Recent Posts Tagged With 'mod fashion'

• YARDLEY LONDON SLICKER LIPSTICK KEYCHAIN UNUSED

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 20:18 in twiggy, mod fashion

  This post is for TEE who emailed RK and asked us if we knew where to buy Yardley slicker lip polish. Unfortunately they are stuck back in the late 60's and banished to Ebay if you are lucky to find one. Which I did just now. Go bid on it HEREI did fi...

• FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY: LONDON 1960's

  Posted on Sunday July 26th, 2009 at 09:46 in twiggy, rock photography, mod fashion, british import export

  Blow-Up is a fabulous Retro film based on the real life antics of fashion photographers from 1960's London.Recently a friend mailed a copy of a terrific documentary about the real people behind the film Blow-Up. I sat absolutely mesmerized for 2 hour...

• MAGICAL MYSTERY: MARIJKE'S ART

  Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 12:53 in pop art, pattie boyd, mod fashion, british import export

  Happy Sunday Retro fans... Have lots of news for you!As we already mentioned, we are gearing up to film a brand new video of MGT drumming with Circus Boy next weekend. We'll have lots of images and film of that event so plzzz stay tuned.We also met t...

• ROD "THE MOD" STEWART

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 21:28 in music, mod fashion, british import export

  Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British singer and songwriter born and raised in London, England and currently residing in Epping. He has Scottish and English parentage.With his distinctive raspy voice, Stewart came to p...

• 20TH CENTURY BOY: MARC BOLAN

  Posted on Friday May 15th, 2009 at 21:39 in music, mod fashion

  I have been in a Marc Bolan mood for a week! Don't know what brought him into my mind. Guess Marc is reaching into my dreams and asking for a post on RetroK.He was of course the first Glam Rocker but he preferred Cosmic Rocker. Cosmic he was.... Gorg...

• AMERICAN MODEL: PEGGY MOFFITT

  Posted on Saturday April 4th, 2009 at 21:51 in pop art, mod fashion

  Wasn't Peggy Moffitt just absolutely the most RETRO fabulous?? She was my image of looking cool as a teenager. I still want to look like her! The fabulous eye makeup, the black Sassoon hair cut. It was Peggy whose clothes I tried to copy as a kid in ...

• PATTIE BOYD: ROCKED THE 60'S

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 22:49 in pattie boyd, mod fashion

  One of RK's favorite 60's Icons is Pattie Boyd-Harrison-Clapton. Pattie was married to two of the most famous rockers of all time but to us she was much more...A little wiki bio:Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and...

• TWIGGY PART 2

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 10:19 in barbie, twiggy, collectible dolls, mod fashion

  GET THIS COOL POSTER >Art.comTwiggy's Webpage is HERERetro Kimmer's most popular post since we began Nov. 3 , 2008 is: read it here: TWIGGYWe love love love Twiggs too. So here is a new post on the queen of Retro: Twiggy (love those earrings!)Watch a...

• "WEAR YOUR LOVE LIKE HEAVEN"

  Posted on Monday February 16th, 2009 at 18:56 in music, mod fashion

  LOVE AND YARDLEY COSMETICS RULED THE LATE 60'S Here's one for the girls... I have written about music for awhile now and need to get back to my hot 60's makeup and mod fashion stuff!One of the most fabulous things about the late sixties was Love Cos...