Tips
• Vintage pieces should be like any other piece in your wardrobe, whether it be winter or summer, spring or autumn. When buying vintage, approach it as an investment piece. Buy a piece that enhances what you already have in your wardrobe.
Look two Sheer beaded shirt, Indian metal necklace, tooled leather bag, from Retro Room, 311 Willis Street, Wellington
Orange cardigan, from Noa Noa, www.noanoa.com
Polka-dot blazer (stylist’s own)
Inspired by imaginary idols
Sarmite Ostanevica is a Latvian-born designer based in London. Lucire’s new London contributor Elina Lukas spoke with Ostanevica about her design and inspiration photographed by the author
Fashions third
dimension Lola Saab talks to Norma Kamali, finding out what inspired
the designer to adopt a three-dimensional theme for her springsummer
2012 collection
A brushstroke on
the runway
Stéphane Rolland took his haute couture inspiration from
Chinese calligraphy, as Lola Saab and Léona d’Huy reveal photographs courtesy Stéphane Rolland