We do get asked where MadGrá came from and does it mean anything. Both being over thinkers, our vintage name needed to mean something and have a reasoning behind it. So when we were coming up with the name for our little vintage shop it had to be a metaphor, a simile, an answer, new, fun, old, serious, it had to be a lot of things but most of all it had to be us. If you didn't already know, we are Madeleine & Grace (Gránna to family), this is where we chose MAD & GRÁ from. But why? Being 2 very similar people with the same core values we have very different personalities, thoughts and tastes, which are what makes MadGrá...
Want to ditch fast fashion, but not sure what the alternative looks like? Meet the “Good” and “Great” slow fashion brands getting back to the roots of clothes making.
We are back this Sunday the 7th of November in Mountainview Vintage markets. The last one was such a success we are delighted to take part in another. There are some lovely stalls there including Rogue Vintage, Old Soul Vintage, Dark City Hippy, Garmjam, Muriel Sanchez and much more.
Put it in your diary
I’m happy that I have kept my clothes from my 20s as I can now re wear them again as they come back into fashion. I have this amazing wrangler jumpsuit that I purchased in Swamp in Limerick in the early 2000’s. It's a double denim dream and by some miracle still fits me. It was an expensive purchase for a poor student but I couldn’t part with it. I wear it now and get compliments all the time. That’s what I love doing. I buy fashion that I love, it doesn’t have to be in fashion, I just love it and can see myself wearing it for as long as it fits me. That’s how I feel about Vintage. I...
Choosing Sustainably
Over the past year we have faced a lot of changes in our lives. A lot of us in Europe are just emerging from our third lockdown in some cases. We had come to a point before March of 2020 that we were going towards changing our habits to being more sustainable.
