The Painfully Hip Design Collective has teamed with the peerless ModCloth.com for SS09! When I saw their Spring/Summer arrivals, I just knew they would marry our latest vintage finds perfectly! In the following photos you will find ModCloth’s Wood Street Shoes, The Cover Girl’s Derby, Thumbelina Dress in Blush, and Variety Hour Romper (Don’t forget to use your 10% Painfully Hip Discount – coupon code: PAINFULLYHIP), along with some stunning vintage finds (more info about online availability below)!
Modeled by Liz Liles and Jillian Oliver – You ladies were such beautiful troopers!
Photos by Carla Frances and Amber Mortensen
Hair and Makeup by Luxe Salon & Spa, Sacramento (916.443.1400) – Thank you for achieving follicle perfection!
Styling by Amber Mortensen, in collaboration with Eve Dineen
Special thanks to the lovely Michelle LaJeunesse for letting us visit the stunning Indy on his ranch – He was such a beautiful and well-behaved steed! and to the nice old man who allowed us to trespass on his beautiful property.
As an experiment, the Painfully Hip Design Collective has been tons of fun… I can’t believe how lucky I have been to have such crazy team of talent willing to pitch in to make such beautiful photos. I love it! That said, having a vintage store is a ton of work!! I have a whole new respect for online boutique owners. With my tiny apartment, my graphic design business and lack of superfluous funds, I am realizing that the Collective is going to have to take a backseat unless I can reduce the workload and get more of these of these pretty things into your hands!
Practically every piece in this photoshoot is in perfect condition and for sale! If you have any interest in purchasing an item you see in these photos, please let me know in the comments and I will hook you up! I will put your object of desire up on either the Etsy store or on the amazing vintage auction site, Market Publique and via email, you will be among the first to know about it!
Floral sailor top from Thunderhorse Vintage, denim tap shorts from Bows & Arrows Vintage, felt hat from Cuffs, Variety Hour Romper from ModCloth, knee-high cowboy boots from Painfully Hip Vintage.
Vintage floral chiffon blouse (softest material in existence!) (sold) and denim tap shorts from Bows & Arrows Vintage. Dark brown bowler hat and woven oxfords from ModCloth.com. Striped backless dress by Sacramento designer, Linden Simone. Purple acorn leather belt from Thunderhorse Vintage.
Floral sundress and dark brown bowler hat from ModCloth, Woven fedora from Cuffs, pink high-waisted cummerbund shorts from Bows & Arrows Vintage, Sacramento.
Floral tiered dress and plaid blouse from Bows and Arrows Vintage. High-waisted boyfriend jeans from Painfully Hip Vintage.
Cropped pink linen jacket with gold embroidery and grey studded ankle booties from Painfully Hip Vintage. Pink and yellow gingham straw hat from Cuffs. Denim tap shorts, backless black Bill Blass ruffled swimsuit, and plaid mini skirt from Bows & Arrows Vintage.
More pretty photography after the jump!
Continue reading Painfully Hip Design Collective and ModCloth: Summers at the Ranch
immediately after amber announced our road-trip plans for the summer, (i’ve been alternating between squealing and practice-packing for the past 2 weeks…) we both decided we needed to take mini-vacations.
i think it’s worth mentioning that we did not consult each other when making these weekend-getaway plans, and this is not the first time we’ve both had the same thought pattern at the same time, an entire state away from each other and considered ourselves original. (case number one: earlier in the week we discovered we will both be in brooklyn for the same week next month. yep, us west-coast gals will be meeting for the entirely un-planned first time, about 3 million miles from our homes.)
you could say that amber and i are kind of like the same person. (PLEASE let that start some internet-drama where someone accuses us of actually being the same person. please? please?!)
anyway, we’re not the same person. amber’s holed up in a sweet beach-house in sunny california this weekend, and i’m forcing a boy i like very much to participate in some romantic-getaway thrifting in northern az. and you know what else? i can pretty much guarantee that between amber and i, i’m the only one who remembered to pack my favorite wooden road-trip outfit:
When Antiques Roadshow fashion expert, Karen Augusta from Augusta Auctions emailed me regarding logo work for her vintage auction company, I got really excited, went to her page… and nearly fainted from the heavy breathing. I got all sheepish, with the distinct feeling I was indulging in fashion porn.
