how do you wear vintage? melanie

Name: Melanie Janisse

What do you do? I am a painter mostly, and I make beautiful things with Jennifer Lopez and other custom made fashion items.

Why do you love vintage? I love the uniqueness of vintage.  The quality of the hand is so predominant with older items.  I love the energy of vintage, as it holds a little bit of everyone who owned it.

Do you have a favourite piece of clothing or accessory? An Emilio Pucci skirt made for Saks, a pair of Mimi Kalman earrings with fortune tellers and brass, and a chocolate brown pair of platforms that I found at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago. (Note: The Pucci skirt is amazing!!)

What is your best recent find? I just scored a pair of purple Gucci desert boots at a thrift shop in Windsor.  I still have them, but the are for sale on my Etsy site!

Visit Melanie's Etsy site here

brrrr, it's cold outside

Mink coat (vintage, Value Village Thrift, Windsor, ON $60 last seen here). T-shirt (Gap). Faux leather leggings (Wilfred). Boots (Zara). Hat (H&M). DIY bank deposit bag clutch (thrifted, Sweet Salvage, Leamington, ON $9 last seen here)

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hail, hail it's NYFW

Dress (thrifted, Regeneration, Pleasant Ridge, MI. $7.50; I cut the skirt off 10 minutes before putting it on, now as a top). Pants (H&M). Shoes (Zara). Bracelet (thrifted, Used, Toronto, ON. $22). Clutch (vintage, Value Village Thrift, Windsor, ON). Sunglasses ( H&M).

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The Before

a little bit country

Mathilde Industrie-Paris dress (vintage, Vintage House, Windsor, ON. $28). Shoes (Nine West Vintage America). Belt (thrifted, Value Village Thrift, Windsor, ON $5). Sheriff pin (thrifted, Jones & Co. Windsor, ON $7 ). DIY bank bag clutch (thrifted, Sweet Salvage, Leamington, ON $9). Sunglasses (Ray-Ban). Bracelets (ghrlunltd).

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