Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Travel & Leisure Magazine's Vintage Style

Buying vintage clothing isn’t a novel concept. Like many people, when I started shopping for used clothes during my high school years in Minnesota, I was simply adding an affordable splash of style to my wardrobe. Since then it’s become my passion, and I hunt down cool secondhand shops wherever I travel. Over the years, vintage has become serious business. Christie's  and Sotheby’s auction off designer collections. Supermodel   Karen Elson is opening a boutique in Nashville this fall. And Oxfam has brought on fashion whiz Jane Shepherdson—former brand director of London’s trendy Topshop—to remake the company’s dreary charity stores and to shine a spotlight on the sustainability factor of vintage. “Initially people were drawn to vintage because it was one of a kind,” says Cameron Silver, king of the trade and owner of Decades, in Los Angeles. “Now it’s extra chic because it’s green.” A justification for my obsession at last. Here, a short list of my favorite boutiques worldwide. -Travel & Leisure Magazine

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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Boston's New England Travel & Life Review

We've all craved Chanel. We can't all afford it. Rita Prout-Farley's here to help. Her bustling, 1,800-square-foot Congress Street shop has sold vintage Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Fendi clothes and accessories for more than 15 years. Walls of vintage costume and estate jewelry and drawer after drawer of handkerchiefs, scarves and clutch purses mingle with the clothing collection (which is so vast, she keeps a separate storage facility nearby). Prout-Farley is often called upon for costuming help, she worked on Mel Gibson's The Man Without a Face and the HBO movie Empire Falls. So, if you see something you love at Encore, snap it up now before it goes Hollywood.

-Boston Magazine


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