Comments on: A Closer Look at The Vintage Showroom

By: damien

damien — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:43:14 +0000

ha is that accent for real surely not? I loved Rene Artois and the fallen madonna with the big boobies!

By: René Artois

René Artois — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:48:34 +0000

allo allo!

By: Deiter

Deiter — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:36:16 +0000

The man who says ebay is low is an idiot, you see all his words and regards of self and you know it is so – ebay is the best shop in the world! i see all the most beautiful things on ebay and they all go to the showplaces, i see them again in person but the price is up up up!!I make my visits with the showplaces we talk about here, it is my job. Melet Mercantile – amazing sometimes blows your mind, Strongarm is good but not like Melet, Cassie is also good but not as much and i agree with the man who gives the vintage showroom ‘mediocre’. The blog saying it is not american, look the pictures! it is not different in person, american and not special.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:12:06 +0000

I was there after Premiere Vision and loved it! Cassie is great as well but Carlo Manzi is hire only from what I remember!

By: thisistomorrow

thisistomorrow — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:30:29 +0000

Might I suggest that if anyone is in London then they pay a visit to Cassie Mercantile and/ or Carlo Manzi…these are by far the two best showrooms in London showing very different kinds of things but both being equally impressive in their own rights.
I just happen to find the Vintage Showroom a little mediocre in comparison….

By: jfreedman

jfreedman — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:16:46 +0000

I just visited the vintage showroom for the first time and have been to the shop in Convent Garden numerous times. Not only do they have a tremendous selection in both places but they are also super nice guys. Really welcoming. I bought a great Barbour jacket for myself and great plaids for work. They also do a small “Reworks” line where they take vintage and rework it into a new design. Cool little cut and sew operation in the basement. Most of their stuff comes from Canada Upstate NY and Penn. I even got a vintage mickeymouse club tee for my 2 year old thrown in for free with my order. The showroom is not the easiest place to find, but is walking distance from Notting Hill shopping.

By: kels

kels — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:07:01 +0000

ahhh this is so awesome

By: MR.DIXON

MR.DIXON — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:50:27 +0000

Very well put sir,I hope this business will never die and I hope nobody is distracted by the obstacles..I think the more I hear about how bad or hard or competitive this business has become it amazes me that I can still find items that inspire me and in some cases make me some great money!!,in the future I hope to work closer with designers who share my interest and will appreciate what I have learned.A good friend of mine who I met doing a deal on ebay informed me years into the friendship that he has shopped for ralph Lauren RRL line,I was instantly inspired to one day be able to hold on to some of these treasures..or pieces of art for a better cause.Archiving.

By: himelator

himelator — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:45:55 +0000

I was refering to “you can get all that gear on ebay for way less”…but to your point..I have been in the vintage clothing business since 1992-93 we started buying and selling to the biggest vintage store in Japan at that time (Daytona Int). When ebay opened I was busy trying to shop around my own online auction and selling through another site that my friend built called Farley.com which was the first serious online collectibles site before ebay. We had one of the first ids on ebay and for a long time I made a lot of money there supplying guys in L.A. who are now some of my friends and/or frenamies…ebay is still a good resource but it falls into a lower tier of the supply chain today. Also from a design perspective designers need efficiencies from which to work and knowledgeable historians to draw upon. Larry Heller, What Goes Around Comes Around…me in Toronto..and many others provide that knowledge and resource. I myself have a massive collection of leather that I draw upon for design and inspiration…clothing is not about originality..or really design..it is about craft…business is about money…art is about design.
Sorry about the ebay hack, I too still sell there but not my best stuff unless I need to get a war between the guys I already offered a good piece to….the vintage business is in a late stage now where picker, dealer, buyer, designer are all blurring into one which of course in some ways has killed the golden egg!

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:50:07 +0000

Reminds me a bit of Rudolf Beaufays’ shop in Hamburg (http://www.rudolf-beaufays.de/) – the greatest collection of vintage British clothing I’ve ever seen. Amazing prices and service to boot.