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"Everything here is vintage",
Dafna Gordon, owner of Ahava Lashniea vintage store, hurries to clarify.
Many don't know that, but vintage is actually a French word meaning
grape harvest. The world of fashion has just borrowed it as a successful
image for old and extremely fine clothes, she explains.
With entering the store, the
visitors start to feel that they have penetrated an old Tel-aviv
apartment, pleasant and especially welcoming. Some of the clothes are
organized inside an old closet, next to the store's walls lay
comfortable and inviting armchairs, and the jewelry and accessories are
presented on a counter between old lamps and different jewelry boxes.
"The store is mainly a home, and
the customers treat it as such", says Dafna. "That's not only because of
the space it has, but also because the fact that I don't like to live
within frames".
Between the racks of clothes on
the store itself and inside the adjacent porch, the clothes are being
discovered one by one, each can be described as a "masterpiece". And
occasionally, if you come on a particularly good day, you can stumble
across the day when Dafna opens bag after bag with all the findings she
collected at several mysterious places.
"I opened the store three years
ago, and I will never give in to what has been called "Retro", she
promises and so far realizing her promise. I believe that she will keep
realizing her promises in the future. "I have 80's and downwards, not a
minute after that".
And regarding the most frequent
question almost every customer first visiting the store asks her, she
replies with decisiveness and finality: everything is being washed and
cleaned. E-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g!
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