Lady Danna Retro & Vintage

Now then, it's happened! In this outfit, I showcase the pearl of my hat collection - real vintage black lacquered raffia hat with large velvet bow décor on back by "Jacques Heim".  Sometimes I stick to the idea that "the whole outfit is just a setting for an exquisite hat, just like the whole ring is just a setting for a precious stone." That's how it goes in this case.  I have been looking for a suitable “setting” for my hat by “Jacques Heim” for a long time. Specifically, since the beginning of last year, when I managed to buy this miracle in a Spanish vintage store for only 3 euros.   Jacques Heim was a High Fashion designer during the 1930s-1960s, as well as a theater and film costume designer. The initial laurels of glory of one of the great and famous couturiers belonged to him, and not to Christian Dior.  For example, in the French fashion magazine "Claudine", the first small mention of Christian Dior appeared only in 1949. Whereas ...

I apologize for not posting on my blog for too long. It seems that the prolonged heat has begun to adversely affect my health. Hence the delay. In this outfit, I show off a hat that my photographer friend Alexandrina Wasiliewa-Szylowska and I redecorated.  It was a really vintage pink straw little pillbox hat from the 1950s-1960s. However, its decorations, if any existed, have not survived to this day.  But we took vintage paper roses and vintage voile décor and redecorated it. It turned out, as it seems to me, very refined and gentle.  This hat, among more than 20 others, I managed to buy last spring from a French woman who lived in a resort town in Andalusia and kept her own shop.  She was returning to France and urgently selling her collection of vintage hats.  It was a very lucky purchase for me, and I regret that such cases are rare.   I pair this little pillbox hat with a silk dress from a modern Finnish brand that I bought on sale in a vintage ...