If you cleaned out your closet in the transition from Summer to Fall, but haven't taken those bags to Beacon's yet, procrastination is your friend. Save them for next week and swap them with other stylish Williamsburgers at the Score! Swap next weekend.
How it works:
You bring your bags of stylish wares, including clothing, accessories, housewares, music, books, DVDs– even art supplies– to the table at the entrance. Your donations get sifted through by volunteers, led by experts in each category. For example, the clothing will be curated by Nisha Gopalan, a senior editor at überstylish NYLON, to ensure that whatever you get is not a fashion faux pas.
You then go in look through all the stuff, take what you want (yes, for free!!), and if you can't carry it all you can get a hunky dude to help you carry them for $5. Ok, ok, the dude is just printed on their awesome totebag, but still... it's a score.
Plus, hunky baywatch-esque dudes and free duds is not all... There's will also be drinks, great music, even streetstyle bloggers snapping pics of everyone's stylish wares.
Here's what you can bring, and who'll be curating the wares:
Categories: Clothing & Accessories (Guys, Gals, Kids) – curated by Nisha Gopalan (senior editor, Nylon Magazine) Music – curated by Showpaper Art Supplies – curated by Lowbrow Society For The Arts Books DVDs / Media – curated by The Desk Set Housewares & Miscellany – curated by Natalie Kamei
We partied, shopped vintage, sipped bubbly and nibbled on cupcakes - what more could one want?!!
The shop featured items from Market Publique's Fall collection, including some hand-picked by the bloggers at Painfully Hip during their thrifting trip. We had tons of blazers, sweaters, dresses, scarves, shoes, boots, purses... plus we featured jewelry by Erica Weiner and Dirty Librarian Chains, housewares and more fashion from Cure Thrift Shop (which benefits diabetes research), and exclusive vintage pieces from Rabbits, some of which will soon be up on the site!
Bianca, from Cure Thrift Shop and Bianca Rocks Out, helped me set up the shop and also made a fun video of the event:
We snapped some photos too, for your viewing pleasure...
Shoppers browsing the vintage goodies.
Some of our vintage shoes, with deadstock vintage shoe clips by Erica Weiner, whose jewelry you can see to the side.
Cure Thrift Shop's housewares and accessories table. That spotted fur clutch is now mine! No guilt, since the fur is vintage and the purchase benefits diabetes research too!
More shoppers, including Brooke from Fashism, sipping bubbly. She made like a banding with an amazing leather skirt...
It was a super-fun bracelet made out vintage baubles and buttons, the perfect accent to my outfit. I wore it straight out of the box! Thanks Amanda!!
Like the rest of my outfit too? The vintage cropped sequin top is the one I got from Sammy Davis Vintage! The little gold vintage clutch was also my cash register - which one shopper dubbed as "the most stylish cash register I've ever seen", blush! The skirt is 3.1 Phillip Lim and the shoes are Marc by Marc Jacobs (scroll down for pic), from 9 years ago!!
With fashion bloggers Jennine, of The Coveted, and Jordana of Clutch 22. Thank you, Jennine for the awesome post about our Fashion's Night Out event! The photos she took are amazing, go look! I also like this one, which she took:
Priyanka, Jon and fashion blogger Liz. Photo by Jennine Tam.
Here I am, laughing it up with Jennine. She's a lot of fun, and I get to hang out with her a bunch this NYFW... You'll see the pictures soon...Plus, a better look at my shoes and the adorable bracelet from Access Aesthetic.
Sammy (of Sammy D Vintage) was in attendance too. Since I wore one of her vintage pieces, she decided to don a few of ours: the pleated black blouse and the lipstick-red leather skirt. Doesn't she look fabulous?
Tara, The Williamsburg Seamster, will be at our Pop-Up Shop! She will be armed with her measuring tape and pins to do custom fittings for you so your new vintage pieces fit just perfectly!
Get first dibs on Market Publique's Fall vintage collection, including tons of blazers, lace and sequins!
We'll also have exclusive vintage pieces hand-selected by Painfully Hip, more vintage from Rabbits, jewelry made from reconstructed vintage by Erica Weiner, plus housewares and more by Cure Thrift Shop (which benefits Diabetes Research)!
Tara, The Williamsburg Seamster, will be armed with her measuring tape and pins to do custom fittings so your new vintage pieces fit just perfectly!
Come shop, drink some bubbly and have a cupcake!
Blog readers receive 15% - just mention the discount before checking out. Cash only.
Market Publique Pop-Up Shop
Fashion's Night Out
September 10, 2009 5 - 11pm 177 N. 10th St, between Bedford and Driggs Willamburg, Brooklyn
Directions:
Take the L train to Bedford Avenue. When you exit, walk north 3 blocks to North 10th. If you're on Bedford, turn right. If you're on Driggs, turn left. The bulding is about halfway down the block, on the North side of the street.
P.S. It's my birthday on the 9th, so I'll be celebrating my birthday too! Please come toast with me and some bubbly!
There's nothing I like more than a good deal. So today, while I was browsing Chickdowntown.com to see if I could spend some store credit* I have, I ran into their vintage collection. They have some nice items, but they are terribly expensive, so I dug through Market Publique to find some similar alternatives at more reasonable prices.
This SUNDAY, July 26 only, Tessi + June, of Brooklyn Flea / White Dove NYC fame, are bringing you...
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS Pop-Up Sale
A one-day only sale and party extravaganza featuring amazing sellers like Sammy Davis Vintage (who will soon sell on MP - be on the lookout for the photoshoot she did in our studio!), Cherry Vintage, Beauty Crisis, Donnaland, and of course Tessi and June themselves. There will also be a Love Brigade sample sale and DJs spinning all day long.
