My good friend Emily Spivack and her project, Sentimental Value, were featured in the Wall St Journal last week. Check out the article and her blog to find out more about her project and upcoming exhibition. Emily’s a busy lady and also writes the Smithsonian blog, Threaded.
was demolished last year, and I didn’t know till now. I went deep into the internet last night, and wrote a pretty in-depth post about Sydney HiH on my house/architecture blog, Fifthfromthetop. You can read it here.
check out these old photos of Soho by Jaime Davidovich seen via the SoHo memory project. On their site, you can also see a video he took in 1975.
however, there was a 90s era, celebrity backed line that my best friend was obsessed with, Sofia Coppola’s MilkFED.
She had dated Keanu Reeves and she had a big nose: so we thought she was really special.
some years later, I came across a MilkFED shirt at the thriftstore and held it in my hands for a little while, remembering when.
Click here for an amazingly unexamined video of her describing her line.
interesting oral history of the 90s clothing line (skater betty uniform) X-girl here.
and a 90s VICE interview with Daisy Von Furth here.
I never bought x-girl because I was wearing ringer tees and Aline little dresses from from the thrift store anyway: everyone was. Even growing up in the midwest, by the time I heard of x-girl, I felt that it was late and a commercial reaction to what everyone had been wearing for a while (however, it could be that I’m totally wrong, and x-girl started the whole look and the credit took longer than the trend to reach Milwaukee? doubtful?)In 90s nostalgia redux: the line is relaunching now at double the old price…hopefully the fabrics have improved!
I’ve been hiding my total love for this song for too long.
thinking of marimekko because of reading the DR book. Some vintage inspiration:
via.
and some current pieces:
in Highland Park: a new vintage shop called, umm, Found. It’s on the southwest side of Figueroa, right below where Fig meets York. They opened at the start of December, and are having an opening party this Saturday night. Prices were mostly in the 30s for predominantly 80s era vintage.
