More vintage was yesterday, now is more montage: I discovered the
possibility of the vintage look in the middle of the ’90, it already
existed at the horizon, though the phenomenon wasn’t yet a cultural mark
of the late modernity, nevertheless it was already extant as such at
large. Not only I regularly visited some long well-established shops in
Milan – that sold American Apparel and Appealing ๐ Besides, even in
Genoa, the little big city where I was attending high school, and
moreover in my very neighborhood there was one of those havens for
rummaging the piece of wonder you could just not image before the
discover; the owner, a girl with the dream of London, was running her
business at the cutting edge, offering a pretty good selection of
clothing from the ’60 and ’70, even some never worn pieces with the old
once
brand-new label
still hanging by. Thus, I have been โexperiencedโ very soon in my
adolescence with the love for dressing vintage – last but not least
thanks to the imprinting due to my mother, a fashion stylist with an
exquisitely refined eye and the habit for revisiting the past as rather a
deep feature of her personality.
Now moving on,
bit more away from my memories, I guess I developed a strong interest in
the modernism/postmodernism debate because of the encounter with
vintage fashion that I deciphered to be the quintessential trait of the
contemporary Zeitgeist.
ยฉ Wundersaar
