Ep 45 / Chatting with Arnaud Maillard about vintage clothing and the meaning and value of things well made
As you know, this week we are carrying out a very special action at zubi with our 2nd Chance sale – Sample Sale – in which we claim to give a second life to things and especially to clothes. For this reason we bring you a very special podcast in which we chat with Arnaud Maillard, half of the Alvarno designer duo and an expert in vintage clothing. He told us how he started in this exclusive world and how he has obtained clothes that are a real gem, like a Gabrielle Chanel jacket that he recently auctioned. We talk about this, the value of garments and artisanal crafts and the importance of not losing them in our podcast today.
Since he was little, Arnaud was already in love with antique clothing and objects. His first shopping experience was for his birthday at the Drouot auction house, where he bid on a 19th-century Louis Vuitton trunk. He remembers that his heart was beating hard at that moment. She trained in the best fashion schools in Paris and after spending 15 years working alongside Karl Lagerfeld, of which she was his right-hand man for 7, she arrived in Madrid, where she opened her own luxury vintage clothing store, Le Fabourg. From the beginning it had the support of the press and celebrities such as Penélope Cruz, since there was no store of this level in the city. The store had unique garments that it obtained at auctions in Paris. During this time he also created his own fashion brand, Alvarno, together with Álvaro Castejón, which is characterized by taking maximum care of the details both in its garments and in the communication actions they carry out. They work with workshops in the capital and make small productions for those people who prefer to buy a good garment that will last a long time.
We have talked about the future of vintage and the rise of what in France is called friperie , which is the cheap sale of second-hand clothes. Also that Spain is still adapting to this new trend and that Spanish brands should be proud of their “Made in Spain” since we have great workshops and artisans in our country, professions that should not be lost and encouraged more among the new ones. generations.
We leave you with a luxury podcast that has taught us to value those little “jewels” that we have in our closet a little more and to look with different eyes at those that we can find in vintage stores or markets like ours.
Mentions and recommendations from Arnaud Maillard:
- Drouot Auction House
- Atelier Fleuri Delaporte
- Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne
- Alvarno
- Cameron Silver Vintage Store, LA
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