Style Tribe: Diehards at the Manhattan Vintage Show
Photo: Marisha Camp
Over the weekend, diehard vintage fanatics flocked to the annual Manhattan Vintage Show. Among the milliners, vintage clothing dealers, costume history students, and self-proclaimed vintage gurus was also a more familiar face: Jemima Kirke, the actress who plays Jessa on Girls. “I’ve been wearing vintage since I was a kid,” Kirke told the Cut, which makes sense — her mother, Lorraine Kirke, is the owner of the West Village clothing store Geminola, and has been responsible for dressing Jessa both on- and offscreen. Kirke showed up to the sale in a hunter-green trench coat with a decadent fur collar, while other attendees sported wool ski pants from the thirties and remnants of French military uniforms. Click through our slideshow for a full view of the scene.
Meri Rauber and Stacey Luckow, Co-owners of The Ninth Street Haberdashery What are you guys wearing today?
Meri: I have a 1940s sweater on with,...
Meri Rauber and Stacey Luckow, Co-owners of The Ninth Street Haberdashery What are you guys wearing today?
Meri: I have a 1940s sweater on with, I would say, 1920s suspenders and 40s men’s trousers.
Stacey: I have a 1950s French military sweater on. I have, what are these, like 30s?
Meri: Yeah, 30s.
Stacey: 30s wool ski pants on and a 40s scarf. We love vintage, anything pre-1960, with an emphasis on the 20s and 30s.
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Jemima Kirke, Artist, Actress “I’ve been wearing vintage since I was a kid. My mother collects it, and so I’ve been wearing it since I was ...
Jemima Kirke, Artist, Actress “I’ve been wearing vintage since I was a kid. My mother collects it, and so I’ve been wearing it since I was a kid. To me there’s no difference between the new clothes and the old clothes. Good clothes are good clothes. That’s it--it doesn’t matter. I’m not picky whether it’s vintage or not. And it’s also green to wear vintage. Wear vintage. It’s better for the planet.”
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Holly Ross, Owner of thriftwares.com “I got into vintage when I was around 12 or 13, without a lot of money and with a passion for finding unique...
Holly Ross, Owner of thriftwares.com “I got into vintage when I was around 12 or 13, without a lot of money and with a passion for finding unique, weird things, and I just travelled around collecting it. It turned itself into a business when I was going to school at FIT. It paid my way through college, and when I graduated, I just went for it and kept on going with it. I love that it gives people a creative outlet without spending a fortune on fashion. Every piece has a piece of history to it. And a uniqueness to it that you can’t find nowadays.”
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Brandon Giordano, Stylist at refashioner.com “I’ve always been into vintage. My mother and I used to go to thrift stores growing up, and th...
Brandon Giordano, Stylist at refashioner.com “I’ve always been into vintage. My mother and I used to go to thrift stores growing up, and that’s just always been my way of shopping. Nothing I buy is new, it just seems the most ethical to me, the most natural to buy things that are special and have history… Sustainable. I’m against fast fashion."
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Jackie Lincoln and Lena Parsell, Stylist and Concept Designer at Anthropologie Jackie: My love for vintage started because my grandmother was a d...
Jackie Lincoln and Lena Parsell, Stylist and Concept Designer at Anthropologie Jackie: My love for vintage started because my grandmother was a dress designer. I loved going through her things. At a young age, I realized how special that kind of stuff was.
Lena: I was born in Poland and I moved here when I was ten. We were so broke that we always shopped at thrift stores. When I started making money, I got away from it because I thought, ‘I can get whatever I want now.’ And now, I’m really starting to get back into it again. I’m starting to appreciate it again and really enjoy it.
Jackie: I think it’s really important to say that they just don’t make stuff like they used to. Nowadays, new stuff is disposable. You go to H&M and it lasts for one season and then it’s trash. Photo: Marisha Camp
Riccardo Bonechi., Vintage Guru “I don’t use vintage to look backwards. I only use vintage to look forward. I’ve always done this, si...
Riccardo Bonechi., Vintage Guru “I don’t use vintage to look backwards. I only use vintage to look forward. I’ve always done this, since I was twelve. I would open Vogue, and see something that I created in my mind a year before already. I designed men’s clothing lines in New York for two years about twenty years ago and I did not find it rewarding, so I went back to the vintage sourcing--old lines and proportions and bringing them back to today’s time and with that creating a new look. It’s the most wonderful thing… Exhilarating is the word."
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Martha Gallo, Stay-at-home Mom, Custom Seamstress “I specialize in 30s and 40s vintage patterns and I source vintage fabrics and recreate beautif...
Martha Gallo, Stay-at-home Mom, Custom Seamstress “I specialize in 30s and 40s vintage patterns and I source vintage fabrics and recreate beautiful dresses, one of a kind. I’ve been wearing vintage forever, since middle school… I had a brief, weird period of wearing modern clothes, and it didn’t work for me. I tried, and it failed miserably, and I just came back to what I love. I started kicking up the sewing process and realized that I could make what I can’t find."
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Sarah Hartley, Art Director “I’d say I’m a nine times out of ten vintage person. I do my best. I also have to find a happy medium and...
