This year’s Vintage Marketplace promises to be the best one yet!
Awesome vendors, spectacular finds, and live entertainment
including this year’s highly anticipated VMP Fashion Show
co-produced by Girl on the Wing and Yours Truly!!!
So save the dates April 16th & 17th at the Hamilton Convention Centre,
and don’t miss our FIELD TRIP!
Class leaves at 2pm!!!
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Until we meet again,
{theEye}
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It’s that time of year again, and we are excited as ever to kick off the Spring (finally) with our first big show of the year at The Vintage Marketplace, which fortunately for us, is a hop, skip, and a jump from the store, at the Hamilton Convention Centre in the heart of downtown Hamilton!
The Vintage Marketplace boasts an impressive list of vendors from Southern Ontario and beyond, and should be a wicked event for all of us like-minded fashion nuts! After all, why spend a couple thousand dollars on an idea that has been recycled time and time again when you can go back tot he roots and have the real thing!
We’re concentrating on signature E.O.F. style and bringing forth plenty of metallic, out-of-this-world, historic, esoteric, unusual, and rare pieces for the show, so if you can make it – DON’T MISS OUT!!
Our friend, and fellow blogger, Kristen Archer of I Heart Hamilton did a post on last year’s event at the Careport Centre if you want a taste of what you might expect from this year’s show!
Remember also, if you can’t make it, you can always invoke us using the internet!
Shop the {SHOP} and use code XIXIXI at the checkout for 25 % OFF.
Until we meet again,
{theEye}
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We are thrilled to join the ranks of vintage vendors making their way to the Careport Centre located at 270 Longwood Rd S. in Hamilton, Ontario.
Last year, The Vintage Marketplace gathered more than 2,500 visitors, and this year is bound to be just as busy, if not busier!
People come from far and wide to seek some of the best vintage finds in all the country, and we are excited to be a part of it. We will be bringing a large selection of our hand picked vintage menswear, womenswear, unique photographs, art, decor, books, magazines, and mysterious objects that have kept us alive to this day.
{Past}, {Present}, and {Future} will truly combine over the course of these two days, so if you’re around, make sure you are a part of it. The show starts on Saturday April 26th with a special VIP shopping hour before the doors open at 11pm for $10 to ensure you get first pick of the best finds! Otherwise, admission is only $5 with FREE PARKING.
Paul Heaton, Co-Founder at The Eye of Faith!
There will also be a fashion show at 2pm daily, featuring Paul Heaton of The Eye of Faith, himself, modelling our one of a kind vintage men’s looks for this Spring/Summer!
I wish you could all be there, so I will be sure to be taking pictures.
Hope to see you there!
Until we meet again,
{theEye}
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We brought our signature vintage menswear pieces, and some of our secret stash!! We hope to get most of it online by the end of the month, so if you got to rummage through the collection you got a bit of a preview of things to come!
Paul looked great in Great Gatsby American Chic. Manning the booth.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
-Albert Einstein
Some of our signature vintage fashion images made their way along with us, like the 1940s Rebel Skater Boy!
Nancy Wilson LP on the top there. Our fabulous urban chic style stunner mannequin!
Legendary Issues! Naomi, Jourdan, Lara, Natasha, Daria, Freja, Coco, even Faye – they were all with us . . . Some of the most legendary photo shoots and fashion moments of the last 10 years, and more. We will be getting these online soon, too.
Everyone loved the knight’s helmut. You don’t see that everyday . . .
To learn more about The Junction Flea, click here for a link to their site!
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We were lucky enough to have our public debut, and first pop-up, with the Flea in January, and since then, we can’t imagine not being a part of it all. On top of being with our favourite shops in the city, we’ve been able to meet a lot of really fun and cool people in the process, which has really made it all the more worth while.
If you’re in Toronto on April 14th, make sure to stop by The Great Hall and get your fix of amazing hand-picked vintage and handmade realness!
We will be bringing with us our usual mix of timeless, classic, out-of-control menswear at great prices, as well as our secret womenswear finds that you can only currently find from us at each month’s Flea. We’ve also been collecting treasures this month to bring to the flea like vintage art, unusual snapshots, legendary fashion magazine issues, vintage LPs, and 1960s horror comics. We’ve got our eye on the prize, after all (this is The Eye of Faith)!
So be sure to stop by, grab a coffee or some dumplings and find something that was truly meant for you . . .
You can get a preview of what to expect by checking out our Etsy shop, and for more on the Junction Flea, be sure to check out their blog!
This should be big, so don’t miss out!
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If only everybody had their hearts and heads with the now 70-year-old Fashion legend, Vivienne Westwood. The world would most definitely be a better place, there’s no question about it. Westwood is always promoting her politics and philosophies, and has made it a staple to her work and persona.
This time her collection featured defrosting models whose fake beards and slick comb overs received a dusting of ice and snow. Inspired by David Attenborough’s “Frozen Planet”, an opus to the frozen corners of the Globe, and the struggle it’s taking for the wildlife of these regions to survive their rapidly changing environment.
“We live in this mad world. If politicians would only see climate change as a priority, we might have a chance…the financial crisis is a symptom of the climate change. We have to stop it or else we really are an endangered species. “
-Vivienne Westwood
Does the state of the planet really not matter that much to us, that the race to make a profit could outweigh our compassion or respect for to the world we live in? There’s going to be a point when the World must come together to work these issues out, but until that happens, these problems will never disappear.
Inspired by Arctic Expeditions, Cool Athleticism, and that signature Westwood twist, the collection foresees that ice man cometh to a city near you. Westwood has created a modern adventurerer fearless of peril, unbitten by the frost, and marching to the same geo-political drumbeat of Westwood’s imagination.
Are you ready to fight the cold? Having not been touched by snowfall for the most part of winter (Scary, right?), it really makes us wonder what’s next to come? Not to mention, plenty of reminiscing of the days of Winter when you could look out your window and see the yard freshly covered in snow.
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”
Eugene O’Neil, The Iceman Cometh.
We pray those days haven’t yet passed. Till that day we’re just going to keep holding on! We’ll never let go!
Yours truly,
-The Eye x
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