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THIS OLD THING?(Decades)

The New Yorker

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Ten years ago, Cameron Silver, a former Weimar-style cabaret singer, opened a fancy vintage shop on Melrose Avenue, in Los Angeles. He was twenty-six, and he called the shop Decades. A few years later, Decades moved to a new space, above the old, and Silver and a partner, Christos Garkinos, now run a contemporary consignment shop, Decadestwo, on the lower level. On a recent good day, Silver sold a piece to Gwen Stefani, a dress to someone who lives in London and Los Angeles, and a fur vest to Sandy Hill, in Los Olivos, and he sent a Birkin and three Chanel purses "on approval" to clients in New York. In the days immediately before that, he sold an Ossie Clark maternity ...

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