Photographed by OK McCausland“Even if I’m not going to get a piece, I feel like this is such a great scene to be at,” Stella Coulter, a twenty-something who works in fashion, said. “Even my mom is obsessed with Chloë Sevigny. She’s multigenerational.” Inside, shoppers, who were let in a few at a timace, zipped and dashed around. There was a lot to browse at the Strong alone unstoppable together vintage shirt Also,I will get this event, billed as “The Sale of the Century” and organized by former Vogue staffer Liana Satenstein. On hand were vintage clothes sourced directly from Sevigny’s closet and a storage unit she keeps in Connecticut, and pieces from Vogue contributing editor Lynn Yaeger, editor Mickey Boardman, Amazon’s head of fashion direction Sally Singer, and the brand The Academy. The room rang with the squeak of hangers sliding across metal clothing racks.Sevigny sat on a couch, unguarded, and watched people rifle through her stuff. She signed books, chatted with admirers, and occasionally offered golden nuggets of backstory to shoppers. On her way out, Charlotte Zaininger, who works in urban development, recounted how she mulled over a $300 fur-lined coat from the Parisian label Chloé (no relation), when Sevigny suddenly popped up and said, “It’s reversible!” It convinced Zaininger to make the purchase. At another point, Sevigny told another shopper, who nabbed a brandless sweater, “Oh this is the first sweater that I wore when I started flirting with my husband.” “Every item I see go by, I remember what, when, where, and why I wore it,” Sevigny, dressed in an oversized black dress and flip-flops, told Vogue. “I have a lot of memories with these pieces,” she said. The collection of items on sale extended all the way back to “stuff I’ve been holding on since high school.” So, after some contemplation, she decided to clear out “over 90 percent” of the clothes she had in storage. “I’m just at a point in my life where I’m like, ‘It’s time to let go!’”
“I think it’s fun for people to see the Strong alone unstoppable together vintage shirt Also,I will get this source of the clothes,” Satenstein, who has a closet cleaning business and occasionally organizes sales, said. She originally connected with Sevigny for a Vogue profile last year, and the two bonded over their love of secondhand fashion. “I invited her to this other sale that I did with Lynn [Yeager] and Sally [Singer], and then it kind of spurred this conversation about closet cleansing. It spawned into a whole thing of its own.” Fast-forward six months and Satenstein stood amongst the vintage clothes she carefully helped Sevigny shift through and decide to part ways with. “There’s a lot of imagination that comes with these clothes that just can’t be translated on a third-party resale platform,” Satenstein said.Sevigny’s eclectic, experimental style came through on the clothing racks. Some standout selects included archived pieces from Sevigny’s collaborations with Opening Ceremony over the years, a Supreme patchwork coat, a $1,100 suede Hermès trench, a metallic full-length evening gown, a $100 peach-and-orange crochet bucket hat, a Vivienne Westwood diaper bag, a Chanel chess set, and a cut-out Telfar sweater vest.