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"Clothes find me. But they always tell the same story, the same feeling." Tziporah Salamon
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Pants Tziporah had made from a 1982 Armani suit pattern, necklace from Berkeley, California flea market, Turkish bracelet -
Coat and scarf from the Manhattan Vintage Show, flea market gloves, hat from a vintage show -
"This is my favorite outfit. I could live in this." SARAJO Chinese cotton jacket, early 1900s Korean armor vest with silver coin detailing, pants from a Chinese vendor at the Armory Show -
Tziporah's bangles -
"When I was a Berkeley hippie, it was politically incorrect to love clothes, so I used to hide Vogue Magazine behind Ms. I remember buying the Vogue and buying the Ms. magazine and putting the Vogue inside the Ms." Tribal jacket, scarf, and pants from the Armory Show, flea market hats -
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"It has to work, head to toe...it all has to tell the same story. It has to be organic, it has to be pleasing to the eye." Traditional Chinese robe, pants from a Chinese vendor at the Armory Show, flea market hat and bag, early 1900s Chinese hat, Jil Sander shoes -
"My father was a tailor and my mother was a dressmaker and they made all my clothes from day one." Old photographs of Tziporah's Hungarian parents -
Flea market hat worn under early 1900s Chinese hat -
Tziporah's vanity -
Pants from a Chinese vendor at the Armory Show, Jil Sander shoes -
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Family photographs of Tziporah's Hungarian family -
Tziporah's apartment -
Tziporah in a News Antiques article about the Manhattan Vintage Show -
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Tziporah says, "Matisse sharpened my eyes. My eyes were always good, but he made them diamonds." -
"Clothing is the most self-expression... every day, you get a chance to invent yourself, and we live in a city that totally gives us permission to do that." Pants made from 1980s Armani pattern, Turkish bracelet, Berkeley flea market necklace, Armenian vest -
Tziporah's collection of gloves -
Tziporah's apartment -
Some of Tziporah's hats and bags -
Tziporah's apartment -
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Tziporah's apartment -
"I love bringing worlds together, indigenous people's work, livelihood, and art. This is how people used to dress and it's better than YSL, it's better than head to toe Armani, and Prada...it has a heritage." -
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Tziporah's beaded antique bags -
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"I can't wear what anyone else wears, which is why I have to have things made and why I have to wear vintage" Ellen Christine hat, Manhattan Vintage Show jacket, vintage scarf -
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Embroidered hat -
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Tziporah's bookshelf -
Tziporah's hats -
Tziporah's books -
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Postcards and art prints in Tziporah's apartment -
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"The vendors save these things for me because they know this is what I collect." Hat from Manhattan Vintage Show, Turkish bracelet, Berkeley flea market necklace, Armenian vest -
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Vest from Manhattan Vintage Show -
Tziporah's kitchen -
Tziporah's living room -
Tziporah's apartment -
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Tziporah's apartment -
Tziporah's bookshelf -
Tziporah's living room -
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Tziporah's living room -
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Tziporah's vanity -
Tziporah's vanity -
Tziporah's vanity -
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Tziporah's bed -
Tziporah's closet -
Jacket from Manhattan Vintage Show -
Jacket from Manhattan Vintage Show -
A photograph of Tziporah in the New York Times -
Tziporah's desk -
Tziporah's bed -
Tziporah's bedroom -
Old family photograph -
Ellen Christine hat, Manhattan Vintage Show jackets, pants made from a 1982 Armani pattern -
Men's Victorian house slippers -
Vest from Manhattan Vintage Show -
Vest from Manhattan Vintage Show -
Early 1900s Chinese shirt -
Tziporah's parents -
"I raise the bar. The way you do on your website, I do it in my daily dressing. I stretch the box of what's possible."
I was drawn like a magnet to Tziporah when I saw her meandering through one of my favorite New York institutions, the Manhattan Vintage Show. From her embroidered fezzes and shoes and turn of the century Moroccan and Pierrot-inspired blazers to her hand-painted silk scarves, Tziporah believes in telling a story about yourself though your style and exploring indigenous cultures. She says that she does not choose her clothes, but that they find her, proving that style is not about trends but rather comes from within. I love the story that she tells about her dressmaker parents working tirelessly through the night making her clothes, and how every morning she would wake up to something new and distinctive to wear. Tziporah is so passionate about the art of dressing, that when she was a “hippie” at Berkeley, she would disguise her purchases of Vogue behind Ms. Magazine. Tziporah is a force of nature, raising the bar of taste and style, but ultimately all she really cares about is making people smile.
Tziporah has a one woman show called “The Fabric of My Life” about her obsession and relationship with clothes and you should check out her website here.
