The future of fashion is the past. Take one look at today’s trend circuit and you’ll see it’s no longer about finding the best new thing but rummaging further back. Vintage clothing lives again.
Of course, the fashion set’s fondness for second-hand clothing is hardly, ahem, new. Vintage items have long held high status among those in the know. Hark back to the mid-Noughties when wannabe rock stars and their equally eager groupies swanned around north London’s pubs looking like they’d been swallowed by Camden Stables. There might be a tired pair of brogues. Possibly a battered leather jacket. Maybe even a cravat. And if you were Luke Pritchard from The Kooks, you might have all three.