Sarah Hartley, Art Director “I’d say I’m a nine times out of ten vintage person. I do my best. I also have to find a happy medium and blend into the corporate environment when I have to, but I’m always looking for vintage-inspired finds if I can’t get the actual real deal. “
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Laura Kimsey Is it harder for tall ladies to find good vintage?
It is, which is why I end up making most of my clothes. My hair? Aft...
Laura Kimsey Is it harder for tall ladies to find good vintage?
It is, which is why I end up making most of my clothes. My hair? After the amount of practice I’ve had, I’ve gotten it down to about thirty minutes. After much practice… It started out about an hour and fourty five minutes. Photo: Marisha Camp
Trevor Houston, Shoe Designer “I grew up in Texas, so I was always thrifting and looking for vintage stuff. I’d always come across a ...
Trevor Houston, Shoe Designer “I grew up in Texas, so I was always thrifting and looking for vintage stuff. I’d always come across a cool pair of cowboy boots or a nice leather jacket that I could throw over stuff that’s more casual, and really turn it into a really cool look.”
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Hannah Schiff, Vintage Clothing Dealer, Costume History Student “Everything is a learning experience. It’s all about broadening my horizons, seei...
Hannah Schiff, Vintage Clothing Dealer, Costume History Student “Everything is a learning experience. It’s all about broadening my horizons, seeing what’s out there and seeing incredible vintage and antique clothing and textiles and seeing how we can push the limits of fashion forward by utilizing what was available from the past."
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Gretchen Fenston, Milliner “My hats are inspired by vintage, but it’s not deliberate. I just like it so much and it’s my whole environment,...
Gretchen Fenston, Milliner “My hats are inspired by vintage, but it’s not deliberate. I just like it so much and it’s my whole environment, so that’s just how they come out. People often think they’re vintage hats, but they’re not--that’s just what comes out of me.”
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Patricia Fox “Ruby is my fashion accessory. We had our hair colored the exact same color. I took her to the beauty parlor, and they s...
Patricia Fox “Ruby is my fashion accessory. We had our hair colored the exact same color. I took her to the beauty parlor, and they said they didn’t allow dogs, and I said, ‘But you’re matching my hair to this dog,’ and they go, ‘Oh, well, welcome!'"
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Zia Ziprin and her Daughter Aishling Labat, curators of the vintage pop-up LIFE VINTAGE, benefiting Chai Lifeline for children with cancer. "...
Zia Ziprin and her Daughter Aishling Labat, curators of the vintage pop-up LIFE VINTAGE, benefiting Chai Lifeline for children with cancer. "We have curated a major designer vintage collection for sale at 66 5th Ave. in Park Slope starting February 2nd. It's a great organization that really makes a difference!"
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Jaya Wilbert, Milliner, student at FIT Photo: Marisha Camp
Timothy John, Activist, Author, Reiki Practitioner “I’ve been collecting and wearing and even selling vintage clothing since I was in college.&nb...
Timothy John, Activist, Author, Reiki Practitioner “I’ve been collecting and wearing and even selling vintage clothing since I was in college. It was how I paid my way through college. Vintage of course is where it all began because you see the roots of everything if you go to a good vintage show.”
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Nita Angeletti, Artist, Designer “I think I was just born with my love for vintage. I always loved older things, you know, the beauty, the ...
Nita Angeletti, Artist, Designer “I think I was just born with my love for vintage. I always loved older things, you know, the beauty, the hand work is incredible. Older things are always an inspiration, to see something and then you make it your own, whether it’s the shape or the way it’s sewn… Even down to the little lace pieces which are so incredible.”
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Caroline Carmignani, Journalism Student at the New School “My favorite part of the store is finding things that I’ve wanted for years and years a...
Caroline Carmignani, Journalism Student at the New School “My favorite part of the store is finding things that I’ve wanted for years and years and trying them on, feeling the fabric. I also like to imagine who the pieces might have belonged to, what their lives might have been like... I love doing that.”
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Elisa Palomino, Fashion Designer Photo: Marisha Camp
Maggie Paxton, Shoe Designer “My great grandmother had a shop, so I got a lot of hand-me-downs from that, and I always loved every little detail ...
Maggie Paxton, Shoe Designer “My great grandmother had a shop, so I got a lot of hand-me-downs from that, and I always loved every little detail of vintage.”
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Davin Che, Brand Consultant “I’ve always been into vintage. It could be the soul, it could be the character, whatever makes it f—king awesome, wh...
Davin Che, Brand Consultant “I’ve always been into vintage. It could be the soul, it could be the character, whatever makes it f—king awesome, who knows… It’s what you like, that’s what makes it special.”
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Fumitoshi Maejima, Fashion Designer, and Mo Mo Tsuruta, Student Photo: Marisha Camp
Beverlyn Solorzano, Knitwear Designer "Why do I love vintage? Every piece has a story. It doesn’t matter where it comes from.&nb...
Beverlyn Solorzano, Knitwear Designer "Why do I love vintage? Every piece has a story. It doesn’t matter where it comes from. That’s what vintage is about. And that’s why I think vintage is by far the most awesome part of fashion. You can tell such a big and beautiful story--it just paints in bright colors. Vintage is beautiful.”
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