This Saturday, March 29, Vogue and Gigi Hadid are hosting a one-day-only vintage shopping extravaganza in New York City, with 100% of the proceeds going towards those impacted by the Los Angeles fires. The sale will be filled with iconic pieces courtesy of some of our most fashionable friends—a 2010 Prada dress from Lauren Santo Domingo, Kendall Jenner’s circa 2004 Dior logo’d mini-skirt and fanny pack, and a few select pieces from Vogue contributor and fashion icon Lynn Yaeger, including a tutu, a “little velvet evening bag from the 1920s,” and an aviator hat.
On this week’s episode of The Run-Through: Baby Lynnie, as she’s affectionately known, joins Nicole Phelps and Vogue’s Fashion Features Director Mark Holgate for an episode dedicated to all things vintage shopping. “I guess at some point in my 20s, I decided that I really looked good in 1920s clothes and I was only going to wear 1920s clothes,” Yaeger recalls about the origins of her signature style, which Holgate describes as “an incredibly individualistic look” that fuses “tutus, a slightly ’20s and ’30s air and attitude of clothing, mixed with Comme des Garçons, Simone Rocha, and Molly Goddard.”
The long-time colleagues discuss their all-time favorite vintage haunts, playing hooky from work to scour markets abroad, and the ways they’ve seen the industry adopt and adapt to the world’s fascination with vintage shopping—including how the furor for it has now jacked up prices. “I’m always taken aback, but it’s still much more reasonable than [buying] new things,” Yaeger explains. She may be price conscious, but she does make exceptions. “It’s like a love affair, you know everything goes out the window when something is speaking to you.” Listen to the episode for more of Lynn’s real vintage talk, including what she won’t do for one-dollar dresses.
