I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then replicates them and makes a more robust version in different colors, with a pocket for my mic pack.
I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can’t seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that’s why I don’t have a boyfriend.
I am just like a common woman who love shopping in Sarojni Nagar and Janpath. I am the one who shops on Indian street, in malls of Dubai and even vintage stores of London and New York.
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
I will buy Victorian tea dresses and the like, but I don’t really think about them as investment pieces – just beautiful and vintage things.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
I’ve always collected vintage kitchenalia because it’s beautifully made, and I love to see things that have been used down the ages.
A lot of sites offer free postage over a certain amount and are pretty cool with you sending stuff back, if you do it within a particular time frame. However, occasionally some sites don’t accept returns on vintage items, so make sure you know that before you spend your cash.
I collect vintage vinyl records.
My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when it comes to fashion. Mom has no qualms about unleashing the pinking shears on a vintage Givenchy dress if it means she’ll wear it more once it’s sleeveless.
When in doubt, I always go vintage! Get a ruffled dress and throw a t-shirt over it.
I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don’t get when they pretend that the Internet doesn’t exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half.
I love vintage shopping, I think it’s really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.
Online vintage shopping is the best way to find something really unique with minimal effort.
I love vintage and prints.
I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
I’m always buying glasses and teacups. I have way too many to use, but I just love them, particularly anything vintage.
I’ve always dressed the same. I’ve never made a fashion mistake. I’ve always worn utilitarian. I started my collection because I wanted certain specific things, but before that it was vintage and classic Brooks Brothers.
My dad is the Frenchest man alive, but totally dresses like a cowboy and is obsessed with vintage.
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in ‘Horse, Flower, Bird’ I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
I was obsessed with vintage stuff, I was obsessed with sort of the old lady floral patterns and like Paisley stuff.
I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I’d dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.
For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it’s Church’s and Russell & Bromley.
I don’t know what the vintage Sonic Youth sound is.
It makes me cross when I hear people say, ‘It’s so last season.’ I always say, ‘It’s vintage.’
As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.
Generally, I’m terrified of shopping. I like the idea of being well-dressed, but I’ve always struggled to get anything that fits. I envy those that go into old vintage shops.
If you have a year where a few good horror films come out, all of the sudden, horror is back and everyone’s talking about how it’s a vintage year for horror.
I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans. I like a little bit of designer with a bit of vintage and High Street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. I always go for comfort, and like feeling confident and casual.
I’ve got a EC3-35 Gibson, which is pretty cherished. I’ve got a vintage Reichenbacker 330 in fireglow, which is the other one I look after and don’t let the kids touch.
Always the light fixtures I love are Italian, from the ’50s and ’60s. I’m like, ‘What’s that? I want it!’ And it’s always $40,000 vintage Italian.
I like to look casual yet chic. I love high fashion, vintage, and places like Zara, of course.
I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don’t think I’d want to use one.
There are two things that I really love; vintage clothing and books. Mash the two together and I pretty much peak on personal joy levels.
I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I’ve never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I’ve been holding onto for years.
Everything I commission – whether it is for me or for a client’s home or for a hotel or office – is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.
One thing you have to accept with vintage clothing is that is has very probably been worn before and will, by nature, be quite old. So small signs of wear and tear are normal, and that’s just the way it goes.
I have a few vintage furs and have a particular weakness for Mongolian lamb fur – it’s quite ’70s – and I like the volume fur gives.
I have got a vintage Omega 1949 watch I love… It was a present that I got for my birthday.
I try and borrow my mom’s vintage stuff as much as she lets me – she has this amazing vintage Gucci that I love.
I don’t buy loads of clothing. But I do have a lot of vintage dresses and ’80s one-pieces, which are quite fun.
My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called ‘my mother’s closet’ that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
I like to find those shirts that they only made one of. That’s my approach to style. But my vintage T-shirt collection is a little ridiculous.
I think that’s what vintage offers people – there’s no point in trying to follow fashion if you’re trying to do vintage.
I emcee how I feel for the moment. I’ll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I’ll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP… which, in my heart, I’d love to do for the fans.
I did go to fashion college, where I was a little punky, a little Bow Wow Wow. I wore red eyeliner. At the time, Vivienne Westwood was really big, so it was a lot of that. London was having a really big moment. I was mixing vintage with things I had made.
I love a vintage look that’s also a bit rock n’ roll.
My ‘something borrowed’ was a stunning pair of vintage diamond drop earrings from my friend Afshin at Estate Diamond Jewelry in N.Y.C. My ‘something blue’ was my tanzanite right hand ring that I bought for myself in Tanzania after climbing Mt Kilimanjaro.
My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.
London seems to be one step ahead of everywhere else which I like because you see things first. It’s where British fashion is developed and there are so many little vintage shops and boutiques; there are always loads on offer.
I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the ‘boyfriend shirt’, is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.
I stick with a ’60s vintage aesthetic of letterman’s jackets, plain T-shirts, and good jeans.
I’m into classic games like Donkey Kong, and also collect vintage tour t-shirts – everything from Olivia Newton-John to Duran Duran. I’ve got a Chicago one worth $100.
I remember when I was little, I look through my mother’s wardrobe, and search for whatever vintage Chanel I could find.
In a kind of simple, stupid way, when you walk down a normal city block and you turn around the corner and there’s 40 vintage cars and every storefront has been done over to look like 1941, it just kind of blows your mind. It’s movie magic.
Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you’ll either win or lose. Until that happens, you’re caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.
