Written By: Jazmin Alvarez, International Style Director
today. Ran by fashion industry kids- a stylist and editor-Andrea Perini- and her unlimited access to current and future fashion news & trends, and though mostly vintage, their buys are edited to reflect their understanding of contemporary fashion's indebtedness to the past.
They resource for designers, stylists, and art directors and some of their clients have included Michael Kors, Derek Lam, Henry Holland, YSL, Jill Stuart, Melanie Ward & Natalie Joos.
Each month their site features vintage finds in editorials they create in order to bring the clothes to life and give the viewer/customer inspiration above & beyond what s/he might get from a basic product shot. Their monthly editorials reflect current trends as they see them and, in using only vintage garments, demonstrate how, with a little bit of thought-provoking tweaking, twisting and styling, these things can be worn out on the street today and look completely current, forward even. This also doubles as a great format for them to express their current points of view and further allows them to play with the historical connotations from clothing of the past & present.
Vagabond shoppers can buy a complete look or an individual item by simply clicking on the desired thing(s) from the fashion spreads. Their hope is that in providing visual options shoppers can see how they might wear the clothing themselves and how much fun it can be to appropriate current trends using vintage.
The online boutique’s overall goal is to provide customers with nearly one-of-a-kind hard-to-find luxe pieces that they will not only covet, but also adore wearing and re-appropriating themselves.