Miyake to Margiela: Young and old spend a lot.
Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons, Issey Miyake, Maison Margiela, Paul Harnden, and Elana Dawson are just a few of the world’s most recognizable fashion brands that can be found at Bruce, a recycled clothing cdg hoodie store in Gertrude Street, Fitzroy. There is also a unique Final Home “survival jacket” on display in the store’s window.
The experimental Japanese designer Kosuke Tsumura’s $700 jacket, sold in the 1990s, surely merits the extra room. Men’s, women’s, and unisex clothing, shoes, jewelry, and accessories are available here, as well as in the store’s other locations in Clifton Hill and Hobart. Their prices vary based on their rarity and the designers who created them.
a pleated ensemble from Issey Miyake’s ready-to-wear autumn/winter 1995 collection. Credit: Getty
William Steven, the store’s manager, describes Martin Margiela’s ‘Flat’ collection from Spring 1998 as “very coveted.” A T-shirt from this collection can sell for more than $500, while jackets can fetch more than $2000, depending on its rarity and condition. The collection is known as “flat” because the clothes have flat shapes when they are worn against the body.
Stevens points to a long, fitted tweed coat with a Victorian style that sells for $2200 and adds, “There’s also what I would term the artisanal handmade clothes like Paul Harnden and Elana Dawson (both British-based designers). “A similar coat in new condition would easily sell for over $5,000.”
The most popular is the Comme des Garçons for Bruce’s younger audience.
Typically, our vintage pieces from the early 1980s to the early 2000s are more in demand, according to Stevens. Additionally, vintage “is a method of a sustainable path rather than following rapid disposable fashion,” according to Bruce’s younger audience.
Curtin House is home to Dot Comme’s vintage clothing shop.
Since starting his company 11 years ago, Otto La Rosa, proprietor of dot Comme in Curtin House in Melbourne’s CBD, has acquired an incredible 4000 articles of clothes. There are designers from all around the world represented, from Belgian to Japanese.
La Rosa can recall the collection where and when a particular outfit was first introduced since she has scrupulously cataloged and saved each item. La Rosa frequently wears head-to-toe Walter Van Beirendonck for his colorful
finest fashion-related museums in Japan,
Issey Miyake, a Japanese fashion designer, has said: “Design is not for philosophy; it is for life.” This is more clear in no other kind of art than Miyake’s clothes. Humans cannot live without clothing, and it provides insight into our personalities, way of life, and culture.
However, there aren’t many museums that focus on costumes and clothes. Fortunately, there are a few museums in Japan that will gratify anyone interested in admiring gorgeous clothing, fashion, or history.
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In addition to sports and entertainment, this conflict occurs in other contexts. Latoya Buckner says that small microaggressions are common in the fashion industry.