“Tra la la, the love boat, exciting and new, come aboard, we’re expecting you…”, so sang the chorus of the ’80s most charming daytime soap. Though I remember very little of the original storyline (a tropical skyline, a cruise  liner and some super smiley cabin crew, I think!), mention ‘The Love Boat’ to me now and I’ll feel all fuzzy and warm, like I still believe in the ’growing-up-to-be-a-princess’ myth or something! I’ll want to skip down to the sea, wearing a ’50s circle skirt, hairband and satin ballet shoes, my heart all a flutter! It’s that dashing Captain, I think!  Beyond Retro have fallen under the waves of fantasy, oceon romance too, and our summer swimwear look gets a ‘Love Boat’ makeover! Step aboard for a stripy, nautical adventure!  It’s all navy blue (get it?!), stockings and suave, sailor hats!  The beginning of a beautiful style voyage, I believe! All together now, “tra, la la”…

The Dreamy Captain's Ship...

Sailing into Beyond Retro in a Vintage Swimsuit

Steering Some Soho Love Boat style

All aboard the Beyond Retro Love Boat!

We’re not even half way through the summer yet and those festivals just keep coming! This weekend, it is Field Day, happening at Victoria Park on Saturday 31 July, that is keeping East London firmly on the music map! Weirdly, the sun has held up for most of the season and we’re still waiting to put on our dancing gum boots! My fabulous assistant, Dee, got fed up waiting and pulled on a pretty floral pair, just in case! As the picture below shows, she actually got fed up of the week long gaps between festivals anyway and thought she’d just rock up to work ready for the next one! So here she is, a beacon of festival style, in denim, Bakelite bangles and sun shades, seeing where the music will take her next!  With V, The Big Chill, Reading and Bestival still to go, it remains to be seen whether it will be summer playsuits all the way for her, but Beyond Retro have your wardrobe covered anyway! Come by any one of our stores for inspiration, leather shorts, satchels and flowers for your hair or come by, just to catch a glimpse of Dee in THAT straw hat!

www.fielddayfestivals.com

Waiting for the rain, or the sun, or the Kings of Leon...

Of course, it’s the jeans you notice first! Super skinny and creased up, it’s as though Barrie Cadogan fell from planet rockstar! On closer inspection, it appears he has done just that! Check the pristine pointy soles and stripy tee! Soho found the dreamy muso sniffing around the crammed aisles of style at the weekend. And what a find! Turns out he might have been scouting for stage wear, as he plays with (my own personal favourite rock God!), Bobby Gillespie and the boys of Primal Scream. You may also catch him on stage with ex Orange Juice-r, Edwyn Collins. And then there’s the ‘Little Barrie’ trio itself, the London-based hard rock, blues and funk outfit he fronts! No wonder he was out shopping! I bet he gets through a lot of shirts on stage! There you go, proof that Beyond Retro clothes really know how to rock a room!

Little Barrie play Merc Clothing, Carnaby Street on 13 August at 6pm and The Blues Kitchen, London on 29 August at 7pm. For more details on their sound and maybe their style too, check them out here!

Little Barrie at Beyond Retro

Everyone loves a brooding loner (still waters run deep and all that!), so it should please badass film junkies that the BFI Southbank are devoting an entire season to the silverscreen wonder that was Steve McQueen! His blistering film repetoire includes crime dramas, like the original, thrilling ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ or how about his supercool cowboy shoot out performance in ‘The Magnificent Seven’. From the 3rd – 31st August, the BFI is looking back at McQueen in all his glittering, non-conformist glory! Cult 60s classics that you just can’t get out of your head! Sound familiar? Mmm, that’s the thing about rebels…

http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_southbank

BFI Southbank : 3rd – 31st August 2010

Everyone Loves a Rebel!