LOGAN SQUARE — Two popular vintage sellers are opening a Logan Square store specializing in Y2K European fashion and featuring late-night shopping hours.
Nonstop Vintage opens Saturday at 2334 N. Milwaukee Ave. with a half-off sale. With its hard-to-miss large sign and racks of clothes and shoes seen from the street, the store is adding a retail experience to a Logan Square strip that’s lost several businesses in a little over a year.
Vintage resale partners Jane Carten and Arturo Calendar are the owners of Nonstop Vintage. It’s their second store after seeing success at Wicker Park’s Bodega Vintage, which they opened in 2024 as a home for their finds and for other secondhand resellers.
The couple, who live in Humboldt Park, see the Logan Square store as their headquarters, showroom and personal shop that sells European fashion from the turn of the millennium, with clothes from Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. Unlike Bodega Vintage, it’s just them at the helm, allowing for a more curated, slow-paced and intimate shopping experience, they said.
“I feel like in our own journey, we understood the concept of quality with trends. That’s why we decided to go with Euro Y2K, because the quality speaks for itself,” Calendar said.
The shop sells European footwear, accessories, vinyl records and sunglasses at affordable prices. Items from the back showroom will rotate to the floor or to Bodega Vintage as inventory gets sold, Carten said.
The shop’s name is a nod to their busy lives that revolve around all things vintage. The couple often receives calls from vintage dealers who want to sell them their collection, and they often scour estate sales around the country, bringing as much as they can back to Chicago.
Together, they also operate Insatiable Vintage, which includes items from the ’50s through the ’90s.
Before opening Bodega Vintage, the two frequently appeared at pop-up markets across Chicago, including the Logan Square Farmers Market, so having a spot in the neighborhood and closer to their home is a perfect next step in their business expansion, they said.
“Vintage is such a part of our culture,” Calendar said. “It’s great to see that it’s a business that if you have discipline and you put your effort in to learn and to grow, you can grow, because at the end of the day it’s an earnest job.”
Calendar, who is from Mexico City, hopes to bring some of the nightlife shopping scene from his home city to Logan Square, he said. The shop will be open Thursday-Sunday with late hours.
“As a business owner, I would like to see all of the people walking in the streets full of bags, from any store. We have to support all of them,” he said.
Nonstop Vintage takes over the former home of Space 01, an art gallery that moved to the West Side late last year after a series of permitting and harassment issues.
Carten and Calendar attribute their success to Chicagoans’ growing interest in secondhand items as vintage shops continue to open along Milwaukee Avenue.
“The definition of vintage, or what’s considered vintage, has changed in 20 years,” Carten said. “Anything that’s 20 years or older is considered vintage and the stuff that was vintage when we were young is antique.”
The store is open 3-8 p.m. Thursday-Friday and 3-10 p.m. on weekends.
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