After several failed attempts at salvaging our main site and a few season's off the grid, we're happy to report that we are back in action with a limited selection of vintage goods we hope you'll covet. We missed you!
So as our gorgeous site lingers away, and until it's fully remastered, we'll be hosting weekly additions to our secondary online shop in the meantime. Stay tuned, and until then, shop away here.
Peep this necklace from the controversy courting designer, John Galliano. This necklace is adorned with bottle caps bearing the designer's name. Red and blue bungee cords serve as the chain with a large 'G' in the font associated with the brand adorns the closure at the front.
With Mr. Pilati's move to Agnonanow confirmed, what better way to honor his mark on Yves Saint Laurent than by snapping up this darling YSL Trench Coat from early on in the designer's stint at the Parisian house. This silk trench has a digital daisy print throughout with an elongated wide sash tie. Oh so chic and perfect for sunny spring days.
It's time to jump back from all the hot new designers we have been taking a look at recently and to focus on the veritable rock star of the 80's and 90's New York fashion scene and VagaBond favorite, Stephen Sprouse.
Having amassed influence from the likes of Warhol, Halston and Bill Blass through a midst of internships and alliances, Sprouse was a designer who thoroughly embraced fashion as art and worked to imperatively combine the two.
Throughout his career, Sprouse merged between overwhelming success and disappointing career lows as time and again his businesses failed.
Sprouse was the genius behind the Louis Vuitton graffiti bags, a result of an invite to Paris by Marc Jacobs to assist with the collection. Needless to say, the bags were a monumental hit with the designer admitting that even he could not get his hands on one.
Debbie Harry, the veritable Edie Sedgwick to Sprouse's Warhol, lived for a number of years with the designer, with him styling her for Blondie's 'Heart of Glass' video. The chanteuse fully embodied the Bowery girl look and with Sprouse's engagement, quickly became a style icon for a generation who's looked is echoed in that of Ms. Moss today.
Stephen Sprouse was a designer, an artist and an innovator. Despite his roller coaster of a career, his work is of the utmost importance in fashion history. He broke the bounds of fashion and challenged it, assuring his name will forever be in association with the legends of times past.
The recent issue of Dazed and Confused magazine is a collections special, mixing the recent season's offerings with archive highlights. Naturally, Vagabond was asked to lend out some choice vintage pieces from our showroom, including this canary yellow Versace camisole. Made from the cobwebs of a nu-rave spider, this piece laughs in the face of a thousand celebrity nip-slips. Next time, the likes of Janet and Tara should just take the Gianni Versace approach, rouge those areolas, and go for the gusto. If you're feeling saucy, we're selling the very same camisole at Vnyc (on sale for $64!) -- caveat emptor: you might also need to pick up a stick to beat off the boys!
