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Sometimes you just have to iron your shirt - in a serious zen kind of way

Scoop! Exclusive images from the upcoming John Fluevog exhibition at the Museum of Vancouver

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As I mentioned, I had a backroom pass to view preparations for the upcoming show on Vancouver's master of shoemaking, John Fluevog . The shoes were being arranged in the vault/dungeon/archive at the Museum of Vancouver in readiness for installation. Spanning from the 70s to today, featuring John Fluevog and early associates Peter Fox and Ken Rice, the show, I hope, will be the fashion event of the year. It opens in May.

Searching for vintage Fox and Fluevogs

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I am super hyped about a show opening in May at the Museum of Vancouver . It will be a retrospective of the work of John Fluevog and include wide array of work from collaborators like Peter Fox. Fluevog is a real style giant and this city needs to give him his due. Yesterday, I visited the museum and given a tour of the show (the shoes and drawings were on metal shelves deep in the bowels of the museum). It confirmed Fluevog is a serious designer with a thumb of a certain vibe that relates to William Gibson's science fiction, indy comic books and a feminine Goth. Together, they really project a very specific vision of what it means to be a woman and I can't wait to sink my teeth into the topic. Now, I've been scouring the internet and calling every clothes horse I know who may own a pair. Anything to make this great show even better! And you can help to. Spread the word, WANTED FOX & FLUEVOGS .

A very excellent blogger

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Sometimes you just have to love their taste .

Things to Love: a vintage Timex Automatic

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A Timex Automatic, square, gold-plate, Viscount, 1974 Catalog # 47860 Movement # 033 It's true. I get excited about things. I've always fallen in love hard and fast with certain vintage items like cameras. They need to be complicated but I have to understand them. For example, I can't get into solid-state radios or computers because I don't understand transistors or silicon chips. But give me a thing with gears, cogs, springs and levers, I'm in heaven. So, I never had a chance. How could I resist this golden beauty? Bold, chunky even, but with depth and lives lived, I found this old gold-plated Timex Automatic watch at a local antique store and I had to have it. The scratches give it depth - I have no problem with them. Plus, my boys love it. They're fascinated by the colour and the weight. I remember feeling a similar way to my dad's watches. He gave me plastic banded diving watch. It had a sharp crenulated rotating dial, the way a castle wall has teeth.