Over the last few years, R5 Productions‘ Punk Rock Flea Market has become a biannual tradition that brings together a vast array of the Philly art/music/hipster/whatever populace, selling everything from Junk Nobody Wants to hand-crafted clothing and wares to records you’ve been looking for since forever. And when it hits the Starlight Ballroom this Saturday, there will be, among those vendors, some of Philly’s freshest young designers and crafty-type people. After the jump, we present a handy guide to some of the best.

· The Feast line by Adrienne Manno (a piece from which is pictured above) is really, really nice and definitely not what you might think when you hear the words “Punk Rock Flea Market.” Mano’s line consists of all handmade ladies tees and tops made from partly recycled materials. “I love the idea of using antique looking fabrics but updating the silhouettes and using new drapy fabric blends,” she says. “I also use vintage bed sheets and old lace curtains in much of my line.”

· In their own words, Hobo Arona is “a local papers co. that rescues forgotten about books — most dating from the 1870s to the 1970s — and rebinds them by hand into blank journals, album and sketchbooks, turning them into art for everyday life.” The resulting products are really cute and perfect for that journal-ing, Wes Anderson-obsessed kid in your life.

· This cute little tunic dress (above) by local house Vice is part of a whole line based on the Seven Deadly Sins, designed from old-school tattoo-art interpretations of the Seven Sins.

·  Having Horns is the work of two bibers students at the University of the Arts, and we’ve been busily producing recycled clothing, bags, pillows and bandanas. And they’re some of the more ambitious PRFM clothing-creators we’ve seen, crafting everything from the tee at right to accessories and even some almost couture-ish stuff. Definitely check both their blog and their stall.

· Leah Mackin and Julianna Lose are scrapple crazy. At the PRFM, they’ll have “I <3 Scrapple" t-shirts, which they'll be selling to go along with their book, An Ode to Scrapple: Part Two. (Will I understand it if I didn’t read Part One?) The shirts are screenprinted with brown-ish ink on Cream American Apparel tees (unisex sizes XS-XL), and the book is 10 pages, screen printed covers, all about how much the ladies love scrapple.

· I Like It Too Too makes all kinds of bags and accessories like this that are too too cute for words.

· JAK Random Art makes a lot of bracelets like this one that pull from found art.

And check out these other PRFM vendors: SueLynn In The City · Sharpshirter ·  Derisory Designs · Renee Frances

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This entry was posted on Friday, June 27th, 2008 at 11:54 am.