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PICKWICK’S VINTAGE FARE DOWN AT DTLA’s “THE ROW / FEBRUARY 3rd 2024 / LOS ANGELES
NAME: Julianne Waters | @dearjuju
HER STORY: Lifestyle guru Juju is a self described “vintage lover” who shops – wherever. “My sweater’s old Target, the dress under from Good Will, the boots are Acne, and my glasses are Alain Mikli vintage. It all has to work with red lips and nails.
NAME: Eleanor Wells | @eleanors.closet / David Santa Maria | @daaaaayviiid / Jasmina @jasmina.tv
THEIR STORIES: Eleanor Wells is a full-on collector. “I’m supposed to be selling, but I keep keeping.” Vintage coat by Pauline Trigere, Lurex sweater from Etsy, red bag from Vestiare.
David Santa Maria wanted to give off “an autumnal brown and rust vibe.” JW Anderson fuzzy clogs, sweater from Sense, striped jacket from the Rosebowl, vintage shirt, thrifted jeans and necklace.
Jasmina in an early Y2K Pelle Pelle jacket, Scarface t shirt, turtleneck is old Celine, fuzzy clogs are Marni, St John brown knit pants, Marni market bag. Dries Van Noten earrings.
NAME: Kayla Dickie | @kikos.kloset
HER STORY: Kayla Dickie is a vintage dealer devotee, as you can tell. Her handmade quilted coat is from the 60’s, her hat from a friend’s Pickwick booth (“we trade”).
NAME: Francisco Alcazar | @francisco.alcazar
HIS STORY: Francisco Alcazar, a recent transplant designer with a studio in DTLA, refurbishes old pieces he finds. “I don’t buy new stuff. Rather than following trends, I follow me. I find it attracts people. That’s what style is about.”
NAME: Wendi Weger | @curatorial_dept
HER STORY: Wendi Weger of The Curatorial Dept. is an exec producer and founder of her own consignment business. Her amazing cape is vintage Gucci from The Real Real, dress is from Pickwick, current Chanel necklace, Yohji Yamamoto bag from Wasteland, skirt new by Zimmerman.
NAME: Blythe Marks | @blythemarks
HER STORY: French bobbed Blythe Marks is a vintage deal at Pickwick sister fare a Current Affair. Limi Feu for Yohji Yamamoto vintage virgin wool jacket (she’s Yohji’s daughter), 1960’s vintage Coach handbag for under a hundred bucks.
NAME: Laura Maxwell | @lhmaxwell17 and Daughter Olivia
THEIR STORY: Mother and daughter act Olivia and Laura Maxwell bond over vintage shopping. The green jacket on mom is Lulu Flippa, the belt vintage Gucci, glasses by Alexis Amov. “I did the coastal grandma look before it was cool,” says Laura. Olivia’s look is from COS. “I admit, I’m influenced by my mom.”
NAME: Michelle Laine | @michellelainedesigns Yves Rothman | @yvesrothman
THEIR STORY: Music producer Yves Rothman and his costume designer gf Michelle Laine: the couple that thrifts together, riffs together. Michelle’s coat from American Rag vintage, Bottega Veneta glasses, suit by Bobbie Brooks, “the Forever 21 of the 70’s,” laughs Laine. Rothman admits Laine influences his style, but “I was too picky a client for her, so she fired me.”
NAME: Andrea Eisfeldt | @the_a_l_e
HER STORY: Andrea Eisfeldt, or “Dr. Eis,” as she’s known in academic circles, is flaunting a vintage jacket, Larroude boots, a necklace from her native Traverse City, Michigan, a classic McQueen skull scarf and a Zimmerman skirt.
NAME: @fernmercantile
HER STORY: Gold Mine is the name of this booth, with some of the best vintage sunnies we’ve ever seen, as well as clothes – their HQ is in Glendale.
NAME: Holly Pendergast | @coachwithholly
HER STORY: Serious thrifter Holly Pendergrass coveted her black and white Coach bag till she snagged it. Everything else came from vintage markets around Claremont, CA.
NAME: Keiko Takeuchi | @notch_la
HER STORY: Keiko Takeuchi, a Pickwick vendor, had the right idea on a freezing cold day: mega layering. Sweater by Whatever Works, her knit cap, knit dress, all hail from Pickwick pals. Shoes by Doc Martens.
