Picture This
Vintage images get a starring role on jackets, shirts, and accessories.
 Top left: Libertine women's blazer, $1,160. At Riccardi. Top right: Anne Taintor cosmetic bag/wristlet, $17.95. At Brookline Booksmith. Bottom left: Libertine men's hoodie, $450. At Riccardi. Bottom right: Anne Taintor tote, $36.95. At Brookline Booksmith. (Globe Staff Photo / Essdras M. Suarez) |
WHAT'S IN Photo finishes aren't just for horse races. Hip fashion labels are also jockeying for position this season, using vintage images in ever more imaginative ways. Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld just introduced a clothing line featuring T-shirts printed with a decades-old black-and-white photo of himself. (What, you were expecting Coco?) Libertine creators Johnson Hartig and Cindy Greene are silk-screening Victorian-era portraits of poets and royalty on their much-buzzed-about, edgy classics. And for kitsch lovers, the playful Anne Taintor has a winning new collection of bags juxtaposing period glamour-girl head shots with amusing phrases like "frugal is such an ugly word."
WHO'S WEARING THEM For the sophisticated set, vintage portraits have a certain panache not shared by skull motifs. And knowing who you're wearing -- yes, that's Keats, not Shelley -- shows your parents that your college education didn't go to waste.
WHERE TO BUY IT Picture yourself at Riccardi, 116 Newbury Street, Boston, 617-266-3158; Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Street, Brookline, 617-566-6660; and 
