Pre-Loved Podcast (2025)

13/05/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with Olivia DeIyamu, owner of and co-owner of vintage collective brick-and-mortar, ! 🎧✨

Olivia has selling vintage since 2013, getting her start selling online and at area flea markets in Cleveland.

On today’s show, she shares the story of how she got where she is today, and how she hand selects quality and aesthetic vintage for her shop. ♻️

We even chat about our shared love for vintage Westernwear! This is a fun one, and I think you’re going to really enjoy it! 🤠

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

♻️ How discovering a love for thrifting and secondhand influenced Olivia’s sense of style and self growing up.

🖼️ Olivia’s background in vintage interior design and architecture.

👗 How the creative and artistic small business side-hustle community of Cleveland inspired her to do it herself, starting in 2013.

🤠 Developing her vintage specialties, including vintage Westernwear

🛍️ How Olivia and her co-owners knew it was the right time to open a vintage collective space.

🧡 The stories behind some of the special pieces in Olivia’s vintage collection.

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ode-vintage-owner-olivia-deiyamu-on-co-owning-a/id1435719708?i=1000655394476

06/05/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with fashion conservationist, Sarah Scaturro! 🎧✨

We’re chatting with Sarah, the Chief Conservator at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and previously, the head of the fashion conservation laboratory in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Today is the first Monday in May, which means – if you’re listening to this live – tonight is the Met Gala!

So, we’re talking all things archival fashion and the Met Gala with Sarah today: the famous Kim Kardashian incident – wearing Marilyn Monroe’s dress to the Met Gala – and what to make of the Sleeping Beauties exhibition theme this year.

This is such a fascinating episode with a real subject matter expert on archives and preservation, and I think you’re going to really enjoy it, so let’s dive right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

👗 Sarah grew up with a love of clothes, costumes, and playing dress-up.

📖 Her career path into textile preservation.

🤔 How fashion items are acquired by museums, and what makes an archive collection unique.

👑 What it means when an object becomes “singularized.”

🎤On Kim Kardashian wearing Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Happy Birthday, Mr. President’ dress to the 2022 Met Gala.

🙅‍♀️ Why “absolute prohibitions” around interacting without artifacts is not the answer, either.

🌸 The Met Gala’s exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” and dress code theme “The Garden of Time,” and what to expect to see this year.

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sarah-scaturro-fashion-conservator-formerly-head-of/id1435719708?i=1000654655651

29/04/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with Chemitei Janet, a slow fashion educator based in Kenya! 🎧✨

does storytelling and educational work in sustainable waste management, and her mission is to highlight the reality of waste and the fashion industry in Kenya. ♻️

On today’s show, we talk about how Chemitei got into secondhand clothing, her love of crochet, and the incredible local upcycling community in her area. 🪡

Plus, we unpack the challenges of sustainable waste management in and around Gikomba market in Nairobi.

Chemitei believes the secondhand market there really brings into perspective the reality of overproduction and overconsumption in the fashion industry, and she wants everyone to be able to learn from these stories.

It’s a really interesting episode, so dive right into it! 🎤

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

👗 Chemitei’s experiences with fashion and the secondhand market growing up.

💚 Whether she defined it that way or not, Chemitei grew up with a lot of sustainability values from her family.

♻️ Why there is so much secondhand clothing in Kenya today, and what the secondhand market is like today.

✍️ How the state of the secondhand clothing market in Kenya has changed in Chemitei‘s lifetime. Today, 20–50% of the used-clothing in bales is unsellable due to poor quality, according to a Changing Markets study.

🧵 The upcycling community in and around Gikomba market and throughout Nairobi.

🫶 And the most cherished pieces in Chemitei’s own closet.

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chemitei-janet-kenya-based-slow-fashion-educator-on/id1435719708?i=1000653891469

22/04/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with Lindsey, owner of plus-size vintage shop, Fat & Habitat! 🎧✨

Fat and Habitat sells plus size vintage clothing in and around the Northeast, and it’s run by the dynamic duo of Lindsey and her husband Alex.

