RARE vintage Turns 5 Years Old!!

I can't believe that it has been five years since RARE vintage first opened its doors at 24 West 57th Street in the New York Gallery Building stocked with vintage pieces from Alaia, Balmain, Chanel, Dior,  Geoffrey Beene, Halston, Issey Miyake, Gres, Karl Lagerfeld (for Chloe and for Chanel),  Missoni and so on and so on  to Yves Saint Laurent and Zandra Rhodes!  Vintage from A to Z.

New York is a fashion capital and I wanted to open an extraordinary shop dedicated to the best in vintage fashion.  Haute Couture and ready to wear as well as the occasional anonymous fun vintage piece.

It is amazing to realize that my little store in just five years has been featured in Harper's Bazaar, Vogue.com, Elle, Avenue, WWD, the Wall Street Journal, In Style, People and many more publications.  It is also amazing to realize that we have dressed some of the most brilliant, talented and beautiful actresses and musicians: Angelina Jolie,  Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Anne Hathaway, Rachel Weisz, Lady Gaga... 

It has been a labor of love and I have loved almost every day of it.  I have found some incredible beauties for the store and I have met some really wonderful and amazing people.  Thank you everyone for five amazing years!  And counting...

Reese Witherspoon in RARE vintage!

I have always believed that with vintage, the dress waits for the perfect person to come along, try it on and like magic, it is a perfect fit.  So it was a perfect fit for the dress and the woman when Reese Witherspoon found this 1950s Italian haute couture dress by Emilio Schuberth at RARE vintage.  

All of our clients are equally chic, equally fabulous, equally stylish and while we may not always have a photograph of every client in something from RARE vintage, I know that you all look wonderful and fabulous and unique:)

So looking molto caldo (muy caliente, sehr heiss, tres chaud, very hot) in 1950s Emilio Schuberth at the premiere of Water for Elephants is Reese Witherspoon (and my daughter thought I was going to say Robert Pattinson.  Really.  Who is even looking at him as good as Reese looks!)

Reese Witherspoon in 1950s Emilio Schuberth at the premiere of Water for Elephants