Just read this review of a fashion show we did a few weeks ago and we really like it! Thanks GCG.
‘UNSEEN’
At a Charity Fashion Show in aid of Cancer Research and The Toni & Guy Foundation local designers took to the stage to showcase some of the most original yet wearable items. With their trademark full skirts made from shirts, Rose Hip & Tutu channeled a patriotic-with-a-twist themes, amalgamating tartan, tweed and forties style prints, with tough metallics, buckles and lace.
Claire Dargie, Granite City Gazette. Nov ‘09
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Saturday, 5 December 2009
How are we consuming this Christmas?
Recycling
It is estimated that more than 1 million tonnes of textiles are thrown away every year in the UK alone. At least 50% of the textiles we throw away are recyclable, however, the proportion of textile wastes reused or recycled annually in the UK is only around 25%.
Recovery and recycling:-
• Reduces the need for landfill space.
• Reduces pressure on virgin resources.
• Results in less pollution and energy savings, as fibres do not have to be manufactured or transported from abroad.
Consumers can contribute by recycling , re-fashioning and re-styling existing clothes, swapping clothes with friends or choosing to invest in quality rather than quantity when buying clothes.
Source: http://www.ethicalfashionforum.com/the-issues/recycling
How is Rose Hip & Tutu contributing to more sustainability???
We use reclaimed fabrics wherever possible.
We recycle and upcycle quality preloved garments.
We promote clothes swapping through our Swish Parties. Book one now!
Where reclaimed fabrics are not appropriate, we use locally woven materials.
What can you do???
Come visit us, buy from our ready made items or commission a piece especially!
One of our most powerful ways of exerting influence is as consumers.
It is estimated that more than 1 million tonnes of textiles are thrown away every year in the UK alone. At least 50% of the textiles we throw away are recyclable, however, the proportion of textile wastes reused or recycled annually in the UK is only around 25%.
Recovery and recycling:-
• Reduces the need for landfill space.
• Reduces pressure on virgin resources.
• Results in less pollution and energy savings, as fibres do not have to be manufactured or transported from abroad.
Consumers can contribute by recycling , re-fashioning and re-styling existing clothes, swapping clothes with friends or choosing to invest in quality rather than quantity when buying clothes.
Source: http://www.ethicalfashionforum.com/the-issues/recycling
How is Rose Hip & Tutu contributing to more sustainability???
We use reclaimed fabrics wherever possible.
We recycle and upcycle quality preloved garments.
We promote clothes swapping through our Swish Parties. Book one now!
Where reclaimed fabrics are not appropriate, we use locally woven materials.
What can you do???
Come visit us, buy from our ready made items or commission a piece especially!
One of our most powerful ways of exerting influence is as consumers.
Monday, 24 August 2009
Rose Hip goes Lolita for the Tea Party!
Rose Hip & Tutu were invited to create costume for the opening of Tea Cosy 2009, an alternative art, craft and design fair open to new graduates, established artists and art organisations. The event is run by SMART consultants and Grampian Hospitals Art Trust are the host this year.
The event was set up so that the contributors each had a table in the tea party where they could display their wares and entertain their guests.
Sally decided on a Lolita-serves-tea approach to the costume design with frills, aprons and splashes of neon!
Good fun, good cause, good show!
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Where we'll be in August
I read a great quote on a flyer the other day.
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all of those who wander are lost"
J. R. Tolkien
At Rose Hip & Tutu the wanderlust hangs in the air like fairy dust and like any good adventurista when we something catches our attention we're off to explore.
Three wanderings we'll definitely be month this month are . . .
02/08 HOMECOMING TARTAN DAY MARKET
We've been rifling through one of our favourite areas in the stock room and playing with tartans again. Expect some of our trademark Scottesque Skirts with a twist along with some new ideas.
08/08 at 8 CHATTAN PLACE OFFICIAL OPENING
Yes we're going back to the place where the dream started but now it's all changed and we're going to give blessing to the opening of
Peltoniemi
Made-to-order
Our lovely friend Tytti Peltoniemi is opening her concept store and workshop/showroom at our old address. Stocking some produits exquisites and showcasing her range of made-to-order bags, Tytti accepts nothing but the best in her own work so you'll be sure to find here only the finest of the fine. And, oh, yes . . . it was on her flyer that I read the words of Tolkien above. She's got some great books to buy in the most wonderful of editions.
28/8 at WIZARD FESTIVAL, New Deer
In its third year and with a cracking line up (Idlewild, The Beat, Buzzcocks, The Charlatans and The Cuban Brothers are among those we'll be heading for), the powers that wizardly be have requested our presence as adjudicators for Fancy Dress Friday. How could we refuse! It's being held in the Wee Wizard's Children's arena but don't let that stop all you big kids out there from donning your dressing up box favourites for the event! You know we love the surreal to just-all-out-there!
We're not lost but we are wandering, see you out there!
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Summer Sale!
SALE SALE SALE
Summer savings on a large range of stock including our much loved PUFF SHIRT SKIRTS and SQUINT DRAPE T-TOPS, the full vintage collection, all jewellery and our Sophie Gorton Organic Tops.
