Stardust put our styling caps on this week when we shot at the East End institution that is The George Tavern in Hackney. It’s such a fabulous place we took a few photos for you. It’s been a public house for over 700 years, mentioned in the writings of Chaucer, Pepys and Dickens and is now run by Pauline Forster and her partner Toby Penrose. They have transformed it into a wonderland of vintage artifacts and furnishings that Miss Haversham would feel comfortable in. Recently under threat of closure it attracted a fantasy line up of supporters including Kate Moss, (pictured here with Pauline) Grace Jones and Sir Ian Mckellen to the campaign to ‘Save the George Tavern’. Well we couldn’t loose that light up dance floor could we!

How we are loving the prairie looks for this fall 2012, so much so that we had to jump the gun, ha! and hustle some vintage pieces into Stardust quicker than you can say whip crack away! You can find them in our Frontier trend with more to come during the summer. Isabel Marant has done a stirling job mixing up the wild west and little house on the prairie, and we have added a little Ali Macgraw in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid into our mix… just call us Laura… Ingalls naturally .

Runway shots of Isabel Marant Fall 2012 all other items Stardust-Vintage

Here at Stardust we have been keeping a keen eye on the goings on over at SPFW and there has been a lot to see with 34 shows to watch over six days. The top catwalk show in Latin America had a theme for Summer 2013, ’We Transform: Stories Worth Telling’  that focused on sustainability and local production.  We loved the stand-out swim wear (well it is Brazil) updated Ikat prints and blissed out boho luxe, but our favorites were the designers who used bold prints and graphic lines. This is our São Paulo Stardust round up…

From left to right, Têca, Têca, Água de Coco P/Liana Thom, Adriana Degreas, Uma Raquel Davidowicz, Reinaldo Lourenço, Vitorino Campos.

Cor blimey here at Stardust we have come over all patriotic, what with the recent jubilee extravaganza, the Olympics coming up and England playing today in Euro 2012…come on Engerland! So for our mix tape this month we thought we would put together our top 20 British Songs, go on cut some rug..

These boots were sure made for walking… or posing.  In like a bullet today, we are thinking Isabel Marant fall 2012 with a little Anita Pallenburg thrown in. Beautiful blue leather western boots with a sexy cuban heel and superb tooling around the top . Go on shake your booty!

Our June Stardust All Star is none other that the fashion Mossiah herself, Kate Moss. Here she is with more than a touch of Stardust…

1. Kate owns a Super 8 camera AF310 XL and has been filming her fabulous life for years.

2. Kate thought Lucian Freud was the most intersting person she had ever met and he thought her physically intelligent. He painted her in 2003 whilst pregnant with Lila Grace.

3. Kate Moss played Maid Marion in ‘Black Adder Back and Forth’, a short film made in 1999.

4.Here is Kate with Primal Scream doing a cover of the Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra song ‘Some Velvet Morning’, and here is the original !

Thank you so much to the very wonderful Tessa for such a great piece about Stardust-Vintage in her beautiful and inspiring blog, Just a little Joy. We are over the moon! We just need to find a photo where I don’t have a cocktail umbrella in my hair! You can read the full article here … and get 15% discount in store!

Everywhere you look there are fabulous raffia bags springing up. We have spied them all over the pages of your favorite magazines and in your favorite vintage store, thats us… Stardust. We love our floral raffia clutch which is new in today and we are not alone, Prada, Anya Hindmarch, Paul Smith, Mar-Y-Sol, Lanvin and Valentino agree, Raffia is the choice for spring.

clock wise from the top Lanvin, Mar-Y-Sol, Anya Hindmarch, Prada, Stardust-Vintage, Valentino, Anya Hindmarsh, Paul Smith.

Thanks so much to the Telegraph for the wonderful piece about Stardust-VIntage. We love it! You can read the full article here.

In honor of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, as Julie Andrews once sang, here are a few of our favorite things. Well actually here are a few of our favorite British things… yes we know she didn’t sing that… whatever… just look at the pretty picture.