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New York Times
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Former ‘It' Girl Deletes Herself
'People think I'm a Beverly Hills bitch, but really I'm a Beverly Hills witch,' said Liz Goldwyn, a writer of the Substack newsletter 'Starf*cker' and a filmmaker. She was reflecting on her life as a native Angeleno with a famous last name, now seen at some remove. Ms. Goldwyn, 48, moved to Hawaii last year because, she said, 'I am a hippie who wants to be barefoot, riding my bike, climbing on rocks.' She has returned home for a week to decide how much of her former life she wants to preserve. This week, she is selling a portion of the enormous collection of vintage clothes she began acquiring as a teenager. They are currently housed in a climate-controlled storage unit meticulously organized with sections that include 'vintage coats, 1920s-2010s.' On May 22, a preview of the sale will be held at Arcade Vintage in Los Angeles for any of her 10,000 Substack subscribers. The next day, the pieces will go on sale to the public in person and online. The Saturday before the sale, Ms. Goldwyn was eating a chopped salad at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel, just down the street from the home she grew up in, which was a stop on the Hollywood Maps to the Stars tour and is now owned by Taylor Swift. Her father, the producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (her grandfather is Samuel Goldwyn from MGM and one of her five siblings is the actor Tony Goldwyn), was a clotheshorse who wore John Lobb shoes and bespoke suits. Her mother, Peggy Elliott Goldwyn, occasionally wore Chanel but was on the board of Planned Parenthood. 'She was so feminist that back-to-school shopping was a struggle,' Ms. Goldwyn said. 'She'd be like, 'What about this nice rust-colored thing?'' On weekends as a child, Ms. Goldwyn would join her father at the hotel's coffee shop for breakfast. He would also get a weekly haircut and a manicure at the hotel, and it was there that she got in trouble for stealing an issue of Playboy with Madonna on the cover. More rebellious years followed. 'I got invited to leave Westlake,' she said of a local prep school, 'for, like, smoking cigarettes, smoking weed, experimenting with all sorts of drugs.' After graduating from Concord Academy in Massachusetts, she moved to New York to study photography at the School of Visual Arts. There, she fell into a fashion crowd, interning for the art director Fabien Baron, working at Sotheby's and as the New York editor of French Vogue. Ms. Goldwyn's friends included Chloë Sevigny, Dita Von Teese and Natasha Lyonne, among the crowd of women who were often considered 'It' girls, although she never thought of herself as one. Or a muse, even though designers like Nicolas Ghesquière were friends who designed for her. How does she identify? 'Zelig,' she responded with a laugh. She directed a documentary, 'Pretty Things,' and wrote a book, 'Pretty Things: The Last Generation of American Burlesque Queens,' on burlesque. She wrote a novel, 'Sporting Guide,' and started a sexual health and education online platform called In November 2020, she went to Hawaii to work on an early version of a book 'Sex, Health and Consciousness: How to Reclaim Your Pleasure Potential,' which led to her permanent move. Ms. Goldwyn's varied personal history, including a breakup over Venmo with a cheating partner, is chronicled in dishy detail in her newsletter. As are interviews with adult film stars, thoughts on the current political climate, the time she was talked into auditioning for 'The Real Housewives' and tips for a well-lived life. To wit: 'A family friend in her 80s who was BFFs with Tennessee Williams and the inspiration for Maggie the cat in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' (famously played by great beauty Elizabeth Taylor), used to tell me that to keep your beauty you had to take a nap every day, and it didn't count unless you were completely naked and got under the covers.' The next day, Ms. Goldwyn was downtown at Arcade, where she stood next to a garment rack of items she had elected to sell. She was wearing clothes made by friends: a T-shirt from the Andy Irons Foundation, cargo pants by Rocket Ahuna made out of a camouflage from plants native to Hawaii and pointed shoes from Le Monde Béryl. On one finger, she wore an emerald ring made from her grandfather's shirt stud. She said she wore mostly bikinis, pareos and Birkenstocks in Hawaii, but her ambivalence, even agony, over getting rid of anything in her collection was obvious. 'I don't want to sell this,' she announced as she showed off a dress printed with line drawings of men with bowler hats by Sorelle Fontana, an Italian fashion house founded by three sisters who also made costumes for the films 'La Dolce Vita' and 'Roman Holiday.' 'The construction is so beautiful, but I have never worn it.' Also on the racks was a green and black suede coat from the 1930s with buttons made of Bakelite and a collar and cuffs of monkey fur, and a fuchsia version of a coat designed by Yves Saint Laurent that Catherine Deneuve wore in 'Belle de Jour.' Many of the items evoked vivid memories. Spotting a pair of custom-made Levi's bell-bottom jeans from when she had a band called Hot Lunch, Ms. Goldwyn recalled that she had worn them with a leotard and a fur cape. A tan knit dress by Patrick Kelly with a heart made of buttons sewn on the front reminded her of when she wrote about his career for French Vogue. She pulled out a hand-painted Ungaro dress. 