Ladies, does it get any more elusive and sexy than James Dean? Here’s the legend himself on the set of Giant in all his glory. Wouldn’t you want to run away with him in this vintage Airstream? Well, the best we can offer is the Airstream itself, but the hot mysterious man you’ll have to find yourself.
Explore various Airstreams available on eBay for your summer escape.
(Photo: Courtesy of Getty. Text by Jauretsi)
Seeing a David Shrigley doodle always makes us smile. His drawings are simple, child-like, and borderline crude, but somehow, the effect is a powerful deep punch. In any case, we’re obsessed.
Take a look at all the wonderful works of David Shrigley available on eBay.
(Photo: Courtesy of David Shrigley. Text by Jauretsi)
The saying use to go that “real men don’t wear pink” - but now we know that’s not the case. The Summer of 2013 is here to debunk the myth. Vans and Supreme have put forth a collection of floral-inspired low and hightop styles, to give that extra je ne sais quoi to any laid back outfit. Ladies (and gents), take notice….
We noticed a few of these limited edition sneakers in the eBay closet. Get them while they’re hot.
(Photo By Burning Ashes. Text By Yale Breslin)
The beautiful thing about a chalkboard in any kitchen is the versatility it offers — from art board to functional tool. The trick is to constantly change the message to keep it fresh.
Take a peek at the vast selection of chalkboards on eBay for your home.
(Photo: Courtesy of NYMag.com. Text by Jauretsi)
(via notmybeautifulhome)
Sentimental Value: Grateful Dead Shorts
“This pair of shorts was originally a pair of men’s 32 x 32 Lee Riders long pants. While at a Grateful Dead concert back in the day (and those were the days!!!), it became very hot at one of their outdoor summer classics (I believe it was up in Buffalo…..). I had forgotten to bring shorts for the weekend, so the guy I was with, now my husband, helped me out with a pair of borrowed scissors! True story - gosh, I hate giving these up!!!!” — July 8, 2012, eBay Seller BrewHogger1217.
Sentimental Value: True Stories from the eBay closet. Curated by Emily Spivack | Photograph: Jessica Malafouris | Illustration: Tomas M.
In one of my favorite books by the legend himself, David Byrne pencils his way through therapeutic thinking via pensive doodling. Here’s one of his sketches, Yes Means No, just to give you a little taste test.
Get yourself the full book, Arboretum (bids starting at $22).
(Photo: Courtesy of free-parking. Text by Jauretsi)
Vogue cover girl Kate Upton is smokin’ hot and turning heads on newsstands this month (see the slideshow). Sure, we’re feelin’ her Jason Wu shorts, but the real zinger are these Tom Ford frames. Of course we ran to eBay to scope out some similar models available. Here’s what we found:
Tom Ford Brown Gradient Frames and Traditional Black
(Photo: Mario Testino for Vogue. Text by Jauretsi)
(Source: vogue)
![Emily Spivack Loves a Good eBay Story
A natural-born archivist, Emily Spivack loves to dig for narratives with soul. In addition to blogging for Threaded, the Smithsonian’s fashion history blog, she documents personal clothing stories through her two other digital babies, Worn Stories and Sentimental Value, the latter being an experimental journey into the emotional tales found on eBay. Inspired by the purest curiosity to troll through the e-commerce platform naturally (we swear we didn’t put her up to it!), we were thrilled to discover this blog organically.
Last Friday, I took a trip to Philadelphia to attend her first-ever installation of Sentimental Value in its corporeal form, with original items presented beside the unedited text from eBay’s listing. The result? A fascinating study in human emotion. As guests surrounded her with praise all night, I managed to squeeze in some personal time with Emily to ask a few questions on her anthropological sojourn online.
Jauretsi: Most of your blogs revolve around clothing, yet you are not a “Miss Fashionista” type. What is it about clothes that draws your attention?
Emily Spivack: I approach fashion with a reluctant fascination. I’m curious about what informs how people dress — decisions they make consciously or unconsciously about what to wear, what to buy, what to hold onto. I’m less curious about new trends, upscale designers, and must-have items. I see clothing as a reflection of culture, values, and history. What you see in my various projects is an attempt to figure out what the garments we cover our bodies with every day mean. For me, it’s an ever-evolving process.
