Eponymy

Where can you go to whet your Hollywood appetite and have your pick of vintage goods? Look no farther than Eponymy where pink walls, Victorian mirrors, and soft scented soy candles set the stage for a cross-generation of chic designers and luxury brands.

Opening the doors in late September 2008, Eponymy’s owner Andrea Miller, comments on how now is an exciting time for emerging artists and designers as the new economy makes room for creativity and imagination. Andrea is inspired to share a more personal shopping experience by selecting an intermix of new and old. Offering a cross-generation of vintage designs and sophisticated brands, to shake up old institutions along with choices from bright new designers offering fresh looks.

Contemporary clothing and accessories carried at Eponymy focuses on timeless key wardrobe items of great quality with a fantastic price point. Mix any basic with a classic vintage piece and you are dressed like no one else. Discover affordably priced new designers from the local area as well as Japan, Korea and California. You will get a lot of bang for your buck from these lines that are off the beaten track. Look for fashionable dead stock mid-century sun glasses and beautifully constructed hats by local Brooklyn milliner, Lisa Battaglia.

The vintage clothing selection is reserved for true vintage. Pieces are collected from the East coast area and date from turn of the century up to the 1960’s. Garments must be interesting or unique to find their way into Eponymy where cut, fit and detail is not to be overlooked. If a 1970’s or 1980’s piece can be found, you will be sure it’s a piece of distinction, from high-end designers as Carl Lagerfeld, Channel, Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuitton and Versache. A style that perhaps her Aunt may have worn back in her day as a John Powers model.

Inspired from a 1950’s glamorous vintage Hollywood dressing robe, the dressing rooms at Eponymy are intimate and welcoming. You might run into some tough choices behind the quilted champagne colored curtains. Do you pick a style that leans towards the classic or one that is au courant or a mix of both? No worries if you can’t decide immediately. Add touch of fragrance to the air with Eponymy’s private labeled, soy-based scented candles, poured into recycled glass containers and packaged in an eco-conscious recycled brown boxes.

A modest display of vintage fashion accessories, vanity items and cosmetics grace the retro retail cases and curios. Get your Hollywood glam with Lipstick Queen, an Australian line available in old school matte finishes. Vibrant, super sexy colors like fire engine-red “Poppy King” can be purchased in different pigment dosages. Try “Saint” with only 10% pigment for a touch of color or “Sinner” with 90% pigment for a deeper shade. That means you can match up your lips to your lifestyle.

The walls are dressed in fine art and antique frames. Photos taken by Andrea’s Uncle, a 1940’s photographer are available in prints. Each photography series is produced in small editions by Humble Arts Foundation, a not for profit foundation for emerging fine art photographers. Contemporary photographs share the walls with Antique picture frames and Victorian mirrors from the past, hung from the demure picture rail way up high. For sale is the newly released photography table top book by Humble Arts, containing stunning glossy photographs by contemporary artists.

Andrea’s families Pink Summer Home in Cape Main New York, now a national landmark, graces the cover of a New Yorker Magazine. As a small child, having spent much time around her Grandparents who sold antiques in the storefront of the pink house, it only appears to be natural for Eponymy to be celebrated with precious memories from her past.

Have you ever tried on a great vintage piece only to wish it fit your modern body? At Eponymy, not only do we have the best vintage in Brooklyn, we will mend or tailor your vintage find for free or give you 5 to 10% off and a tailor recommendation (depending on the extent of the alteration).