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"   We all lust for the vivid, luxe vintage pieces that color such iconic large- and small-screen fashion gems as Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, and The Devil Wears Prada. From brilliant kaftans to quirky accessories, costume designer Molly Rogers knows a good vintage find when she sees it, and the very best places to score them in Miami. &amp;quot;Pat [Field] and I used to take the Palm Beach County yellow pages and just get in the car and one by one go into each vintage store listed.&amp;quot; See her favorite stops and shops in this guide to Miami vintage shopping.     C. Madeleines &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s easy to shop at C. Madeleines because it&amp;#039;s so organized, and it&amp;#039;s a treasure trove of everything you want. From Mugler suits that we used on Vanessa Williams on Ugly Betty to &amp;#039;dust bowl&amp;#039; nightgowns for Carrie in Sex and the City, you can spend hours there, and I have. They have extensive accessories and beautiful furs.&amp;quot; \u2014Molly &amp;quot;I just know a great piece when I see it, and that comes from experience. It is based on fit, construction, just the look of it, and the quality of fabric and design. I shop around the world. The best finds are often in collections from estates and auctions around Miami and throughout the world. My favorite era is definitely the daring 1920s, and I love the elegance of the early 1930s.&amp;quot; \u2014Madeleine Kirsh, owner C. Madeleine&amp;#039;s Vintage Clothes 13702 Biscayne Blvd North Miami, FL 33181 305 945 7770 cmadeleines.com  CLICK HERE FOR MORE VINTAGE FASHION CONTENT      Keni Valenti &amp;quot;Keni&amp;#039;s store is like a gorgeous little jewel box. This is for a client who has black-tie events, red carpets, major finery. These are museum-quality pieces; no one is going to look like you at the party when you go see Keni. But they&amp;#039;ll all want to.&amp;quot; \u2014Molly  &amp;quot;I carry everything from Pucci to Gucci to Fiorucci, all ranging from the &amp;#039;50s to the &amp;#039;80s. I have clients who can&amp;#039;t get enough Halston, like Sarah Jessica Parker, Naomi Campbell, and Kate Moss. And Celine Dion, who has been collecting vintage for a long time. Also designers come in to get inspiration, like when Halston relaunched and they wanted to buy their own archive. Everyone from Jean Paul Gaultier to Alaia has been in my place. I&amp;#039;m hoarding this fashion history for all of these people. I have a warehouse in New York, but the shop in Miami is very private, in an apartment building designed by Morris Lapidus. It&amp;#039;s only 300 square feet, with a green curtain that you pull and it becomes a dressing room. The whole world is my source\u2014I shop everywhere from the Paris flea market to London to the Greece flea market in Athens, the Berlin flea market by the park, Spain in Marbella, Barcelona, and Madrid, Italy from Puglia to Milan and even Sicily. I like to hit private collections of stores that have closed or people who had a relative that died.  I have such unique pieces where the situation is that the Met has one, I have one, and nobody knows where the third one is.&amp;quot; \u2014Keni Valenti  Keni Valenti Retro-Couture  5151 Collins Ave., Miami Beach The Seacoast Atrium By appointment only 917-686-9553  kenivalenti.com       Fly Boutique &amp;quot;The cute thing about Fly Boutique is that they have layaway! Who doesn&amp;#039;t love that? I try on Pucci, Gianfranco Ferre, and cha-cha high heels. There&amp;#039;s a heel for the woman or the man in you. They also have a real leopard purse in there\u2014you never see those. There are loads of kaftans, great belts, you name it.&amp;quot; \u2014Molly  &amp;quot;I also have my own line of recycled and reconstructed dresses, tops, bikinis, and bags called Puglia. All of these items are recycled from vintage pieces. All of them are one of a kind, and many are reconstructed from designer pieces such as Missoni, Pucci, Eduardo, and Leonard, etc. Our top designers are new and vintage Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Pucci, Herm\u00E8s, Dior, and Roberto Cavalli.&amp;quot; \u2014Jean Marie Deardorff, owner Fly Boutique  650 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach 305-604-8508  flyboutiquevintage.com       Posh Vintage &amp;quot;This is on the beach, so it&amp;#039;s really easy to get to. It&amp;#039;s by appointment only, and Patti Stoecker is a dream to work with.&amp;quot; \u2014Molly &amp;quot;I created Posh Vintage for the true-blue vintage-lover\u2014the key being super-wearable pieces for today&amp;#039;s modern woman. Specializing in the &amp;#039;60s and &amp;#039;70s, the shop is filled with brilliant selections of headliners and unknowns like classic vintage Pucci, YSL, Givenchy, Courreges, and Estevez mixed with a huge fondness for the vintage London scene like Ossie Clark, Biba, and Jean Varon and then mixed again with edgy and flirty everyday wear. There are also collections of the best rock T-shirts and cashmere sweaters, fantastic designer scarves, and super-sexy jersey dresses. I look for items everywhere from New York flea markets to the Miami Lincoln Road market and Florida estate sales. I like rock &amp;#039;n&amp;#039; roll to be involved with the clothes\u2014like when looking at say a Thea Porter piece\u2026wow, this is such a Marianne Faithful while she was going out with Mick Jagger jacket.&amp;quot; \u2014Patti Stoecker, owner Posh Vintage is located in South Beach in a 1920 house surrounded by a lush tropical garden.  Posh Vintage  235 Jefferson Ave., Miami Beach 305-609-6398  poshvintage.com       House of Vintage &amp;quot;This is in Delray Beach. Michelle has her collection in a cute cottage with a cupcake business on one side called House of Sweets. I used to get &amp;quot;cougar&amp;quot; earrings for Vanessa Williams and plaid coats for America Ferrera on Ugly Betty. She has gorgeous wedding dresses that were &amp;quot;Carrie&amp;quot;-worthy.&amp;quot; \u2014Molly  &amp;quot;We are located in a 1920s restored cottage in downtown Delray Beach, Florida. The decades we focus on are the 1940s through 1980s. Some designer pieces we carry are Emilio Pucci, Chanel, Dior, YSL, DVF, Gucci, Lanvin, Missoni, Leonard, Courreges, and also unknown designers. Vintage jewelry and accessories are big sellers in our shop because you can be any size to wear them. Jewelry designers we carry include Haskell, Chanel, YSL, Carnegie, Givenchy, Dior, Hobe, Art. We also carry Bakelite and art deco pieces.&amp;quot; \u2014Michelle Parparian, owner House of Vintage  123 South Swinton Ave., Delray Beach 561-436-8116  houseofvintageinc.com  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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