Happy First day of February! The stores are all filled with pink, red, and a copious amount of hearts so I am pretty happy about that...! I've been staying toasty in this gorgeous faux fur coat by Jakke - it's the PERFECT shade of pink and has the cutest silhouette!
I actually found this coat on super sale inside F21, and I'm so pleased with it! I paired it with this precious dress by Dahlia - which I first fell in love with when I met photographer and model Annika White in person this last summer, a definite highlight to a very stressful month! She was wearing it when we met and it looked so, so darling on her. The sheer front overlay, scalloped neckline and sleeves - perfection!
Recently they released the dreamiest 70s inspired photoshoot ever on The Coalition Zine. I was absolutely gobsmacked by this gorgeous shoot and had to share! The dreamy filters, light leaks, sun soaked haze, and the girls posing like the coolest girl band of all time - ahhh! And, like everybody else, I've totally gotten bitten by the 70s trend and want a pair of flares, button down skirt, and camp tee...
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Girls peacocking in breezey sheer blouses, little Mod dresses, delicate lace tights, shiny, knee-high heeled boots, and styled with syrupy sweet hair braided in bows, topped with a tiara, and dramatic bottom lashes - these images parade across your screen when you visit The Corner Store, a vintage shop anchored on Instagram, feed.
Stacey Nishimoto, beauty writer at Into the Gloss and former makeup artist for Nasty Gal and Chanel, has found her calling incorporating her makeup training with her passion for curating gorgeous vintage pieces and then styling them up in a confectionary of effortless 60s influnced dream looks.
An amazing mesh of different styles and aesthetics (one commenter even calling an outfit "A little pinup of Klaus Nomi"), The Corner Store is a dreamland for micro mini dresses, floral patterns, pointed collars, ruffles in candy shades, and peachy slip dresses paired with Periort Collars.
Stacey's shop feed is a perfect mixture of gorgeous clothing and inspiration - ranging from model shots of Marisa Berenson to 80s era Prince.
I recently asked Stacey about how her store came to be, and her inspirations!
Please introduce yourself!
My name is Stacey Nishimoto, I have a instagram store called The Corner Store. I sell vintage that whispers the future in high fashion.
How would you describe The Corner Store Girl?
The CS girl is a sensitive girl, who is intelligent and bold and fearless in the most elegant way. She listens to her own heart and doesn't really care or hear what the masses are saying or wearing. She lives in her own world and is driven by fantasy.
How did The Corner Store come to be?
The corner store started out as a side project to sell things that I love, an outlet for me to post vintage to dress the girl of my dreams, also, I was a single parent and I needed extra money 👑
One thing that immediately caught my eye about The Corner Store was your eye for styling the pieces. Do you have any advice for people looking to be more creative with styling their wardrobe?
Styling is everything to me. You could have a hill of boring clothes but if you know how style that hill turns into a majestic mountain. My advice for styling is close your eyes to the world, and reach deep into your soul, into your dreams, into what makes you happy, find your fantasy world and all of the sudden you'll get fucking amazing ideas. The more disconnected you are from current trends the more ahead your styling is. Another HUGE source for me is history, the history of fashion. You need to have a strong sense of the past, if you do not have those references as your back bone your style no matter how well put together will lack.
Pretty please tell us some of your favorite movies?
Movies that have changed my life: Rosemary's Baby, Queen Margo, Annie Hall, The Pillow Book, Suspiria, Possession, Ms. 45...
Your models always have such strong makeup looks, no doubt because of your amazing makeup artist skills! What inspires your makeup looks?
Beauty and styling go hand in hand, I am unable to separate them, I was a make up artist first, for Chanel, then became the stylist for the company Nasty Gal and did all the make up as well for the company's first five years in business. So it is very natural to look at my rack of clothing for the day's shoot and be hit in the head with an make up idea. Currently, my biggest inspiration is the Biba girl from the late 60s.
Who would you love to dress up in pieces from your shop?
The Romantic.
Happy 2016! Like everybody else at the beginning of the year, I have been doing a lot of re-evaluating and planning for the year ahead and feeling a bit overwhelmed, nervous, but also hopeful!
Here is an outfit that I have been wearing almost nonstop: a creamy lilac Samantha Pleet top - with a Peter Pan collar, silver moon on the pocket, and finished with a scalloped hem! I paired it with a tennis skirt, white tights, and my beloved pair of glittery silver boots I got in... I think it was 2012? Ahhh!
In this get up, I couldn't help but feel like a girl scout in training to be an astronaut - and wanted the pictures to reflect that! In my mind I conjured up an image of me "sitting on the moon", but no idea how to make it happen. But after an intense brain storming session, I went to the craft store, and, after several hours making a huge mess and leaving a trail of silver scraps and silver confetti everywhere (... heh?) my moon was created! I named him Marcello.
I'm really happy with how these photos turned out! I always have really grand ideas but never am able to quite achieve what I want - but I think this is the closest I've ever gotten to it and I'm so happy! Even if I *did* fall "out" of the moon four times trying to get these shots...
Here's to 2016!
So happy to share this with you! Hana Haley and I recently shot a lookbook and video for Beauxoxo! Beauxoxo has been my favorite place to find adorable bows and hair accessories for years now and it is always so so fun to work with Hana, so this project was a bit of a dream come true!
Shop the lookbook here!
