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Rokit ROCKS It!

Rokit is a chain of four high street retail vintage clothing shops in London that specialise in second hand clothing fashions and expands across the decades from the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, through to the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. It began in London in 1986 starting out with a market stall in Camden and now has four London stores in Camden, Brick Lane and Covent Garden. It is used as an unofficial theatre costumier by some, and by stylists in multiple national newspapers and magazines from Vogue to Dazed and Confused to i-D magazine. The Rokit website stocks an assortment of vintage clothing from all the grand eras, with an impressive range of vintage ladies-wear, mens-wear, accessories, homewares, footwear, and even vintage children’s clothes. You’ll find great stuff including t-shirts & vests, cute playsuits, cool jackets, unique shoes, vintage jeans and pretty dresses amongst others. The vintage goldmine, offers the individual the opportunity to adopt and indulge in something new and different, you will always find something distinctive and a little bit unusual. Now we give you some fashion photoshoots that are styled with at least a piece from Rokit.

A shoot from Financial Times Magazine's 5 april 2008 issue, the vintage straw hat from a selection at Rokit.

A shoot from Wonderland Magazine's August 2008 issue, the vintage headband from a selection at Rokit.

A photoshoot from Dazed and Confused September 2008 issue, the vintage jacket and skirt worn as Hat, which we really loved the idea, from a selection at Rokit.

Sophie Ellis Bextor on the cover of fabulous magazine june 2009 issue, the belt from a selection at Rokit.

A shoot from Notion Magazine's May 2009 issue, the lovely gold dress from a selection at vintage goldmine; Rokit.

Bat for Lashes' Natasha Khan on the cover of Dazed and Confused Magazine's February 2009 issue, the top and the denim shorts from a selection at Rokit.

A shoot of Pixie Lott from Vogue Magazine's September 2009 issue, the studded belt from a selection at Rokit.

You can check out everything about Rokit Vintage from http://www.rokit.co.uk/ , http://www.rokit.com.au/ and http://rokitvintage.blogspot.com/.

Plaid world of Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood's 2010-2011 spring summer man's collection is mostly formed in plaid fabrics and chequered patterns. Stylist Robbie Spencer, styled models; Kirill Vasilev and Oscar Landström with a combination of Vivienne Westwood man's collection and some pieces from Rokit which is a goldmine of vintage pieces that we will tell you about, the following blog :) You can check out the shoot from April's edition of Dazed&Confused Japan. Photographed by Sharif Hamza.

Karl Lighterfeld

As we know, Coca Cola had many partnerships and many colloborations over the last few years but guess which is the best? Karl Lagerfeld helped launching a new Coca Cola Light with his silhouette on a white bottle. The Coca Cola bottle-opener also comes with a unique limited edition box with an accompanying bottle-opener hidden in a drawer.

The advertising campaign features Coco Rocha sipping on some Coca Cola Light, as dressed like Lagerfeld himself, in complete black and white, wearing fingerless gloves also, and Baptiste Giabiconi also dressed like Lagerfeld but it makes a little more sense because he's in the role of a servant serving Coca Cola Light.

Coco herself shared secrets from Karl’s shoot:

"Karl designed the bottle with his iconic silhouette on the side and then dressed me as the femme version of him. I remember at one point in the shoot Karl didn’t think I had on the right accessories so he stopped the shoot and headed home to bring me a pair of his own gloves and then took off his tie pin and rings for me to wear!"

Carry Your Addiction

We wanted to share a really "realistic" and critical-eyed collection from Cast of Vices about our "vices" actually. Cast of Vices is an online boutique specializing in beautiful jewelry meant to demonstrate your vice of choice. As you know people are addicted to many kinds of things, starting from a very innocent one like Coca Cola or coffee, we can directly say caffein and can make the list longer and longer by saying nicotine, anti-depressants and so on... And there is now an addictive jewellery collection came out from Cast of Vices. The collection includes cigarettes ofcourse, and pill bottles, coke bags, and also a pan cap that can be used for the same reason (which we are not glad to explain), vicodin, xnannies, etc. The collection is hand crafted in U.S.A. with solid .925 sterling silver and 14k gold by using the lost wax process. Here you can see the pieces that we choose from the collection;

And these are for you to have a closer look;


Also the cockroach pin, flies attached on the cigarette butts, pin bottles and the fly charm itself represents the inherent decay which those addictions cause, and the stench of those stuff.

Lolitas

This pretty photoshoot is done by one of our favourite Turkish fashion photographers, Cihan Alpgiray, which you can check out his portfolio from the link we gave you at the end of our page, for Marie Claire March 2010 issue. And ofcourse we have something to say about the styling. But actually the styling is a really great designer's work. Lingeries are designed by Gözde Tekin.

Gözde, 23 , is still a student in Mimar Sinan University, studying textile and design and she's about to graduate soon. This collection is her first collection and every inch is sewed by her own hands. So we say? It is really great, we adored them. And we're glad to share this photoshoot and great designs with you.


This is one of her designs shot for an overall look. We really loved the lacings.

Also these illustrations below, are some of the illustrations of her future plans.

Behind the Scenes

Chanel campaign? Yes it is. Karl Lagerfeld got out his camera for the fashion house's Fall/Winter 2010 ad campaign.

Super cool coats, fluffy furs and 2 coolest model ever; Abby Lee & Freja Beha.

Look at the amazing Chanel bracelet.