March 9th, 2012 
ewmiller 
Thinking you know who your customer is and knowing who your customer is are two different things. Knowing your customer comes not through casual observation, but through an ongoing effort to collect data from a variety of sources. Services like Groupon provide some measure of insight, though it may be limited to providing information on [...]
Posted in Antiques Business, Fashion, Jewelry 
Tags: Dallas Vintage Jewelry Show, Demographics, Grapevine, Groupon 
No Comments » February 13th, 2012 UAA Team 
Exquisite in craftsmanship, unique in detail, and few in number, lover’s eye miniatures are small-scale portraits of individual eyes set into various forms of jewelry from late 18th- and early 19th-century England. Featuring an impressive 98 pieces, the collection currently on view in Birmingham, Alabama is considered to be the largest of its kind, with [...]
Posted in Art, Fashion, Jewelry, Museum Tags: Birmingham Museum of Art, Look of Love, Nan and David Skier No Comments » January 12th, 2012 UAA Team 
A ladies’ Cartier Art Deco diamond wristwatch realized $21,000 in Cordier Auctions’ Two Day Antique & Fine Art Auction, the inaugural auction in their new Harrisburg, Pennsylvania salesroom on November 5 and 6. Watches especially saw several strong results including the top lot of the two day auction, a lady’s Cartier Art Deco platinum, 18K [...]
Posted in Auction, Fashion Tags: Art Deco, Cartier, Clocks, Cordier Auctions, Harrisburg, Watch No Comments » January 3rd, 2012 ewmiller 
It may just be the vintage capital of the U.S. As you can see from the chart, Austin, Texas is a young city- and its one where while the larger antiques world may be in doldrums, people in Austin are living, eating and breathing vintage. It’s not just clothing either. Walking into a store called [...]
Posted in Antiques Business, Fashion, Jewelry, Vintage Tags: Austin, Austin Vintage, New Bohemia, New Brohemia, South Congress, South First, Vintage in Austin No Comments » November 17th, 2011 ewmiller 
If you’ve spent a moment fretting about what is and isn’t vintage or have been aghast to see items in major retail stores labeled as vintage, you’ll want to listen to a new podcast. Eric Miller discusses vintage and authenticity with Massachusetts dealer Jane Hudson, North Shore Flea promoter Melissa Sands and Jon Jenkins of Jenkins Promotions. You can [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Fashion, Vintage Tags: Anthropologie Necklace, Antiques, Jane Hudson, Jars from Hungary, Jenkins Promotions, Jon Jenkins, Melissa Sands, Music Valley, Old or New?, Pottery Barn Jars, Pure Vintage, Retailers, Vintage, Vintage Chicago, What is an antique?, What is Vintage? 1 Comment » November 15th, 2011 Lin 
Jean Paul Gaultier’s fashion world is rebellious, revolutional, and to some extent, revolting. These flashy, funky, decadent garments, by eliciting comments from viewers, annotate and challenge our societal views of self-expression through fashion – whether it is about injecting feminism into masculinity for boy toys with kilts, skirts or bra cups, or fetish leather suit with suggestive bondage and sex staging, or print patches of religious iconography/the Eiffel Tower or tattoo-like; loom large his personal statements. And his idiosyncrasy overwhelms both visual elements and sartorial achievements such as textural layers of plain or graphic or seamless assembly of different material as if they were organically grown together.
