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Vintage
My Vestiaire Collective buying tips: search older collections, watch the listings nobody wants, look for unworn vintage, and buy shoes you can walk in.
Jewellery
Chunky gold jewellery the 1980s way: chains, big earrings, stacked bangles and rings, with 1980s Yves Saint Laurent earrings, and how to wear it in summer.
Shoes
How to sell vintage and preloved luxury on Vestiaire Collective: what to source, how to photograph, describe, price and pack it, and keep buyers happy.
Accessories
Vintage faux fur and how to wear it: capes, stoles, colours, accessories and second-hand buys, with my hooded black cape on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
Shoes
When my Miu Miu heels needed new soles I chose bright red over brown leather. How to find a good shoe repairer and ask for a coloured sole.
Accessories
Faux fur or real fur for a shawl: how each one wears, how to look after real fur, and how to tell the two apart by touch, by the base and by the price.
Eyewear
My 1980s Christian Dior sunglasses, made in Austria and bought on Vestiaire Collective: a small silver metal frame, and why I chose it over a new pair.
Accessories
How to wear a vintage brooch: on a silk scarf, a cardigan, a coat collar, a dress, a handbag, a hat or a lapel. There are no rules, and none is too big.
Eyewear
A tortoiseshell-effect frame stamped 68 MOD Fait Main Wrap Oyonnax France: what the stamp says, where Oyonnax is, and how to wear vintage eyewear.
Vintage
What a wiggle dress is, how to tell it from a sheath, and who wears it well, from Joan Holloway in Mad Men to Queen Letizia and Queen Maxima.
Vintage
Roy Halston Frowick, from Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat to Studio 54, Ultrasuede and JC Penney: the rise, the fall and the legacy of Halston.
Shoes
Ballerina pumps the Audrey Hepburn way: plain black or nude flats, fine socks in neutral colours, and invisible socks when you want none showing.
My Style
Made in Italy antiques for the home: Murano glass chandeliers, Carrara and Calacatta marble, and antique lounges reupholstered in velvet and silk.
