Remixed generic thrift-store clothes

Posted by Cory Doctorow, March 31, 2008 12:19 AM | permalink

Here's the latest installment in my ongoing series of photos from my travels: this amazing dress made from thrift-store suit-coats, seen yesterday at Junky Styling in the Truman Brewery off Brick Lane in London. Junky has a knack for taking the most generic, bulk-available charity shop clothes and layering and mixing them to make the most extraordinary things. I have an overcoat from there that's so cool that people stop me on the street and ask me where I got it. We always stop in on a Sunday to see what's new there, and we're never disappointed: one week it's a ballgown made from Kiehl's Pharmacy aprons, the next it's a scarf made from the sleeves of an otherwise unlovely suit-coat. Link

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#1 posted by Freddie Freelance

, March 31, 2008 6:28 AM

What are aprons from Kiehl's Pharmacy, a 150 year old NYC institution, doing in London in concentrations high enough that you can turn them into a Ball Gown? Its kind of like having enough Tesco Shopping Trolleys in San Diego that you can create a 20 foot tall statue out of them, only odder.

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#2 posted by Agent 86 , March 31, 2008 6:28 AM

Do they have an online presence? I can't imagine the shipping fees, but I'm feeling their style.

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#3 posted by License Farm

, March 31, 2008 7:34 AM

I usually settle for jeans and t-shirt, but there's a clothes whore hidden deep inside me that wants to turn tricks for some of these fashions. That they're scavenged from used clothes into different configurations only makes the itch that much worse.

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#4 posted by cdarville , March 31, 2008 8:12 AM

This is a cool look. Not original, though. Viktor & Rolf went completely over the top with this concept several seasons ago. Shirts with ten collars, etc.

Still, this image shows a very interesting layered look. Manages to avoid looking really bulky, too. Very good - Nina would be pleased, ha ha.

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#5 posted by mellowknees

, March 31, 2008 8:35 AM

Joey: Okay, buddy-boy. Here it is: You hide my clothes, I'm wearing everything you own.

Chandler: Oh my God! That is so not the opposite of taking somebody's underwear!

Joey: Look at me--I'm Chandler! Could I be wearing any more clothes? Maybe if I wasn't going commando!

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#6 posted by ripley

, March 31, 2008 11:14 AM

Cdarville - these guys have been doing it for at least 9 years - when I lived in london in 1999 the place looked pretty established then..

but of course it isn't new - DIY kidz have been re-purposing thrift store clothes for as long as I can remember. It's the cool look tat counts. their stuff is hella fun!

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#7 posted by Elorin , March 31, 2008 11:39 AM

I really dig this dress, found on their website...
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2304/2294164521_3a77dfd068.jpg

And this piece that seems to be made of nothing but the ends of suit sleeves...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3144/2294967252_8f58906424.jpg

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#8 posted by franko , March 31, 2008 12:21 PM

mellowknees owes me a new laptop, cuz i think i just killed mine by spitting coffee all over it.