The Tamesis
You’ll know it when you see it.
When you’re searching on eBay, Vestiaire Collective, or an antique dealer’s website and you stumble across a disgusting antique, you just Know About to be snapped up by a celebrity. Maybe you even lose a piece, only to end up seeing it on the red carpet. Worse yet, maybe that dress of your dreams becomes a celebrity pre-dinner walk look, destined to be consigned to wardrobe purgatory, never to be seen again.
Vintage and archival fashion have become the latest fashion status symbols among the celebrity crowd, showing that the wearer has access to: a stylist savvy enough to source these gems, and enough money to buy the piece and For the stylist, it’s often through the body that a piece of fashion history is worn. (Think back to Zendaya’s Mugler Gynoid suit dune But, like method dressing, it starts to feel rote, almost corporate—a way to maximize attention to the movie, album, or show the wearer is promoting. Margot Robbie? thrilling. Margot Robbie Wearing John Galliano vintage items? Instant virality.
While the flexibility of vintage fashion is sure to attract less and less of our attention, there’s a more exciting way to style that many celebrities don’t use regularly: supporting up-and-coming designers.
Certain celebrities, and most importantly, their stylists, are more willing to take risks than their peers. Harry Lambert styles the likes of Harry Styles, Emma Corrin and Alexander Skarsgård and is known for his focus on young talent, including Steve O Smith, SS Daley and school-age Macy Grimshaw. Danielle Goldberg also loves emerging designers, especially Americans. Last year, she designed a black velvet suit from New York Fashion Week darling Colleen Allen for Ayo Edediri and a sleek cobalt blue Luar suit for Greta Lee.