'There's a picture of me in Paris on a skateboard in this and wearing Balenciaga high heels,' she said. Several pieces for sale had trompe l'oeil patterns, including a Moschino black dress with beads embroidered to look like a shirtdress and a Bob Mackie dress with a wide appliquéd belt. 'This actually sucks, I hate this so much,' she said, sort of joking as she pulled out a silver and black Geoffrey Beene gown and then an Army green and red reversible Celine trench that once belonged to her mother. Ms. Goldwyn was selling a few dresses from Martin Margiela's early collections and a pair of the first Margiela white Tabi boots. 'I only wore them once to a bodega because I was too afraid to get them dirty,' she said. She will leave for London the day the collection, which will number about 200 pieces, give or take second thoughts, goes on sale and will spend a few months working in Europe. She is developing a documentary set in the world of surfing and researching another project, which she called 'a metaphysical autobiographical tale that also delves into fascism and the occult.' And still, her desire to collect will go on. She will continue to order things from sites like the RealReal, which will eventually lead to more sales. Just not anytime soon. 'There's still so much stuff,' she said. 'I have this padded skirt from Comme des Garçons in pink someone asked me to put in the sale, and I said, 'No, but try me when I'm 60.''
The Sun
19-05-2025
- Business
- The Sun
I've made £1.2k on Vinted and buyer even wore my dress to the BAFTAs – my 50p trick works every time for sales
A THRIFTY fashionista has shared her top Vinted selling tips after making £1,200 on the app - and she's even flogged a dress to a BAFTAs guest. Zakia Moulaoui Guery, 37, has loved vintage clothes and thrift shops for as long as she can remember. 7 7 7 Her passion for second-hand clothing was sparked by her mother Marie-Therese who would take her to thrift stores in France during her childhood. Zakia, who now lives in Edinburgh, said: "My mum was the best at finding treasure, sometimes matching outfits for me and my sister and stuff. "When I grew up, that was the only thing we could do really, because we didn't have the money to go and buy new clothes all the time. And we had really nice clothes because my mother was really good at this. "She loved it. So she would take the time to do it. This is the only thing I would say, it's really demanding, it takes time. If you're shopping quickly, then it's not for you." Vintage and second-hand items now make up 90 per cent of Zakia's wardrobe. She's made a commitment to stop buying brand new clothing but admits it can be tough if she needs something for work. She said: "It's really hard because a lot of the basic items that you may need are really hard to find second-hand. "So it doesn't work all the time, but I'm trying. "Like if you need something specific, like work trousers or something specifically smart for something, it's a lot easier to just pop into M&S and just buy something rather than try to search for it." And Zakia doesn't just buy second-hand and thrifted items, she sells on items from her wardrobe too. I've made £10k on Vinted in 2 years - here's exactly why your items aren't selling, and how you can turn things around In the past two years, she has flogged 48 items on Vinted - making an impressive £1,200. Vinted is an online marketplace where people can buy and sell second hand clothes, shoes and accessories. It's completely free to upload clothes to the app and Vinted does not take a cut of sellers' profits and instead charges buyers a small fee to purchase each item. Zakia chose the username @VintageMamaScot which showcases her wardrobe style and is a nod to her beloved mum, who passed away during the Covid pandemic. She said: "I only sell vintage or retro-inspired pieces on Vinted. I think unique items sell well. "If it's something you definitely cannot find somewhere else, whether it's a dress that has a particular vibe or era, that might sell a lot quicker. "But also good brands. So if you sell something that is a little bit pricey on the high street at an affordable price, that will get snapped up quickly. COS for example, or even things that are no longer made anymore. "Cosmetics as well, it's not only clothing, it's also the beauty brands and stuff. That's where you can make a lot of money." 7 7 7 She continues: "If you're anything like me at Christmas, somebody gives you something and it's totally not you. You can sell it. "As long as it's brand new in packaging, as long as it's not been used, then that's absolutely fine. I've sold perfume and creams and stuff on there and that's because the retail price is so high, so you can really make money on that. "I've also been gifted pieces from Uniqlo, which is totally not me. So that sold really, really well because I think it's a good brand and it can be quite pricey." Zakia is the CEO and founder of Invisible Cities - which arranges walking tours by people who have experienced homelessness. She travels a lot for work, which means she has the chance to find unique pieces along the way. She said: "I'm very lucky to be able to be in different places and buy different things from different cities. "In turn, that means that somebody from the UK or from Scotland might be able to buy a dress that is actually coming from the other side of the world - but it's second-hand and came back in my luggage." Selling tips But having interesting items isn't always enough to get them sold on Vinted. So Zakia