Tips
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Overall, vintage should be about expressing yourself. Buying vintage should be like falling in love: you can’t stop thinking about it and couldn’t image your wardrobe without it. Have fun, and love your vintage piece.
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Look four Indian maxi skirt worn as dress, silk green shirt, snakeskin belt, red safari belted jacket, Indian metal necklaces, beaded bag and bracelets, from Retro Room, 311 Willis Street, Wellington
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