bams & ted pop-up

Overview

bams & ted's latest pop-up venture is loosely based on two films. The first I haven't seen and the second I've seen too many times to count. The Edge of Love is the first, a film that looks to be about Keira Knightley's embarrassing attempt at a Welsh accent, and the second is Tim Burton’s neo-gothic masterpiece Edward Scissorhands. Considering that one is really crap-sounding and that the other takes place against the perfectly manicured lawns of suburban melancholy, both seem like odd inspirations for bams & ted's notoriously vibrant pop-up vintage stores/dress-up boxes. Add to this that both have an overarching theme of war (which is even more depressing than colour-blocked pastels) and the whole thing sounds equal parts dismal and awkward.

But! If you're one of those who have actually seen The Edge of Love you'll probably be aware that it's not just about the difficulty of faking a Welsh accent. It's also about underground London during the Blitz, the poet Dylan Thomas and his 1940s bombshells, plus a whole lot of cutesy cardies, florals with boots, sexy pleats and velvet finery. And in August, bams & ted wage war on suburban mediocrity rather than third-world countries, roaming the generically landscaped lawns of American suburbia in search of eccentricity and difference. Expose your pro-war bias and arm yourself accordingly — possessing scissors for hands could actually be rather advantageous, because the threads at bams & ted's pop-ups are known for being very, very covetable.

bams & ted launch their Edward Scissorhands collection on Thursday, August 4, at 6pm with live gothic entertainment, including burlesque dancer Diesel Darling performing a scissor-inspired set and local musician Matt Rochford with his take on Tim Burton's classic 1990 film.