STREET SMART: WHAT A WEEK

There has been some seriously good outfits coming through our doors this week from you lovely customers! We never get bored of seeing what you are buying and how you're wearing COW or mixing up vintage with high street!

And we have to give it up to the staff in our Nottingham store this week.. Killing it everyday with such a fashionable bunch!! Love it. Keep your eye out for more street style fashion with COW and if you want to see yourself on our blog/ website make sure to #wearecow so we can see what you're wearing!

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VULGAR VISUALS

You may have guessed from all of the Halloween posts, that we are pretty into this celebration! We have been busy decking out all of our stores with the best Halloween styles and visual merchandising to make you stop and look!

We have chosen the Day of The Dead theme which is nothing new but still as classic and exciting as always! Witchcraft, witches, vampires, ghosts, zombies, brides and ghouls also go hand in hand and will be scattered into pieces all over your store! Here's some of our favourite parts of the windows from different stores!

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DRENGE X WE ARE COW

There is no way you haven't heard of Drenge yet.. The brothers from the North are every where at the minute and have earned their new exposure by playing Festival after Festival through the Summer and most recently on the Jools Holland Later.. show. 

After spending most of their time listening to music and being inspired by bands like Nirvana and The White Stripes and without a stream of entertainment running through their home town they chose music to focus and on and direct their creativity and Thank god they did otherwise we wouldn't have such catchy, thrashy and raw songs as Face Like A Skull, Backwaters and Bloodsports. 

We caught up with Eoin from the band to see how they feel about the sudden wave of popularity, their tour and what's coming next for them.

Drenge - Face Like A Skull

The video Backwaters gives us an idea of the fun these two might have got up to at a younger age. We love the video and you may recognise the girl (Chelsea) from our High Summer Video! 

Drenge - Backwaters 

HOW ARE YOU? WHAT YOU BEEN UP TO?

We're fighting fit o day three of our UK tour. I've just eaten too many jalepenos and now my nose is running.

THE ALBUM IS GREAT AND YOU'RE EVERYWHERE AT THE MINUTE.. HOW DO YOU FIND ALL OF THIS EXPOSURE?

It's fine. I never really encounter it that much, occasionally I see an ad on youtube or something but it's outside of my world.

HOW WAS YOUR SUMMER AND WHAT WAS YOU FAVOURITE FESTIVAL YOU PLAYED?

The summer was really great. We felt blessed by the spate of good weather. Glatonbury was amazing. Reading was mind blowing. We really enjoyed Knee Deep and Best Kept Secret too.

WHAT WAS YOUR HIGHLIGHT AND WHO WAS YOUR FAVE BAND?

Nick Cave blew me away at Glastonbury. He should have headlined that night. I was laughing and crying and shaking all at the same time.

WHAT IS IT LIKE WORKING WITH FAMILY ALL THE TIME?

It's great. Both Rory and I find it the easiest way to make the music we want to make. We try and work with people as an extension of our family. Our managers are both brothers and we work with a very small close knit group of people at the label. It's important to us to have that undoubted sense of trust with people we work with.

HOW DID YOU FEEL ON JOOLS HOLLAND/ BEING ON TV COMPARED TO GIGS YOU'RE USED TO PLAYING? AND WHAT'S KANYE LIKE?

It's been really great exposure. Everyone in the village where we live has been telling our parents how much they enjoyed it. But for us it's all about the gigs. Everything in TV is very controlled and restrictive, whereas you have a freedom to do what you want to do at shows. Kanye is one of the nicest people I have met all year.

WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE NIGHT OUT IN SHEFFIELD?

A quiet one. The city is over run with great pubs, so any excuse to hang around in Kelham Island, or in The Tap, Brown Bear or wherever is good enough for me.

ARE YOU PLANNING ON STAYING UP HERE OR IS THE BIG SMOKE CALLING?

