MY-WARDROBE $1,000 GIVEAWAY!

1. Nude Cigarette Trousers by Joseph
2. White Jewel Collar Blouse by Equipment
3. Marshamllow Superfine Stripe Knit by Vince
4. Gold Sport Chronograph Watch by Michael Kors
5. White Bruton Tote by Anya Hindmarch
6. Portney Patent Stilhetto by Sam Edelman
7. Star Stacking Rings by Phoebe Coleman
8. Fatima Double Charm Necklace by Aamaya by Priyanka

In celebration of Valentine's Day I thought I'd do something a little bit special. Even though I'm spending Valentine's Day alone (please tell me I'm not the only one?) doesn't mean I can't spread the love, and what better way to say "I Love you" to all of my beautiful readers than with an outrageous giveaway? Today I've teamed up with one of my favourite online luxury boutiques my-wardrobe.com, who are generously offering my lucky readers the chance to win a $1,000AUD gift card to spend on whatever your heart's content! This means anything and everything from 3.1 Phillip Lim, Acne, Theyskens' Theory to Mulberry, Michael Kors and D&G.

ENTRIES HAVE NOW CLOSED
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNER ANNA LATSON!

The giveaway will be open for two weeks, until the 28th of February 7PM AEST and the winner will be drawn at random. We will be checking all entries so please ensure you follow all of the steps correctly (this means creating a twitter/bloglovin account if you don't have them already) and is open to my international readers too! Good luck lovelies and I wish more than anything I could enter this myself. I even did some serious window shopping and put together my ultimate my-wardrobe outfit which seems to be inspired by the cool weather we've been experiencing in Australia at the moment. Summer pastels, nautical stripes and a touch of gold and jewel embellishments are just a few of my must-have staples.

S T Y L E Y O U R S E L F .

So this little surprise popped up in my letterbox the other day. Last year I was asked to take part in "Style Yourself", a book about style and full of fashion advice from some of the top bloggers around the world like Susie from Style Bubble, Tavi from Style Rookie, Kelly from The Glamourai and Jane from Sea Of Shoes, who actually was wrote the foreword and was involved with this book from the very beginning. As you can see the very best way to experience this book is to quickly flick through the pages to grasp how many hundreds of colourful and inspiring images there are packed into this beautiful book, and then once the excitement settles maybe make a pot of tea and snuggle up on the couch ready for hours of insightful reading. Only $16.50 and available here.

Style yourself are offering my readers a chance to win a copy of this book. To enter simply:

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It was an honor to be a part of and I was so happy to spot Zanita and Margaret from Shine By Three in there too! Looks like I know how I'll be spending my Friday night tonight :)

G I V E A W A Y !

The lovely ladies over at ORLY have teamed up with GPV to host a little RAFW giveaway. We're giving away 5 packs of Orly Pure Porcelain and Orly Glosser Topcoat worth $39 each! It's the same nail polish Dion Lee chose for his SS 11/12 RAFW show and is perfect for balancing those bold colours and pastel tones seen throughout his collection. Orly's creative director, Fiona Hay says this pastel beige colour is set to become this season's hottest nail trend. And even though summer is still a while away for us Australians I think I'll start wearing this colour now, the colour blocking trend is already dominating and we're only in Autumn!

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K O S M E A .

I was over the moon when Kosmea emailed with a generous offer for my GPV customers. I have personally used Kosmea products for a few years now so you can imagine how overwhelmed i was to hear they had somehow stumbled across my blog! I absolutely adore their Hydrating Rosewater Mist and it's one of my handbag necessities for when i go traveling for work, especially on planes when your skin feels dull and dehydrated.

So this month we're offering the first 100 customers to place an order with Gary Pepper Vintage a free sample of Kosmea's best selling beauty product - Skin Clinic 100% Certified Organic Rose Hip Oil - and the first 25 customers to spend over $100 AUD 1 x 20ml Kosmea Replenishing Moisture Cream with their orders too! I'm so happy to be able to offer my lovely customers some sort of reward for shopping with my store so a big thank you to Kosmea for sending over the wonderful gifts! I'm extremely tempted to try one myself but i know how much someone else is going to enjoy it :)

G I V E A W A Y : B E N E F I T .

What better way to kick off the new year than a exciting new giveaway! This time i'm happy to announce Benefit Cosmetics (www.benefitcosmetics.com) has teamed up with GPV to offer my readers the chance of winning some of their lust worthy and highly coveted beauty products! Benefit Cosmetics are giving away an amazing prize pack which includes: Confessions Of A Concealaholic Concealer Kit, Brows A-Go Go Brow Shaping Kit, Benetint Lip and Cheek Stain, Sugarbomb Face Powder, Full Finish Lipstick in Pillow Talk, BADgal Lash Waterproof Mascara and Magic Ink Liquid Eyeliner worth over $330! How crazy is that!?

