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S9 Ep18 BONHAMS: Marissa Speer, Head of Designer Handbags & Fashion in the U.S. - on auctioning Jackie Kennedy’s 1968 wedding dress.

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Release Date: 05/26/2025

S9 Ep28 CHEERIO COLLECTIVE: vintage market & event space - Lureena Thompson on what it really takes to sustainably bring a small business to life, one stone at a time.

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This episode is brought to you by —and big news: their tech just got a serious upgrade, go check it out! Plus, new customers get 50% off and free shipping when you use the code: PRELOVEDPOD. On today’s show, we’re chatting with Lureena Thompson, a comedian, actor and artist in Los Angeles, who opened the Cheerio Collective in Highland Park this spring. It’s a vintage store by day – utilizing a curated “rent-a-rack” collective concept, and a live event space by night – and Lureena self-admits she’s doing SO MUCH, and that you should stop by to tell her in-person to stop and...

S9 Ep27 DON’T LET DISCO: Ashley Moubayed, collector and curator of vintage and antique beads - on upcycling to create limited-edition jewelry, and honoring the life within every bead.

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On today’s show, we’re chatting with Ashley Moubayed, the founder of Don’t Let Disco. Don’t Let Disco sources uniquely crafted beads, often vintage or antique, and one-of-a-kind, to upcycle into limited-edition jewelry, honoring the life within every bead. Don’t Let Disco is a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund finalist, and this New York Fashion Week, Ashley will be showing her Spring/Summer 2026 collection – Pre-Loved got you a special sneak peek into some of the pieces and their stories, and I can’t wait to share these with you. Everything about Don’t Let Disco embraces the...

S9 Ep27 ALISON NAGATANI: Maui Mood Swing and Mad Kimono - on moving from a California farm to Hawaii and building two vintage stores on Maui.

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On today’s show, we’re chatting with Alison Nagatani, the founder of Maui Mood Swing and Mad Kimono. Alison is a fourth-generation farmer turned vintage entrepreneur who made the bold move from California's Central Valley to Maui and has since reimagined her life, living new passions. What started as sourcing vintage for a friend's store evolved into two unique vintage destinations: Maui Mood Swing, an antique mall experience with a Hawaiian twist, and Mad Kimono, a curated women's vintage boutique inspired by her personal closet spanning pieces from the 1930s to 1990s. And I loved hearing...

S9 Ep26 VESTIAIRE COLLECTIVE: Belinda Van Santen, Vintage Category Manager - on 5x growth in searches for vintage on the platform, and ‘Vintage Pieces at Vintage Prices.’

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On today’s show, we’re chatting with Belinda Van Santen, Vintage Category Manager at Vestiaire Collective. Vestiaire Collective is a global platform for pre-loved luxury and designer fashion, started in Paris in 2009, where Belinda is also based. Belinda has been with Vestiaire Collective for over a decade, one of the company’s longest employees, who has great perspective on how the platforms’ expertise in vintage has evolved and intensified over the years. Most recently, Vestiaire Collective has seen a 220% increase in vintage supply and 5x growth in searches over the past five years....

S9 Ep25 MANZANITA: Dorit Avganim, stylist and curator - on personal styling, and a belief in urban storefront corridors and community spaces.

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On today’s show, we’re chatting with Dorit, founder of Manzanita, a vintage boutique in University City in West Philly. Dorit is a stylist, and in fact she was recently named Philadelphia Magazine’s Best Philly Stylist! We talk about her special styling talents and her unique approach to curation – she feels she can call in the exact right person for each piece she pulls, and I think vintage-lovers you can probably relate! The piece finds you! Plus, her belief in urban storefront corridors and why she became inspired to open a physical community space, making vintage accessible and...

S9 Ep24 CHERRY PICK VINTAGE: Brooklyn O’Neill, co-founder - on sorting and grading 250,000 lbs of secondhand clothing each month for 3 vintage shops and a wholesale business.

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On today’s show, we’re chatting with Brooklyn O’Neill, one of co-founders of Cherry Pick Vintage, which operates 3 vintage retail shops and a wholesale business across British Columbia, Canada. Brooklyn’s fiancé, Andrew is a third-generation clothing recycler, and the Cherry Pick Vintage team sorts and grades 250,000 lbs of secondhand clothing at the family’s warehouse each month – proving that “everything you want already exists!” On this episode you’ll learn what it’s like to sort through 20,000 lbs of clothing each day, and the wildest discoveries that turn up in...

