Our Pop-Up Shop on Portobello

Last month we held our first pop-up shop on Portobello Road, sharing the space with Notting Hill jeweller Orit and fashion label Melabelle. 

The event was a great success and thank you to everybody to came along. It was lovely to put faces to names of online customers and Twitter followers who made the journey. 

Our beautiful vintage dresses 

Including Coco, who dropped by with owner Sophie, of Merchant Archive. Look at that face! Butter wouldn't melt. 

One customer went home with this gorgeous 1970s sheer dress:

A special thank you to Catering Temps who provided the staff for our late-night shopping events, and to photographer Stuart Beesley for the glossy snaps. 

Original 1950s abstract rose coat

Two more happy customers... 

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She's one seriously stylish hound...

Earlier this week the lovely Sara White from StyleTails.com popped over to my flat to 'interview' my wire-haired dachshund Juno. We chatted for hours about vintage fashion, dogs, old movies, perfume and... more dogs. 

StyleTails.com is dedicated to London-based pet owners who work in fashion and design. Previous interviews include handsome whippet "Marlowe", owned by online fashion editor at Wallpaper* Apphia Michael, a bouncy Pomeranian - "Butters"- owned by Kristin Knox (aka The Clothes Whisperer), then "Rosie and Jimmy" - two gorgeous lurchers owner by former editor-in-chief of Drapers magazine Eric Musgrave. Read my (sorry, Juno's) full interview here.

Baroness von Thyssen at Roger Vivier's apartment (1966)

If you're a dog-loving fashionista I really recommend Dogs in Vogue: A Century of Canine Chic. It's a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book full of amazing photographs:

Photograph by Norman Parkinson, 1969

Millicent Rogers with her dachshund, 1945