Melanie Garbo-Byrnes opened her boutique in the fall of 2001 in a 10'x10' booth in an antique mall in Boca Raton, Florida. She always wanted to work with fashion as she had a flair for coordinating outfits at a young age. While growing up in the 60's and 70's, Melanie loved decorating her room to as if she was merchandising a retail window.
In her 40's Melanie loved going around to thrift shops, flea markets and such "picking" for the unusual, bringing home vintage clothing or collectibles, restoring and displaying them in her booth at the antique mall which was decorated to look like a funky boutique and thus creatively named "Vintage Diversity".
After six months her tiny space became an attractive source for large, established vintage shops in Miami, NYC, Chicago and LA.
Vintage Diversity relocated to a 500 square foot shop on Wilton Manors in the center of Fort Lauderdale. The interest in her flair for the funky & unusual became too great for the small space so in a few months Vintage Diversity moved to a 1000 square foot shop on the same block. In a very short time her business took a turn and she began providing era costume rentals
The rest is history!
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