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...Clare Lewis, founder of London-based online retailer Retold Vintage, is expecting a renewed interest in Chloé’s earlier years....
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...As well as Fane’s extensive vintage Cartier collection there are modern pieces designed by the dealer, as well as gifts, clocks, photo frames and sleek teak and silver pencil holders....
...Blanchet is the founder of Mon Vintage, which deals in vintage couture from the 1930s through to the 2010s....
...Visitors often hunt for gifts among the books and vintage photographs of shows or composers sitting at their home pianos (from £1)....
...Good-candidate vintages are 2014 (a vintage I’ll be assessing blind soon), 2012, 2005 and 1995, and the best 2002s can be well priced....
...I think that’s what you get from this collection, too,” she says....
...The house has also proved to be something of a specialist in dispersing single-owner collections in Asia, notably through the sale of the 107-lot Ultimate Collection of “world-class modern and golden age...
...Vintage pieces are rare but a Gio Ponti headboard and bedframe with a similar configuration is currently available for $80,000 at 1stdibs. O’Sullivan’s modern take is less rigorous in line....
...pendant watch, from the Jeux d’Or collection, POA, somlo.com....
...The result is a fatter appearance, but one that has come to inform the collection’s retro aesthetic. Pieces are available in black, red or yellow, evoking vintage varsity uniforms....
...Their flat in the seventh arrondissement is filled with the vintage wooden bowls and Brutalist ceramics Trotter collects — collections her husband, Yuske Tanaka, tries to streamline whenever Trotter is away...
...“I like thinking about how the different colours and shapes talk to each other,” she says, citing inspirations from vintage Venini glassware to the designs of Ettore Sottsass and Carlo Scarpa....
...Other brands benefiting from the renaissance are Maison Margiela, which has released a Mary Jane version of its tabis, and Prada, whose 1998 grey Mary Janes are a “vintage style to watch for 2024”, adds...
...His latest collection, inspired by the high Renaissance and Romanticism, offered lace bodices tucked into long deconstructed skirts, formal coats with floral appliqués, vintage denims, devoré velvets and...
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...Michael Kors Collection cashmere pullover, £780, wool gabardine shorts, £465, and leather belt, £625. The Row leather shoes, POA....
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