S9 Ep23 ESTATE SALES.NET: General Manager, Marika Clemow - on the technology innovating estate sales for the modern day secondhand buyers and shoppers.

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On today’s show, we’re chatting with Marika, the general manager of – she’s a global expert in the secondhand market, her career spanning career spanning from auction houses in Sydney and London to making the estate sale space more technologically-innovative for the modern day secondhand buyers and shoppers. Now, listeners of this show will probably be familiar with – the place to find estate sales online. On today’s episode you’re going to hear about some of the new ideas – like virtual line management and hybrid auction sales – that are making estate sales more...

S9 Ep22: PICKLE: Julia O’Mara, co-founder of Pickle, a peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace - on building the sharing economy for fashion, working with influencers, and raising $12M.

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On today's show, we're chatting with Julia O'Mara, the co-founder of Pickle, the peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace. Pickle's goal is making it easier and more affordable to rent high-quality clothing within communities – on today's episode, Julia will tell you about how she was working in business and product engineering when she had this idea: a gap in the fashion market. And it led her to build Pickle, a first-of-its kind platform, which – in less than a year – has boomed onto the scene, recirculating 100,000 items, top lenders paying their NYC rent with their Pickle earnings!...

S9 Ep21 VERY BREEZY: vintage bridal studio, luxury fashion curator and wardrobe stylist, Brie - on collecting vintage fashion and building a business around what you love.

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This episode is brought to you by Classic Coco, thank you for making Pre-Loved Podcast possible! This is the space where we talk about all things vintage, secondhand and pre-loved across the fashion space! And for new listeners, or longtime pals, to follow along with all things thrift, vintage, rad, retro, and sustainable, you can find me Emily Stochl, across the internet as @emilymstochl. Come hang out I’d love to chat with you! On today’s show, we’re chatting with Brie, the founder of Very Breezy, a luxury vintage fashion studio in New York. Brie is a lifelong...

S9 Ep20 LA RETRO GIRL: long-time vintage dealer, Monique Gatillon - on how perseverance, divine timing and positive mindset contributes to the success of her business.

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This episode is brought to you by Classic Coco, thank you for making Pre-Loved Podcast possible! This is the space where we talk about all things vintage, secondhand and pre-loved across the fashion space! And for new listeners, or longtime pals, to follow along with all things thrift, vintage, rad, retro, and sustainable, you can find me Emily Stochl, across the internet as @emilymstochl. Come hang out I’d love to chat with you! On today’s show, we’re chatting with Monique of LA Retro Girl! You might know her from being a regular vintage dealer at Pickwick...

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On today’s show, we’re chatting with Marissa, the Head of Designer Handbags & Fashion in the U.S. at Bonhams Auction House. If you’ve listened to the episode we did with Bonham’s UK-based counterpart, Meg Randell, Bonhams is building on its success in offering handbags & fashion by introducing the category to the US market.

Marissa bring twenty-years experience to this position, previously she worked at Resurrection Vintage, where she learned to source, date, and place exquisite antique and couture pieces with the world’s most renowned fashion houses, museums, stylists.

Then, she worked at the world’s largest consignment company, The RealReal, where she specialized in authentication and valuation and had a 0% authenticity error rate.

What happens when a Dior newspaper dress (yes, THAT Sex and the City dress) goes from an $800 estimate to selling for $23,000? Or when a 90-year-old yacht mechanic decides it's time to auction Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress he's kept wrapped in tissue paper since the 1960s?

On this episode we talk about all this & more – the absolute treasures that fall under Marissa’s specialty for auctions at Bonhams – let’s dive right in!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

[2:39] A child of the 90s, Marissa grew up loving a Delia’s catalog.
[10:20] How she was recruited to start the Fashion & Handbags department at Bonham’s U.S. division.
[14:16] Why building relationships is so important in a client-driven business like vintage dealing or auctions.
[14:46] Selling Jackie Kennedy’s 1968 Valentino wedding dress, which had been stored on a yacht.
[20:59] Inside the most impressive collection of never-worn Margiela Marissa has ever seen.
[23:53] The heritage brands and couture designs Marissa works on at Bonhams, and how to value them.
[27:02] - How a Sex and the City reference turned an $800 Dior dress into a $23,000 auction moment.
[28:50] Working on the first-ever Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy fashion auction.
[30:28] How an auction house assesses trends and demand to best time the market value.
[31:25] Why it’s time to pull out your Y2K Louis Vuitton and your Dior saddlebags, plus other trending items.

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