I dag har något JÄTTEKUL hänt...
Jag har fått tillåtelse av WHIRLINGTURBAN att göra reklam för dom här på bloggen.
Dvs, det är inget affiliateprogram, utan jag har fått tillståndet personligen...
KULIGT VÄRRE!!
Jag har, dessutom, fått lov att tillverka
mina egna annonsbanners, vilket är minst lika roligt!!
Så håll utkik, för det kommer att dyka upp både inlägg och lite nya
klickbara bildlänkar så småningom... :)

(Du kan redan nu besöka butiken genom att KLICKA PÅ BILDEN)

Jag vet att en del av er varit inne på PINUPGIRL CLOTHING'S sida,
som jag också annonserar för (kika ute i högra kanten bland mina banners)
och WHIRLINGTURBAN är ytterligare ett företag med online-försäljning
med inriktning på ÄKTA vintage bombshell dresses och pinup couture.
Det är ett litet företag och alla deras klänningar är skräddarsydda
och något utöver det vanliga!!

Här nedanför kan du läsa lite om företaget och
dess grundare Katherine Robinson, som designat
kläder åt bl a Uma Thurman, Halle Berry och Salma Hayek.

"Whirlingturban Bombshell Dresses and Pinup Couture are made in a small,
custom design studio in exotic Bali.  With a tiny staff of Bali's best seamstresses,
and with the help of local fabric dyers printers and weavers, we make garments lovingly,
by hand, one at a time. We recreate "Vintage Greats"; the most desirable and hard to find styles,
using hand work and construction techniques which are no longer practical on modern factories.
We offer an array of sizes that only a small shop which can afford to cut one by one can offer,
thus giving our customers a "Movie Star Fit".

Katherine Robinson, with experience gleaned from Manhattan's fashion industry and
Hollywood's entertainment industry, opened this "Dream Workshop"
where she could make the services she formerly provided to Hollywood available,
affordably, to other vintage clothing enthusiasts like herself.
All of our creations are one or few of a kind!

Katherine Robinson om sej själv:
"My first fashion job, at 20, was assisting Clifford Olson,
a designer who supplied swingin' boutiques and their celebrity clientele
(Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, etc.). I learned to loved the excellence of craftsmanship
and creativity possible in a small studio setting.
I then worked in Manhattan for eight years.
I ran the design and custom-made studio for North Beach Leather
on Madison Avenue, in the heart of the Upper East Side
amidst the world's most famous designer shops,
where shoppers included a parade of celebrities (Andy Warhol... oh, don't get me started!)
I also worked for free-lance fashion clients like Geoffrey Beene and Bill Blass.
(Golly! Aren't those guys are dead now? Dead or not, their standards were famously exacting!)

Next, I moved to L. A. and opened another small workshop.
For ten years, I made garments and costumes exclusively for Hollywood's entertainment industry.
The creations that came from my studio appeared on a diverse spectrum;
from actresses such as Uma Thurman, Salma Hayek and Halle Berry
(just to name a few of the more delicious ones),
bands like the Foo Fighters and U2, commercial clients from
Intel to Chiquita Banana to Apple Computers,
movies such as Steven Spielberg's Amistad [costumes nominated for an Academy Award],
and T.V., including a Bette Midler HBO Special which won the Emmy Award for Best Costumes.

When I went on vacation to Bali, I fell completely in love,
as a craftsperson, with Bali's limitless creative resources.
For three years I went back and forth, L.A. to Bali, creating fashions
which I then sold to Hollywood while concurrently learning to conduct business in Asia.
I then said good-bye to my workshop in Hollywood,
made my business base in fashionable Boise, Idaho, where Mom could manage stuff,
and now spend as much time as possible fussing over dream clothes
in this beautiful tropical garden studio.

I've always been a vintage clothing fan and a student of fashion past and present.
Hollywood's exacting standards helped me refine my eye for the finer points of authenticity,
as well as helping me to see how attention to detail,
and particularly fit, is what turns mere mortals into stars."