World's Top Vintage ATICLE

Off-beaten-path destinations luxury clothing and accessories rare opportunity on the planet.With all things retro, vintage shopping has taken its place in the hierarchy of dress. Emerging from the shadow of the big shopping malls and flagship stores contemporaries, a handful of off the beaten track vintage shops to attract more intelligent world stylemakers, exclusive articles that hunt past.

"Women dress in time to express their individuality," says Angela merchant Petraline Dorothy Vintage Closet, a thrift store in Iowa Midwest The store attracts a growing circle of devotees, both rural and urban areas, including New York socialite Helen Rockefeller, who regularly attends Des Moines designer to select a good price. According Petraline, even designer labels are coveted, but unidentified parts indeed both his experience and his court. "Beauty of Vintage is the rarity and exclusivity," says Fiona Stuart Rellik in London Notting Hill. "There can be only one available in the world to buy."
Even the icons of modern retro fever. Kate Moss and Sienna Miller long rhapsodized about the virtues of the vintage, and who can forget the 90 Valentino dress Julia Roberts wore when she received her Oscar, Erin Brockovich-style coup in 2001. "Vintage clothing has a rich history and is sometimes a stronger statement than the must-have of the season," says Danielle Nachmani stylist who works with young stars like Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Rosie Huntington-Whitley. Nachmani adds: "For me, the songs I like the most likely to be found in less-changed".

As vintage craze sweeping the Western world, we have discovered ten destinations that remain some of the best kept treasures. From a legendary Hermès dealer outside Paris to Mecca fashionista in the Balearic Islands, is an oasis of style in the most unlikely of places. But if the idea of ​​winning a crowded store filled to the brim with luxury life-is huge, do not worry. We've sifted through the racks for you and found that to go and what to enter. Now the only question remaining is: Do you have a good dry cleaner?