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Vintage fashion, vol. 1: Instagram inspirations

Vintage fashion invariably charms us on films, images, posters or photographs of (or inspired by) old times. The sophisticated tailoring, intricate details and hand-crafted textiles are qualities appreciated and eagerly emulated today. We also constantly remain under their impression. In first part of our posts about vintage fashion we show a couple of our favourite Instagram profiles, which are great sources of inspirations and treasuries full of vintage clothing.

1. Vera Vague Vintage (@veravaguevintage)
The shop with impressive collection of vintage clothes - from XIXth century dresses, to costumes from 50's and 60's. Among many interesting things - some unique victorian and eduardian garments with delicate laces:


2. TROVE VINTAGE BOUTIQUE (@trovevintageboutique)
In this shop you'll also find a lot of lovely vintage garments, including such a beautiful things:


3. Pia Storm, Vintage Fashionista (@piastorm) 
This vintage blogger from Copenhagen shows that "vintage" may be not only a fashion, but also a lifestyle. On her Insta feed you'll find i.a. a lot of inspiring outfits, subtle vintage pastels and delicate jewelry:


4. ADORED VINTAGE (@adorevintage)
The place where you can find not only clothes, bags or jewelry, but also house & decor accesories plus bright, eye-catching photos of inspiring interior details.


If you have your own favourite Instagram profiles, which show vintage fashion pearls - share with us in comment!

Posted: Jan 20, 2016 | Tagged: fashion, instagram, photos, retro, textilles, vintage

Inspired by vintage... Clips & animations

As we mentioned couple of times, we like to follow vintage things as well as to watch contemporary projects inspired by vintage mood, style and aesthetics: fashion, design, art, movies and animation. Here we have three examples from the last field: movie shorts inspired by...

1. Vintage books: this motion picture by Henning M. Lederer is a very nice set of 55 vintage book covers, with animated geometrical elements:



2. Vintage fashion: short video by Sabine Bein is a kind of animated journey across parts of vintage fashion history and profiles of the most popular fashion brands:




3. Vintage photos: in music video for "Zerbait Asmatugo Dugu" by Berri Txarrak (Direction & Animation: Joseba Elorza) motion vintage collages are connected with harder guitar sounds, which gives additional contrast:

 

Effects of connecting old and new things can be classy and nostalgic or funny and suprising - and that's the point! For more contemporary projects inspired by vintage things - check also our previous post When past meets future - modern projects based on vintage elements.

Posted: Dec 01, 2015 | Tagged: animation, music, photos, retro, video, vintage