Fashion at Vintage is a truly bespoke offering, an experience that fits your passion like a 1950s glove and lets us celebrate the very best of British fashion creativity. Whichever decade excites you - fashion at Vintage addresses the era’s dresses... and suits (for all our gents out there), in a mesmerising display of catwalk shows, hands-on-creative workshops and touching vignettes from designers, models and noted vintage experts.
Only at Vintage can you spot the iconic creations of Mary Quant, Ossie Clark and Vivienne Westwood on the Vintage Fashion Theatre runway, see the fashion loves of a Sixties cover girl revealed before your very eyes, and turn your hand to sewing a 1950s circle skirt or a spot of Saville Row pattern cutting.
All this before you’ve even had a chance to look around the Vintage Marketplace or have your hair backcombed and sprayed in the Vintage Hair & Beauty Salon! The Vintage Marketplace hosting over 200 purveyors of fashion and accessories brings together couture labels with prêt a porter and street style from the 1920s through to the 1980s... There is no excuse to miss out on a bit of vintage shopping!
The emphasis throughout Vintage is glamour and head-turning style – whether it’s yours or on thecatwalk. Our Best in Show Parade rewards all those who quite simply looked fabulous.
Vintage present’s catwalk shows
featuring vintage clothes from museum collections and the archives of
the world’s finest fashion houses. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
is a curated catwalk show that brings to life a British cultural icons
personal take on the fashion and music that has inspired their life and
career.
The catwalk shows at Vintage this
summer represent the eclectic and creative nature of British culture.
From Rusty Egan’s Blitz Kid 80s
extravaganza to Jo Wood’s trawl through her wardrobe, and to Strictly
Come Dancing’s Brendan Cole’s homage to ballroom dancing and prom gowns
of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. The Vintage Festival brings you one off,
bespoke catwalk shows that will live long in the memory.
Rusty
Egan is known as the 'face' and DJ that "almost single headedly put
together the soundtrack for the New Romantic movement". A long term
collaborator of Steve Strange at the iconic Blitz Club , band member in
The Rich Kids (with Sex Pistol Glen Matlock and Ultravox’s Midge Ure)
DJ for Visage this show will be WILD. Joining the party are All Saints
founders Stuart and Kait Trevor , collectors of all things 80s who will
be delving into their collection and providing some of the outfits. Outfits which have influenced their All Saints brand.
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“Although the festival embraces
music, film, art and design, the primary focus is fashion, with a pop-up
high street and rows of tents selling everything from prim twinsets to
vintage lingerie.” The Guardian
The Vintage Marketplace, hosting over 200 purveyors of fashion and accessories, brings together the finest purveyors of vintage clothes, accessories, mid century modern homewares, records, music memorabilia and up-cycled ephemera.
Think of this as a veritable vintage playground, without paying through the mouth, incorporating fashion to furniture,
upcycled and craft, perhaps the biggest gathering of vintage vendors
that Europe has ever seen. Ossie Clark to Mary Quant, cocktail shakers
to leather, over 200 stalls all dedicated to the eclecticism of our
history; swinging sixties to thirties glam, the kitsch and the
collectible, a testament to the way we dress, without paying an arm and a
leg - that’s what we’re all about.
‘From dapper chaps to sixties hellcats, land
girls through to flappers, where better to source British style than in
the homes and wardrobes of the past. Celebrating a century of trends
from the hanger to the street, welcome to the Vintage Marketplace!'
Anyone with an ounce of individuality
doesn’t want to bump into anyone wearing the same frock or shirt. That’s
one of the reasons why coolest folk have always worn second-hand
clothes. Second-hand clothes are now referred to as vintage clothes and
as well as individuality, the old-school quality and the nostalgic
charm, wearing vintage clothing endows one with a decent dose of
sustainability as pre-owned clothing (there’s a bloomin’ term for you)
is right at the heart of the three R's – reduce, reuse, recycle.
'Integral to the festival, the
Marketplace is much more than its stalls, offering the stomping ground
of the stylish, constant inspiration and the perfect stylish runway on
which all of our revellers walk. From the mod to the rockabilly, the
punk to the pristine, it’s a nod of the cap to the history of fashion ,
retail therapy, the best vintage traders - a walking, talking chronicle
of cool – we hope to see you there!' - Judy Berger The Vintage
Marketplace Curator.
Style hunters roam the Vintage site to
snap the most fashion-savvy festival goers. Watch out for our special
‘fash-mob’ catwalks, where our chosen ‘style hunted’ gather for a
one-off event.
Vintage provides hair and beauty
makeovers to keep you looking and feeling fabulous, day and night.
Decade specific looks from 1920s to the 1980s, iconic styles and
glamorous touch ups for both men and women are available from our
dedicated hair and beauty salons. Possibly the largest vintage hair and
beauty, and male grooming parlour Britain has ever seen, it offers
iconic styles and glamorous looks for both men and women from the bobbed
hairstyles of the 1920s to 1980s New Romantic curls and high volume
waves. Vintage will provide tickets holders free decade specific hair and beauty makeovers to keep you looking and feeling fabulous, day and night.
Our salons and male grooming parlours
offer Vintage goers, hair styling and makeup needs from 1940s finger
wave, 50s liquid liner flick, 60s bouffant Beehive to 80s New Romantic
curls and high volume waves. For gents, barbers offer traditional wet
shaves, beard trims and flat top cuts.
