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  • Cosmic Velvet Launch Party in New York City

    Flare Street's newest collection is almost here! With its upcoming debut at New York Fashion Week, we thought we'd celebrate with all of our flare-lovers.

    We'll be hosting a launch party in Bushwick, NY where you can come and check out our latest designs while sipping on flowing champagne. 

    Doors open at 7pm, so come and say hi and enjoy some good tunes!

    Find the Facebook event here.

    Not in NYC? Let your friends know so they can come groove with us!

     

    Spread the flare-love,

    xx

    Where: 114 Wilson Ave. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 11237

    When: 7pm Thursday 14th September 2017

    No tickets or guest list required.

     

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  • Biba Boutique

    Biba Boutique
    Biba Boutique is next on our 'Babe's Who Inspire Us' blog! At the helm of this bohemian wonderland was Barbara Hulanicki - I'm not sure who inspires us more, the babe behind it all or the power her boutique had over the late 60's fashion scene in London... perhaps both!

    Biba Boutique

    Biba Boutique was a unique mix of Art Nouveau decor and Rock and Roll decadence based on Kensington High Street in London. This was the late 60's when Beatle-babes and models such as Brigitte Bardot, Twiggy and Pattie Boyd were covered in Biba goodies from head to toe. 

    Biba Twiggy

    Here our some of our favourite images of the Biba store and beautiful pieces purchased from there. What we'd do to own one of these! 

    Biba Fashion

    Biba Plants

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  • I'm With The Band: Miss Pamela Des Barres

    We posted this image of Miss Pamela and the GTO's over the weekend and have had so many questions! Flare-lovers worldwide asking 'who's Miss Pamela' and how she ties into Flare Street (besides of her goddess-like style).
    So we thought we'd start a regular 'Babe's Who Inspire Us' blog and delve straight into it with Miss Pamela Des Barres!

    Pamela Des Barres Flare Street

    "I was floating around in the Garden of Eden, thrilled to be a human being at the Human-Be-In, knowing the world could be saved if we loved one another. I was draped in flowers, bestowed upon me by my brothers and sisters. I was laughing, loving, breathing Princess of Peace..." Pamela Des Barres.

    Best known as the free-spirited, head of the groupies based along the LA strip in the late 60's. Through her 5 books ( I'm With The Band: Confessions of A Groupie is our favourite) she tells her story - from the dudes and their rock n roll bands, pioneering free-love to The GTO's.
    Frank Zappa started and produced a 7 piece, all girl-groupie band called The GTO's -Girl's Together Outrageously - pictured above. A band made up of groupie-girls but also symbolising the camaraderie and solidarity between women. 

    Pamela Des Barres

    Pamela Des Barres

    If you're wondering why she seems familiar, it might be because Penny Lane from Almost Famous was based on her - her style, fashion and mannerisms. 

    Pamela Des Barres

    Snippets of an interview from Vice Magazine with Miss Pamela:

    One of the things that really struck me about 'I'm with the Band' is its sincere sense of excitement. You really seemed to be enjoying your life and on this giddy, very girlish physical, and emotional thrill ride.

    A lot of people try to darken the 60s and early 70s, and my story is very light. Of course there's heartbreak, but I'm very blessed with an optimistic nature. I would bounce back and get my heart broken again and bounce back and get it broken again. The fact is that we all get our heart broken, I just got mine broken my Jimmy Page. Everybody goes through it, and I think that's also what people related to the humanity that I was putting on the page. The reality of being a young woman growing up in Hollywood in the thick of the madness.

    Do you think you'll be remembered as a feminist?

    I think I'll be remembered as a sexual pioneer in a way, someone who wasn't afraid to have sex, go after what she wanted including men, and write about it. 

    What does "groupie" mean to you?

    To me and to everyone else it should just mean sharing love. That's all it's about, and love of music first of all, but of course it's become a much broader term now. You can be a groupie for anything. It started out with "group." You were after the group; you wanted to be with the group. You wanted to share ideas and yourself and interact with the group.

     

    Check out our Pintrest board for more images here 
    Read more of the above interview at https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/the-legend-of-pamela-des-barres-rock-n-rolls-most-iconic-groupie

    For more on Miss Pamela have a read of her books, particularly 'I'm With The Band: Confessions of A Groupie' & 'Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up.'

    Pamela Des Barres

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