Links: The Week in Vintage

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What’s Out: the Fashion Trend (WSJ)
“Trends are diluted,” says Doris Raymond, owner of the Los Angeles vintage store The Way We Wore. That’s because designers have in the past two decades “referenced every possible fashion period for inspiration.”

MILLENNIAL PERSPECTIVE: Vintage Fashion & The Twice-Around Economy (NewGeography)
One impact of the recession has been a fundamental change in consumer clothing purchase patterns. Luxury retailers’ losses have been second-hand retailers’ gains. Internet marketers have also been uniquely positioned to benefit.

Coco Rocha Talks to StyleList About Her New Fashion Line (StyleList)
What I’m inspired by is vintage clothing, especially things from the 1800s, the Elizabethan times. But wearing anything from that period is like wearing a costume, so I’m trying to find a way to modernize it.

Julia & Penelope’s Golden Globe Vintage was Ho Hum (About.com)
Julia Roberts’s vintage jersey Yves Saint Laurent dress was too simple and casual for an event like the Golden Globes.


Life With Decades’ Cameron Silver!
(Fashionista)
Candy Pratts Price says that “September’s the Jannnnuary of fashion,” and I’m tempted to mimic, “Cameron Silver’s the Laaaagerfeld of vintage.”

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2 comments

1 american phil { 01.22.10 at 12:53 pm }

your blog has so much great vintage stuff! i need to come check you guys out! i love the blog! thank you! check mine out and follow it if you get time. some vintage stuff and other randomness…
http://www.ramblingforever.com

2 Just Vintage { 02.10.10 at 7:55 am }

I have found a steady increase in customers on my online shop and at the vintage fairs I stand. The general ‘twitter’ seems to be a split between environmental issues and individuality. I think more and more people especially more men, want to create there own look and living space. Let in continue onwards and upwards.
Lisa

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