Hello! I recently teamed up with Blue House RVA, a local Richmond second-hand fashion e-commerce retailer, to coordinate and style a collaborative lookbook for their spring/summer 2018 collection. Nicole Kappatos, a fellow Richmond boss babe, launched Blue House RVA last year and immediately caught my attention. She stocks her shop with a variety of cool vintage pieces at affordable prices- and I love supporting local Richmond boss babes. I reached out to fellow boss babes, Magan Shively and Elissa Rumford, to involve them in the shoot as well as models. Elissa also shot a majority of the photos for the look book. Nicole also involved her friend, AC Cosby, to help behind the scenes of the look book.
Nicole brought over a rack full of the prettiest vintage pieces to my styling studio space for me to pull from for the look book. Magan, Elissa and I all tried on the pieces that we were most drawn to and then I got to work on the styling of those pieces. I pulled accessories and a few supplemental pieces of clothing from my own wardrobe to perfect the looks.
I wanted to focus on creating a very carefree "retro vacay in California" aesthetic with the looks. I played around with styling contemporary pieces with Blue House RVA's vintage pieces for really fun spring looks. Pops of color, playful sunglasses and killer heels really enhanced the beauty of Blue House RVA's garments.
I had a wonderful time styling Blue House RVA's vintage garments and have the shop bookmarked on my laptop for future vintage purchases. I'd highly recommend checking out all of the gorgeous second-hand pieces that Blue House RVA has to offer here. And right now, Nicole is offering Fashion, Trends & More readers 10% off their purchase- which you should definitely take advantage of! Use promo code Tori at checkout for 10% off your purchase for the next 24 hours.
Blue House RVA pieces styled in the look book: cutesy ice cream dress, black tiered summer dress, orange printed skirt, high-rise denim, cute floral button down, quirky purple button down, breezy floral dress, vintage patterned top, camel jacket and fifties housewife black dress.
If you're interested in my styling services, please feel free to email me at tori@fashiontrendsmore.com
Photos shot by Elissa Rumford and myself. Edits by me.