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J: For the Smithsonian blog, I imagine there is an incredible responsibility to writing about the history of clothes. What was one of your favorite historical posts that surprised and pushed your curiosity?
ES: This past winter, I was looking at an ad for sequin-covered Ugg boots on the subway platform, and I wondered how sequins had gone from formal occasions to something so mundane and ubiquitous. I decided to look into it, and figured that Threaded readers would share my curiosity and enthusiasm (which they did since it’s been one of the most popular posts).
In the process of researching those shiny discs, I uncovered details that practically made me giddy. For example, Leonardo da Vinci sketched a sequin-making machine! King Tut was buried with sequins! (Sequins were more functional than decorative then.) And when sequins were made with gelatin in the 1930s, the sweaty hand of a dance partner could melt them right off the back of your dress.
J: Your upcoming show, Sentimental Value, opened May 17th where you displayed items found on eBay (we’re flattered!). Tell us how you came to gravitate towards eBay tales versus any other marketplace, and how this art project came to life on its own.
ES: I’d been buying from eBay for years, mainly vintage clothes and tchotchkes, when, in 2007, I came upon a garment with a really detailed provenance. Instead of just describing the garment’s size, condition, and other basics, the post included information about who had owned it, when, and why. A photo of the former owner was even included in the auction’s documentation. Something clicked at that moment and I began looking around eBay for more stories associated with clothes people were selling. They weren’t so easy to find, but if I looked long enough, I’d find them. I became fascinated with people’s desire to share stories — often quite personal ones — about things they were parting with, and on an online platform that wasn’t really meant for storytelling. I was particularly drawn to eBay’s marketplace for stories because all kinds of people sell all kinds of stuff on eBay. I’ve collected over 600 stories at this point and I can pretty quickly get a sense of the person by the way s/he tells the story (emoticons, ALL CAPS, detailed anecdotes) and photographs the garment (on the bed, over a closet door, on a mannequin). I never know what I’m going to find and that’s what has kept this project interesting, what’s prompted me, in 2010, to start bidding on the garments I was posting on Sentimental Value, and what’s helped this project evolve into an exhibition.
J: What is the one eBay item’s personal story that moved you the most?
ES: I don’t know if there’s one personal story that’s moved me the most. Some are funny, others are sad, and then there are those that are simply mystifying. I did reread this one post recently, about a high school-aged girl who made a homemade anime costume for a boy she had a crush on, and I was struck by the story’s open, and bittersweet, tone.
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Sentimental Value: Emily Spivack runs from May 17 - August 18, 2013 at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 South 18th Street, Philadelphia, PA.
(Photo: Curator/Blogger Emily Spivack with exhibition item “Victoria Bronze Brocade Silk 2pc Brides Travel Dress.” On eBay, the caption reads: “The sad story of this dress is that it was made as part of a young woman’s bridal trousseau. This was her ‘going away’ dress. She was married, but the hapless bridegroom was killed in a horse & buggy accident on the honeymoon. She returned home, placed the dress in a chest and it’s been there ever since, until the home was finally emptied for an auction sale of all the contents over a hundred years later.” — eBay seller vintageaffairedamour, August 16, 2010. Photo & Text by Jauretsi)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/fbab0e353ef08c7047067566d8427bc0/tumblr_mmzcedMCHN1r8o3vyo1_1280.jpg)
A natural-born archivist, Emily Spivack loves to dig for narratives with soul. In addition to blogging for Threaded, the Smithsonian’s fashion history blog, she documents personal clothing stories through her two other digital babies, Worn Stories and Sentimental Value, the latter being an experimental journey into the emotional tales found on eBay. Inspired by the purest curiosity to troll through the e-commerce platform naturally (we swear we didn’t put her up to it!), we were thrilled to discover this blog organically.
Last Friday, I took a trip to Philadelphia to attend her first-ever installation of Sentimental Value in its corporeal form, with original items presented beside the unedited text from eBay’s listing. The result? A fascinating study in human emotion. As guests surrounded her with praise all night, I managed to squeeze in some personal time with Emily to ask a few questions on her anthropological sojourn online.
Jauretsi: Most of your blogs revolve around clothing, yet you are not a “Miss Fashionista” type. What is it about clothes that draws your attention?
