As we reported back in April, if you love vintage shopping, loads and loads of clothes, and Bravo TV, you’re in for some sort of a treat with Dukes of Melrose. The new show follows Decades boutique owners, Christos Garkinos and Cameron Silver, as they take viewers inside the crazy world of vintage couture in Hollywood, California. I got to sit down with the duo and talked vintage shopping strategies and what’s really worth the splurge. Read more
Trust us—Bravo’s “Dukes of Melrose” (premiering tonight at 10:30 p.m.) is your next guilty pleasure. The reality show, part of Bravo’s “Fashion Night,” has everything you could want: Tons of fashion eye candy, plenty of drama, and two stars—Cameron Silver and Christos Garkinos—destined to become celebrities once the show takes off. Read more
RAF SIMONS has visited vintage stores in the past to seek design inspiration, revealed Cameron Silver, owner of famous LA vintage couture boutique Decades. The new Dior creative director is a customer of Silver’s store.
“Designers treat it as a laboratory of inspiration,” said Silver. “One designer in particular visited – I’m not against saying who, it was Raf Simons – and we talked. I taught him about Pauline Trigère. It was like a vintage education. It works both ways – I in turn learn by seeing what the designers are attracted to.” Read more
When Christos Garkinos, co-owner of vintage emporium Decades, first visited the closet of Rachel Zoe, it took three hours to extract six pairs of shoes. “She has an amazing vintage collection but a hard time letting go,” says Garkinos of Zoe, consigner No. 143 on Decades’ list of nearly 5,000 fashionistas who resell their gently worn frocks to reap up to half of their resale value. Read more
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ANNALS OF RETAIL about Cameron Silver, owner of the Hollywood vintage clothing store Decades, which is frequented by stylists for movie stars such as Salma Hayek and Julia Roberts… Ten years ago, Cameron Silver, a former Weimar-style cabaret singer, opened a fancy vintage shop on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. On a recent good day, Silver sold a piece to Gwen Stefani. In the days immediately before that, he sold an Ossie Clark maternity dress to Julia Roberts, a Thierry Mugler dress to Chloe Sevigny and a Carven dress to Jada Pinckett Smith. “We cover a hundred years of fashion, but there is a Decades look,” Silver says. “It’s about vintage that looks modern, sexy, unstudied, and glamorous.” Read more
