LONDON bridge.

JEALOUSY.. isn't our most attractive quality

With Ella's partner in LONDON for Christmas we have been taking full advantage of this by purchasing lots of 'oh so lovely' fashion essentials online from our favourite stores (a little obsessively perhaps?!) and sending them to his London address ... hmmm do you think he'll mind?...

So to celebrate the rise of the Aussie dollar (and the new goods we will be recieving when  Caleb comes home!) this blog entry is dedicated to amazing ENGLISH SHOPPING

Firstly- Ella's personal favourite : 

Z A R A 

(coming to Australia in 2011... GASP!)

We  L  O  V  E that Zara has a environmental and animal policy on their website so take a look:

http://www.zara.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/category/uk/en/zara-sales/18001/Environmental%2Bpolicy

TOP SHOP 

(shoes)

Dorothy Perkins

So girls get online and check out some of the UK's finest shopping:)

Love Ella and Jo

B U S Y bees

Our heartfelt apologies  that we have been so infrequent in our posts lately. 

In between putting our most recent collection
(which by the way is fabulous)- and two of our good friends

G E T T I N G   
H I T C H E D!!
We have been crazy busy.

Our Vintage Christmas collection is up now on our eBay store so have a browse : www.stores.ebay.com.au/fosvintage

Our favourite piece from this collection is most definitely this adorable Laura Ashley dress (size 12) 

Need we say anymore about it?

Like we said earlier two of our good friends got engaged a couple of months ago so the FOSteam decided to roll our sleeves up and take a very wild 'stab' at Wedding Planning. 

Lets just say we need a very very long break before our next one.

On the Thursday before we went to the flower Markets to pick all the flowers we would use for the bouquets and table settings.

We delightfully selected all the flowers and laughed lots as we accidentally rammed our trollies full of flowers into one another. 

Seriously if anyone feels like getting up at 4am and lives in Sydney we super suggest you go take a look at the flower markets in Flemington.

We have included a couple of our shots of our fabulous, wonderful day when two of the most Special people we know got married.. woop woop:) 



 

Bits&Bobs collection

Sneak peak of our first 

FOSvintage bits&bobs range on sale tonight @ 

http://stores.ebay.com.au/FOSvintage

“Fashion is not something that

 exists in dresses only. 

Fashion is in the sky,

in the street, fashion has to do with 

ideas, the way we  l i v e ,

 what is happening.” 

        

        Coco 

          Chanel

L O V E Ella and Jo

The Milliner's Exclusive Collection

The Milliner's Exclusive Collection.

In light of the 

Spring Racing Season

FOSvintage is releasing a once off millinery collection featuring only the most delicate & uniquely designed Hats in Sydney.

HATS have always been such a great representation of an era. People can alter dresses and wear them in accordance to the styles of their time but these hats are as they should be. Unchanged, untainted and an amazing representation of their era, After all isn't that the

e n c h a n t i n g thing about Vintage clothing? Exploring another era through fashion and blending the old with the new? 

Hats make statements and just like photographs one hat is worth 1thousand words. 

We just love these shots of dear Audrey Hepburn who was so very fond of hats. 

Here a sneak peek of some of  The Milliner's Exclusive Collection hats which will be going on sale tonight on our Ebay store
http://stores.ebay.com.au/FOSvintage 

Love Ella and Jo

HOPEstreet

For awhile now we have been searching for a charity to donate 20 percent of our profits to. We researched into lots of

amazing charities but we kept searching.....

hoping to find something that aligned perfectly with 

our

personal beliefs 

and passions.

HOPEstreet is an organization that cares for some of the most marginalized people in Sydney.
















We think the world of this organization 
and commend HOPEstreet for the way it utilises 
creative arts
to empower people. 


An upcoming HOPEstreet event that we are particularly excited about is their annual 
ART Exhibition.

                              

This year 

as we saw it 

is running from Nov 9th to the 23^rd at 182 Campbell Street, Darlinghurst.

We wanted to share with you a story about their art space found on the HOPEstreet website:

"HopeStreet’s Art Space is much MORE than just a space for art. For Tina, who has been coming to the Art Space for almost 10 years, it is a place to, “come and escape the pain”.
 Tina worked in ‘sweat shops’ in Vietnam and Australia for most of her life, and as a result suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. “When I stay at home, I feel constant pain but when I come here I can paint and forget about everything. Painting helps my arthritis because I can move my hands. My doctor says it is very good for me. I can talk to my friends here. Everyone is so nice. 

I would like to stay here always”.
 

Tina’s experience is shared by other artists who frequent the space; stories and ideas are shared, tips and techniques discussed, trust and friendships are developed. And art is the catalyst that makes it all happen.
" 

Tina’s art as well as many others will be on display...  we really hope you all can join us there. For more information check out HOPEstreet’s website http://www.hopestreet.org.au

LOVE Ella and Jo

Sale time.

Very exciting news for you all!

FOSvintage is having its first ever 

The bidding has begun at $10 for every single lovely, vintage, eclectic item.

To take a look at the wonderful sale items follow the link to our Ebay store: 

http://stores.ebay.com.au/FOSvintage

Also as of this sale 20 percent of all our profits will be going to our newly picked affiliated charity, HOPEstreet. Over here at the FOSvintage headquarters we are delighted to begin our partnership with such an amazing organization. Hopestreet are running countless programs and initiatives, helping & loving some of the most marginalized people in Sydney. We are eager to share with you all the work & projects of hope, so we will be writing a separate blog entry on them this week so hang tight.

But for now check out some of the FOSvintage team’s most adored sale items:

new collection

Well its been an interesting week and a half, with the shoot for our new collection taking place just days before we released on ebay. This is always a very busy & exciting time for Fos vintage & we would like to thank the many hands who helped us along the way, so thankyou to our ever available and very talented photographer Peter, to Bekka our makeup artist & creative genius & to Bella our always beautiful model. 

A special thankyou needs to be said to Laura who was always around just to "help out" the day would never have come together without her.

We realise we are very BLESSED to have such a strong team behind us.

The photos for the new collection have been a little slow in showing up here as one half of Fos is in New Zealand & the other half has come down with the dreaded flu, but here they are all sparkly & new & ready to purchase on our ebay store. If you click below it will take you to our full range on our ebay store
click HERE 

But be quick girls as they only have four and a half days left!

LOVE 
Ella & Jo