They focus on sustainable materials and quality construction, aiming to provide underrepresented folks of the plus size community fashionable, timeless clothing. 💚

Lindsey and I chat about her background in fashion, and love of quality clothing, which sparked the vision to bring inclusivity to the vintage community via Fat & Habitat, and what that means to her. 👗

I really loved getting to meet Lindsey and Alex at the Manhattan Vintage Show – they were incredibly kind! – and we talk about all this show, these experiences — all this and more on today’s pod.

So let’s dive right into it! 🎤

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

🎀 Lindsey has always been a fashion-lover, and started making clothes for her Barbie dolls when she was just five-years-old.

🧵 This translated into reworking clothes for her own closet.

🌴 She moved to LA for college, and to fulfill her dream of working in fashion.

📱 The decision to *officially* open her vintage business, came after she had selling casually on Poshmark for several years.

🫶 We talk about what it means to be able to offer inclusivity at vintage fashion events via Fat & Habitat.

✅ And the vintage brands and styles that have become Fat & Habitat’s specialities.

⏳ Debunking the “people were just smaller back then” myth.

💛 and Lindsey’s most cherished pieces in her vintage collection.

📸 photo by at

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fat-habitat-plus-size-vintage-and-secondhand-clothing/id1435719708?i=1000653184781

15/04/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with Rosie Mae, sustainable fashion creative and vintage archivist! 🎧✨

It’s hard to sum up all of Rosie’s work in the sustainable fashion space:

She is a sustainable swimwear designer, a textile artist, an archivist – as I mentioned – an editorial stylist, community builder, and much more! 🪡

She is also a collector and curator of vintage fashion magazines! 🖼️

She’s always been a lover of printed matter, and has recently started showcasing her archive of vintage and contemporary fashion magazines. 📸

And if you love special collections, you’re going to love hearing Rosie talk about her vintage magazines!

All this and more on todays show, so let’s dive right in!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

🛍️ Rosie grew up antiquing in high school, and has been building her vintage archive ever since.

👀 She finds things EVERYWHERE, and she even picked up a few finds from the set of Gossip Girl.

📰 Hear how she started her vintage magazine collection.

♻️ Some of the themes that Rosie is drawn to in fashion magazines, and what we can learn about sustainability from vintage magazines.

🐱 Her cat-themed collections, in magazines and fashion!

👗 Taking the No New Clothes Challenge!

🧵 And some of the special pieces — and DIYs! — in her collection.

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rosie-mae-turner-sustainable-fashion-creative-and/id1435719708?i=1000652470522

08/04/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with Pily Uribe, a Chilean journalist with over a decade of experience in sustainable fashion research and reporting! 🎧✨

María Pilar, who goes by Pily, has worked with Latin American magazines, sustainable brands and secondhand platforms internationally. ♻️

She is currently doing a Masters degree in the Netherlands, and is deeply involved in creating investigative journalistic articles centered around the theme of migration and clothing. ✍️

On today’s show, she shares her perspective on sustainable fashion and what she thinks is missing from the conversation. ⬇️

We discuss what it means that Chile is one of the biggest importers of secondhand clothing in South America and the impact it had on the local community.

We also learn about her recent research on clothing and migration at the US-Mexico border — and the need for more humanity in conversations about sustainability. 🤝

— all this and more on today’s show, so dive right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

♻️ Growing up in Chile, Pily was never a huge fashion lover, but she has re-used secondhand most of her life.

✍️ She started reporting on – what used to be called – “green lifestyles” in the early days of her journey.

🌎 Pily’s perspective on sustainable fashion and what she thinks is missing from the standard conversation.

🗑️ Chile is one of the biggest importers of secondhand clothing in South America, and the major impact this has had on the community in the north of the country, in the Atacama Desert.

