The actor took Vogue along with her to her favorite vintage store, Le Grand Strip in Williamsburg.
Trying On Vintage Balmain With SNL’s Heidi Gardner
Welcome to Shopping with Friends: a new Vogue series in which we sift through the racks of a fashion lover’s favorite store.
Saturday Night Live’s Heidi Gardner is a vintage head. The fashion-forward actor and comedian always infuses something old into her quirky outfits, which are typically marked by animal prints, peppy shoes, and kicky pants. In early March, she left a taping of The Drew Barrymore Show while wearing a head-turning leopard print jacket from Le Grand Strip, a vintage shop on Grand Street in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg. Three weeks ago, Gardner took me along to see the store in person.
Gardner arrived in a pair of Fila platforms with a troll head locked into the laces, a freaky bauble she picked up in the East Village. “When I went back home my grandma always had foot problems and when she had foot surgery, she was like, ‘These have so much support,’” Gardner said. “So then I ordered them.” Once inside, she was on the prowl for something. Though she didn’t have something specific in mind, she had two shoots coming up and needed an outfit.
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Liana Satenstein
