"Tips for vintage style" - Cath Kidston

Boken "Tips for vintage style" av Cath Kidston. Utgitt i 2004. 191 sider. Heftet. Lite format. Rikt illustrert.

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Vintage brukes innenfor klær og mote om klær og tilbehør som er mer enn 20 år gammelt. Retro, retromote eller retrostil brukes om klær og gjenstander fra 50- og 60-tallet eller klær produsert i nyere tid som etterligner klesstilen i disse to tiårene. Om klesplagg eller tilbehør som er over 100 år gammelt brukes begrepet antikk.

Vintage brukes ofte om salg av gamle klær av spesielt høy kvalitet, sjeldne plagg fra dyre merker, eller om designerklær, til forskjell fra loppemarked, bruktbutikk, 2nd hand eller 3rd hand. Vintage-butikker selger gjerne nøye utvalgte klær, sko og annet tilbehør med forventet høyere pris enn i vanlig bruktbutikker.

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Shabby chic er en modestil, skabt af den britiske indretningsarkitekt Rachel Ashwell i slutningen af 1980'erne. Stilen var oprindeligt inspireret af de traditionelle huse i det engelske landskab. Gamle møbler eller nye møbler behandlet for at give gammelt indtryk. Farvetema er i hvid eller lyse farver. Stofpolstring er ofte i bomuld eller hør.

I den mere populære udgave er shabby chic ofte en feminin stil karakteriseret ved pastelfarver. Romantiske detaljer og self-made ornamenter er populære. Møblerne er ofte fund fra de lokale loppemarkeder, som genanvendes og males på. Metaldele kan godt have et element af rust. Undertiden indgår kristne genstande som f.eks. madonnaer, kors, og gamle bibler.

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Catherine Isabel Audrey Kidston MBE (born 6 November 1958) is an English fashion designer, businesswoman and author whose company, Cath Kidston Limited sells home furnishings and related goods online, through franchises and by mail order. She is particularly known for her nostalgic floral patterns.

Kidston's paternal grandparents were Glen Kidston, a successful racing driver for Bentley in the 1920s, and Nancy Soames. Nancy is also Samantha Cameron's paternal grandmother, making them half first cousins.

Television presenters Kirstie Allsopp and Sofie Allsopp are her maternal second cousins, daughters of Charles Allsopp, 6th Baron Hindlip, the former chairman of Christie's.

Kidston opened her first shop in London's Holland Park in 1993, selling hand-embroidered tea-towels. By the end of 2013, she had 136 outlets, including a flagship store on Piccadilly next to Fortnum & Mason and four stores in China. Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme, Kidston described her shops as provoking a 'Marmite reaction': "People either love it and want a little bit of it very much, or want to stab us." In 2010, she sold a majority stake of the company to private equity investors TA Associates, retaining a minority stake and remaining the company's Creative Director.

Prince George wore one of her outfits, which quickly sold out.

Kidston has worked with Millets to design tents (2005–6), Nokia/ Carphone Warehouse mobile phones (2006), and Roberts radios (2005 onwards). In 2008, she collaborated with Tesco to produce shopping bags made from plastic bottles, which were sold to raise almost £500,000 for Marie Curie Cancer Care and saved about six million plastic bottles from landfill.

Kidston's partner is record producer Hugh Padgham. Kidston has two pets, a Sealyham terrier named Billie and a Lakeland terrier named Stanley, who feature in her designs.