00:00Balance and subversion. Balance and subversion. Uptown. Downtown. We have to be able to do it all.
00:12Hi, family. It's Paloma El Cesar, and today I'm taking Harbor Bazaar shopping. Let's go.
00:17All right, so we're here at the Front Street General Outpost. We're at the new upstairs location.
00:32I'm very familiar with the downstairs, which is where I met Eric. My favorite thing about Front
00:38General is that it kind of perfectly marries the two things that I love the most, which are
00:46archived fashion and military vintage. So let's get into it. I'm going to get my sleeves up.
00:55I want to see the archive stuff.
01:03Where is the comb and where is the junior? So pretty much all throughout these racks,
01:09we're going to have the comb de garçon and the junior Watanabe. Particularly right now,
01:13we have this new junior Watanabe crops knitted sweater here. I'm obsessed. What would you consider
01:19like this area? Is this archive? I guess it would be an archive of Celine Phoebe. Everybody has their
01:25own opinion, but yeah, especially now that she has her own brand. I feel like which we'll get into more
01:30of what I like. I separate in my brain and I always say this when I'm shopping is like for the archive of
01:38it all. You know, it's like sometimes things are not meant to be worn consistently, but they're just
01:42important to have in the archive.
01:50Let's go through this blue section and see. Okay. So this is not my size, but I love how junior
01:59reworks a lot of like denim here. It's playing in these very fundamentals like American and Japanese
02:06fabrics. I mean, obviously this is a Japanese fabric and then subverting it into these really cool
02:11layering pieces. I, if anyone's wondering how I fit into all this stuff is because junior is oftentimes
02:19reworked. So what I do is I take it to my iconic Taylor Tao and she freaks it into my size. It's not hard
02:28to add a panel to some denim. And I think it still honors the integrity of the garment while still being
02:35able to wear what I want to wear. Okay. The most expensive piece I've bought. Well, it actually
02:43wasn't an archive piece. It was a vintage Kelly bag where I've never seen anybody else with this bag.
02:51It is a tricolor vintage Kelly bag that has my favorite colors in it, which are army green,
02:56Bordeaux and navy blue. Hello. I had to have it.
03:06So my relationship with pants and like a baggier fit kind of was born out of just necessity and
03:12comfort and a desire to feel like myself. And my pant model for the thickies is just buy bigger,
03:21like find and just nip the waist, like buy a 40 leg. If you want that like big billowy trouser-y
03:29kind of minimalist moment, go to a store like this, go to a Goodwill, go to wherever
03:34and buy that old men's trouser and just nip the waist and there's your look.
03:38How I would style these pants are two ways. I think of either daytime or nighttime. In the nighttime,
03:49these are really easy to pair with like a sexy but not overly done top that feels like a little lifted.
03:56And then in the daytime, quite literally, I would just wear something like this. I'd wear a tiny little
04:03jean jacket pinned just the top three or four, make it a little corset-y with a pair of Chanel flats.
04:11That's what I would do.
04:19This jacket is so cool because when I want to go a little bit more tough, but it would be beautiful
04:24with like a Prada skirt and a little Prada sweater. So there's always this balance and subversion,
04:29people balance and subversion, uptown, downtown. We're balancing all the things. We're able to go
04:34anywhere. We feel ourselves.
04:42Okay, so first try on is this coat that I'm 100% getting because it can be 100 ways. I kind of also
04:48just like it like this. Obviously, I wouldn't wear it with camo shoes, maybe like a black shoe or black
04:54boots or something like that. But it's nice because you can like push up the sleeves, you can open it
04:59up and wear it with whatever. But I personally like it a bit like this also. Yeah.
05:12So I love these pants. They're a bit high. These are men's. So the crotch came down to,
05:19but I quite like it rolled. I think it's completely fine and I like that. So let me put a top on it.
05:29Yes, it has a two face zip. Okay, so this is my favorite because you know, you would never think.
05:38So you go all the way up here, put it all the way to the top and then it's like party time, hot.
05:43Recap students, we learned that it is possible to reconstruct vintage as long as you still honor
05:49the integrity of the garment people. This is very, very important. Balance and subversion.
05:54Subversion. Balance and subversion. Uptown. Downtown. You have to be able to do it all.
06:09We are uptown at the iconic Zidamer Pharmacy. It's one of my favorite places in New York to get
06:19a bunch of stuff. I'll show you everything. Where I normally splurge on beauty is everywhere,
06:25but generally in like experiences. I think things that smell good, lotions, candles, but I also splurge on
06:33skin care because I'm a bit more in my scientific era and the thing about science forward skin care.
06:41So they're very sophisticated formulas and they should not be cheap.
06:45Okay. This is my zone. This is where I thrive. Um, we love Santa Maria Novella. Okay. So this is like
06:59iconic, iconic face spray. This one's the orange blossom. And then there's a rose one. I'm feeling
07:07the rose. I need to re up on the rose. I think that there's something very intimate and special about
07:12luxuriating yourself. I know that people minimize self care as like, it's not just baths and facials,
07:18but I think that there's something very sacred and deeply feminine about just focusing on a moment
07:26for yourself. Oh, I love these little eye masks. Yeah. You had me at deep puffing. A place like Zidamer
07:35is very special and key to New York is because it's a fixture of uptown. And I think that's special.
07:42I think it's important to keep New York, New York.
07:51All right. Here's where the magic happens. Some of my favorite things and where I really like lose my
07:57mind is all of the like accessories. See, that's like brown.
08:02This is nice. I think because it's not my hair, but it's kind of my hair, but it's not really my hair.
08:14Okay. And this one, 55 bucks. I will say Zidamer does not go lightly on the bank account, but it's worth it.
08:23All right. This is the end, y'all. Thank you so much, Harper's Bazaar. It's been very fun.
08:40Thank you. Thank you for coming shopping with me.
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