As the new crop of fall fashion magazines illustrates, nothing looks more in vogue than what was most recently considered passé. Designers have always turned to the past for inspiration, but as ...
When Lily and Ryan Phillips returned to Albany from living down South about a year ago, they felt the city was missing something – a place where the community could find quality vintage clothing with ...
It's a significant and exciting move toward making used clothes mainstream. Vintage clothing is going mainstream, and this is great news for the environment. Nordstrom has just announced a partnership ...
For Gen Z, upcycled, reclaimed fashion is opening up a new sense of individuality and self-expression, while helping to save the planet, writes Bel Jacobs. Few followers of fashion will forget the ...
I’ve had my shopping strategy down pat for as long as I can remember. As a student, tight funds meant new clothes had to be well-justified. Then in my early twenties – partly thanks to a crammed ...
Fashion magazines are full of vintage-inspired pieces, but at Meeps & Aunt Neensie's Vintage Fashionette (1520 U St., NW; 202-265-6546; meepsonu.com) you can buy the inspiration–and usually for less ...
WHEN VIRGIL ABLOH recently predicted streetwear’s imminent death, his declaration reverberated around the fashionsphere. Streetwear pretty much defines luxury fashion in 2020, so when one of its chief ...
To collect vintage clothes is to know that one day, you’ll come across a shirt that will send you into an existential spiral. For me, that moment came last month, as I was tooling around eBay in ...
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