One way or another, vintage fashions are always in. This season the big fashion story is the Ladylike Dress of the 1950s – nipped-waist, full skirt. The best place to pick up an original of the new trend is of course The Vintage Fashion Expo this weekend March 17th and 18th at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco.
Vintage-inspired dress by Lisa Hunter from Vian Hunter House of Fashion.
I never miss the Expo and guess who else will be there – Lisa Hunter, current contestant on the newest NBC television fashion show Fashion Star. Lisa is a women’s clothing designer and longtime shopper at the Expo.
Inspired by the feminine look of the 1950s and 1960s, Lisa studied at FIDM and started her own fashion house in 2004 called Vian Hunter House of Fashion. She currently lives in Seattle, Washington and has a shop where she sells her own designs and select vintage pieces. (I like the fact that all her designs are made in the USA.)
Lisa isn’t the only fashionable to shop the Expo. Stylists, fashion students, fashion journalists (like moi), collectors, and clothing historians are just some of the folks in the biz who find the Expo not just a place to buy vintage, but also to find inspiration, meet like-minded people, and network.
For over 30 years, every spring and fall The Vintage Fashion Expo has brought to us 80 dealers from around the country offering fashions and accessories for men, women, and children from the 1850s to the 1980s. There’s something for everyone and more.
The Vintage Fashion Expo, March 17th and 18th, 2012 at the Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th Street at Brannan, SF. Saturday hours, Early Bird $20 admission 9am to 10:30 AM. Regular hours $10 admission 10:30 to 6pm. Sunday, 11am to 5pm. Students with ID free on Sunday.
See you at the Expo.
OverDressed for Life 
Oh how I wish I could attend!