Clementine Paro is the founder and organiser of Flashback. She originally came from France where there are many independent shops and boutiques. Being passionate about the individuality of fashion she had the idea of linking local boutiques, talented vintage artists, vintage designers, musicians and hand crafters and promoting their independent businesses. By collaborating
they could all show their collections to a larger audience and promote the message that wearing vintage is another way of expressing yourself while reducing our carbon footprint and going green. That was how Flashback came to be. Flashback is a series of events organised to present vintage fashion shows accompanied by live music, dancing and offering attendees the chance to discover vintage items from designers and boutiques’ stalls and to try high class vintage hair styling by professional hair dressers. In Flashback I 2011, boutiques and designers presented glamorous Christmas Special collections to vintage lovers. The event also acted as a vintage fashion guide for potential customers. Flashback I helped to bring vintage lovers together in a fabulous and sociable setting. The immediate manifestation of music's influence on personal identity building and social trends is its interdependence with fashion. Fashion has evolved over time along with music and whilst contemporary trends come and go, there will always be a place for vintage fashion with its core values and attitude. Retro fashion has been on the rise and vintage fairs have become very popular. However Flashback is proud to bring to shabby chic ,a unique harmony of live music, arts and vintage fashion show, a vintage fair and dancers in one night that is different from all others. Independent artists and businesses connected with their customers and truly expressed their specialities. Through this, they hoped to expand their customer base and to strengthen their position against the big chains.
