intense sunday

This morning I inexplicably woke up at 6am after 4 hours sleep with a hangover, and decided not to waste my energy. Result: today I did a million things.
One of the things I did was drive to Woburn and root around Antiques 2 Go (which is every second Sunday of the month for anyone interested) as it's too early in the year for car boots.
Had to stop myself going nuts and spent my money mainly on these little bowls made in Austria, one for me, one for my mum. Beautiful colours, beautiful design. Also, each of them has a different name- mine is Liesl, and the other is Helena.



I bought some 45s from a really interesting man, including Vincent-Don McLean, Silence is Golden-The Tremeloes, and something by Medicine Head, and presents for some lucky people.
I have also cycled many miles, replied to loads of emails, and now I'm cooking a roast dinner TAKE THAT SUNDAY.

via solferino▴pinacoteca de brera▴vintage market

milano unica

Last Wednesday I was sent to Milano Unica to do some trend research and get some inspiration. I spent a lot of time in the trend area making notes for autumn/winter 2012. In the buyers area the Tiss et Teint window display of beautifully designed posters caught my eye, I have also included sneaky pics of their fabrics.

Obviously the rest of my time was mostly spent in the vintage section. The only drawback is that as far as I've seen in Italy and of course at trade fairs like these, it's not like merrily trawling through flea market bargains it's more hundreds of cases of classic jewellery, vintage Chanel handbags, Hermès silk scarves. I did find some amazing pieces by Elizabeth the First, one in particular I loved where they had used embroidered fabric from Afghanistan and created a huge fur lined sleeveless overcoat. They had a lot off very nice things at their stand from around the world.