Amber loves her vintage monkey furs, but what makes them and everything she wears poignant for her are its details, origins, and loss of breath when she sees it. Her excitement is palpable when she explains how she found the original owner’s picture in the pocket of one of the furs, with the date of the photo of New Year’s 1949. The photo now sits in a frame on Amber’s mantle, as if the woman in it is a relative, making explicit the chilling and considerable emotional connection that antique clothing and its context has for her. She attributes her obsession with the beauty of detail to her Native American roots and the beadwork she would do as a child in Chicago. The appreciation for authenticity can be seen in everything Amber either owns or makes, from the original edition Vivienne Westwood pirate squiggle-print boots (that are signed by the designer) to her exquisite hand-made silk dupione blouses with the perfectly oversized french cuffs. She has both a strong passion for the feminine “lush” of the ’20s and ’30s, like her peach chiffon sheer dress – I love how she wears it with black thick tights and her go-to floppy hat. And then Eduardian-inspired, tailored men’s suiting, like her own designed three-piece suit, made to be serious with lots of buttons and unique lining and fun by pairing it with shorts. Amber’s infatuation with drama and tradition has led her to open a shop on the Lower East Side of bespoke clothing, where she can fully explore and bring to life her crush on the meaning behind the inception of the most time-honored prototypes.

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Running back and forth with Malin between her voluminous archives and extraordinarily well-edited shop in Brooklyn is like a drug for someone like myself who thrives on connecting with people that live so deeply and vividly in their dreams and figure out how to manifest them. It was like a euphoric whirlwind shooting her as she moved with lightning speed, putting together on herself a feast of the most enviable combination of exceptional vintage clothing imaginable. Lucky for us, she didn’t have enough garments for her Barbie at age 5, which she feels fueled a burning desire for an abundance of choices for the rest of her life. Equally fortunate for us, the socialism of Sweden didn’t appeal to her innate and insatiable need to be an individual, so she moved to the US. A born tastemaker, when she saw Annie Hall in the ’70s (I saw it at least 30 times), she abandoned her bell bottoms and went to school the next day in her dad’s suit (I didn’t). For now, she is into equestrian genres, for a feeling of power and oversized suits and “bulk” in general, as the new “confident sexy”, like her Norma Kamali jumpsuit and drop dead ikat Issey Miyake dress. But what shines through everything for me is the depth of Malin’s comittment to the meaning behind the pieces that she loves best. They have nothing to do with trends and end up representing her the most, like the very mannish Lagerfeld pin-stripe blazer that comes out every fall (with fedora) and the black scoop neck top that her grandmother wore as a “lady in waiting” in the Swedish parliament where her grandfather was a member (then it was part of a uniform over a blouse). It says everything about Malin’s sincerity and dedication and love for everything and everyone around her.

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Morena says that one of her favorite things about fashion are the people who don’t let fashion rule their world. Despite living in the heart of fashion, both in New York and Milan, she is known among her friends as “the clean one” and is unphased by trends. She can easily party all night and LOVES to dance, but always dressed in one of her signature “less is more” uniforms. Morena emanates classic with a distinct worldly sensuality, and is always refined in one of her ’40s or ’50′s dresses and girlish pumps. Few things looks better, in my opinion, than an oversized white button-down shirt with french cuffs, and she gives it her passion for history touch with vintage earrings as cuff links. Morena believes that style is beyond what you wear, and she oozes with the traditions and sophistication of her European heritage, where comfort within your own skin is more common than not. She was born and grew up in Sicily, and recalls women being grounded, strong, and elegant as much inside themselves as outside. Her advice, “look in the mirror and take something off.”