American Retro on Old Compton Street (London) has products beyond words…so we thought we’d show some rather sexy pics. We think this beautiful shop in the heart of seedy Soho from the chain store it has become and provides great irreverent products at awesome prices. Below is the hottest watch we’ve found in all of London town and it’s only £30! American Retro‘s website sells all their super quirky products online, so you don’t even need to leave your shack…Like their Facebook page for updates here

Shop lowdown: 25 years old (the same age as this writer) and still independent, Sue Tahran’s American Retro offers the effortlessly cool and quirky including accessories, clothing (Fred Perry and new up and coming independent labels & designers like Trikki), art books, cards and exciting housewares.

Loserville is so excited to be among the first to hear about the Glorified £ Shop a beautiful & spectacular pop-up shop and offbeat events space within our friend Noah’s Maiden shop on Shoreditch High Street. We’re bringing our tent and are going to camp outside til it opens…Hurrah!…details are as follows!!…join us!…

THE GLORIFIED £ SHOP 17 – 23 SEPTEMBER | 11AM TO 7PM DAILY – Downstairs @ MAIDEN |188 Shoreditch High Street London E1 6HU 0207 998 0185 | info@maidenshop.com | WWW.MAIDENSHOP.COM

About the Glorified £ Shop

During London Fashion Week The Glorified £ Shop will be taking over the basement of Shoreditch’s favourite store MAIDEN. London legend and music editor of i-D Magazine Princess Julia has assembled a vintage “A Team” consisting of Josh Quinton, Hannah Hooper, Felicity Hayward and Lilee Cathcart who have searched far and wide to source a breathtaking array of original and specialist vintage pieces to entice and amuse one and all.

Clothing, shoes and accessories from 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 00’s have been especially selected for this unique house of design. The Glorified £ Shop is an ideal opportunity to source and be inspired by styles and looks of by gone eras.

Princess Julia said “The interest in retro and recycled style has never been more inspiring; by mixing the traditional with the radical- the trad with the rad- style icons of London have never been more vibrant and varied. At The Glorified £ Shop we hope to reveal the secrets of developing personal style with a twist and with prices starting from £1 they’ll be something to suit budgets big and small”.

Each day they will be having an in-store ‘happening’

*Friday September 17^th Acclaimed performance artist Scottee will be performing a concept piece every 15 minutes. Times to be confirmed.

*Vintage Hair Dresser Sami Knight will be dressing hair. £15.00 for a new you!

*Jeanette, (James Main) style icon and owner of Jeanette’s store will be conducting catwalk lessons in store!

More events will be announced soon….

About MAIDEN

Opened in November 2009 MAIDEN sits comfortably opposite the imposing Tea Building on Shoreditch High Street, MAIDEN is simply a really great shop with a mission to sell nice things to nice people. Maiden is a shop that has everything you would ever want, yet not necessarily need, the little things that make your life nicer and brighter.

There is an indulgence of modern design items with a humorous touch. Speakers that look like huge iPod earphones share shelf space with giant Miffy lights and the ‘Mix Tape’ USB stick packaged like a cassette. Customers are also presented with a passionately edited selection of books that garner the attention of readers young and old. On offer you will discover sartorial advice from Christian Dior in Little Dictionary of Fashion, visual inspiration from Susan Sontag’s classic On Photography and cooking lessons for the under 12s in Silver Spoon recipes for Children. There is even a Yves Saint Laurent colouring book!

From the Friday 17th September for one week only The Glorified £ Shop!

Opening Soiree Thursday 16^th September 6 till 8pm with an after party at Fun City, George & Dragon, 2-4 Hackney Road. 8-12 midnight!

Unfortunately, this competition has now closed. Congratulations to Molly, who won a shitload of goodies from our friends at Maiden. Stick around for lots more competitions – NEXT WEEK, WIN SOME POUND-SHOP PORN!

Finally some absolutely great prizes from our friends at Maiden, the loveliest new shop for all your quirky books (including a beautiful collection of Ladybird books featuring Prince Charles and naked men), oddities, gifts and miscellaneous perfect products. Check out their shop on Shoreditch High Street for their superb full collection or also shop online at www.maidenshop.com for 15% off see below…

Our favourite goodies are included in this super £50 goodie bag including: Eyes Clock, PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP tea towel, Fuck this book (book from www.fuckthiswebsite.com ) and the gorgeously narcissistic I “heart” myself t-shirt.

