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October 12, 2007 5:20 pm
It’s the rare vintage wearer who will reveal her sources, but Eleanor Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces, whose unique way with secondhand clothes has made her an indie fashion darling, is feeling generous. One of her current favorites, she told us, is Everybody’s Everything in St. Joseph, Michigan, a shop she “kind of wiped out” while recording “Widow City” (Thrill Jockey), the Furnaces’ latest album, which is out this week. As one half of the Brooklyn-based, Chicago-bred postpunk musical outfit she fronts with her brother Matt, the 31-year-old sometimes model has been sharpening her thrifting chops since she was 15. “I had a boyfriend whose father was a minister,” she says. “He was the first person I knew who wore used clothes. Old ladies’ husbands would die and he’d have first dibs on this great stuff they gave to the church as donations.” Also influential were her grandmother and a great-aunt who were “amazing spenders” and saved everything they ever bought. And while Friedberger says she doesn’t ever buy new, she has been “gifted” by some of fashion’s finest, including Miuccia Prada and Alberta Ferretti, whose Philosophy label is the source of the black dress on the cover of “Widow City.” Just thought you’d want to know, since it sounds like there’s not much left at Everybody’s Everything.
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