by Tuesday Wednesday, then all these lovely prairie dresses and 40s inspired Austrian cardigans should be in the shop no later than Friday, as I still need to re-iron all the clothes and take proper dress form pics (and yes, it's a drag! but such a fancy one nonetheless).

In the meanwhile don't forget to enter the GIVEAWAY for a shot at vintage goodies!

Latest Inspiration - Western Vibes

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Here's a little cherry picked selection from my Pinterest feed; I should probably start a whole new board for these as I've been seeing quite a few western-inspired photos lately. Nevertheless, I do prefer keeping my boards fairly vague, focusing on seasonal moods rather than very precise topics.

Maybe it's the whole Breaking Bad  influence, or maybe it was Tarantino's Django, but there seems to be a newly found love for deserts and cowboys in fashion lately (well it kinda started some 2 years ago but it's most obvious this year). Or cowboys have always been cool, as the multimillion Richard Prince Marlboro Man proved.

I wasn't much of a country gal before coming to France; maybe it's the way the French knew that Johnny Guitar was a masterpiece back in the '50s or simply just their general love/hate relationship with American culture.

I have to admit that as much as I love a good heavily-embroidered western shirt and cowboy-cut jeans, the thing that really gets me are the accessories - the Stetson hats, the oversized fedoras, the bolo ties and especially the boots.

And pretty much everything with a subtle western detailing like horses, rope motifs and those smiling pockets with little arrow finishes. Oh, and the flannel plaid!

Not to mention calico prints and prairie dresses... I guess my take on the western style is less rock star/fringe/leather and more of a romantic/ 70s bohemian approach, with a hint of lumberjack.

 We started shooting our fall look book this weekend ; all I can say for now is that it's like Joanna Newsom meets Annie Oakley, but the first photos will be on the blog by the end of the week.

Until then don't forget to enter our giveaway!