The Queen of Vintage Fashion, a treasure hunter in the heart
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Sep.4,2010Doris Raymond treasure hunt for life. Their quarry: $ 50,000 $ 120,000 Chanel gowns and hoods Sonia Delaunay.
Pilgrims with the names of millions of dollars (Jolie, Blanchett, Johansson) Paul Smith Towels in the shop in Los Angeles, which houses the finds, the search for the tapes of the revelation that will bring enlightenment fashion. Some of them are.
”Doris is a spring, it is infinite in knowledge,” says Arianne Phillips, Paul Smith Women’s Swimwear an Oscar-nominated costume designer. “I’ve been working with Madonna for 13 years the design of their tours and album covers and videos, and Doris is always my go-to another in search of inspiration.”
But Phillips will soon have to fend off fashion in order to exploit the reserves of Raymond. Cheap Nike shoes While Raymond’s Shop, The Way We wore, has grown over the past 30 years by intertwining itself with the film industry (cabinets for “Titanic,” Gump “Forest”, “The Notebook”) to the lady has already set his eyes on high fashion: It opened the 600 square meter showroom appointment only for the designers of the fashion district of Manhattan last July.
It is a decision driven by an acute business sense, Cheap Coach shoes despite the fact that Raymond does not have a degree of prestige, not to mention an MBA.
”I have an innate sense of courage,” says Raymond, 55. “I can go through, and I’m not exaggerating-20, 000 pieces of clothing in a preview of the auction and, literally, be ready to bid in an auction of everything in six hours. I am a speed demon. It a gift. ”
“Many big things have gone,” says Taylor, a former director of Sotheby’s, which oversaw the sale of clothing owned by Windsor, Princess Diana and Diaghilev. “Private collectors are rarely sold, the museum not to sell. Once you get into one of these collections, that is, behind closed doors slammed shut, locked. You do not see them again.”
Raymond, on the one hand, carved its own path through these auction houses and antique shops. Raised in Long Island, where she frequented thrift stores out of necessity rather than adventure, she worked as a waitress in San Francisco in the 1970s but gravitated to the legendary flea markets that line the coast. How did you hear about vintage haute couture, she began supporting through the sale of acquired developments. She opened the road that we took in 1981, then went underground in 1992 as a 6. 000 square meters, a warehouse of 100,000 item in the service of Hollywood and private clients (and a 2007 Metropolitan Museum of Art retrospective in Poiret, no less). The boutique in Los Angeles on La Brea Avenue in 2004 reopened.
These days, says Alice + Olivia designer Stacey Bendet Eisner, Raymond has “the best collection of 20th century vintage around.” Indeed, in addition to real clothes, Raymond has become a self-appointed foster parent for 2 million samples of textiles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th century, and a variety of thousands of drawings, gouaches, ornaments and all prototypes those stored in LA
”There is an esoteric value attached to these beautiful pieces of fabric and embroidery that when I met them, there was no way in hell I would not buy,” Raymond laughed. “I have so much I have to find good homes for.”
What do you credit your success? Nothing so glamorous as a Schiaparelli dress, that’s for sure.
The labels, of course, are so important in New York and California, but not essential. Raymond is not haute couture snob.
”I do not usually have in the works that make me cringe,” says Raymond. “I mean if it is so horrible that it is wonderful, I’ll buy it, but that’s not the norm. An ugly ugly Chanel Chanel is one. ”
Raymond says it’s all about a sense of proportion: if the search for treasures in New York or Los Angeles (which is cagey about his favorite places exact), find clothing that offers a beautiful silhouette.
Is 90 percent perspiration and 10 percent luck. Besides a good dose of luck, she says: “I feel this was my destiny, and I was lucky enough to intercept and realize that early in life and evolve.”




