S8 Ep27 MACY ELENI: Thrift Queen and the author of Second Chances - on estate sales in LA, vintage Juicy Couture, and manifesting your dream secondhand finds.

Pre-Loved Podcast with Emily Stochl

Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly vintage fashion interview show, with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with! For more Pre-Loved Podcast, subscribe to our Patreon!

On today’s show, we’re chatting with Macy Eleni, TikTok secondhand style star on a mission to reinvent fashion entertainment using secondhand clothing as a vessel for storytelling. Raised by a single mother in Dayton, Ohio, Macy used thrift shopping as a way to express herself as a teenager.

On todays’ episode we’re chatting about iconic Y2K style, and how being on YouTube in the 2010s influenced Macy’s love of fashion and thrift, plus estate sales in Los Angeles, Juicy Couture, and so so much more. Plus, Macy’s book, Second Chances, is out THIS WEEK on September 24th, so snag your copy after you listen to this show. – let’s dive right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

• [4:50] How Macy got into secondhand fashion as a teenager who wanted to play with style on a bargain.
• [8:02] The glory days of thrifting when you could find vintage Louis Vuitton for a few dollars.
• [13:04] Y2K irreverent graphic tees
• [17:08] When thrifting went through a mainstream transformation
• [21:00] On vintage Juicy Couture
• [26:15] Finding vintage Ed Hardy at estate sales
• [31:53] And her best estate sale tips
• [38:24] Macy’s thrift manifestation Pinterest boards

EPISODE MENTIONS:

• @macyeleni
• Macy’s TikTok
• Second Chances book
• Macy’s YouTube channel
• Macy on Fluffy Files ( by the founder of Juicy Couture) podcast
• Macy’s Juicy Couture “Firkin”
• EstateSales.Net on Pre-Loved Podcast
• @littleoysterclub
• @jasmina.tv
• @stephermer
• Steph on Pre-Loved Podcast

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• 🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
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