Now I've always loved the ballet, like most little girls pretty much all of my drawings at a young age included women walking around on their tippy tippy toes, this has turned into a borderline obsession due to the trailers for 'Black Swan' and the costume designs by Rodarte. So imagine how disappointed I was when I walked into the gallery, saw a room full to bursting with mannequins wearing all of the STUNNING archive pieces, and just as I was about to start snapping away was shouted at by a security guard for 'copyright infringement'!!!
Fear not though! I managed to find one picture of the Firebird costume from 1954 online (it was even more stunning in real life).
Which leads me onto the issue of photography in blogs. Many of my favourite blogs are the one with good quality pictures to go with the story/ outfit. I'm a visual person and I like to see pictures of people's outfits, homes, days out but I also like to see the shops they visited the sights they saw ... when is it ok to take pictures and when isn't it?
For example, yesterday I bought an amazing 1960s two piece suit from Oxfam Originals (which I will show you all very soon) the shop was empty so I asked if I could take a few pictures for my blog. They said no until they spoke to head office to get approval. The next shop I went into is one of my favourite vintage stores, 'Ryan's Vintage' in the Northern Quarter. I asked the manager there and he was more than happy for me to wander the vast shop snapping away and I hadn't even bought anything.
Has anyone else ever had this problem? Does anyone else try to take pictures out and about and if so have you had an experience like this?
In any case these are the pictures I did manage to take, if you are in the area I would definitely recommend visiting!