NAME: @funklectique_vintage / Irene Coyazo | @irene_coyazo
THEIR STORIES: Moya is the high priestess of Funklectique vintage at Pickwick, so her fur cap, big sweater over plaid dress – an eclectic combo if there ever was one – are all from her own well-sourced vintage cache. Friend Irene Coyazo, in a vintage Alice & Olivia two piece print set and Nordic beret, is a Pickwick regular who knows tout le monde of L.A.’s vintage scene.
NAME: Chevonne Bowers Frank | @chevysvintage / Ian Lomas | @ian.lomas / Francisco Alcazar | @francisco.alcazar
THEIR STORIES: Aussie architect Ian Lomas has a thing about patchwork leather – and, really, who doesn’t? Francisco Alcazar in his own refurbished patchwork fur. Chevonne Frank and husband Bruce now run their own Pickwick-based vintage biz: her jacket’s a 1984 purple letterman, pinstripe trousers vintage RL, her hat a vintage Russian topper – and those ropes of old pearls she collects with gusto.
Her husband Bruce Frank likes to reflect Chevvie’s varsity style: his plaid pants are vintage Ralph Lauren, his original letterman jacket hails from 1968, his orange leather cap dates back to Sears & Roebuck 1970’s stock.
NAME: Richard Wainwright | @pickwickvintage | @new_found
HIS STORY: You can call Richard Wainwright L.A.’s rightful heir to the title of “King of Vintage.” He founded both Pickwick and its bigger sister vintage market A Current Affair – a collector himself, he realized he had to start selling or he’d never have any more room. You can find many of his finds on his new-found instagram pages.
Here’s a few tired (cue: yawn) should-be-retired clichés’ re: Big Orange fashion, coined, of course, by chicer-than-though Big Apples and Euro fash bashers.
“In L.A., people overdress or underdress – they never get it right.”
“Sixty year old women dress like 25 year olds – 25 year olds dress like their 50 – and at night, 15.”
“’Kardashian chic’ is a thing? But it’s an oxymoron.”
“Gym-rat hard-earned bods are never far from the surface.”
“All the kids wear funky tatty tacky thrift store clothes their mothers threw away. Meanwhile, their mothers squeeze into their kids’ jeans and tight t’s.”
Okay, doubters.
One trip to the monthly Pickwick vintage fare down at DTLA’s The Row made me ever more of a believer. The big baby of Big Daddy vintage king Richard Wainwright (who also runs the bigger, more upscale A Current Affair show in LA, NY and SF) is no longer just the domain of thrifters antiquarians or 90’s obsessed kids. There’s a treasury trove of both designer (Chanel, Gucci, Ferragamo, McQueen, Celine) bags, glasses, dresses, sweater, etc, goods – and perfect condition pieces from the 60’s on up. If you crave 70’s Biba or 80’s power suit looks, you’re in luck. If you want cooler evening bags than Rodeo Drive tiny beaded numbers, you’ll find wild sequin lunch pails, flirty flower strewn clutches –
and crazy good prices. I spotted a brown leather Ferragamo bag for $350, in perfect condition.
Same for cat eye and mega sized vintage glasses you can actually afford, for day or night. Patchwork and solid leather coats were under 500 bucks. Jewelry? It’s a Titanic sized lost treasure trove of rings, brooches, earrings, pendants. But the best visual: Pickwick regulars: its vixen vendors, crazed collectors, polished professors, sartorial showrunners, all pairing daringly disparate vintage pieces with newer – or older- designer ones, from JW Anderson, silver boots from Acne, Phoebe’s Celine (the only Celine), McQueen skulls from the closet. I was bowled over (rare occurrence) by one traffic-stopping white Gucci cape/coat with oversized orange knit bunnies, green sequins and orange tassels –
with oversized orange knit bunnies, green sequins and orange tassels –
worn with a rare white Yohji bag. Yous see coastal grandma, high style 90’s nerds, electric eclectics – an some of the oddest clothes combos one could ever dream up – that work in a way no designer could assemble.
And guess where all the designer teams go for inspiration?
