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Vestiaire Collective And Carine Roitfeld Just Dropped The Vintage Sale Of Dreams
We are talking runway Galliano, Tom Ford’s Gucci and Jean Paul Gautier LBDs.
Welcome to This Old Thing, where ELLE UK’s vintage-obsessed editors wax lyrical about the very best things they find on their scrolls, from the icons to the cult finds - because buying everything new is so last season.
Every vintage magpie knows that Vestiaire Collective is untouchable when it comes to sourcing those super-special, show-off-about-forever pieces – and today, the online resale destination has dropped a collaboration that will have fashion-history lovers salivating.
This month, Vestiaire Collective is joining forces with Carine Roitfeld on an ephemeral edit of runway relics. The legendary former editor of Vogue Paris, and now editor of CR Fashion Book, has selected 300 pieces from the most studied, celebrated and searched-for collections in fashion history.
Seriously, only someone of Roitfeld’s stature could have unearthed a selection of pieces this iconic: we are talking Jean Paul Gaultier fishnet dresses, John Galliano’s smoke-sheer silk slips and Tom Ford’s sexiest, slinkiest designs from the golden era of Gucci.
Vintage might be big business right now, but Roitfeld has always been a lover of past-season pieces, often sitting front-row at fashion month (she has reportedly attended over 4000 shows throughout her career) not in fresh-off-the-runway newness, but a vintage treasure instead.
Of course, a new-season hero piece always sets pulses raising – but, if you ask me, nothing compares to the thrill of finally finding a long fawned-over treasure from decades past. With designers under pressure to deliver newness at an increasingly rapid rate – and our desire to shop more sustainably driving us off the hamster wheel of the trend cycle – the thrill of the old can often outweigh that of the new (especially when we're talking about ruffle-trimmed, leopard-print Dior silk).
Here, feast your eyes (and empty your bank account) on the very best pieces from what may just be the best vintage edit of all time.
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