You know exactly what I mean.
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If you’re in NY, check it out!!
Following an interval of almost three years, New Yorkers are eagerly awaiting the return of a specialty couture, vintage clothing and textile auction at the end of this month. Museums, clothing & textile designers, collectors and all lovers of fashion are planning to attend the preview and April 29th sale organized by Antiques Roadshow fashion expert, Karen Augusta.
Augusta Auction Company, the nation’s top auction house for couture and vintage clothing, will hold their first-ever sale in Manhattan at the historic 1883 St. Paul Auditorium on 60th Street & Columbus Avenue. A textile collection from the Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio), the first selections from the entire textile and fashion collection of the 1914 Beaux-Arts Montclair Art Museum (New Jersey), dresses from Pauline Trigere’s niece, a rock & roll insiders private tour clothing from the 1970’s – 1990’s, offerings from three prominent NYC fashion designers and pieces from other private collections and estates make up the lots for this April sale.
Fashion finds include two spectacular 1920’s evening coats attributed to Parisian designers Jean Lanvin and Paul Poiret, a mid-1950’s Coco Chanel evening gown, two 18th C brocade gowns, a 1920’s French knit 5-piece day ensemble, a collection of stunning beaded 1920’s dresses, a 1937 Lucien LeLong lame evening gown, silk brocade ecclesiastical garments from the 16th through 19th C, Textiles range from handmade lace shawls and paisleys to Fortuny pieces and a rare 18th-19th C hand painted thangka from Bhutan. Altogether there are over 400 textile and fashion lots to be sold April 29th beginning at noon.
From Claire McCardell to John Paul Gaultier, from 30’s silk chiffon gowns to Campbell’s “Souper” paper dresses, this exhibition and sale includes creations from more than seventy-five designers of the 20th century. Textiles range from 16th C. silk embroideries to Japanese Buddhist robes to handmade lace shawls. Taken together, the collections span more than three hundred years of fashion history. Interspersed with the one-of-a-kind historic, museum-quality treasures are wearable vintage gems, uniquely beautiful now and destined to be future collectibles. The auction company website, Augusta-Auction.com offers thousands of fashion photographs and a searchable catalogue to locate favorite designers or fashion collectibles.
All lots are available for preview Tuesday April 28 from 3PM-7PM and on the morning of the sale from 9AM to noon.
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This photo makes me very happy – Spring has been brief this year (yesterday was 94 degrees!), so I am all awash in Summer fever. In fact, I’ve pretty much planned out my entire season and it totally includes you guys! After a trip to New York to see Mary Catherine on Broadway, Diana and I are out to prove we’re totally insane:
Get ready, America, because we’re going on a:
That’s right, Diana and I have never met*, but we’re ready to put that fact aside to hit the open road together for a 2-3 week US tour (starting in late June). We’re obviously pretty sure we’ll be able to stand each other and/or are not planning on kidnapping one another.
So what we want to know is…
Does your town, no matter how small, have the best thrifting?
We’ll be thrifting our little asses off and scouting picturesque locations for photoshoots of our finds so you can decide which town yielded the best results. We’re on a mission to find the best thrift stores in America.
If your town is chosen as the most thrift-worthy, you could win a very covetable prize!
So give us your hippest tips!
We are also looking for hip kids to host Painfully Hip clothing swaps along the way. Email us if you are interested in having a couple of highly entertaining thrift bloggers (and their photographers) over for some thrift-swapping merriment. Bonus points if you have a floor or yard we can camp out on! We will also be accepting tips on camping sites, local music, waterhole coordinates, kitschy points of interest, and excellent dive bar locales.
*EDIT: So in an unforeseen string of serendipitous events, it turns out that Diana and I are going to be in Brooklyn, Mary Catherine’s place of residence, AT THE SAME TIME. The Painfully Hip bloggers will all converge for the first time from May 15th-20th in New York!
Tell us: WHAT SHOULD WE DO??
Comment or email your travel tips to painfullyhip @ gmail.com!
Thanks in advance and all hail summertime fun!
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Thanks for reading,
Amber
painfullyhip at gmail.com
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