Shona van Beers never really started Heyday, she was just always doing it. Her Barbie was highly styled, with hand knitted dresses and hand sewn skirts, with a super organised, well stocked wardrobe. Thank goodness Barbie was patient enough to endure those long fitting sessions, and so be Shona’s first muse.

Shona started re-creating life size vintage looking pieces when dancing Rock and Roll Competitions in New Zealand. This was back in the late eighties, when vintage was not cool and not available (well, in NZ at least). She won many a “best dressed” title which she prided as highly as the dancing achievements...and there started an obsession!

While loving real vintage pieces, thrashing them on the dance floor seemed a sacrilege. Other people seemed to agree, and hence Shona started her own range to sell, cobbling together enough items to start a small stall. That was August 2006, and now we have many more styles and colours with an ever growing line of wonderful reproductions in the pipeline.

Please do pop back regularly to see what we have been making!

To all of you, from all of us at Heyday online - Thank you and Happy Shopping!

Shona van Beers
Heyday Designer