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While friends are holding it down on both sides of the East River this weekend sure to share the inside track for vintage enthusiasts checking out the Manhattan Vintage Show what treasures await them in Williamsburg, we’ve got a heart-stopping, head-turning crew of collectors and designers coming to market. Carolina K brings the best of [...]

Designer Profile #1: Stern Design Works

February 2, 2012 Fabulous Finds
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The creative team behind Stern Design Works, jewelry designer Becca Walker Stern and co-creative partner and design conspirator Cameron Stern, have an uncanny knack for pushing the envelope of creative expression while bucking the trends of jewelry for years. The outcome is an alchemy of sorts – an always fresh and innovative collection inspired by [...]

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28 Independent Designers in 28 Days

February 1, 2012 Fabulous Finds
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February has presented itself with the opportunity for a little something extra this year. And we’re going to make use of it with a new series of daily postings profiling 28 independent designers that at one time or another have showed, told or sold with us in Williamsburg or at our Chelsea Market pop-up. In [...]

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A Bounty of Brooklyn’s Best

January 30, 2012 Weekend in Images
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Smelled like Spring this Saturday, less so on Sunday. That didn’t slow you down perusing and shmoozing with some of Brooklyn’s curators of cool. Shout-outs to newbies Ashalina Jewelry, Style Haven and others. A little collected collage of some goods from Evolving Habitat (birch lamp), Sna$h Jewelry (chicken claws) and Treat Me Body & Bath [...]

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‘Cause Indie is Cool: What’s New From Who

January 27, 2012 What's New From Who
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There are so many reasons to check out, hang out and shop Brooklyn bazaars these days. Community. Discovery. Distraction. Destination. All are worthy and honorable. But there’s another reason: shopping direct from independent designers is cool. Not just cool as in everyone’s doing it, but cool as in it makes you feel good because it [...]

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Vintage Fur Folio

January 26, 2012 Fabulous Finds
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Check your politics at the door for a moment. Forget the street walkers on Broadway in their shocking frocks of bright orange or candy-apple red. Fur is making a comeback. And the old adage is certainly as true as true can be when it comes to fine furs: they don’t make them like they used [...]

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It’s Better to Look Good, Damnit

January 23, 2012 Weekend in Images
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Don’t let them tell you otherwise. The crew loves to play dress-up any chance they get. And that was so apparent this weekend when The Vintage Trove’s Shari Neal and indie rocker and former Nicole Atkins bandmate Irina Yalkowsky got down on it. Name that vintage piece on Irina, above right. It’s priceless for sale.

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Funk, Fur, Handmade & HardWear: What’s New From Who

January 20, 2012 What's New From Who
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Fresh from shows around Brooklyn, the boroughs and beyond is stylish it and wit accessorizer Dollsville with a crowd-pleasing array of vintage and rock-and-roll inspired accessories for all ages. Designer Laura Billard aka Laura Rebel Angel (above) sets up this Sunday. Watermarbledworld’s Osman Arslan debuts a collection of handmade, individually pigment-painted silk scarves and more. [...]

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Are You Knit-Worthy?

January 18, 2012 Artist News
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Ansley Davenport learned the ways of the world by knitting her way through it. The rural West Virginia native turned Brooklynite got her first lesson in knitting from her older sister whose sage advice was to knit her way over a bad boyfriend breakup. Fast-forward some years and Ansley, whose Ansley Knits debuted earlier this [...]

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Artists & Travelers

January 16, 2012 Weekend in Images
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They come from everywhere with their stories. Each object has one – look at Dog Tag Designs and you will see (above). As dizzying as the choices can sometimes be, their stories are equally compelling. Jimmy Bradshaw is but one of them that came out this weekend. He was the mellow guy whose bespoke vintage [...]

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Short & Sweet: What’s New From Who

January 13, 2012 What's New From Who
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A hip array from the vintage to the bespoke to the offbeat to dazzle and inspire a Williamsburg market weekend. Lanie Lynn Vintage and off-shoot Dog Tag Designs are familiar to market lovers who’ve made the visit to the DeKalb Market in downtown Brooklyn (now closed). The devotee of the pop-up shop brings her vintage [...]

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The Maker’s Revolution or “Eff Yeah, Kickstarter!”

January 11, 2012 Re:sources
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It’s still early enough in the new year for pronouncements and predictions. A recent Kickstarter email blast entitled “2011: The Year in Kickstarter” shook us to our core with its rundown of accomplishments in 2011 for this Brooklyn-incubated, downtown Manhattan start-up. $99,344,382 pledged towards over 27,000 projects. That’s not a movement. That’s a revolution. We’d [...]

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