🧳 In her most recent research on clothing and migration, conducted at the US-Mexico border, Pily found the stories to be about human realities.

👗 The pre-loved clothes (and Chilean designers!) that Pily values.

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s8-ep11-pily-uribe-silva-a-chilean-journalist-on/id1435719708?i=1000651757113

01/04/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with Charlotte Staerck, CEO and co-founder of the Handbag Clinic! 🎧✨

Handbag Clinic is a fully-circular platform tackling all end-of-life issues for luxury handbags from pre-loved buying, selling, and authenticating, to restoration and repair. ♻️

Over 10+ years, Charlotte has grown to be *the* leading aftercare and pre-loved retailer of luxury handbags — they truly do it all! 👜

I just loved Charlotte’s journey story: she got started flipping handbags on eBay when she was just sixteen years old… you have to tune in to hear the rest! 🎧

Today, she has so much accumulated expertise on restoration, as one of the leading and longest lasting services in the luxury resale space. 🧼

And, as you’ll learn on this episode, there is so much specialty expertise that goes into restoration at this level!

Tune in for all her incredible stories, everything from working on Claudia Schiffer’s vintage 💖 to restoring a Birkin bag that got nibbled on by a puppy! 🫣

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

✍️ On becoming an expert in the authentication of luxury and designer goods.

👀 The rise of “superfakes” in the luxury handbag market.

💡 How the luxury resale and aftercare services space has changed in the 10+ years of Handbag Clinic, and how it could still evolve.

🪡 Just some of the specialty leather restoration techniques and innovations the Handbag Clinic team of artisans have developed.

🖤 and some of the most extreme repairs the Handbag Clinic team has tackled.

😍 Plus the rarest and most special bags that have come through the Handbag Clinic.

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/handbag-clinic-circular-business-buying-selling-authenticating/id1435719708?i=1000651050190

25/03/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with Kelley Heyer! 🎧✨

On today’s show, we’re chatting with , a New York City based actor and content creator, who loves secondhand fashion and a good DIY. 🪡

She’s gone viral for thrift flipping vintage dresses 👀and is passionate about helping people find their personal style and with vintage clothes. ✨👗

We chat about all this and more on today’s show — it’s a FUN ONE! 🙌

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

👗 Spending time in her school’s theater costume department.

🐚 Thrifting in Hawai’i, where Kelley grew up.

📱 How Kelley does – and doesn’t! – take style inspiration from others.

♻️ Reflections on sustainability, and how *we* want to incorporate sustainable fashion and encourage others to do the same.

🎞️ Stories from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel costume department.

🛍️ Tips for becoming a more savvy thrifter and Kelley’s ideal Brooklyn thrifting day.

🪡 Modernizing vintage, and the thrift flip that made Kelley go viral.

🎨 On her clown-inspired styling era.

💖 and some of Kelley’s favorite and most special vintage pieces.

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s8-ep9-kelley-heyer-nyc-based-actor-and-thrifter-on/id1435719708?i=1000650340801

18/03/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast — with Meg Randell, Head of Designer Handbags and Fashion at Bonhams! 🎧✨

Bonhams auction house is one of the world’s oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques! 🖼️

Megan joined in 2020, to launch their fashion and handbags department. 👛

On today’s episode, we chat about the wild world of auctions, and some of Meg’s most famed auction sales.

… including a Birkin bag that belonged to Jane Birkin herself, and the costumes from the TV Show, The Crown! 👑

Meg has such interesting stories to share, and much expertise in rare handbags, particularly Hermès and Chanel, and we get into all of that on today’s show, so dive right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

🎨 Meg’s background in the history of art, and how she got her start working in auction houses.

👜 The booming demand for handbags within the auction space.

💡 The auction process 101 – all the steps and terminology you may not know if this is your first auction.

💵 When the bid runs much higher than the estimated price!

