Savvy Chic the Art of More for Less

How glamorous is this? A two page spread in the gossip and manner bile of the southern hemisphere. I am not famous. But damn I feel like it today. Thanks Susie Burge and all the hot chicks in editorial at ACP.

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J'adore REAL LIVING for keeping it real, making aspirational decor easy and, aye baby, featuring Savvy Chic on their editor's alphabetic character page. I will gear up an artwork offer through the mag soon (if they'll have me) and in the meantime, huge enormous big fat cheers.

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I take to exist honest Sydney, Australia is not at all budget minded. Status is still driven by labels. The recession has just Non bitten downwards as hard on this economy and many women are notwithstanding in denial well-nigh the nature of thrift smarts. Perchance every bit a result I get to scoop up incredible bargains on the best shopping street in Sydney. Vinnies is a second hand chairity store tat has gone mainstream and locates itself on prominent main streets. The Vinnies in Paddington have designer clothes, really HOT 1980s French heels and banal basics at rock bottom prices. Oddly enough they are located directly opposite my depository financial institution. So when I stumble onto the street feeling a teensy bit broke baroque I know that the retail therapy I seek is only going to fire a fifty dollar note. I haven't worn the Charles Jourdan silk faille heels (with $35 scrawled across their soles) only the polyester chiffon maxi dress with the hopelessly 90s forepart ruffle is in heavy rotation. I dear fashion to exist a bit OFF. A bit like costume. A bit like a weird drawing. Further up the road at the Red Cross shop a pair of black leather high heeled talocrural joint boots were too $35. Yes. I weakened. And, a few nights later, dancing in the hot summertime wind to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in my cheap, hot, high blackness boots I felt the splendour of vintage rock and roll fashion: affordable, spontaneous, so, so final year, then and so NOW.

This Monday when Grazia mag, Commonwealth of australia, characteristic a ii folio excerpt from Savvy Chic they chose the chapter  that is closest to my center: QUEEN OF THE FLEAS. On my contempo jaunt to New York I confess to visiting  the 26th street flea markets iii times and obsessing over a pair of 19th century French enameled candle stick holders. On the third round, on a os spooky morning of arctic frost, I pounced and bought them. The neat thing about the fleas is the education you get with every find. I never knew that enamel production too known every bit Cloisonne went out of vogue in France for objet considering of the prohibitive cost of creating each layer. So, the candlesticks in 1887 might take price close to what I paid for them, give or accept a little aggrandizement. I wrapped them in two football socks and packed them carefully adjacent to my American nineteenth century tea loving cup (yes I have a trouble) and my 1940s pale blue satin rayon and lace twenty dollar nightgown. Leaving the fleas I am carrying recycled plastic numberless, stuffed with former newspaper. I experience slightly vagrant. And I have hauled away unbelievable treasures. Onetime habits die hard.

This weblog is just a chip damn girly. Can't help it people, I similar hanging lillies from the chandelier and wearing an apron with a decorative hand stitched pocket quite openly on the sidewalk. My son wears flowers behind his ears for sky's sake. Only, in example you need a little bit of masculine heat in your realm of the decorous and the feminine here is an image of Jon Spencer in skin tight rubber pants belting out his blues groove. I wore bare legs and xxx five dollar charity shop boots to his gig in Sydney on Wednesday dark and xx years on this ring yet doth rocketh. They are experimental, sensuous, cock certain, brash, amusing and yes, I am going to use this word: Smashing. Live music is the best money y'all will ever spend because yous are ringside to a moment that will never come once again. It's transient, electric, collective and hot. Sydney is experiencing something of a alive music renaissance right now after several apple-polishing years of trip the light fantastic parties, chill out and hideous global lounge trends. All generations seek the stone and the music journalism is of a high standard. Having left my favorite haunt in the world (The Bowery Ballroom) behind for a few more months I am proud to say that this city (for all it's simulated tan and sorry dizzy silk cocktail dresses) and has got back the grit.

Save the date Sydneysiders, Ariel Booksellers Paddington (world wide web.arielbooks.com.au) are proposing a launch and event for Savvy Chic including an showroom of original artwork, new Little Branch designs (www.littlebranch.com.au) and loads of exciting creative fabulousness at the best bookstore in town. This was the store I used to visit late at night on a Sabbatum when I was new to town and kind of alone. I e'er met cool people and got turned on past the fine art books, cards and papers. Erudite, tasteful and hip. That'south Ariel.

A few days agone I bought myself a dress for Christmas. Information technology was on sale. Because retail is for sissies. But it was sick timed. How could I purchase a chiffon dress on a twenty-four hour period when the floods were hit and then hard and then many Australians were losing their lives, homes and farms in Queensland? When my son gets something new we e'er give something abroad. I did the same affair the twenty-four hour period I bought my Marie Antoinette dress and immediately arranged a charity fund donation artwork with my design partner Maree Oaten, at Little Branch. We are a actually pocket-sized company. In that location is no staff, there isn't an awful lot of stock (yet) but we have somewhere to sleep tonight.  My sis in law's mum escaped the floods in Toowoomba with twenty minutes to spare. In that location isn't a moment in my 24-hour interval when I am not thinking about what is going on upward at that place. If you feel moved to help yous tin donate directly at www.qld.gov.au/flood/donate/html or buy a flood charity print at www.petty branch.com.au.

Anyone creative person loves to get a letter from a similar minded soul. Just today I read a letter from a young writer who digs Savvy Chichi.

Here's an excerpt:
"I just wanted to write and say how much I loved Savvy Chic. It'south so strange, i really felt a kindred-spiritidness for then many things y'all wrote virtually, and i loved your writing fashion. I always endeavour to let authors know at present, when i dear their work (and the illustrations were amazing!), because i know how much i capeesh feedback on my piece of work.
I wonder if it's in our genes, as Pisceans, to exist such gypsies? I'll be taking your prissy teabags and rosewater hydrating spray tips on my long-haul (economy, sigh) flights now. I just loved your chapter on savvy chic travel."

Louisa Deasey (www.louisadeasey.com) is a Pisces with eyes like crystals and hither I am outing her lovely face and saying THANKS Infant! I can't expect to read your book and share my thoughts on this blog.

Seven days to Christmas and the people who are not getting books or artworks are getting….um, the contents of my accessory drawer? Yes, this night I am getting out all my vintage silk scarves, belts that don't fit, Kidd opera gloves, tiny old handbags and even hats and having a expert long goodbye session, sprucing them up as dwelling house spun gifts. Next twelvemonth I am moving and with me I desire to acquit much, much less. Happily I know my friends well and I know exactly what they volition fancy. Recently I saw an article in Harper's Bazaar that described the fancy thrift store arcade that Barbra Streisand has congenital in the basement of her mansion. Well, I don't take Bab'southward stash only I am amazed at what I am willing to function with this year. Practice you feel the same? So as to avert mail holiday regret here is my guideline about what to re-souvenir and why. This year be sure and up-cycle from every corner of your house. It's not just 'free', information technology deliciously liberating!

What tin you spare? Re-gift annihilation that…

You lot take not worn for twelve months
Absolutely doesn't fit and never will
Is an accessory you really REALLY never wear (similar a ruffled umbrella or a camisole or a big mesomorphic bracelet that gathers dust on a shelf)
That is yet in the box/pocketbook with tags but pretty useless to you
That is deeply personal and well loved (favourite tea cups are peachy gifts when you have likewise many)
That needs a younger woman to conduct it off (bright red dresses are like that)
That just needs new buttons or a bit of lace to smarten it upwards (similar a lovely cardigan in the wrong shade)
That is a project you will never finish (needlework kit, dress design so forth…)

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