To enter please leave a comment on this page (go to the bottom of the page and click add comment) telling us your Loserville moment! The time when you felt most loserific, can be embarrassing, can be funny, can be your proudest moment, BE IMAGINATIVE PEEPS!

Winner will be notified by email on the 20th August 2010.

Special offer for Loserville readers: 15% off when you quote ‘loserville’ online or in store. Check out the range on their website or in the pix below!

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14.09.09 – Welcome to our weekly Monday guide to Loser Life…it’s a bumper first edition…become our fan on Facebook to get exclusive offers and more…

In Short: a) Subo returns b) Aqua gig f*ck yeah! c) Grand Vintage Ball d) Sounds inc. free Metronomy mp3  e) Zoe Griffin Party animal & lifestyle guru (our new God) f) Credit Crunchers (aka shops) g) Le Grand Macabre (opera, God I know! Let’s do it put ur aria into it) h) Sounds Like Teen Spirit

a) SUBO she comes with ALBUM! her website makes us cry milky tears, the rolling landscapes, the scarf…what more could any discerning human want. Watch her hilariously professional intro vid here. She’s on Radio 2 on Monday 14/09/09. Her web site lovingly produced by Simon Cowell’s anus is so slow to load, coz loadsa Americ*nts are trying to access it to wank over her version of Wild Horses which is apparently #1 song requested at funerals.

b) Aqua‘s first (according to press, not my opinion) UK appearance in batty heaven G-A-Y.  Featuring all of the greatest hits album including Candyman, Doctor Jones, Cartoon Heroes and the unerrably awesome Barbie song. The stage show will be wkd and gays will scream, mmmm. Check out their new video… featuring the lyric of the century…’back when Michael Jackson’s skin was black’ Back to the 80s – New Aqua Single…

…c) The Grand Vintage Ball & Vintage Attire Pageant
The first ever Grand Vintage Ball will be a night of eclectic music from the 1920s-80s, mindboggling feats of derring-do, and decadence.Whilst the powdered preening pansies fight it out at London Fashion week, to see styles plundered from the past, the event will show the real sartorial creativity and design London has to offer. Just like music sampling, which involves rifling through the past with scant regard for periods, styles and eras, the ball will be a non purist homage to the past.

Held in the sumptuous environs of the Rivoli Ballroom in Brockley, South East London, the night is the perfect opportunity for the Retrorati and the Sartorial Intelligentsia to don their best vintage and retro outfits and enter the ultimate Vintage Attire Pageant, where they can be crowned Best In Show with loads of categories including the fabulously titled ‘Dictator’s Wife’.

Comperes on the night will be the fabulous musical duo Bourgeois and Maurice ‘Cabaret never looked so…wrong.’

d) Sounds we like to hum and bop a long to, like penguins.

Gaggle (Pictured) Choir madness from laptop sensation featuring old women rapping in african tribal wear about loving cigarettes…listen here

Metronomy free download of jazzy new song, still can’t believe there’s now a girl in it though

Boy Crisis – Dressed to Digress – catchy choon…one for the mums out there.

The Guild - Do you want to date my avatar? If you’ve ever wanted to date an avatar. If you don’t know what that is you’re such a noob! ROFL!

e) Zoe Griffin (blog) Ever since my ‘cool’ non loser friend recommended this style guru and it-girl, I’ve been pretty unhealthily obsessed. Check her out, her sister’s make up tips are unbeatable and she has a super celeb spotter twitter app which tracks slebs including Gok Wan being in Greenwich Market…

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Joanna Griffin Make-Up- Mascara from Zoe Griffin on Vimeo.

f) Credit crunchers of this week include… Hunky Dory Vintage, a beautiful old shop stuffed full of treats on Brick Lane, don’t worry losers, it’s not Brick Lane and also the most amazing 90s and oddities shop of Philip Normal’s Happy Shack

g) Le Grand Macabre @ Coliseum Great show, bit freaky, cheap tickets, get your opera spex out. Cheap tickets on FB.

h) Sounds Like Teen Spirit is out today, which is a docukiddimentary telling the story of 6 Junior Eurovision hopefuls, tears, smiles and the best soundtrack ever including all the kids’ songs and the joyous Sebastian Tellier. Click the pic to get the DVD cheap. Buy it now!

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ps. If you watch that dreaded telly box watch Warship on 5, it’s amazing Episode 2 is on five.tv and is pretty much tattoed men getting filthy. Hot.

from Loserville with love x

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