Vintage (style)
The vintage (from the English. "Old-fashioned", "old", "classic", "from a certain time") referred to in clothing, furniture, musical instruments, jewelry, accessories, pictures, cars and other consumer goods that they needed generally and can usually be used again several decades old according to their function. These are, for example, items of clothing by older women that are sold at flea markets , second-hand shops and online shops . With a corresponding historical background, high sums of money are sometimes paid for such items at auctions.
From this early 21st century developed a vintage style or vintage look -called fashion style, along with clothing also includes many consumer goods such as furniture, lamps, clocks, musical instruments, etc.. In-house manufacturing methods have been developed for this purpose, which mean that, in addition to the historical design, significant signs of use are often artificially applied, which aim to create an appearance that looks as if the item had been bought at a flea market or inherited, for example. In clothing fashion , vintage is often understood to mean a piece of clothing from an older collection by a designer . The term is probably derived from its use in oenology , where vintage refers to the year or harvest of a wine.
At the big fashion houses, vintage collections were largely promoted by an appearance by the film actress Julia Roberts at the 2001 Academy Awards in an almost 20-year-old dress by Valentino . For some time now, classic perfumes that have been on the market for a long time, such as Chanel Nº 5 , have also been referred to as vintage .
If vintage style is mentioned in the textile trade, it usually means new items of clothing, which are indicative of a so-called "used look". In addition to washed-out jeans with tears and holes, this can also be deliberately made fraying skirt hems or sewn-on patches. Often the hems of the skirt are not sewn so that the threads pull down when they are worn and deliberately create the vintage look.
In contrast to retro , vintage concerns the material, the design and the texture of a product and less the additional, for example historical, background of references. So the term vintage in music first touches the instrument level, then the use of formulas of historical genres and styles. Also obeisance to previous aspects of music, including rock 'n' roll - or psychedelic rock -formulae are identified in today's productions as vintage. In photography, recordings in the style of the 20s to 60s are called vintage.
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- ↑ Carolin Wahnbaeck: Where vintage dreams come true. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. March 22, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefanie Maeck: Rediscovered fashion - Hi Omi, can I have your blouse? In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. August 12, 2015, accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Julia Maier: Vintage Mode - Fashionistas in the auction house. In: ZEIT ONLINE. February 16, 2011, accessed January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Max Fellmann / Till Krause: Really old! Really? In: SZ-Magazin, from issue 39/2012. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 27, 2015, accessed on January 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Holm Friebe , Kathrin Passig : The Vintage Principle . Column The next big thing , in: Berliner Zeitung , April 27, 2006, features section, page 29