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To collect is an act of totemic significance and of metamorphosis. Fashion Editor Gabrielle Marceca selects treasured pieces from the storied collections of four devoted fashion collectors-cum-archivists.Read more →Obscure Connections
Byronesque, an online editorial-based shop for obscure vintage fashion is the ultimate resource for rare 90s runway looks. But it’s not for beginners, and the associations they draw are anything but linear.Read more →BE(E)ATTITUDES
In her cri de couer on the honeybee’s tragic decline, Alexandra Marvar reminds us that people have relied on these indispensable creatures for millennia, and that the work being done to save them is also about saving ourselves.Read more →All Is Bright
Founded by stylist Irene Albright in 1990, Albright Fashion Library sprawls across a vast loft near the Bowery, a densely packed trove of clothing, footwear, and accessories. Run by the incomparable Patricia Black, the archive’s creative director, Albright is a veritable kunstkammer, a repository of thirty years of high fashion.Read more →PROTECTIVE MEASURES
From fashion to fetish, fashion historian Ruby Redstone laces into the story of the corset and its sisterhood of underpinnings — stays, jumps and chemises — and in so doing considers what we’ve lost in our race to abandon the things that once protected us.Read more →9 to 5
Tumble outta bed, and I stumble to the kitchen. Pour myself a cup of ambition. Jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin’. Out on the street, the traffic starts jumpin’...Working 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin’. — Dolly PartonRead more →BODY ELECTRIC
In head-to-toe vintage, model Paloma Elsesser puts our hearts on wings. The poet in her asks, “Who’s been getting busy? Devouring the literature, giving the grace, de-centering, uprooting and tending the trauma, sowing the joy? My avatar been getting fed, my shadow is getting sunlight, the heart sings less lonely songs.”
Read more →Saskia Unbound
Fashion Magpie Saskia De Brauw swaggers and struts in head-to-toe vintage.
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Keeping it “A Queens Thing”, stylist Andy Polanco excavates inspiration from Jamaica Ave, the lifeforce behind Queen’s cutting edge, unadulterated vitality.Read more →MALL RATS
Here’s to those dope days at the mall, when we totally bugged over that fly senior at Hot Topic, scarfed mad toppings at TCBY, and chilled with the home skillets at Orange Julius.Read more →IT'S A WRAP
We’re taking the extra time at home to plan ahead and wrap our loved ones gifts with recycled and vintage materials. Our editors share some creative ideas that are both festive and sustainable.Read more →DISPLAY COPY
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