There's nothing better than styling that perfect outfit for a night out and finishing off the look with some bold red lips, liquid eyeliner and a generous amount of illuminator on those high cheekbones. Actually, come to think of it, there is something better.. when you're finishing off your look with Benefit makeup you've won for absolutely free! What i love most about this is that the presents don't have to stop coming even though Christmas has passed.

To enter, simply comment on this post and leave your name, email and answer to the following question: how you will use these Benefit products for the 'perfect night out' look this summer?

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Congratulations to Courtney (cmarielandis@gmail.com)!

So everything here seems to be quickly falling in to place. I have so much new stock being uploaded each day to the new online store and thought it would be the perfect time to start sharing with you my vintage finds i've been collecting recently. These are just a few of my favourite vintage one piece swimsuits coming soon for the store - aren't they just insane? I especially love the two toned black and white cat face one piece. I've never seen anything quite like it and could imagine how beautiful it would look at a summer festival with high waisted shorts and an unbuttoned sheer black shirt.

For some reason vintage swimwear is just impossible to find so i couldn't be happier when i found so many pairs, and right in the middle of summer too! In saying that i should point out that i just got lucky and don't know when i'll ever find so many pairs again so be sure to get in quick before they're all gone for good. Please note: I am aware that some people find vintage swimwear unhygienic but i cannot stress enough how much care i take with cleaning each item, especially swimwear, thoroughly before it's sold. All swimwear is also photographed with underpants worn underneath.

A preview of 160+ vintage dresses i have coming for the store will be up tomorrow night, with even more 'new stock' posts planned for the weekend too. The thought of trying to cull them all down to feature only the best ones on my blog is already making me tired - there's just too many i love! Oh well, better get to it :)

G I V E A W A Y : B E C & B R I D G E

If you're a fashion lover then there's no doubt you would of heard of Bec & Bridge by now. Their collections are always so beautifully constructed and their new high summer 2010/11 collection looks just as covetable. On trend and full of soft pastels, dusty pinks and nautical stripes, i've fallen head over heels for their feminine and wearable range.

But the exciting part of my post? The lovely girls from Bec & Bridge have teamed up with Gary Pepper Vintage to offer my readers the chance to win some of their goodies! Yes that's right, Bec & Bridge are the next people in line to help celebrate our one year anniversary and i've been dying to tell you all ever since i found out!

So Bec & Bridge are giving three lucky readers the chance to win themselves one of the amazing mineral rings or wishbone necklace pictured below! Up for grabs is a Bec & bridge Cluster ring (left), Bec & Bridge Amorphous ring (right) and wishbone necklace. Both rings are dipped in rose gold and are the perfect knuckle rings to stack on this summer. I absolutely love these statement rings and am already envisioning how pretty one would look at my hand right now. Sigh.. If only i could enter myself!

To enter: Simply head over to the Bec & Bridge website here, have a look around, then comment on this post with your name, email and answer to the following question: what is your favourite Bec & Bridge piece and how will you style it this summer?

Please note; Entries have now closed.

Congratulations to Isabella Fabuleux, Lisa Steinbruck, Michelle Ng! You'll be receiving an email from me shortly :)

We heart Bec & Bridge!

S U M M E R I S H E R E !

Happy 'first day of Summer' everyone! I can't really believe how quickly it's come around but i can tell you right now i am SO excited for what's to come this season. I seem to sound like a broken record these days with all this talk of summer approaching but honestly, warm mornings and even warmer nights, Christmas shopping and present wrapping, new years eve and a celebrating a hopeful year ahead, it's truly just an amazing time of year and possibly my most favourite too.

Today is also equally exciting because the Cornetto 'Endless Summer' campaign has officially gone live! Here you'll see two of the campaign stills that will be featured outdoors on billboards/bus backs and the official 30 second tv commercial that will air in Australia this Sunday night. Cornetto has also released an extended 2 minutes version which you can watch below.

Tomorrow their new website will be online and you'll be able to check out profiles on everyone involved, behind the scenes photos and a short video interview we all did. Please note: I am aware that this is the first time a lot of you will have heard me speak before and Chloe has informed me i don't really sound like me at all. I was literally freaking out about being on video for the first time and i kind of lost myself in between trying to not over think of an answer, recording my interview in front of 70 extras and not stuttering or saying the word "Um" too much, which is just impossible when one is so nervous! Be sure to have a look tomorrow and follow the official Cornetto blog. Everyone that was involved with be guest blogging through out the summer, along with some guest appearances from some of Australia's favourite bloggers too :)

Months of preparation, two days of shooting and 6 weeks of editing all comes down to 30 - 120 seconds. How crazy is that? One thing's for sure, Cornetto is an amazing brand for creating an entire campaign based around the power of social media and for giving people like myself such amazing opportunities like this. So thank you Cornetto, it was an honor and i can't wait to spend my summer with you!

G I V E A W A Y : S C H M O O K S .

