Like Eleni, Julia Rabinowitsch is also looking to the past to help rebuild the future. Rabinowitsch, who runs the Los Angeles-based vintage sourcing business The Millennial Decorator, has offered her services to help people find heirlooms they lost in the fire. “I saw a TikTok from a young girl lamenting over the fact that out of everything that their family lost, she was most upset about the vintage and archival pieces,” Rabinowitsch says. “It just struck a chord.”
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Like Stewart and Lackey, Rabinowitsch acknowledges that what she’s offering isn’t an immediate necessity, but an important step in helping people restart their lives. “For many, their priority isn’t finding a designer bag right now,” she says. “But at the same time, for many, the items they know are impossible to find are the ones that hurt the most. Helping families find that one bag or item carried down generationally that they lost means the world.” Rabinowitsch is already in hot demand. “Today I’ve called Arizona to Canada to New York, looking for a archival YSL crucifix bag, which was like the sisterhood of the traveling bag for one family,” she says. “We’ve had a request for a Dior black silk dress, Tom Ford for YSL silk ruffle dress, Chanel loafers, a vintage Chanel bag, a Fendi bucket bag that was a family heirloom, and Armani belt that a girl shared with her mom and sister.” Though it’s a tall order, Rabinowitsch has already enlisted a small team of fashion experts to help.
