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REPORT
No love lost

The wearers and bearers of
vintage share with us why now

more than ever, everything old is AROUND
THE
new again. By Akanksha Kamath WORLD IN

VINTAGE
SHOPS
WITH
LASRADO

PARIS
Nice Piece
The Friperies
Didier Ludot

D AND THE BEAUTIFUL

By Smita Lasrado NEW YORK CITY

What Goes Around
Comes Around

“Most people wax eloquent about the trans- my 60 per cent vintage wardrobe is a ’70s YSL
formative powers of fashion—how it can make bold-shoulder leather jacket I found in a hole-
you happier, more confident, and give you a in-the-wall shop in Paris. It’s dark black, per-
whole new personality. But the quality I find fectly cut, and smells of days fi lled with David
myself most attracted to in a dress or a jacket is Bowie, Steel Magnolias (1989), The Breakfast
the way it teleports me to a different time. One Club (1985), and Bianca Jagger. My initiation
pre-loved item in my closet does this for me into vintage was 13 years ago, while modelling MUMBAI
each time I slip into it: a vintage label-less gold in Paris. It started with not wanting to look like No Borders
foil dress that resembles wrapping paper. I every other Parisienne in her Isabel Marant
found it on eBay in 2014, and as with every- coat and sneakers. But as I grow older, I’ve
thing eBay, I placed my bid and bagged it for a started thinking a lot more about how I con-
sweet $39.99 ( 2,900)—a steal for something sume in a world filled with overconsumption. COURTESY NIKILESHWAR; SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
that could’ve belonged to a ’70s rock star. I’m Now a part of me wants to buy pre-loved be-
obsessed with the old, so instead of bringing it cause, let’s be honest, do I really need a brand ONLINE
into the now, I put it on and walk around like new dress? The answer is almost always no. An eBay (especially if
I’m starring in an ’80s music video (minus the immaculately cut dress from three decades ago you’re pressed for time)
perm). Another piece that has pride of place in will work just as well.”

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