I can't stand London. it's like living in a permanent stressful enviroment. I couldn't do it, Sheffield is nice. It's small and humble and I know my way around. London just terrifies me. It's not good for my nervous system.

WHO WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO TOUR WITH?

I'd love to do a show with Pulled Apart By Horses. We started our band after I saw them at Tramlines in 2010. That was a long time ago.

DESCRIBE DRENGE IN 3 WORDS.

兩個響亮的白痴  

Thanks for that Eoin! Love the last answer, we suggest any intrigued fans copy and paste this into a chinese to english translation page to see what they said!!

Keep up with more from Drenge with these things:

DRENGE.CO.UK 

TWITTER

FACEBOOK

SOUNDCLOUD

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FLASHBACK: Old School Super Babes

With all of the Spring/Summer '14 Fashion Weeks coming to a close in Paris we have a lot to go over and start to pull out the next season trends to make sure we are looking for the items, colours, styles and fabrics you want to be wearing next season.

For now though we are Flashing backwards to the 80's and 90's when the word Supermodel was a big deal and there was a lot of flashing. Where the same top Supermodels would have been in all of the biggest shows and designer campaigns! 

We will never forget the classic icons like Cindy Crawford, Kate Moss, Naomi Cambell, Helena Christensen, Linda Evangalista, Christy Turlington and Tyra Banks to name a few. Here are our favourite High Fashion images when supermodels were 'IT' and photographers loved to group them up and make them huddle together to get that timeless pic!

Oh Versace, Guess.. Chain, leather, denim, white tees and caps. Love!

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WE ARE COW ** STUDENT LOCK IN!!

It's that time of year again where we are opening our doors and inviting all of our lovely, loyal customers as well as a whole new bunch of fresh faced first year Students to our Student Lock in!
Some of you may have been before and maybe not but we can tell you that we know how to enjoy a good event.. 

This year each of our stores in Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham and Birmingham will be open on Wednesday 2nd October between 5-9pm offering 15% Discounts on *all of our One Off Vintage Clothing and Accessories, Free Drinks.. supplied by Pistonhead Lager, DJ's in store, Goody Bags, PhotoBooths and general fun times!

Check out and join your nearest store in celebrating this time of year where new friends are made and more beers are shared!!

MANCHESTER STORE EVENT

SHEFFIELD STORE EVENT

BIRMINGHAM STORE EVENT

NOTTINGHAM STORE EVENT

SEE YOU THERE!!

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NY Diary #3 Brooklyn Flea & Brunch

So we have sunday car boots, muddy football fields  and Ducktales on VHS. Yeh it's ok and yes everything tends to be under a fiver, you will probably make at least one friend over 70 and leave with a niggling feeling that you should have bought that teapot. Brooklyn's different, like you see in films there are very few fields in the city and when there is they're massive and cornered off and quite often have a zoo in or at least a small menagerie. So instead of the car boot they have flea which is a cool way of saying lush boutique stores under a canopy in a playground. They're amazing, copious amounts of delicious food from company's all over the city appear, I have massive love for Dough the best Doughnut stand, EVER. They're huge, incredible and coated in the best sort of icing you could imagine. The Flea see's tents selling intentional worn denim, beautiful lace dresses. Vibrant 60's kitchen everythings, Star wars figures vs Trolls, little tin things I'm not sure what for even vintage fairground parts. And the best thing about all these things is the variety of gorgeous people that it attracts.

We LOVE.

The print mini skirt

summer dresses (never too late)

Loose tee's girls and boys

Dungaree a classic

Night time dresses worn in the day.....

STREET SMART: You Wear It So Well.

Another update of all of our coolest customers that come to visit us in our Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester and Sheffield stores. Also a few of our staff in there, we can't forget them.. How can we not be inspired!?

See more Street Style looks by following our stores Instagram:

@COWNOTTINGHAM

@COWMANCHESTER

@COWVINTAGEDIGBETH

@COWSHEFFIELD