I’d far sooner buy from Oxfam than from Shein or Temu, or any of those online brands selling ersatz, flammable party dresses. But it’s like sticking a plaster on a gangrenous limb
Kate Moss with the late designer Vivienne Westwood: later this month, the personal archive of the designer, style icon and progenitor of punk will be auctioned for charity. Photograph: PA Wire, designer, style icon and progenitor of punk, will be auctioned off at Christie’s for charity. Until her death in 2022, at the age of 81, Westwood was a seismic force in fashion.
These visits are a kind of low-stakes gambling; I invest time and energy, and throw myself on the mercy of the charity shop gods. Some days yield nothing, but others reward me. I have in my possession two Chanel jackets, one bought for €50 at a second-hand shop, another for €40 at a market in Berlin.
This process got me thinking about clothes; what we’re looking for when we buy them, how we feel when we wear them, and the emotional space they occupy in our lives, especially when they sit there, unworn, representing false starts and imaginary futures.
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