vintage

Today in San Francisco: Jen from Zwzzy

Vintage is a pretty serious deal in California. And San Francisco, with its edgy and bohemian style and people, is one of the best places to search for hidden treasures. Jane from the Cali based vintage e-shop Zwzzy, was thus the right person in the right corner of the world, when she decided to turn her love [...]


A vintage shopaholic in Paris

They say that when in Paris, you should do as the Parisians do. Which means eat a lot of pain au chocolat (which is good) and do a lot of vintage shopping (which is even better). That’s what B&S did, during the frenchie episodes of the uberlicious Gossip Girl, frolicking around boutiques, museums and fancy restaurants. But, on [...]


Today in New York: Christina and Courtney Spivak

Courtney and Christina Spivak are two sisters have made tons of things together from  films to installation art to making jewelry. Courtney has a degree in Media Arts and teaches at a local college. Her film Sequestered was screened at Cannes in the spring of 2010. Christina has a degree in Fine Art and has [...]


Comme des Garçons: vintage giapponese di lusso

Siamo a Chelsea, quartiere delle gallerie d’arte per eccellenza di Manhattan. Un futuristico ingresso tubolare, un arco in alluminio, una struttura asimmetrica. Si tratta di una galleria d’arte? No, niente di tutto questo. Comme des Garçons è una casa di moda giapponese fondata dalla stilista Rei Kawakubo. La sede principale si trova ad Aoyama, Tokyo [...]


Today in New York: Alyssa Zygmunt

Once a Medical tool designer and then a fashion designer, Alyssa Zygmunt is more than happy to design things that go *outside* the body rather than *inside* the body. In her spare time, she considers herself a modern anthropologist and archaeologist collecting, categorizing and analyzing the things around her. You can find her picking up [...]


Shopping a Williamsburg? Ecco la Top5!

Chi l’ha detto che lo shopping si fa solo a Soho? Tranne pochissime eccezioni, i negozi più cool sono a Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Manhattan ha splendidi e grandissimi luoghi dove fare shopping ma, per la maggior parte dei casi, si tratta di catene e di multinazionali. Qui invece troverete boutique e grandi negozi vintage: cosa acquisterete [...]


Today in New York: Jen Matlack

Jen Matlack lives in a small town in Connecticut where she spends most of the work week in front of her computer, writing for magazines like Redbook, Glamour, Woman’s Day and others. When she’s not typing and pulling her hair out on deadline, she’s outside in the garden planting or pruning or playing imaginary games with her 4-year-old daughter, [...]


Today in New York: Lina Hung

Lina Hung is a veritable culture volture who’s passionate about not-mainstream – and definitely not boring- things. Among those, between b-horror movies and rockabilly, there’s punk and pin-ups. Two things she was able to mix’n’match in her funky accessories line:Punk Up Bettie. Bright and bold colors, polka dots and rock’n’roll vibes transformed into uber cool [...]


Today in New York: Corey Dergazarian

Corey Dergazarian is a designer whose bags are hand crafted using a unique selection of both new and vintage fabrics, reclaimed remnants and re-purposed vintage clothing. And that’s exactly why you can’t find two items in her Sans Map line that are exactly the same. Corey is a self-taught Brooklyn based sewer and designer with [...]


Today in New York: Sarah Kaufman

A early adopter of the (now uber trendy) frugal chic mood, Sarah Kaufman is the founder of a very interesting brand that mixes vintage items, ancient mementos and thrift shop finds into super pretty creations: Jewels in the Hay. But attention newyorkers, as she is not only a crafter, but a very interesting photographer too, [...]