Everyone understands the vintage in their own way. For example, someone finds it in grunge dress with shoulder-straps, purchased a commission store. High-principled vintager much more uncompromising. This proud title is just for things made before the Second World War. Disputes by disputes, but all agreed on one - for hackneyed second-hand cloth becoming the real value - it can not simply be old. This vintage - is the personification of time as amber, carrying in itself a unique particle of the past.

Old things always attracted people. But for a long time they were seen only as something valuable, something that should be protected, cherished and nurtured, as fragile antiques or museum paintings. Only in the end of the 60's people thought about using vintage for its intended purpose. After the Second World War production of clothing was finally put on the mass line and all were wearing the same thing, fashion became a mass phenomenon. Of course, this echoed - after 20 years common people were sick of the fact that everyone, without exception, looked the same. There were two ways to differ - to buy the author's clothes, made to order, while shamelessly overpaying. Or buy something old, but the original - the chances that you will not see the same dress at the bystanders, increased in proportion to the age of the dress. Vintage had luck on the other side. In the same years the fashion world was rocked by a real revolution, conservatism of the haute couture was fairly diluted by beatniks, hippies, rockers, Rastafarian and others. Vintage not only was being bought at sales and markets, but also it was being worn without embarrassment. And the first second-hand shops appeared already in the early 70's.

Vintage idea, as a way to look original and unique, was caught by stars of show business. Pioneer of using an old clothes was Barbara Streisand. Inveterate eccentric person on life and on stage, she decided, and made the right decision - further vintage dresses and suits in retro style distinguish herself among celebrities in that time. But finally the old dresses were led in the masses in the 90's by glamorous icon Kate Moss. She was once photographed for a fashion magazine in the pirate boots with big buckles from the early Vivienne Westwood collection - and off they'd go. People began not only to buy dozens of of Westwood ‘s shoes, but pounced on a less well-known brands. Sales rose even among modern designers have made similar, but the modern footwear.

Today Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Winona Ryder, Drew Barrymore, and even Tony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers flaunt in vintage clothing. And Sharon Stone collects the old cashmere sweaters. It is understandable - when every Hollywood starlet has a dress from the top line of Valentino or Armani, and designers are ready to put on anyone, the question about the differences arises again.

Timorous breath of the past.
 
But the vintage - it is not only an opportunity to emphasize their exclusivity. It is also a definite position. Choosing something from a particular time, people seemed to sign a commitment to it, a solidarity, recognized for its contributions. They bring vintage close to retro-stylized, though calque does not make part of history, but merely offers a new discovery of old. But vintage - this is the legacy of the past. Wearing vintage clothes, antiques furnish the house or shooting a retro-cinema means to enter the right heir, to recognize the ties of kinship and be thankful.

Vintager - it is also people actively nostalgic about the past. This is not only a lot older, most of whose lives have already passed into memory. About care era of grandiose achievements, major figures and great passions are increasingly regretted by those who know about them only by hearsay. Within the present, which does not disclose all the depths of the images and characters and does not realize the ambitions, becomes closely. The old thing becomes connected to the new dimension of self and even to some extent reconciled with reality.
 
vintager  like junk - in love with what others consider junk or rotten rags, whose location on a landfill. Hoping to get a piece of the past people combing flea markets, beg custodians of family values, the state spends on auctions. And often, as a reward they got bitter truth - all that over the middle of XIX century, has museum exhibits and are not podbereshsya lawful means. By vintage appeal and for magic. The old thing as a chronicle, keeps a history of its owner, its habits, feelings and energy. Especially tempting opportunity to join a thing to a genius. This, actually, and kept the whole industry is selling the items. Cloak, who wore Bogart in "Casablanca," doing more courageous, hat Sinatra gives confidence, desk Nabokov bears traces of ink, which he wrote "Lolita", and the atmosphere at home makes you feel Churchill as prime minister. This magic is transmitted even to those things to which the idol has almost no relationship. In December at Christie's auction for a record 900 thousand dollars were sold in the famous black dress from Givenchy, one of three which designer made for Audrey Hepburn for the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's. Although she starred in another, but the money paid for the possibility that Hepburn could choose it.