😍 Some of the incredible pieces Meg has sold over the years, and her dream pieces to auction one day!

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s8-ep8-bonhams-auction-house-head-of-designer/id1435719708?i=1000649552287

11/03/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast OUT NOW — with David Brockman, founder of Honeymoon Antiques and new owner of the Sturbridge Antique Show!🎧✨

David’s business has been a New York City fashion and design staple since 1997.

And he has some really fun stories to share with us about his year’s in the industry and how the vintage scene has changed!

And in 2022, David purchased the storied , which happens three times each year in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, the Monday before Brimfield. 🚙

Sturbridge Show is a unique offeirng of antique & vintage clothing, textiles, quilts, workwear, and jewelry spanning the Victorian era to the 1990s. 👗

This fall, David brought the Sturbridge Show to New York City for the first time, and it’s returning for it’s spring city show THIS WEEKEND – if you’re listening to this live – March 14th-16th — go check it out! 📅

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

🗽David’s journey to New York, and his decision to open his first vintage store in the 1990s.

🖤 What the East Village vintage clothing scene was like in the 90s.

🚙 David’s transition into becoming the promoter of the Sturbridge Show, and stories of the Brimfield Antique Market in Massachusetts.

📅 The Sturbridge Show comes to NYC this weekend, March 14-16.

⭐️ When the people you buy vintage clothing from bring you magic and good luck…

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pre-loved-podcast-with-emily-stochl/id1435719708?i=1000648740121

04/03/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast OUT NOW — with , a Toronto-based thrifter on a sustainable personal style journey! 🎧✨

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Melissa, you may know her online as Mel Wore It!

Mel is a Toronto-based graphic designer and part time content creator, juggling her creative endeavors with the joys of motherhood. 💛

She loves thrifting and shopping secondhand, and she unpacks the joys and journeys of her sustainable living practices online on TikTok and Instagram.

On this episode, we chat a lot about the personal style journey, and what choosing secondhand has taught Mel about herself, plus some of the sustainability resolutions and practices she’s put in place to help her keep continuing to improve her shopping habits. ♻️

I really loved having this conversation, and I know you’re going to find it super interesting too, so let’s dive right in!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

🎤 How a love of pop culture and playing dress up influenced her interest in fashion growing up.

🍼 How Mel’s journey with secondhand shopping really took off after her son was born.

✍️ On slow and sustainable fashion resolutions and tracking the cost per wear of items in your closet.

✌️ Deciding when it’s the right time to let something go, and how that can make you feel.

💼 Shopping for designer goods on Japanese eBay, and the best pre-loved handbags she’s found.

🧼 Finding – and repairing! – a vintage Lady Dior bag from the 90s.

🧡Thrifting a faux Hermès bag, and the process of having it authenticated.

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mel-wore-it-a-toronto-based-thrifter-on-a/id1435719708?i=1000647916576

26/02/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast OUT NOW — with Meagan Svendsen, a vintage Coach bag restorer and collector!🎧✨

Meagan learned the love of vintage hunting and restoration from her mom who taught her every technique in the book.

After losing her mom unexpectedly in 2021, and finding her first vintage Coach bag “in the wild” Meagan began collecting and restoring — now over 400 vintage Coach bags! 💼

On this episode, we dive into the rich history of the Coach brand, including some background on Bonnie Cashin, the bags she designed, and the legacy that still holds today. ✍️

You’ll learn about different eras of Coach, plus stories of the most special and rare pieces in Meagan’s collection!

Ultimately, Meagan loves vintage Coach because of the quality of the vintage leather, which is truly meant to last. 🙏

As a restorer and collector, it’s her goal to breathe new life into vintage bags, and she shares some of her best tips and tricks with us! 🫧

This episode is a really fun deep dive into all things vintage Coach, so let’s get right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

🤎 Some history of the Coach brand, and of Bonnie Cashin, the original creative director for Coach in the 1960s.

