Recently disembarked from the May edition of the thrice-yearly vintage wonderland known as Brimfield Antique Show, the Vintage Vault is busy unpacking a trove of treasures and editing hundreds of photos for the upcoming report...and swooning over the street shots we snapped amongst the fields cluttered with clothing, textiles, furniture and ephemera.
Three times a year designers, product developers, prop stylists, eccentric antique-lovers
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Costumes from Baz luhrmann's The Great Gatsby by Miuccia Prada & Catherine Martin, currently on display at Prada's Soho store in New York City.
In this new weekly blog series, London-based Vintage Archive Beyond Retro guest-curates a post on the Vintage Vault. For this inaugural post, Archive Manager Joseph O'Brien looks at The Great Gatsby influences sure to hit fashion in
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London's 2013 Tweed Run took place last weekend, and the author/editor of this blog was on hand to participate both as a race marshal and a photographer- from the back of a tandem . Described as "a metropolitan ride with a bit of style," the Tweed Run began in London in 2009 as a charitable event uniting cycling- and tweed-
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Lilly Pulitzer Advertisement, 1971
Much has been written about the socialite-cum-designer Lilly Pulitzer in the week since her passing on Sunday, 7 April 2013. About her unlikely foray into fashion that began with a juice stand in Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1959. About all the glamorous women she dressed throughout the 1960s and 70s, including a Kennedy or two. About her
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Emilio Pucci by Vanessa Friedman, Alessandra Arezzi Boza, and Armando Chitolina; Taschen 2013.
The unlimited edition of Vanessa Friedman's chef-d'oeuvre on Emilio Pucci, 20th century fashion's indisputable Prince of Prints, is coming soon from Taschen following the 2011 release of the limited Vintage art edition . Anecdotes from the Italian royal's personal life feature throughout alongside his enduring design legacy, which began
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Day dress by Madeleine Vionnet, 3 February 1931, Photo © Archives de Paris, DU12U10 642
For anyone who has studied 30s-era couture, the lookbook-esque photos that feature in the Musée Galliera's latest* hors-des-murs exhibition will seem familiar; the actual reasoning behind them, perhaps not. 1931: Face-Dos-Profil, hosted at the Crédit Municipal de Paris in the heart of the Marais, features a selection
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The Museum of the City of New York recently unveiled its latest exhibition, “When Fashion Danced,” an homage to designer Stephen Burrows and his colorful, exuberant fashions that perfectly captured the Studio 54 zeitgeist of 70s New York.
Featuring original sketches, photographs, video and over 50 garments, the exhibit ranges from his first fashion line to the groundbreaking designs that defined
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Exhibition view of Paris Haute Couture at the city's Hôtel de Ville, curated by Olivier Saillard/Musée Galliera. Photo via Dazed Digital.
The Musée Galliera's maverick director, Olivier Saillard, has spun yet another historical thread of fashion magic into a show-stopping exhibition with his latest and greatest: Paris Haute Couture, both a study in high craft and an exaltation of the masters
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L to R: Illustration by Bernard Blossac for L'Officiel de la Mode n.596, 1972; Jeanne Nataf advertisement, L'Officiel de la Mode n.535-36, October 1966.
Everyone loves a good leopard coat. Well, stylish ladies from the 40s through the 60s, 70s, 90s, and now 21st century did and do, in any case. One of fashion's perennials, the spotted leopard coat experienced a powerful
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André Courrèges and Models, circa 1960s.
The Courrèges revival continues, with the latest S/S 13 collection reprising yet another well-edited selection of the designer's classics in a variety of colors and signature fabrics. While we'd like to see more interpretation vs. straight-up reissued product, the spot-on retro styling and photography still looks fantastic 40+ years after the French label's true heyday,
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Clockwise from left: Carven Pre-Fall 2012; footwear zoom of Carven Pre-Fall 12; Christian Dior F/W 1966 in L'Officiel de la Mode magazine, n. 533-534, September 1966.
Often, during our internet travels for vintage inspiration and research, we come across a look or a garment or an accessory that seems uncannily familiar- so familiar, in fact, that we know we've seen it
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The next edition of New York's beloved Manhattan Vintage Show welcomes a very special guest this season in the form of a shoppable exhibit of iconic archive pieces sure to set many hearts a'beating in anticipation...Betsey Johnson: From Paraphernalia to Punk features a selection of pieces from her earliest days designing for the influential Manhattan boutique Paraphernalia in the late 60s
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A rare collection of color photographs taken in Paris circa 1900 have surfaced, confirming that...Paris remains *remarkably similar* 113 years later and, as always, timelessly photogenic. The city's monuments (La tour Eiffel, Le Moulin Rouge, etc) and charmingly quaint neighborhood streets look virtually the same . One of the few glaring visual clues that these photos are indeed ancien is the
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Paris' Musée Galliera's upcoming Hors-des-Murs exhibition will focus on the model's role in the fashion industry, with nearly 120 photographic prints accompanied by videos, fashion magazines, and other related ephemera spanning the entire 20th century to feature at Les Docks- Cité de la Mode et du Design from 16 February to 19 May 2013. "Models' Bodies: The Crux of Fashion" (or Mannequin:
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Exhibit banner from Les Arts Décoratifs' site.
An important collection of European fashion from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has traveled to France, now on view at Paris' Les Arts Décoratifs museum through 14 April 2013. Fashioning Fashion: Two Centuries of European Fashion, 1700 - 1915 was previously exhibited at LACMA in 2010 and the German Historical Museum
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