Fashion Blogs

I love what I do, just love it.  I got another email from Nikki Hall, who recently scored big at an estate sale awhile back, and just had to share with me her 2 most recent treasures.  I love it when people actually take their time to contact me because we have a connection, a common interest – thrifting !  We love to find vintage luxury items anywhere we can and try to save them.  Did you know that when some thrift stores don’t sell items they either ship them to Africa or simply shred them?  Y

It was 12:30 and I was so hungry but had to stop in the Goodwill first, shopping over food!  When I walked in I spotted my friend Nancy shopping away.  Nancy is one of Atlanta best dressed women and I’m dead serious when I say that.  Nancy is the kind of lady that will walk into Neiman Marcus and buy a dress and then get into her car and drive to a Goodwill and look for the perfect vintage belt to go with it.  I love that mixing of high / low / new / vintage….  It’s the perfect way to shop in my

The answer to that question is I have no idea but let me tell you about my new black Burberry trench coat…  Yes I’ve stopped counting just how many Burberry trench coats I own now.  Just stopped counting.   I just can’t stop myself when it comes to grabbing a Burberry coat from the thrift store.  This one has a wool collar and lining inside making this coat nice and warm.  Sure it’s missing a button but who gives a shit?  Buttons are a dime a dozen and I can sew!  I never let a missing button ge

The other day I was at some estate sale and I saw the most handsome mens Guy Laroche dress shirt imaginable but when I turned it over saw the biggest stain.  That saddened me but especially since it was my exact size…  what ya gonna do?  Keep shopping is what I say and that logic always pays off because look at this 80s vintage Guy Laroche dress with pockets…  When one door closes another door opens…  I love Guy Laroche and always have.  With the smartest belt on the planet, this vintage Guy Lar

One Sunday my stylish friend Nancy and I hit the thrift store, and hit it hard as usual.  I’m a tag hag for the label Cerruti 1881 so when I found the jacket, you know I grabbed it, put it in the shopping cart and continued shopping.  Moments later Nancy asked “what did you find”???  I showed her the jacket and she said “Daniel earlier in the week I was here and grabbed the matching slacks for this jacket…” I thought she was kidding but when we got back to her lovely home she handed me the match

You should have seen my eyes when they met the ETRO label…..  I couldn’t believe it because I’ve never found this label inside a thrift store until now.  I immediately picked it up and gave it my full inspection and it passed with flying colors but there is one problem.  This gorgeous striped mens shirt is to big for me, so out of the kindness of my heart, I gave it to my partner Mitch to wear and enjoy.  I may have given it to him with a little green with envy in my eyes.   Founded in 1968 by G

I’m going to try to keep this a normal post of about 130-150 words but trust me it won’t be easy.  I found this vintage Bill Blass 70s silk paw print blouse and freaked because I love vintage Blass.  I needed the perfect bottom for this blouse when Nancy and I went shopping and she found these Claude Montana suede 80s pants and then handed them to me….  Yes that’s right she found these gorgeous vintage Claude Montana suede pants and then said “I want you to have these…”  I was speechless and bel

Will you just take a look at the details on this LBD by Pierre Cardin?  OMG there is nothing anywhere on this dress that says it’s dated or vintage, nothing.  The lines are as clean as the day this dress was designed.  This is a 70′s disco dress made by France’s iconic fashion designer Pierre Cardin.  Can’t you just see Bianca Jagger  wearing this dress at Studio 54?  I sure can.  She would have just done a line of cocaine in the bathroom with her friend Halston and she would have danced the nig

I can’t think of one single soul on this planet that wouldn’t love a vintage Balenciaga piece.  NOT ONE.  So when I saw this sweet little number, in my size, you know I had to grab it, run to the counter and pay for it.  Balenciaga is considered to be one of the greatest couturier in history, EVER !  He was a master of sketching, cutting, draping and above all creating clothes that would stand the test of time.  Balenciaga did the same shapes from year to year, developing and refining them.  Bal

I have no idea who Helen Fabrikant is and I even tried to find her on my favorite resource site called Vintage Fashion Guild and nothing.  That still didn’t stop me from scoring a fantastic vintage blouse now did it?  No because even with a good vintage piece with a label, you know the quality is there.  Quality is everything to me and that’s one reason why I love vintage so much, the quality was so much better then compared to today’s standards.  You could even take a simple dress from Sears fr

