Retromania

The campervan in front was driving tediously slowly and whilst I willed it to pull over, it  got me thinking about our desire for all things vintage and our need to constantly look back in design. What makes retro design so good that we always need to look back?
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STYLE NV - TRENDS: Bring back the Paper Chain

More by luck than good judgement I am bang on trend with Christmas decorations this year and was possibly avant garde last season tidings. Although there have been no wedding bells since moving in with my boyfriend, there has certainly been a marriage of Christmas decorations. Unlike our relationship, it was not a match made in heaven, but in these austere times, I decided to just go with it, throw it all together and hope for the best. We now have a multitude of baubles, in a full rainbow of colours; black, white, pink, blue, green, red, purple, yellow and orange adorn our tree, mantle piece and anything that stands still for long enough!

Thus we have happily greeted the season with a retro themed tree. In retrospect, retro Christmas revival was always going to happen, Mad Men has infiltrated every possible fashion vintage is no longer a fashion trend, it’s a way of life, so multi coloured fairy lights and glass baubles is just the next step. So let’s go one step further and bring back my favourite decoation that has been sadly overlooked recently - the humble paper chain!

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