I’m in an entirely new headspace and want to take a turn away from luxury, away from fashion, and away from consumerism as a whole. In the last decade, I worked in luxury resale, chatted here with you guys, and modeled professionally - this year I’m actually making an effort to do a 'No Buy' challenge for the year, with the intention of re-assessing my passions, purpose, and participation - and I want to ensure that as much of those things actually serve ME.
Make no mistake, I was never buying designer goods as a means of ‘showing off’ or ‘status signaling’ (…and to be clear - I don’t think most anyone that found *my* channel, or the true luxury community more broadly does either!). I genuinely was having fun with collecting these things - to the point where it felt like a part of my identity. But my passion, my zeal, my interest? Gone. Over the years, the market has changed, and I really don’t see that it has anything of substance left to offer. Just shoddy craftsmanship, high prices, and hideous, unflattering designs that give little utility.
After working in a small consignment boutique for years, I started this channel in 2016 because I saw how often consumers were being misled by brands, sales associates, and influencers. I interacted with women who bought Chanel Jumbos at full price - just be shocked later on that in resale they wouldn’t get back exactly what they had paid, saying to me, almost in whimpers: “But, they said it was an investment.” after losing thousands.
My aim here was to share practical knowledge and useful insights directly with consumers so they could make informed purchasing decisions and participate in luxury shopping on their own terms. Respecting anyone’s choice in their participation, while giving my best honest guidance, and potentially bursting a few bubbles in the process.
Unfortunately, I just don’t see an avenue for practical, rational, thoughtful, decision making in this space. As with many commercial industries, the incentive is to just keep everyone in a perpetual compulsive state of buying, and buying, and buying. And, I’m done.
I left the industry professionally in 2023, and it has taken some time and some serious self-reflection and solitude, but I’ve taken stock of my motivations here and it’s time for a hard reset. What I thought was a “love of fashion” - from the luxury resale arena, to shopping fast fashion for the perfect outfit - was just empty consumerism that kept my mind activated but wasted money and cluttered my space.
I sold off all of my Chanel bags, most of my LV, and remain with a couple (…lol 14) designer bags that I love the look and style of - but to be really honest, I don’t use them. And I haven’t really used them in *years.*
I really truly enjoyed this, but it’s time for me to move on. As mentioned, I want to stop shopping, and I want to change the direction of this online space to a place that questions this mindless consumerism and gets us (mostly me!) back to truly thinking about my needs, goals, preferences, and well-being over lining the pockets of businesses that literally mean us harm.
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This is goodbye. But I'm back!
I’m in an entirely new headspace and want to take a turn away from luxury, away from fashion, and away from consumerism as a whole. In the last decade, I worked in luxury resale, chatted here with you guys, and modeled professionally - this year I’m actually making an effort to do a 'No Buy' challenge for the year, with the intention of re-assessing my passions, purpose, and participation - and I want to ensure that as much of those things actually serve ME.
Make no mistake, I was never buying designer goods as a means of ‘showing off’ or ‘status signaling’ (…and to be clear - I don’t think most anyone that found *my* channel, or the true luxury community more broadly does either!). I genuinely was having fun with collecting these things - to the point where it felt like a part of my identity. But my passion, my zeal, my interest? Gone. Over the years, the market has changed, and I really don’t see that it has anything of substance left to offer. Just shoddy craftsmanship, high prices, and hideous, unflattering designs that give little utility.
After working in a small consignment boutique for years, I started this channel in 2016 because I saw how often consumers were being misled by brands, sales associates, and influencers. I interacted with women who bought Chanel Jumbos at full price - just be shocked later on that in resale they wouldn’t get back exactly what they had paid, saying to me, almost in whimpers: “But, they said it was an investment.” after losing thousands.
My aim here was to share practical knowledge and useful insights directly with consumers so they could make informed purchasing decisions and participate in luxury shopping on their own terms. Respecting anyone’s choice in their participation, while giving my best honest guidance, and potentially bursting a few bubbles in the process.
Unfortunately, I just don’t see an avenue for practical, rational, thoughtful, decision making in this space. As with many commercial industries, the incentive is to just keep everyone in a perpetual compulsive state of buying, and buying, and buying. And, I’m done.
I left the industry professionally in 2023, and it has taken some time and some serious self-reflection and solitude, but I’ve taken stock of my motivations here and it’s time for a hard reset. What I thought was a “love of fashion” - from the luxury resale arena, to shopping fast fashion for the perfect outfit - was just empty consumerism that kept my mind activated but wasted money and cluttered my space.
I sold off all of my Chanel bags, most of my LV, and remain with a couple (…lol 14) designer bags that I love the look and style of - but to be really honest, I don’t use them. And I haven’t really used them in *years.*
I really truly enjoyed this, but it’s time for me to move on. As mentioned, I want to stop shopping, and I want to change the direction of this online space to a place that questions this mindless consumerism and gets us (mostly me!) back to truly thinking about my needs, goals, preferences, and well-being over lining the pockets of businesses that literally mean us harm.
I hope you’ll join me.
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