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"    Photo: Courtesy of NiftyThrifty   DJ and girl-about-town Hannah Bronfman guest edited a collection for vintage site NiftyThrifty that has us itching for decades past. The curated collection\u2014chosen from an over 3,000 item archive\u2014varies from classic American sportswear to flirty femme pieces fit for spring soir\u00E9es. Bronfman&amp;#039;s flair for style, as well as her admiration for classic screen sirens, is fluid through the collection. You could be channeling Lauren Bacall&amp;#039;s polished [look] or that Josephine Baker je ne sais quoi in no time with these hand-picked pieces. We caught up with Bronfman to learn more her NiftyThrifty choices and her method for finding vintage wares.   How did you go about choosing pieces from the NiftyThrifty archive? I wasn&amp;#039;t trying to go with a theme, per say. Although, I&amp;#039;ve been really into sportswear. So I definitely had that vibe when I was going through the racks. I was definitely looking for a summer/spring kind of wardrobe. I was obsessing over the tennis skirts. I had to take one of them. That&amp;#039;s the problem\u2014everything I chose, I wanted to take for myself. [Laughs]  What are your tips for vintage shopping? You&amp;#039;ve got to try in on. Always. Vintage never fits the way you think it will. Also, you don&amp;#039;t need to buy vintage for the label. Something can still be really, really cute\u2014even if it&amp;#039;s a no-name thing. I tend to find things that fit into my wardrobe on a daily basis. Who are your vintage style icons? Lauren Bacall is one that I use all too often. I&amp;#039;m obsessed. I&amp;#039;ve also really been digging the &amp;#039;40s wave. She just does it so well. I&amp;#039;d also say Josephine Baker. I mean you can never channel your inner cabaret self enough. What decades speak to your style the most? I think that that varies a lot. I would say that five years ago, my answer would be completely different than what I&amp;#039;d say now. I&amp;#039;m really feeling the mix\u2014like the elegance of the &amp;#039;20s mixed with the masculinity of the &amp;#039;40s and girlishness of the &amp;#039;50s. How do you modernize vintage pieces? Accessories do that really well. If I&amp;#039;m wearing a vintage &amp;#039;50s-style dress, I&amp;#039;ll wear some funky, wild shoes by a contemporary designer. A lot of the new, young designers are taking a note from that book. They&amp;#039;re all trying to channel something [retro], but putting their own modern twist on it. When it comes to music, do you like to mix the old with the new as you do with your style? I do like to mix old and new. I love playing early &amp;#039;90s hip-hop mixed with hip-hop from today. I love everything from The Rolling Stones to Run-D.M.C. to Nina Simone. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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