Vintage mocking glamor with its cult of names and brands. The dress Marilyn Monroe can coexist in the closet with a clasp of my grandmother's trunk, and next to the trunk of the centennial of Louis Vyuittona in the country can stand the Soviet rocking chair. Vintage thing is unnamed, but never - impersonal. One retro-accessory added to the dressing room, living environment or architecture of the building, condenses the time and extends life. A more authentic vintage, as the old cognac, indicates the status of the owner and, of course, expresses his conservative views. Moreover, it is stunningly successful form of investment, which is not afraid of financial crises, nor fall rates. Only dirt, moisture and pests.
 
PAST IN THE PRESENT
 
The influence of the past can be found in any modern things - innovation is always associated with some tradition, no matter whether it breaks with her or vice versa, develops. Yes, and many contemporary designers inspired by vintage things by themselves. In recent years, retro replicas found a place in the collections of the best-selling brands. Mark Jakob went to 30-e, Miuccia Prada bored 50-m. Even sports brands like Nike, Adidas and Levi's, that technological progress does not spare especially restarted the old designs. Meet the growing demand from these old things is impossible. And here comes to the rescue stylization.
One of the first along this road went a British brand Oasis, firing in 2004 of the flowered chiffon dress with a shiny collar - almost an exact copy of vintage 60's, bought brand designers at the Paris flea market. Of the original did not take only the lower skirt, and cut for comfort made more flexible - and now Oasis can not fight off buyers.
 
This "tuning" of vintage things spawned the whole phenomenon in the fashion industry - a "new vintage", although this approach has itself to this second-hand is the same attitude as chicory - the coffee. There are psevdovintazh - when the product is made from modern materials, but preserving all the details. Often this intervention is justified. Vintage, particularly very old, sometimes one can not be used for other purposes. Clothing loses its presentation, wood spoil moisture and insects, and even feathers are erased forever. But worse, when well-preserved thing does not fit. Says the Canadian designer Patrick Cox, a human foot is increased on average by a quarter the size of a single generation. Not all modern women can wear old shoes. " Sam Cox found a solution - it uses the old skin, the old colors and new patterns. "Everyone likes look like old shoes. But who wants to wait until your favorite shoes get old? "- He says. A separate conversation - the prices of vintage. The most popular and, consequently, the price of different things that are hardest to keep - for example, embroidered with beads, silk dress 20-ies (they hang down in the closets of their own weight) and jeans pre-war time - in those years they were working clothing and worn at the moment. Prices soar, and when the vintage lines coincide with what is now fashionable. On a crest of popularity ethnics - and hippovskaya clothes hitting record lows. All went on militarian - and in short supply historical military uniform. In a special article are things that are no longer considered a mandatory part of the everyday wardrobe - white men's gloves, garters, hats and bowler hats, corsets, canes.
 
But now, buy vintage! searching for things in one instance, to wear these clothes, as are samples of high fashion. " Champions of the use of retro-order in the fashion industry are, however, long-standing model homes - Givenchy, Dior, Armani. They often cite his early collections, use many years ago found solutions that are already synonymous with elegance and style. The fitted jackets and narrow ties, herring, vests, strict women's suits. Fashionable radicals such as Vivienne Westwood and youth, such as Alexander McQueen and Dsquared, actively revive the fashion of feminine silhouettes, double-breasted jackets, hats and astrakhan beatnik laxity.
 
Vintage style permeates everywhere. In Zhiguli on the Arbat, designed under the Brezhnev era beer, vodka is served in a cut-glass cups dried up and herring - and the apple falling nowhere. We architects in favor of Baroque and Gothic architecture, and designers are advised to furnish the apartment Chip&Dale furniture and banquettes in the Art Deco style. For examples of the art is also not far to seek. The brightest - Vladislav Mamyshev in the images of Marilyn Monroe, Ivan the Terrible and Dostoevsky. Queen of Burlesque Dita Von Teese, preferring bra corsets, silk dresses bottoms - jeans, a veil - a sun-glasses. David Downtown, illustrating the trendy European-style gloss graphics 1950.

Retro penetrates even in politics. Here in Russia, re-entered the old anthem - than not vintage? Old things can be collected or disposed, to admire them, or stored in the nodes on the mezzanine. So with the past - it can be rejected, forgotten or respect. You can remove the phone with friends, throw the diaries and burn photos. And you can wear vintage things, trying to catch breath fearful of living of the past.
Success is not guaranteed. But throw the old stuff is always plenty of time.