Until recently, Crowley Vintage was a semi-well-kept secret among actors, designers, and rappers.

The Lost Treasures of Savile Row

At Crowley Vintage, in Brooklyn, Ralph Lauren designers and Gen Z–ers alike appeal to the past and are rewarded with the togs of their WASP fantasies

By Michael Hainey

PHOTOGRAPHS BY NATHAN KING

What happens when Gen Z–ers, hopped up on TikTok videos, come for their favorite young fogey?

“It’s a bit like locusts,” Sean Crowley says one afternoon on the third floor of the reconstituted Dumbo, Brooklyn, warehouse that is home to Crowley Vintage, which many fans of traditional Anglo-American men’s clothing consider to be the greatest source for secondhand between London and Tokyo.