has picked up some handy tips during her time on the app, and they always help her to get the sale. Do you need to pay tax on items sold on Vinted? QUICK facts on tax from the team at Vinted... The only time that an item might be taxable is if it sells for more than £6,000 and there is profit (sells for more than you paid for it). Even then, you can use your capital gains tax-free allowance of £3,000 to offset it. Generally, only business sellers trading for profit (buying goods with the purpose of selling for more than they paid for them) might need to pay tax. Business sellers who trade for profit can use a tax-free allowance of £1,000, which has been in place since 2017. More information here: First up, she maintains the 'Frequent Uploads' badge which Vinted gives to sellers if they regularly list five or more items, even if she doesn't have new clothes to flog. She said: "If you don't have too many things to sell, say you only have five items, there's only so many times you can post, right? "So what I do is I delete the post and then I upload it again. So Vinted believes that I'm putting up new stuff all the time." Revealing her next hack, she adds: "And then I always start by knowing what I would absolutely sell it for at a minimum, so that I can reduce the price if needed. Once it's posted online, I just want it to sell. "So if I'm reposting, I knock off £1 or 50p. Reducing your items regularly works quite well." And her most exciting sale to date? A red sequins maxi dress which she had found in a New York thrift store for just $6 (£4.49). Zakia was gutted when she realised the bargain buy was too big for her so decided to sell it instead. She managed to sell it on for £15, three times what she paid for it, and even discovered the frock had made it all the way to the BAFTAs. Guests at this year's glitzy award bash had been encouraged to "make sustainable fashion choices" and buyer Jackie quickly snapped up the sparkly dress. She was so happy with her buy that she sent Zakia a picture from the event. Zakia said: "It shows how we can absolutely make vintage work on the red carpet. "It's an old vintage Debenhams brand. So it must have been the late 80s or maybe the early 90s, I would say. "And this is just the story of this dress with two of us in it over the last three months. So imagine the stories this dress has seen from the moment it was made."
Harpers Bazaar Arabia
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Harpers Bazaar Arabia
Meet Andre Montana, The Dubai Designer Behind Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter Sunglasses
Behind the ultra-cool frames redefining celebrity style and vintage luxury Dubai-based designer Andre Montana is quickly becoming a name to know in the world of luxury eyewear—especially after dressing none other than Beyoncé for the opening shows of her Cowboy Carter tour. Not once but twice, the global icon has stepped on stage wearing Andre's bold, artful sunglasses, including its standout Coral frames. These striking hexagonal lenses, adorned with bejewelled coral details, are inspired by the ocean and suitably striking enough to suit Beyoncé's fierce stage presence. Andre is the founder and creative force behind Vintage Eyewear, a brand that celebrates the timeless appeal of retro frames while also embracing modern design codes. Offering a curated collection of rare vintage pieces and Montana's original creations, each crafted with an eye for detail and a love for storytelling through design. His passion for vintage started back in 2005, when he began collecting eyewear from iconic brands and eras. 'Since starting my vintage eyewear collection in 2005, I have seen the love of vintage sunglasses grow. I think this is down to the nostalgia behind these pieces, it makes people reminiscent of a time when design and craftsmanship was second to none,' he explains. 'This is what ultimately inspired me to design my own sunglasses.' This appreciation for the past not only fuels Andre's curation of vintage finds but also informs the bold, sculptural pieces he creates today—like those worn by Beyoncé.
Times
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
I climbed Mont Blanc wearing only vintage clothes
In full period dress, Elise Wortley follows in the footsteps of pioneering female adventurers of yesteryear. We follow Elise as she embarks on an anthology of quests, from walking through the kingdom of Sikkim in the Himalayas, overcoming the wilds of Scotland and attempting to scale Mt Blanc in a bonnet. Elise's commitment to unheralded stories of female pioneers is inspiring, as is her dedication to vintage fashion. Expedition tells the stories of individuals stepping out of the rhythms of everyday life, to embark on incredible adventures across the globe. Executive producer: Jon EastmanSeries producer-director: Alex EmanuelExpedition footage: Women with AltitudeEditor: Tom StokesProduction manager: Sarah BarnesProduction coordinator: Issi Lloyd-WaiteGFX and design: Gianluca AllaArchive: Getty ImagesDevelopment producer: Min
Wall Street Journal
12-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Are We Entering the Golden Age of Secondhand Shopping?
Thrift Vintage Fashion's latest ad is clear: 'Tariffs matter to fast fashion, not us.' The past two months have been the most lucrative ever for the Miami-based business. The family operation has been supplying retailers around the U.S. with preowned jeans, sweatshirts and T-shirts since the early '90s. Sales were up 31% in March and 23% in April compared with the same months in 2024.
