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Vintage Travel Stories
A day or three in a city, planned down to the archive shop and the lunch worth queuing for.
Berlin · 1 days
Berlin Vintage: Kreuzberg to Friedrichshain — A Techno-Inspired Trail
Berlin's vintage scene is not about luxury — it is about attitude. The Wall fell, the factories became clubs, and the dress code became: black, utilitarian, interesting. This route traces Berlin's vintage geography from the Kotti kilo sales to the DDR workwear specialists of Friedrichshain.
With David Bowie
Barcelona · 1 days
Barcelona Vintage: El Raval to Gràcia — A Mediterranean Trail
Barcelona's vintage market has matured fast. Five years ago it was a handful of shops in El Raval. Now: dedicated kilo stores, designer archive boutiques in Gràcia, and a street market culture that rivals Berlin. The Catalan preference for natural materials — cotton, linen, wool, leather — means the secondhand quality here is unusually high.
With Pablo Picasso
Milan · 2 days
Milan Vintage: Navigli to Brera — A Design-Led Trail
Milan's vintage market is the fashion industry's best-kept secret. While tourists queue at the Duomo, the city's editors and stylists work a parallel circuit of vintage shops that draw from the deepest wardrobe in Italy. This is vintage through the lens of design — industrial, precise, Northern Italian.
With Gianni Versace
Tokyo · 3 days
Tokyo Thrift Odyssey: Shimokitazawa to Harajuku
Tokyo's vintage scene is the deepest in the world — 150+ shops in a single neighbourhood (Shimokitazawa), an entire covered shopping street devoted to used clothing (Koenji PAL), and a luxury resale market so sophisticated that Hermès scarves are filed by year and colourway.
With Rei Kawakubo
London · 3 days
The London Vintage Trail: Portobello to Brick Lane
London invented the modern vintage market. Not Paris, not Tokyo — London, where the Portobello Road antiques trade began in the 1940s and never stopped. This three-day route connects the city's vintage geography: the West London establishment (Portobello, Rellik), the East End rebels (Brick Lane, Beyond Retro), and the Sunday flower-market fringe where the real finds hide.
With Kate Moss
Paris · 3 days
The Liberation of the Silhouette: In the Footsteps of Coco Chanel
She freed women from corsets — and gave them perfume that changed the world. Coco Chanel lived at the Ritz for 34 years, designed the most iconic jacket of the 20th century, and built a fashion empire that still operates from 31 Rue Cambon.
With Coco Chanel
Paris · 4 days
A Moveable Vintage: In the Footsteps of Ernest Hemingway
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Hemingway wrote these words at the end of his life — but the city he described still exists.
With Ernest Hemingway
New york · 3 days
Some Like It Vintage: In the Footsteps of Marilyn Monroe
The dress that blew up — and a city that was never the same. Marilyn Monroe was more than a movie star; she was the face of a new America, and New York was her playground. This journey follows her footsteps through Manhattan.
With Marilyn Monroe