✈️ Rare bags like the United Airlines Coach stewardess bag, or the Coach Federal bag

🤔 How to date a Coach bag, and some of the clues related to the different eras.

🎨 All about the different colors of Coach bags, including– some of the rare colors, and how color impacts your cleaning process.

🧼 A deep dive into leather handbag restoration, including product recommendations and basic DOs & DON’Ts.

🫶 Some of Meagan’s most special pieces, like her 1966 ‘See Thru Shopping Bag’ and her Coach Crescent collection!

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s8-ep5-meagan-svendsen-vintage-coach-bag-restorer-and/id1435719708?i=1000646856682

19/02/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast OUT NOW — with Marie Remy, the founder & owner of The French Workwear Company!🎧✨

Marie grew up in the 1970s and 80s in rural Eastern France, where her dad had a garage. 🔧

She always dreamed of moving to Paris, which she did as a student, and there she soaked up all the indie music gigs, record stores, vintage fashion and flea markets every weekend. ✨

Marie shares her stories of the Paris fashion and music scene, and the journey that lead to her launching a French workwear vintage business, 💙

Like many of us, she first started selling her “surplus,” and would continue to go back home to rural France over the years.

She continued to source workwear, particularly the iconic French ‘bleus’ which were a quintessential part of her upbringing.

These became the specialty and foundation of her business, and she has a lot of expert advice to share on the subject! ✍️

Tune in for Marie’s fab stories, plus a fascinating amount of social and fashion history on French workwear – this episode is a really fun deep dive, so let’s get right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

👗 Growing up as a teenager in rural France, loving indie music and vintage 1960s fashion.

🥐 Moving to Paris in the 1980s, thrifting at the Guerrisol and shopping at the iconic Parisian flea markets.

🛍️ Marie started selling her “surplus” vintage, as she and her musician husband were both vintage lovers and collectors.

💙 The history and aesthetics that drew Marie to vintage workwear, and some tools to identify pieces.

🪡 French workwear is meant to last a long time, and can have beautiful mending. We chat extra special pieces, and much more!

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/french-workwear-company-owner-marie-remy-on-growing/id1435719708?i=1000645848695

29/01/2024

NEW Pre-Loved Podcast OUT NOW — with The RealReal’s Master Authenticator of Vintage, Dominik Halás! 🎧✨

Dominik has been collecting, renting and reselling designer archive collections for over a decade.

He now lends his vintage and archival expertise to The RealReal’s New York authentication office, where his vintage expertise is so renowned it was featured in .

We’re so excited to kick off this Pre-Loved Podcast season with Dominik, The RealReal, and… 🥁

… Manhattan Vintage Show! who are launching an exciting collaboration! 🎉

Yes, I’m headed to New York this weekend for the Manhattan Vintage winter show, and to kick off their new partnership with The RealReal!

At this weekend’s show, The RealReal will present a curated selection of their Rare Finds — their most storied and one-of-a-kind vintage pieces.

And tune in to today’s episode to get a sneak preview of some of the incredibly rare pieces that will be at the show this weekend! 👏

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

💻 Dominik’s start in archival collecting via Japanese reseller forums.

🌴Working on the incredible 20,000+ piece vintage collection of Keni Valenti.

📸 His memories of the Manhattan Vintage show, a vintage wonderland convening 90+ dealers in true New York City spectacle.

📈 The growth of vintage collecting and how we’re now seeing trends in vintage.

🧵Dominik’s personal fashion archive, featuring a lot of Helmut Lang, Yohji Yamamoto and the early work of Hedi Slimane.

✉️ The wildest length’s Dominik has gone to for a piece for his collection.

👀 And an exclusive preview into some of the Rare Finds that will be at this weekend!

🎧LISTEN TODAY, wherever you stream podcasts! - Apple, Spotify, Google Play, and more. 🎧

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-realreal-master-authenticator-of-vintage/id1435719708?i=1000643354790

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