Lilah Ramzi
Vogue editor and fashion historian Lilah Ramzi attends the chicest galas, crafts guides to the most famed handbags, and mines the magazine's archives to make old stories new again. Shop through her favorites, so you can channel her aesthetic, which remixes glamorous vintage classics from decades past.
On her personal style:
“I strive to dress like I'm living in another era—not any one era, though. I can't deny the femininity of the 1950s, the spiritedness of the 1960s, and the command of the 1980s, so I mishmash it all together in a look I hope is an ultra classic.”
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On her relationship with vintage:
“I started wearing very vintage (1950s and 1960s) pieces when I was in graduate school studying fashion history; I wanted to find pieces from the same era as the Richard Avedon images I was studying and so taken by. I love to buy department store designers (like Jonathan Logan) from the 1950s, cocktail-ready dresses from Malcolm Starr in the 1960s, and anything vintage St. John, Pucci, Carolina Herrera, Prada, and Oscar de la Renta.”
Her best vintage find:
“The dress I wore to my civil wedding last September. I found it in a vintage store in the Netherlands, but it was actually a dress custom-made by Bergdorf Goodman in 1956, featuring a covered button down the front, a midi helming, three-quarter length sleeves, and a bow along the hips. I'm currently in the process of tracing the dress back to its original owner, and it's been a wild ride!”
On the pieces she's selling with Vestiaire:
Oscar de la Renta Dress: “I found an Oscar de la Renta dress, which I'm fairly confident was part of his FW 1968 collection, as Lauren Hutton was photographed wearing a similar dress in Vogue's September 1, 1968 issue. It's a 2-in-1 black mini dress that's made to look as though you've worn a little black jumper over a white blouse with an oversized pointed collar in white—very monastic chic!”
Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche Dress: “I found runway photos of the look walking the FW 1984/85 runway.”
Scaasi Boutique Gown: “Scaasi boutique is the ready-to-wear label run by Arnold Scaasi—a Canadian couturier who ruled the 1980s. I got a taste for Scassi after wearing a dress to last year's Met Gala.”