Cree McCree

Cree McCree, the author of "Flea Market America," has been buying and selling vintage clothes since she first popped up at the Marin City Flea Market outside San Francisco in 1977. In 2001, she moved from New York City to her spiritual home in New Orleans, where she dove head first into the city's fabulous costume culture and began making her own wearable assemblage art Cree-ations. 

To showcase her work, and help support her fellow creators, Cree has launched a series of pop-up art and flea markets at various locations around town. She currently runs Piety Market In Exile at the New Orleans Healing Center, where she also hosts two annual NOLA designer costume sales during the Halloween and Carnival seasons. She's staged a variety of costume and fashion events over the years, and is the founder of Righteous Fur, which showcased save-our-wetlands nutria fashions created by more than two dozen local designers in a series of Nutria-palooza! shows in Louisiana and New York City. Catch Cree and her Righteous Fur team in action in the award-winning documentary "Rodents of Unusual Size," currently screening on "Independent Lens" on PBS.