Friday, 19 June 2009
Fairy Punk as VP hits the catwalk again . . .
Vintage Phoenix is hitting the catwalk again! This time at the Marcliffe Hotel, Aberdeen, on Wednesday 24th June 2009.
Aberdeen Grammar School is holding a Fashion Show to raise funds for an educational expedition to Costa Rica with World Challenge.
The fitting with the models, all students at the school, was electric as we put together some sparky new style combinations. Expect fairy punk, pixie funk, a little fresh-faced-dapper and some teenage military as our gents department comes out to play with the girls!
The show starts at 7:30pm and tickets cost just £10.
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Brighton, Brighton here we come!
Alternative Fashion Fair
The next adventure in the Rose Hip calendar is an alternative fashion fair at Fabrica Gallery in Brighton. Yes, Sally and Janet are heading down to England's south coast Bohemia. It'll be a trip down memory lane for Janet who spent her student days here and a great opportuntity to introduce the Vintage Phoenix label to a new audience.
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Waste into Wearable.
Convention has it that Fashion is about the new but at Rose Hip & Tutu’s recent Eco-fashion show in Aberdeen’s Art Gallery we focused on re-invention. The designers, Sally Simpson and Janet Shaw put together a collection which aimed to demonstrate our ethic that Eco-fashion can be stylish, fun and desirable. The design duo are inspired by the challenge of turning waste into wearable and covetable clothes and take satisfaction from saving even the smallest amount of textiles heading for landfill. The ethic of re-use extends to the jewellery range which, this season, features cutlery intertwining in art nouveau fashion.
The show included a number of designs featuring refashioned men’s shirts; they appeared as puff-ball skirts, painted dresses with chiffon panels, tops with voluminous sleeves, tops with collars as sleeves and mini dresses over net petticoats. Neck ties were worn as fitted bodices.
Denim salvaged from jeans featured in a variety of skirt designs decorated with floral frills, puffs and patched panels and were paired with bleached and painted jackets. Salvaged table linens featured as skirts and romantic tops utilising embroidered details and lace. Fabrics salvaged from curtains appeared in a variety of designs.
The show’s finale included a range of evening ensembles featuring hand printed lace, panels embellished with fabric remnants and bridal wear
The audience of 150 were delighted by the show which as well as showcasing Rose Hip & Tutu’s designs provided a delightful and memorable spectacle set against the magnificent setting of the Gallery.
The show included a number of designs featuring refashioned men’s shirts; they appeared as puff-ball skirts, painted dresses with chiffon panels, tops with voluminous sleeves, tops with collars as sleeves and mini dresses over net petticoats. Neck ties were worn as fitted bodices.
Denim salvaged from jeans featured in a variety of skirt designs decorated with floral frills, puffs and patched panels and were paired with bleached and painted jackets. Salvaged table linens featured as skirts and romantic tops utilising embroidered details and lace. Fabrics salvaged from curtains appeared in a variety of designs.
The show’s finale included a range of evening ensembles featuring hand printed lace, panels embellished with fabric remnants and bridal wear
The audience of 150 were delighted by the show which as well as showcasing Rose Hip & Tutu’s designs provided a delightful and memorable spectacle set against the magnificent setting of the Gallery.
And we had a ball! 'Hip' cos that's what we are and that's what we like to swing!
Friday, 17 April 2009
First Eco Fashion Showcase in Aberdeen
We are showcasing our eco-clothing label Vintage Phoenix at Aberdeen Art Gallery on Thursday, April 23. This is the label’s second show since its inception nearly 3 years ag
We offer a mix of eco-clothing including select vintage items, a new range of organic cotton tops and our own label Vintage Phoenix which specialises in using salvaged materials. Most of the designs in store can be created in different fabrics to provide an experience that is half way between ‘off the hanger’ and custom made.
Sally Simpson, la impenatrable force behind Rose Hip & Tutu, is looking forward to seeing the clothes in the setting of the Art Gallery.
She said: “Our first show was primarily vintage but this show is much more about our own ideas in the eco-collection and so will really be the first time we have brought our work into the public eye. The show will feature designs which will be available in the shop but also pieces to present a spectacle fitting to the setting and reflecting the more bespoke end of what we offer. We hope that the show will demonstrate our ethos; that eco-fashion can be fun, stylish and desirable.”
“Re-using and recycling is very important to us at Rose Hip & Tutu and through re-using textiles we are not only creating new and interesting clothes, but also reducing the vast amounts of textiles that are thrown away every year.”
Shopgirl @ Rose Hip & Tutu is nervously excited about her first catwalk experience and loving the photo shoots already already! And Janmeister has the spoons a bending - some statement jewellery pieces to make an apprearance form Jan!!
We're having the show kicked off with live music from Fiona Keenan and Sarah J. Tingle.
http://www.myspace.com/fionakeenan
http://www.myspace.com/sarahjtingle
We offer a mix of eco-clothing including select vintage items, a new range of organic cotton tops and our own label Vintage Phoenix which specialises in using salvaged materials. Most of the designs in store can be created in different fabrics to provide an experience that is half way between ‘off the hanger’ and custom made.
