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Vintage mania takes over Brighton at the ‘Frock Me! Vintage Fashion Fair’
Britain’s foremost vintage fashion event is the ‘Frock Me! Vintage Fashion Fair’ which descends on us once again on Sunday 6 June. The popular event is held five times a year at the Corn Exchange in Brighton as well as in Chelsea, London.
Stars including Kylie, Yoko Ono, Annie Lennox, Paul Smith, Sophie Dahl and Anna Friel have been spotted rummaging through the rails looking for vintage bargains, and many of the buyers for High Street chains slip in to get inspiration for next season’s catwalk creations.
Students quickly cottoned onto the fact that they could easily buy the original items quite often for less than the modern copies that followed and what started as a local little fair when Frock Me! began a little over six years ago has now become a national movement with spin-off vintage events popping up all over the country.
Frock Me! Vintage Fashion Fair, Corn Exchange, Brighton Dome, Sunday 6 June, 11am–5pm, £4, students with ID: £2, accompanied under 16s free,
020 7254 4054, www.frockmevintagefashion.com
“Fair is for people who care about design but also about where it comes from,” says Emma Hiscock, manager of the clothing and accessory shop, Fair. It’s inspiring to meet a small team so passionate about what they do, and enlightening to realise that all of their products are fair trade. We are increasingly made to think about where our food and drink is sourced from; the same thought should go into choosing our clothing. Ethically sourced products are key at Fair. They have taken the whole world in their hands (under their wing and into their store), helping organisations far and wide by offering fair trade clothes, accessories and gifts from their shop on Brighton’s Queens Road. 
Musto was founded by an Olympic sailor in 1965, and what this clothing brand doesn’t know about sailing isn’t worth knowing. The entire lifestyle range is marine inspired and the company’s maritime heritage influences the clever designs from silhouettes, colours and detailing to technical aspects. As well as the lifestyle clothing, Musto at Brighton stocks the top quality sailing gear it’s famous for.
