Designer launches fashion festival

Thursday, 25 February 2010

Designer Wayne Hemingway is launching a vintage fashion festival

Designer Wayne Hemingway is launching a vintage fashion festival

Designer Wayne Hemingway is launching his own summer festival to celebrate British music and design through the decades as a "successor" to the Festival of Britain.

Acts such as Sandie Shaw, the Damned, the Buzzcocks and Heaven 17 will be performing at the event in West Sussex in August.

Also on the bill for Vintage At Goodwood will be veteran comic and scriptwriter Barry Cryer, plus artists including the Beat.

The event is designed to be a celebration of the music, fashion and culture of yesteryear and organisers say it will be "celebrating five decades of British cool".

It will feature a roller disco, a 40s-style nightclub and a recreation of the Northern Soul venue Wigan Casino, curated by aficionado Eddie Piller.

And Hemingway, who has masterminded the three-day event with wife Gerardine and Goodwood estate owner Lord March, is aiming to bring "glamour" to what he said was a "staid" festival circuit.

Singer Lily Allen will be launching her fashion collection Lucy In Disguise at the event, running from August 13 to 15.

Hemingway, best known for setting up the hugely successful Red Or Dead fashion label, said: "In the last two decades of attending a myriad of festivals, I've been consistently underwhelmed by the lack of glamour, by the locations, by the scattergun approach to booking and scheduling and overall by the lack of attention to detail which has sadly not only become the standard but accepted as such.

"We have carefully curated a celebratory festival in complete contrast to this staid status quo, that re-unites music, fashion and culture; that is unashamedly about dressing up rather than down and being comfortable rather than compromised. There has been nothing to date like Vintage."

Organisers will recreate a vintage high street and stage exhibitions about British design. Hemingway said: "It will be an exceptional festival, a worthy successor to the Festival of Britain in 1951 and a worthy ambassador for Britain's standing as the world's most creative nation."

NiteLife: White's Tavern

Had a big night out? Click here to send your pics

In Pictures: Lingerie Super Bowl 2012

In Pictures: Lingerie Super Bowl 2012

Women: Can you flaunt too much?

Women: Can you flaunt too much?

Old School Pictures: Ian Paisley

Old School Pics: Girls Aloud Nadine Coyle

To launch gallery click image or select school below

Methodist College, Campbell College, Grosvenor,
Bangor Grammar, Dunlambert, St Augustine's,
St Dominic's, Royal Academy, Ballymena Academy

Teletoons by Stevie Lee

Teletoons by Stevie Lee

Follow us on Twitter

In Pictures: The Troubles

Titanic Gallery: First class bedroom

Titanic Gallery: exclusive collection

Out & About: Pizza Night

Out & About: Pizza Night

Columnist Comments

gail_walker

Gritty, moving and heroic...Billy plays captured life here

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... Sunday's 30th anniversary screening of the seminal Too Late to Talk to Billy was riveting viewing. But it wasn't nostalgic viewing.
ed_curran

Parties need better defence in Stormont's game of two halves

Surprise, surprise. Peter Robinson has been to his first gaelic match, Martin McGuinness is heading for Windsor Park and the Ulster Unionists have scored another own goal.
nuala_mckeever

Why trying to go on a diet is never really a piece of cake

Some people make New Year’s resolutions, I make lists. Every new year I determine to keep track of everything I spend and everything I eat and drink.

frances_burscough

Scary movie? Their jaws were sore from laughing

Teenage boys love horror films and I have two who are in charge of the remote control in our house, so naturally there’s gore-a-plenty on the box most weekends. However, until recently one film was banned.

Just Born: Readers' Baby Pictures

Just Born: Readers' Baby Pictures

To send Us Your Baby snaps just Click here

Just Wed: Readers' Wedding Pictures

Just Born: Readers' Wedding Pictures

To send Us Your Wedding snaps just Click here

 

Latest Comments

Belfast Telegraph Home Delivery