Spinning an eclectic mix of Genre Bending, Gender Clashing music: HIP HOP//INDIE//POP//ELECTRO. Granny’s House is a directional, music and fashion focused night in order to fundraise for Southsea Fashion Week and local charity Community Fusion. Each week will be themed, so Granny encourages you to wear your BEST dress up… Go Wild, Go Granny! SFW will award a prize to the best dressed each week. Home baked cakes and cookies will also be on sale! Your Mum might not feed you, but Granny will! Each month the best images from Granny’s House will be printed in Mayhem! Magazine.
Fundraiser event in support of Southsea Fashion Week and Community Fusion.
The Granny’s House launch night is on Monday 12th at The Registry.
Find out more at the following:
www.southseafashionweek.co.uk
www.facebook.com/southseafashionweek
www.twitter.com/ssfw2012
With over 20 years experience, Portsmouths own family run business Southses Deckchairs have recently collaborated with another company with years of heritage, Clarks Shoes.
The classic Clarks Originals Desert Boots gets a bold makeover as the traditionally suede shoes ditched their standard makeup and received a vivid striped patterned canvas deckchair fabric instead. Pretty wild, and not for the faint hearted. You’re sure to be noticed rocking a pair of these. That’s for sure…
You can pick up a pair over at www.triads.co.uk and you may also like know that Southsea Deckchairs are used on the majority of beaches and promenades up and down the UK.
Check them out over at www.deckchairs.co.uk and read our previous posts about Southsea Deckchairs HERE.
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is pleased to announce a new event for this year that will celebrate the Diamond Jubilee – Victorious Vintage is the superb collaboration of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, Love Southsea, The Boutique Market and Little Johnny Russells.
2012 is going to be an amazing year for Britain. Not only is the country hosting the Olympics, but the Queen is celebrating her Diamond Jubilee – an incredible sixty year reign! To celebrate, the government has declared two extra bank holidays this year and Portsmouth is going to be making the most of them!
After a very successful collaboration with Portsmouth Historic Dockyard for the hugely popular Victorian Festival of Christmas, Louise Whitmore owner of Love Southsea and Abigail Pallant-Sidaway owner of The Boutique Market are joining forces once again for this brand new event – Victorious Vintage at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Together with Ben Mills, James Ralls and Andy Marsh, owners of Little Johnny Russells, this vintage festival will take place over the Jubilee Weekend on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of June 2012. This is the perfect time to have a wonderful celebratory fun-filled festival as there will be two bank holidays on the Monday and Tuesday straight afterwards. Not only that, but it is also half term for schools that week.
Entry onto the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard site will be FREE from 10am-10pm (standard ticketing to attractions will still apply).
During this time the public will have access to an array of beautiful vintage stalls throughout the Historic Dockyard, colourful characters from different eras, live bands on the main stage in Victory Arena, a secondary stage with acoustic acts throughout the day. On both evenings there will be a main headline act – names TBC but already include Dodgy, The Lightning Seeds, The Bog Rolling Stones, The Silver Beatles and Mark Morris from The Bluetones, plus other well-known bands from the region all compered by Nick Courtney.
More details will follow shortly but for now you can read the write up from today’s news HERE
Out this Thursday over at Signature Clothing.
Far off the beaten track but by no means forgotten North End offers a different experience for getting your retail fix. There are quite a few businesses that have been there for generations and a decent amount of independent shops offering a good range of products and service.
One such business is Christopher Shoes – Who first opened a shop at Cosham in 1910, three generations ago. In 1977 they opened a second shop at 122 Kingston Road, North End where they still remain. I used to buy my Dr Marten’s there about 15 years ago and they still offer a good range at great prices. This remains a family run business.
Its the last few days to grab a bargain from local designers Signature Clothing. Im pretty passionate about supporting grass roots creative business, without it choice is narrowed to large mainstream fashion outlets and mass produced clothing. Go check these guys out.
Opening at the start of February on Albert Road will be The Wardrobe, Portsmouth’s only Designer Dress Agency. If you have clothes and/or accessories that you would like to get some money for then this is the place for you. To find out more see www.facebook.com/southseawardrobe for more details or email them at wardrobe@onrocks.co.uk.
Two talented designers have recently moved down south to Portsmouth and set up an interior design practice. Charles Joly and Dean Wright moved down from Scotland to start Joly & Wright specialising in interior design, dressing and sourcing individual items of furniture and art. They also offer a free consultation and proposal. Their clients range from both residential and commercial property. Dean’s background is in art direction and advertising whilst Charles comes from environmental consultancy.
“It’s been really nice spending the summer by the coast, there seems to be a vibrant art scene here, which is great. We have met a lot of really creative people already”. Dean Wright.
I popped around to visit them over the weekend and took some pics inside their house and studio. There are so many unusual pieces of furniture which they have either made or bought from auctions. A recent purchase was the optometry eye test light.
“When we looked into relocating, finding somewhere with a creative buzz was important.The Creative Portsmouth Book reassured us that Portsmouth had a lot to offer”. Charles Joly
Below is some examples of their furniture design the A-Shelve and Coffee Pal which you can see at Bonzo Studio on Albert Road, Southsea.
To see further images taken – http://www.flickr.com/photos/create_up/sets/72157627951289393/
While in Shoreditch earlier this week I stumbled across a t-shirt shop called We Admire. Inside I noticed Portsmouth’s HMS Victory on one of the tee’s. If you like the design you can buy it HERE.
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