Sally Simpson, la impenatrable force behind Rose Hip & Tutu, is looking forward to seeing the clothes in the setting of the Art Gallery.
She said: “Our first show was primarily vintage but this show is much more about our own ideas in the eco-collection and so will really be the first time we have brought our work into the public eye. The show will feature designs which will be available in the shop but also pieces to present a spectacle fitting to the setting and reflecting the more bespoke end of what we offer. We hope that the show will demonstrate our ethos; that eco-fashion can be fun, stylish and desirable.”
“Re-using and recycling is very important to us at Rose Hip & Tutu and through re-using textiles we are not only creating new and interesting clothes, but also reducing the vast amounts of textiles that are thrown away every year.”
Shopgirl @ Rose Hip & Tutu is nervously excited about her first catwalk experience and loving the photo shoots already already! And Janmeister has the spoons a bending - some statement jewellery pieces to make an apprearance form Jan!!
We're having the show kicked off with live music from Fiona Keenan and Sarah J. Tingle.
http://www.myspace.com/fionakeenan
http://www.myspace.com/sarahjtingle
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Back Story
Despite an often magical and wonderfully still sense of time that seems to reign over the new shop, the calendar does not lie and the oh-so-many modern day markers of each measured, ticking moment let us know that we have been open for business here at 197 Rosemount Place, Aberdeen for more than four months. We've had some special 'firsts' here already and the air is charged in anticipation of more to come.
We hailed our arrival on Rosemount on 31st October 2008 in a neon pink explosion of silks and feathers, punctuated with black Halloween lace and lubricated with a (few) cauldron(s) of champagne. Slinky dark Cruellas mingled with sparkling tutu'd fairies as those of you we knew from the Vintage Phoenix shop in Chattan Place came and celebrated our new home and our new name.
Just to clarify, the shop in Rosemount is called Rose Hip & Tutu. We are keeping the name Vintage Phoenix for our own clothing label while we expand our stock to include ranges of locally designed items of jewellery, accessories and home furnishings alongside some lovely vintage jewellery and accessories. We also stock “Love The Planet” a range of organic and ecological cosmetics produced locally by the lovely Laura McComski.
The new name itself comes, like every piece we make, with a story. Rose is in reference to our new location and also our love of florals and femininity. Hip because that’s what we are and that’s what we like to swing. Tutu came along because, like always, we felt that we just wanted more! And with the crest of our wave seemingly unwilling to break, we were offered the fabulous phone number 622 522. Yes, we did have ‘a moment’!
We have a growing team of gorgeous, creative women who are sharing the joys with Sally and Janet and our first team meeting echoed with a collective cheer over targets met and hopes exceeded. We had sherry and the mince pies to warm our first Christmas in the new home. We have had our first Swish party where you came with your unwanted wardrobe and left with finds from those of other women. Look out for future SWISH PARTY dates!
Also on the horizon (and much on our minds) is our fashion show at Aberdeen Art Gallery on Thursday 23rd April where our new collection for Spring/Summer 2009 will be released into the wild.
We had the dream and we are now pinching ourselves on a daily basis. But it’s real and we look forward to welcoming you to our world.
We hailed our arrival on Rosemount on 31st October 2008 in a neon pink explosion of silks and feathers, punctuated with black Halloween lace and lubricated with a (few) cauldron(s) of champagne. Slinky dark Cruellas mingled with sparkling tutu'd fairies as those of you we knew from the Vintage Phoenix shop in Chattan Place came and celebrated our new home and our new name.
Just to clarify, the shop in Rosemount is called Rose Hip & Tutu. We are keeping the name Vintage Phoenix for our own clothing label while we expand our stock to include ranges of locally designed items of jewellery, accessories and home furnishings alongside some lovely vintage jewellery and accessories. We also stock “Love The Planet” a range of organic and ecological cosmetics produced locally by the lovely Laura McComski.
The new name itself comes, like every piece we make, with a story. Rose is in reference to our new location and also our love of florals and femininity. Hip because that’s what we are and that’s what we like to swing. Tutu came along because, like always, we felt that we just wanted more! And with the crest of our wave seemingly unwilling to break, we were offered the fabulous phone number 622 522. Yes, we did have ‘a moment’!
We have a growing team of gorgeous, creative women who are sharing the joys with Sally and Janet and our first team meeting echoed with a collective cheer over targets met and hopes exceeded. We had sherry and the mince pies to warm our first Christmas in the new home. We have had our first Swish party where you came with your unwanted wardrobe and left with finds from those of other women. Look out for future SWISH PARTY dates!
Also on the horizon (and much on our minds) is our fashion show at Aberdeen Art Gallery on Thursday 23rd April where our new collection for Spring/Summer 2009 will be released into the wild.
We had the dream and we are now pinching ourselves on a daily basis. But it’s real and we look forward to welcoming you to our world.
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