I’ve never found a Donald Brooks before so finding a LBD is always the best place to start.  Donald Brooks was an early designer of American sportswear and one of the first to cross over from fashion to make clothes for the theater and movies.  His passion was always for the theater.   He was hand picked by the president of Lord & Taylor to design a collection for the store in the 1950′s.  In 1965 he started his own collection and was backed by the same man who financed Norman Norell, Oscar de l

I recently wrote a post that said I wouldn’t be talking about St John anymore unless it was something really spectacular and in this case it’s just that.  When I first spotted this silk,with some stretch,  blouse I fell deeply & madly in love, even after I saw the label.  This rich shade of brown silk is just a no-brainer.  It’s simply gorgeous and elegant on every level possible.  Then when I found these rich red wool slacks by Missoni, I knew instantly that I would pair these 2 items up for a

Adele Simpson started her life out as a child performer in vaudeville dancing with Milton Berle and then she became a fashion designer after she completed her design curriculum at the Pratt Institute.    She introduced medium priced line of clothing in New York in 1949 and adapted the French couture and presented it with an American ready to wear translation.  She won a Coty Award and dressed several First Ladies.  She was very well known in the 70′s & 80′s for designing beautiful dresses and re

Remember recently I got this same exact dress but in red?  Well now I have a green Geoffrey Beene Beene Bag label vintage 70s dress with pockets too!  I swear this is the second time that I have seen the Beene Bag label, it’s such a throw back to the 70s and that whole era of brilliant fashion designs.  I’m a lover of Geoffrey Beene, especially his vintage pieces, because in my humble opinion this man knew how to make a woman feel & look sexy.  Now you might think this dress just hangs there on

Who in their right mind doesn’t love finding Bally & Valentino?  Just name me one soul on this planet that doesn’t love finding both of these brands second hand?  There isn’t one single thing on both items that make these pieces ‘dated’ or ‘passé’ that’s because we are talking about quality.  Good simple clean lines and quality fabrics will always stand the time test.  Slap on your favorite pair of black vintage leather pants, that you scored from a consignment store, and go paint the town whate

Every now and then I have to reward myself and what better way to reward myself than with a piece of YSL & Givenchy could there be???  This YSL pour homme v-neck shirt still has the string tag hanging from the label, so its a new piece and never worn.  Now the Givenchy slacks are very 80s and not an ounce of natural fibers but that’s ok with me… I can sweat in style.  Both of these colors are so me and colors I wear in the fall so it was a nice treat.  I’m Daniel Troppy your luxury curator! 

This is my very first piece of thrift store found Brunello Cucinelli so there goes the cherry !  I almost completely passed out when I saw the label because for years I’ve tried to locate anything from this label and haven’t had any luck.  So thank you Lady Luck !  When I say that this label is expensive you need to multiple that by 10 and then multiple that by another 10 and you’ll get the answer.  It’s super expensive and my dream is one day to find a Brunello Cucinelli mens cashmere sweater a

I love anything vintage Geoffrey Beene, just ask anyone, because he was one of America’s greatest fashion designers. He was born Samuel Albert Bozeman, Jr in Haynesville Louisiana and studied fashion in New York & Paris. He was noted for his unconventional design, but his simple style and muted colors won him 8 Coty Awards before he death in 2004. The Beene Bag label is from the 70′s and of course so are shape of the collar! I love everything about this red silk Beene vintage dress with pockets.

Every now and then I will find a Donna Karen item that I absolutely love and this is one of those times.  This simple and elegant skirt, made in Italy, is stunning.  The vintage Sonia Rykiel sweater looks like it was meant to go together with the Donna Karen skirt and again both came out of the same thrift store.  It’s just a matter of finding the luxury items and pairing them together which is what I do best.  Throw on any fantastic belt and heels and off you go into the wilderness.  I’m Daniel

I recently got an email from Nikki Hall who was in DC on a trip and hit the mother load at an estate. She said she had gotten Ferragamo, Robert Lee Morris, Genny, Adolfo, Carlos Falchi, Akris, Karl Lagerfeld and Scherrer all for over $200.  Nikki was told by the woman who ran the estate sale that the clothes belonged to a woman that was going into a retirement home.  Nikki wrote to tell me her story because she reads The Thrifters and I inspire her to dig for vintage treasures and the thing I lo