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In Vintage Color
There is a lot to appreciate about Fashion for Writers‘s Meggy Wang, like her recent conversation with her new collaborator Jenny Z on “overdressing.” But one of the things I appreciate the most is how...
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On The Politics of Vintage, Starting With a Series of Thoughtful Epigraphs...
The following paragraphs are excerpts, authored by others, which might offer us (a collective us) an initial entry point into weighing the politics of vintage. The first comes to us from Catherine and...
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LINKAGE/VINTAGE: Thunderhorse Vintage
I’m leaving town in a couple days, so the series of posts on politics of vintage continues here with an excerpt from an interview with Sacramento’s Thunderhorse Vintage co-owners and twin sisters...
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Vintage Politics, Interrupted
I do mean to return to questions of vintage in the future –beyond that one great conversation I had with Minh-Ha– but I find right now I’m unable to devote much time or thought to its multidimensional,...
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Fashion Projects #3 Out Now!
I’m super thrilled about the newest issue of Fashion Projects: On Fashion, Art, and Visual Culture, themed “On Fashion and Memory.” From the editorial letter: In thinking of clothes as passing...
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VINTAGE POLITICS: The Awl’s “White People Clothing and ‘Old Money Green’”
Awl writer Cord Jefferson just penned an incredibly thoughtful piece on the phenomenon of “nu prep” or what passes for “classic Americana” in men’s style. In “White People Clothing and ‘Old Money...
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VINTAGE POLITICS: Appadurai, Fashion and Nostalgia
The “French Explorer” Jacket from “vintage style” retailer J. Peterman (recently discussed here), described thusly: “Remember Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, considered by many to be France’s greatest...
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