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Brooklyn FNO Free for All

August 25, 2011 Events
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While last gasp of Summer blows in with gale-force winds, we are putting the finishing touches on our Fashion’s Night Out program and roster in Brooklyn 2 weeks from today. Vintage veteran and sartorial stylist Ricky Becker of Spooky Boutique Vintage (below, right) was sharing conversations he had over the weekend with buyers and stylists [...]

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Shopping Local Markets with Time Out NY

July 28, 2011 Fabulous Finds
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Time Out’s Insider Guide to NYC double Summer issue is all over the place and we got you a nice seat – up front and center. Featured in the magazine are a rich and varied assortment of artists and designers including Georgia Varidakis Jewelry (with the lead photo, courtesy of Fumihiko Sugino), Astali, S/Nash Jewelry, [...]

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Love for Sale

June 1, 2011 In Case You Missed It
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That’s it. We’re outing them all since Time Out already threw Shanna Nash of s/nash jewelry on the cover of their current dating issue. Peep it here and here. And have some fun connecting Alex [off-the-market], Ronnie, Molly or Shanna to folks you know they cannot live without.

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Fresh Press & Spring Cleaning – New York Magazine Style

May 12, 2011 In Case You Missed It
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It’s funny sometimes when someone reminds us – and shouts it out to the broader marketplace – what we’re about. New York Magazine did a gorgeously styled round-up of all the different places and types of places where old becomes new, forgotten becomes found and the forlorn is given a new lease on life. In [...]

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Fala Português, Google?

April 28, 2011 In the News

If you’re an instapaper devotee, you’ll get a kick out of this one. A far flung correspondent just sent us a story about the market, Brooklyn and all things Williamsburg (Bedford Cheese Shop, Egg, McCarren Park, Scandinavian Design House – need we say more?), from Correio Braziliense. Somehow our high-tech alerts missed this one but [...]

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Spring Fashion, Brooklyn Style

April 21, 2011 Fabulous Finds
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Some nice fresh ink today for several of the lovelies from the market whose style is getting them noticed this Spring from fashionistas and the casually fashionable and fashion-conscious. The New York Daily News recently did a spin through Williamsburg and the market, chatting with designers and vintage enthusiasts from Astali, The PerfectPerfect, Ana Chronos [...]

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The Thread Goes Deep (in Brooklyn)

April 19, 2011 In the News
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NBC New York’s popular fashion blog the Thread continues to bang out some sweet pieces as part of their “One To Watch” series. We were thrilled to see so many Artists & Fleas vendors profiled in the past weeks, including the intergalactic bling of Molly Rose Post, Cynthia Rybakoff’s silver obsession, the child-like curiosity of [...]

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Dwell Among Us

March 29, 2011 In the News
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How dare we keep this precious piece of press all to ourselves? For shame, they say. Dwell magazine’s March 2011 issue is all about NYC and in the run-down of 24 favorites across the 5 boroughs – cozily nestled between fab Williamsburg neighbors A&G Merch and The Future Perfect is Artists & Fleas. For those [...]

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Vintage Williamsburg: Spooky Boutique

March 15, 2011 Artist News
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Anyone familiar with the vintage scene in New York City knows that it’s a very small world (do we dare list ‘em?). That’s even more true if you’ve been “in it” for more than 15 years like Ricky Becker of Spooky Boutique. Ricky has been holding court on-and-off but most recently on and on fire [...]

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Best of New York (Magazine)

March 10, 2011 In the News
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We live for and love New York Magazine’s annual amazing guide to all things good in the “Best of New York.” And we were thrilled and humbled to be a part of this year’s round-up when it came to – what else? – shopping for cool stuff. Browse for used books, records, handmade jewelry, vintage [...]

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The Discovery of Brooklyn

February 15, 2011 In the News
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So much has already been said of Sam Sifton’s 36 Hours in Brooklyn from this Sunday’s New York Times Travel section. Whether it was a send-up of Brian Williams’ end-of-year cheeky bit (a must watch), a work of brilliant satire that could potentially rival Swift’s A Modest Proposal and thus catapult Sifton into the stratospheric [...]

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Market Vendors on TV

February 1, 2011 In the News
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Somehow in the madness of the holidays, we missed this great set of interviews that BRIC Arts TV did on Artists & Fleas. Nice, in-depth interviews with Kelly Marks Jewelry, her husband Paul standing in for Simon (Pigeon Be Pigeon) and other familiar faces from one of our last weekends on North 6th Street. Peep [...]

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