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Kirby Fisher is always on the lookout for his next fix — the kind of garment that will prompt what he calls a "scream-out-loud moment."
"I'm just constantly running around like an ant looking for a crumb, trying to find the diamonds in the rough," he says from his small showroom in East Vancouver, tucked away in a former sheet metal factory.
The front section of the wiry 32-year-old's shop is crammed with old band T-shirts, jackets and jeans — the clothes he says he sells to "cool kids," or who others might call hipsters.
But it's the equally small section at the back of his showroom that's the real pride and joy of his business, Dead Union.
That's where he keeps the rare pair of Vivienne Westwood T-shirts that he bought for a song at $1,000 and says he could easily sell for twice that price. It's where he keeps the tattered jeans a friend found under a tarp in a barn in Alberta, including a pair he recently sold for $1,000 on eBay.
