Vendor of the Week

Williamsburg Vintage Love Crush: Shopping Wildfell Hall & the Greedy Seagull

November 3, 2011 Vendor of the Week

Wildfell Hall Vintage and The Greedy Seagull only came together recently to create their lovingly curated pop-up vintage shop at the market but dropping in to their booth any given weekend but to watch Giana Stanigar and Amy Thorowgood in action – together – is to witness a bit of that alchemy that happens when 2 [...]

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Hélène Pé and the New New York Souvenir

November 2, 2011 In Case You Missed It

This week’s dispatch from @mollsrawks goes global and local and cosmic into the world of Brooklyn denizen and native Parisienne Hélène Pé: I Love NY complete with the heart. So cliché, pardon the French. Way too cool for your friends and family who are convinced that your zip code equates instant inside information to all that is [...]

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Breaking Bad with Marz Jr, Brooklyn Illustrator & Pop Culture Fiend

October 20, 2011 In the News

Nestled neatly between IKEA and Etsy wall-hangings in this week’s Time Out NY Home Design issue is Goonies Chuck and the Water Cooler [above], an original illustration by Jason Marzloff, aka Marz Jr, a Greenpoint graphic artist and Sunday market regular. Fresh off his showing at last weekend’s ComicCon, we got a glimpse into Jason’s psyche, [...]

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The Not-So Little World of Wearable Terrariums

August 23, 2011 Gift Guide

There are no secrets here. You are dealing with layers and layers of living things. It’s rare to hear a designer and jeweler be so candid with the process of creating but Tamar Builder’s Little World Designs pulls no punches. Schooled in horticulture and a self-described lover of all things that live at the bottom [...]

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Snacking & Jamming with the Jam Stand

August 17, 2011 Fabulous Finds

The Jam Stand first set up shop with us in Brooklyn late this Spring with their wit, whimsy and vivacious spreads and personalities and haven’t had a spare second to turn back. The dynamic duo behind the brand is Sabrina and Jessica, 2 long-time college friends and marketers whose travels and home-stays in South and [...]

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Vintage Fashion Maven Shopshmata

June 23, 2011 Fabulous Finds

Designer and vintage curator and collector Patricia Lie launched her Shopshmata collection years back as a way to combine her love of smart design, her anthropologist’s-like approach to shopping, fashion and City-living and her earnest commitment to outfitting the bold and the beautiful with the necessary wardrobe staples (these days think rompers, polo dresses, leather [...]

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A Wanderlust for Vintage

May 26, 2011 Fabulous Finds

Sometimes a name really can say it all. Safija Hakaj (pronounced Saphia) and Senaida Gjokaj’s Wanderlust Vintage does just that, bringing treasures from their travels back to Brooklyn to create their own mini vintage emporium. Hakaj, a native of LA, moved East to cut her teeth in the world of fashion merchandising and retail but [...]

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Traveling the World with Marquet

May 19, 2011 Vendor of the Week

When David Atlas set out on a trip some years back to Australia and New Zealand, little did he know that the tips he received from fellow travelers on the circuit urging him to go to Thailand, Laos and Vietnam would have such a life-changing affect. Today, Marquet is the love-child of that trip and [...]

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Williamsburg Sartorialist: QP & Monty’s Vintage Love Supreme

May 5, 2011 Fabulous Finds

Market visitors are hard-pressed not to leave without being caught up by the style of Ignacio Quiles, the bon vivant half of the dynamic duo that makes up QP & Monty. This native New Yorker and enterprising vintage collector has turned his genuine love of men’s clothing and the stylings of the 1930s, 1940s and [...]

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Shooting New York

March 24, 2011 Fabulous Finds

Seeing New York City through the eyes of photographer Mike Lindwasser is to fall in love all over again with it. Born and bred in the city to a family of painters and artists and schooled at SVA, Mike has a deep and profound love for the urban landscape. During this past weekend’s full moon [...]

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Vintage Perfected

February 24, 2011 Vendor of the Week

Descended from pack rats and children of economically depressed East Coast cities (Baltimore, MD & Springfield, MA) gives Jackie McCoubry & Alia Wilson serious bona fides, a pipeline of good pickings and the resulting bounty of vintage clothing, accessories, housewares and bric-a-brac for curious Brooklynites to pick and choose from. And it just scratches the [...]

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Some Things that Sparkle, Shine & Shout

December 2, 2010 Vendor of the Week

Angela Monaco of Angela Monaco Jewelry showed up on one of the hottest days this past Summer fresh off the road (she drives up from Philly, yo) all business. But for Monaco, business is about talking to people, swapping stories, making connections and having a good time. And that spirit of being in it for [...]

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