My confession this week

I have lustful thoughts every time I look at Miu Miu’s amazing cat/swallow/pin-up prints.

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Style muse: Patti Boyd

At the moment I love Sixties model Patti Boyd and her long blonde hair and Mary Quant style

Vintage days out: Paris

I recently blogged about a fantasy day in Paris, and the kind people of Paris Ile de France  very generously paid for my Eurostar ticket to turn it into reality. Hurray!

So off I went on Saturday, straight off to the antique shops and vintage dealers of Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen, an area with – no exaggeration – hundreds of antique dealers and vintage stalls. It’s an overwhelming experience, I really had no idea where to start as there are so many amazing treasures to be found. You can get anything from old postcards to furnishings, tableware and linens. I was really drawn to the many vintage clothing shops and have honestly never seen such a stunning collection of designer pieces, so that’s where all the vintage Chanel and YSL has ended up at! I also loved the Edwardian and Victorian jackets on sale, many in pristine condition.

Many of the furniture shops focused on Fifties and Sixties, and I was really tempted to invest in a Fifties atom newspaper rack.

I had lunch at this most fabulous little restaurant in the middle of one of the markets. Not that the food was any good but there was a lady singing Edith Piaf and the wine was cheap, which made more than up for my soggy sausages.

After des Puces I headed off to the Marais for some window shopping and to have a look at some vintage shops there. I found two, Kiliwatch and Free P Star (Metro: Rambuteau), which were both stacked full of the nastiest, cheapest second-hand crap sold at such high prices I had to take a double look at the price tags. Certainly not worth a visit if you’re a spoilt Londoner who can shop for top-end and yet affordable vintage every day of the year.

After a quick stroll around Montmartre it was time already to head back for the train, it couldn’t have been a more fabulous day.

Bei mir bist du schoen

Oh victory rolls and Forties fashion galore at Lena Hoschek’s recent show at Berlin Fashion Week.

Enlighten me

I’ve got a headache and have been fantasising all day about lying in my bed relaxing (instead of being stuck at work). That got me looking for home accessories, which is when I came across these perfect Fifties kitsch lamps from Caravan

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The bra of all bras

My favourite bra at the moment. Perfection from Rigby and Peller.

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A severe case of the ‘I wants’

I’m having heart palpitations every time I’m looking at The Cambridge Satchel Company website. Their handmade leather satchels in a range of sizes and colours are just amazing. Plus they offer an embossing service, so you can have your new bag initialed. I can just see the 11″ satchel in purple mysteriously wandering into the shopping basket some time soon.

image: http://www.cambridgesatchel.co.uk

Paper chain

I’m not normally a fan of gold jewellery but this brass necklace in the design of a paper chain is amazing. It’s by ethic company Made so well worth the £60.

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Oh hello there

How amazing is this bow bag by Alexis Mabille? I want!

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Love at first sight

I went to Urban Outfitters yesterday and came across this amazing dress by t.b.a. It’s perfect, sigh, just need to find the £154 somewhere…

image:urbanoutfitters.co.uk