To mark the exciting one year anniversary of my store, my blog, and Gary Pepper Vintage in general, some wonderful and talented people have come on board to offer some lovely giveaways to give us plenty to celebrate about and get us all in the spirit for the festive season which is quickly approaching. I'm also celebrating a few extra little things this month but i'll be sharing that news with you later this week. How exciting!

So each week for the next month or two i have lined up giveaways from some creative folk that i think you will all enjoy immensely. Each giveaway will run for a week and will range from high end, to beauty, to art, to fashion - the sky is the limit when it comes to my loyal and devoted readers! If you're a designer or brand that thinks you have something unique and interesting to offer my readers, please contact me here with your proposal.

First up is the super cute jewelry line from Schmooks, created with love and carefully hand made by Claire Cimbora. I fell in love with Claires work when i saw it in Frankie a few months ago so you can believe how excited i was when she emailed with such a generous offer for my readers! I love her unique and quirky designs of panda bears wearing bows, elephants on string, rabbits with oversized glasses and cute little owls. I think they reflect my store perfectly and i couldn't have asked for a better fit.

So what will we be giving away? We have one of each of the rings pictured above and two of the turqiouse panda rings to give away to five lucky readers! You also have the chance of winning one of the two necklaces pictured below so that's a total of $300 AUD we're giving away to seven lucky Gary Pepper Vintage readers!

Please note; Entries have now closed.

Congratulations to Maria Nguyen, Sares Spencer, CeeJay, Ploy S. Chityothin, Sara Jane, helen zhang, Edwinathemu! You'll be receiving an email from me shortly :)
A big thank you to everyone who entered. Our winners were all chosen by random using a random number generator. New giveaway will be announced shortly!

If you have a new found love for Schmooks and would like to order your own jewelry, prints, or future Christmas presents for your loved ones this year, you can visit their online store here. But be warned, it's full to the brim with super cute trinkets and you may not come out alive! I wanted to buy a ring in each colour but after much restraint i decided on this little pink rabbit in his oversized glasses - i think it's love!

G I V E A W A Y : G P V .

Hello lovelies. I'm planning on spilling the news about some of the exciting things happening here at Gary Pepper HQ but something unexpected popped up in my inbox this morning that i thought i would share with you all immediately! I've been chosen as 1 of 18 finalists for a spring look contest on Bloglovin' and would absolutely love if you could all please take a few seconds to vote for my look. I'm up against some of the biggest fashion bloggers in the world that have thousands of followers but i thought i would still give it a go. You never know, right? And plus, the winner takes home a Alexander Wang bag so i'm prepared to swallow my pride and ask for a favor :)

But i just wouldn't find it fair asking this of you so i thought i would start a mini contest of my own! I thought this could be a wonderful opportunity to meet some of my readers as i've recently discovered so many of you aren't from Australia and i would love to know where everyone else is from! So to enter all you have to do is click on the photo below and vote for Gary Pepper Vintage (look 17), leave me a comment on this post with your email and what country you're from (you can post as an anonymous if you don't have a google account) and in three days time on June 7th when the Bloglovin' contest closes, i'll randomly draw a name and someone will win a $50 gift voucher to Gary Pepper Vintage! Simple. Blog it, tweet it, facebook it, anything you like to spread the love, girls. You can also vote once from your computer, work computer, phone, friends phone, boyfriends phone (?). You get the idea :)

And with my new stock (nearly 150 vintage pieces) being listed in store tonight, we couldn't have asked for better timing. Fingers and toes crossed for the both of us! :)))))

G I V E A W A Y : C A M I L L A & M A R C .

I'm so happy to announce Gary Pepper's biggest giveaway to date! Worth over a swoon worthy $950 AUD, i'm giving away this amazing cream camilla & marc dress that has a beautiful low criss cross back and a delicate mini pleated hem. It is a size 8 - 12 and completely sold out everywhere!

If you don't know how to enter by now simply suggest my Gary Pepper Vintage facebook page to your friends list by clicking 'suggest to friends' underneath the default picture, select as many friends as you can and then leave me a little note on my wall to let me know you've entered so i can put your name into the draw! The more friends of yours that join, the more entries you get! I'll be drawing the winner in just 4 weeks so please be sure to have all of your entries in by June 9th! This competition is open to all of my national & international readers and i'm already bursting with excitement to draw the lucky winner! I've also just uploaded a sneak peek of my new collection for May on the GPV facebook page so be sure to go have a look :)





Oh, sorry. Did i forget to mention i'm also giving away a little something for you to wear with this amazing camilla and marc dress? I'll also be giving away this beautiful Tiffany & Co 925 silver heart pendant necklace with matching heart shaped earrings! Some would call me crazy for giving away such expensive things like this (even i've called myself crazy for going through with it) but to be honest, these gifts seem so small compared to how much i really appreciate all of my readers, supporters and fans of Gary Pepper Vintage so really, it's nothing at all. Just a little something to say thank you.

And want to know a little secret? I already have my next giveaway planned and ready to go and it's even bigger and better than this. So i hope you all like it! Enjoy :)

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