La Gantoise

I grew up in a beautiful, provincial town in Belgium called Destelbergen. Only fifteen minutes outside of Ghent, Destelbergen is best known for its numerous residential castles, thick forests, ponds with swans and its simple, quiet life. We moved to… READ MORE

January 13, 2011 / 8 Comments

Take Schelter

Kate Schelter’s Gramercy Park apartment is cozy, warm and delighfully charming. Watercolor paintings, delicate drawings, mood boards, photos and calligraphy place cards are artfully strewn across the walls. Memories and souvenirs are very important to Kate, so she makes sure… READ MORE

January 4, 2011 / 12 Comments

Poppy Madness

Director/Photographer Poppy de Villeneuve is no stranger to vintage. Her mom, Jan Ward was a well known model in the early 70’s. She worked with some of the great photographers of her time, like Norman Parkinson and Bill Gibb and… READ MORE

December 17, 2010 / 9 Comments

Beach Couture

Elisa Sednaoui was in Russia, Paris, New York and Miami, just this past week. All she wants, is to be home and chill, not work, take a break, enjoy her couch. Her acting and modeling career has taken off triple… READ MORE

December 9, 2010 / 10 Comments

My dearest Angie

“So what are you going to call me?” probes Angie as I’m setting up our shoot at her Brooklyn Heights apartment. Good question. I knew Angie Schmidt when she started modeling in New York in 2000. She was a young… READ MORE

December 1, 2010 / 12 Comments

Adam’s Entourage

What’s the best way to experience a gigantic vintage show on a sunny saturday afternoon? Bring an entourage of fun-loving, slightly hungover, ridiculously fashionable people and get silly. There is so much to see and try on at this show… READ MORE

November 18, 2010 / 8 Comments

Masha Orlov, Stylecastered

“I’m feeling 90’s conceptual grungy punk grandma at the moment,” reveals Masha Orlov as she scans the clothing rack in her living room. This may sound somewhat A-D-Disorderly and unpractical to some of you but it is just the kind… READ MORE

November 11, 2010 / 6 Comments

Antwerp Academy of Vintage

For fashion people Antwerp(en) is probably the best known city in Belgium. It is the home of Dries Van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester, who were part of the “Antwerp Six”, a group of influential avant-garde fashion designers who graduated from… READ MORE

November 3, 2010 / 12 Comments

She’s a Lanvin

There are very few runway shows where applause and cheering are a seasonal recurrence. Even though most show productions in Paris are testimony to a higher degree of creativity, entertainment and imagination than any other city’s, with beautiful venues, extravagant… READ MORE

October 21, 2010 / 5 Comments

Georgia on my mind

It’s funny how people always say “I want to come back as soon as possible” when they visit a place, even before they have finished the trip. With London I have always had the averse feeling, couldn’t wait to get… READ MORE

October 14, 2010 / 6 Comments

Come on Missoni

It was a bit of a challenge meeting up with Margherita Missoni in Paris. The rain, our hectic schedules, that typical French attitude and some basic misunderstandings were almost detrimental to our rendez-vous. But when we finally arrived at Come… READ MORE

October 8, 2010 / 5 Comments

Dressing Miss Daisy

A little bird told me that Daisy Lowe would be a a great girl to shoot for one of my vintage closet stories. Supposedly she has a reputable collection… But it wasn’t until I spotted her at the Chanel party… READ MORE

September 29, 2010 / 8 Comments