Emily Spivack: I approach fashion with a reluctant fascination. I’m curious about what informs how people dress — decisions they make consciously or unconsciously about what to wear, what to buy, what to hold onto. I’m less curious about new trends, upscale designers, and must-have items. I see clothing as a reflection of culture, values, and history. What you see in my various projects is an attempt to figure out what the garments we cover our bodies with every day mean. For me, it’s an ever-evolving process.
[MORE]
J: For the Smithsonian blog, I imagine there is an incredible responsibility to writing about the history of clothes. What was one of your favorite historical posts that surprised and pushed your curiosity?
ES: This past winter, I was looking at an ad for sequin-covered Ugg boots on the subway platform, and I wondered how sequins had gone from formal occasions to something so mundane and ubiquitous. I decided to look into it, and figured that Threaded readers would share my curiosity and enthusiasm (which they did since it’s been one of the most popular posts).
In the process of researching those shiny discs, I uncovered details that practically made me giddy. For example, Leonardo da Vinci sketched a sequin-making machine! King Tut was buried with sequins! (Sequins were more functional than decorative then.) And when sequins were made with gelatin in the 1930s, the sweaty hand of a dance partner could melt them right off the back of your dress.
J: Your upcoming show, Sentimental Value, opened May 17th where you displayed items found on eBay (we’re flattered!). Tell us how you came to gravitate towards eBay tales versus any other marketplace, and how this art project came to life on its own.
ES: I’d been buying from eBay for years, mainly vintage clothes and tchotchkes, when, in 2007, I came upon a garment with a really detailed provenance. Instead of just describing the garment’s size, condition, and other basics, the post included information about who had owned it, when, and why. A photo of the former owner was even included in the auction’s documentation. Something clicked at that moment and I began looking around eBay for more stories associated with clothes people were selling. They weren’t so easy to find, but if I looked long enough, I’d find them. I became fascinated with people’s desire to share stories — often quite personal ones — about things they were parting with, and on an online platform that wasn’t really meant for storytelling. I was particularly drawn to eBay’s marketplace for stories because all kinds of people sell all kinds of stuff on eBay. I’ve collected over 600 stories at this point and I can pretty quickly get a sense of the person by the way s/he tells the story (emoticons, ALL CAPS, detailed anecdotes) and photographs the garment (on the bed, over a closet door, on a mannequin). I never know what I’m going to find and that’s what has kept this project interesting, what’s prompted me, in 2010, to start bidding on the garments I was posting on Sentimental Value, and what’s helped this project evolve into an exhibition.
J: What is the one eBay item’s personal story that moved you the most?
ES: I don’t know if there’s one personal story that’s moved me the most. Some are funny, others are sad, and then there are those that are simply mystifying. I did reread this one post recently, about a high school-aged girl who made a homemade anime costume for a boy she had a crush on, and I was struck by the story’s open, and bittersweet, tone.
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(Photo: Curator/Blogger Emily Spivack with exhibition item “Victoria Bronze Brocade Silk 2pc Brides Travel Dress.” On eBay, the caption reads: “The sad story of this dress is that it was made as part of a young woman’s bridal trousseau. This was her ‘going away’ dress. She was married, but the hapless bridegroom was killed in a horse & buggy accident on the honeymoon. She returned home, placed the dress in a chest and it’s been there ever since, until the home was finally emptied for an auction sale of all the contents over a hundred years later.” — eBay seller vintageaffairedamour, August 16, 2010. Photo & Text by Jauretsi)
Cannes, the annual film festival in the south of France, kicked off a few days ago. While celebrities are out in full force with their glamorous gowns and tuxedos, the architecture of France is something almost out of a movie in its own right. Take the staircase at the Hotel Martinez, for example, a bustling hotspot for festival-goers and industry folk.
Put a little Cannes glam on your coffee table with this book, Cannes: Inside the World’s Premiere Film Festival.
(Photo & Text by Yale Breslin)
We love the “AnOther Lovers” section on the AnOther Magazine website that has the publication’s editors pick their fav photos online, like this tasty pic seen above. Here’s more fabulous inspiration from commissioning editor Laura Bradley.
Try making these fruity ice cubes at home this summer with circular ice trays from eBay.
(Photo: Courtesy of AnOtherMag.com. Text by Jauretsi)
Julia Hafstrom By Boe Marion “Deeper & Deeper” SSAW A/W 2013
