VINTAGE YVES ST LAURENT TRAPEZE DRESS

Our shop, Mad Elizabeth Vintage, is all about providing quality vintage and reworked clothing at affordable prices.  We aren't the richest of girls ourselves so we always try and think about what we'd pay for something when we are pricing things (probably why people always comment on how cheap some of our stuff is).  However, for the first time ever we ended up with an amazing designer piece in our possession... a vintage YSL dress!

70's Saint Laurent Rive Gauche dress £240

sooooo much fabric!

The dress is AMAZING, there is so much fabric on the dress which gives it loads of volume, sadly I am far to short and curvy to be adding more volume with clothes so I couldn't keep this gem for myself, I'm sure you'll agree it looks amazing on our model Ezra though.  It's from the YSL 'ready to wear' line, Saint Laurent Rive Gauche and we believe it to be from the late 70's.  It's a real statement piece, I just wish I had the figure to pull it off myself.  The dress is currently available in our  ASOS Marketplace boutique.

AMSTERDAM FISH EYE

I thought I'd share some of my fish eye film photos from a trip to Amsterdam in February.  It was a while ago but I wasn't blogging at the time, so here they are (only 5 months late)! 

en-route

the glamorous arrival 

There are so many beautiful things to take photos of in Amsterdam and our first day there was really sunny, unfortunately I didn't capture any photos of us swanning around the canals as I ran out of film and forgot to put a new one in my handbag.  That'll teach me to take pictures on the plane and of the plane, I do quite like the one out of the plane window though!

we loved the beds a bit too much

broken and about to get on a boat

boat fun

The first night there was pure hedonism and so we struggled to get out of bed the following day.  As terrible as these pictures are I think they pretty much sum up my trip to Amsterdam.  After spending most of Saturday in bed, we dragged ourselves out of our hotel room and onto a boat for a tour, which was really interesting and meant we got to see lots of the city.  I really want to go back and explore the place properly. 

unintentional double exposure

This last photo is of my friend Beth having a bagel in a bookshop on our last day, unfortunately I must have been too broken to even wind the film on so it ended up as a double exposure with Heather in a bus stop in Leeds a few weeks later. Better luck next time eh!

MAD ELIZABETH ON ASOS MARKETPLACE

As well as having our shop in Leeds Corn Exchange we also have an ASOS Marketplace boutique with an ever expanding collection of vintage and reworked clothing.

70's prairie dress & black maxi dress with lace sleeves, both Mad Elizabeth available from ASOS Marketplace

70's Aztec dress and pink crochet folk dress,  both Mad Elizabeth available from ASOS Marketplace

I'm not sure if it's the impending festivals we have coming up but I have personally gone a bit mad for anything with a folky 70's vibe at the moment, so loved shooting all these dresses on our gorgeous models Laura and Georgia.  We're trying to squeeze in as many shoots as possible so we can keep the boutique fresh.  You can check out the boutique here and if you follow us you'll be first to find out about any offers and when new stock is available.  We've also got a sale on at the moment with up to 50% off some of our stuff so even more reason to have a look.