Pre-Loved Podcast with Emily Stochl - S8 Ep3 NIK POLLINA: owner of Seven Moods vintage - on shopping vintage in New York, and a shift toward experiential shopping that facilitates unique personal style.

S8 Ep3 NIK POLLINA: owner of Seven Moods vintage - on shopping vintage in New York, and a shift toward experiential shopping that facilitates unique personal style.

02/12/24 • 46 min

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 Nik Pollina is a vintage business owner and content creator living in NYC.

She started her career in tech and created content on her career journey helping 100s of women land jobs in the tech field. When she was laid off in 2023, Nik felt a calling to pursue something more creative. Since then, she has opened her own secondhand and vintage store called Seven Moods.

We chat about experiential shopping, some favorite vintage spots in New York City, and much much more! It’s a really fun episode today, so let’s dive right in!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

[6:11] On how thrifting and creativity was something Nik was encouraged to express growing up.
[12:10] Nik’s journey to starting a vintage business after leaving her tech career.
[17:35] The paths to scaling a vintage business.
[21:34] Pinch me moments, like a stylist pull for Bella Hadid.
[22:41] What Nik has learned about the shopping experience from exploring hundreds of NYC vintage shops.
[26:19] A shift toward experiential shopping that facilitates unique personal style.

EPISODE MENTIONS:

LET’S CONNECT:

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🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/
🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod

SPECIAL THANKS:

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

Patty Weber
Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
Danny of Galaxy Live
Kathy Brand
Lucero Buendia
Tricia Zelazny
Leslie V.
Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
Lucille of Galipette Vintage
KT
Lydia Welp
Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
Michael A.

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 Nik Pollina is a vintage business owner and content creator living in NYC.

We chat about experiential shopping, some favorite vintage spots in New York City, and much much more! It’s a really fun episode today, so let’s dive right in!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

[6:11] On how thrifting and creativity was something Nik was encouraged to express growing up.
[12:10] Nik’s journey to starting a vintage business after leaving her tech career.
[17:35] The paths to scaling a vintage business.
[21:34] Pinch me moments, like a stylist pull for Bella Hadid.
[22:41] What Nik has learned about the shopping experience from exploring hundreds of NYC vintage shops.
[26:19] A shift toward experiential shopping that facilitates unique personal style.

EPISODE MENTIONS:

LET’S CONNECT:

📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/
🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod

SPECIAL THANKS:

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

Patty Weber
Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
Danny of Galaxy Live
Kathy Brand
Lucero Buendia
Tricia Zelazny
Leslie V.
Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
Lucille of Galipette Vintage
KT
Lydia Welp
Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
Michael A.

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S8 Ep2 VIV CHEN: creator of a top-ranked Substack fashion newsletter, The Molehill - on how she launched her career as a fashion writer and stylist, and her best Japanese eBay finds.

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 Viv Chen, a California-based fashion writer and stylist.

She is the founder of The Molehill, a top-ranked Substack fashion newsletter which covers fashion commentary, TV/movie costume analysis and curated secondhand finds. Her keen fashion insights and expert product recommendations that have been highlighted in The Strategist, The New York Times and Coveteur.

On today’s show we chat about everything from how she launched her fashion writing career, to her escapades on Japanese eBay –it’s a really fun episode today, so let’s dive right in!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

[2:55] Early style influences like Tumblr, and the vintage shops on Telegraph Avenue.
[8:52] Experimenting with indie personal style aesthetics as a teen.
[13:59] Starting her Substack, the Molehill, and launching her fashion writing career.
[26:56] How to navigate the world of “trends” and “aesthetics” in the secondhand and sustainable fashion space.
[37:32] The personal styling trend to try to find adjectives, or language, to describe your style.
[40:53] Online secondhand shopping stories, including on Japanese eBay.

EPISODE MENTIONS:

LET’S CONNECT:

📸Instagram: @emilymstochl
🐦Twitter: @emilymstochl
🎥TikTok: @emilymstochl
📧 Substack: https://prelovedpod.substack.com/
🎧Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/prelovedpod

SPECIAL THANKS:

A special thanks goes out to my Patron Insiders – your support makes Pre-Loved Podcast possible!

Patty Weber
Beverley Docherty of Wolfe Pack Vintage
Danny of Galaxy Live
Kathy Brand
Lucero Buendia
Tricia Zelazny
Leslie V.
Lisa of Queenie & Pearl
Lucille of Galipette Vintage
KT
Lydia Welp
Anastacia Banicke of Goods & Provisions
Michael A.

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undefined - S8 Ep4 FRENCH WORKWEAR COMPANY: owner, Marie Remy - on growing up in rural France, moving to Paris, and selling French ‘bleu’ workwear jackets (plus other European workwear classics!)

S8 Ep4 FRENCH WORKWEAR COMPANY: owner, Marie Remy - on growing up in rural France, moving to Paris, and selling French ‘bleu’ workwear jackets (plus other European workwear classics!)

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 Marie Remy, who is the founder & owner of The French Workwear Company.

Marie grew up in the 1970s and 80s in rural Eastern France, where her dad had a mechanic’s garage. She always dreamed of moving to Paris, which she did as a student and soaked up all the indie music gigs, record stores, vintage fashion and flea markets every weekend.

On this episode, Marie shares the stories that lead to her launching a French workwear vintage business, after several years in the music industry and settling in London. Like many of us, she first started selling her “surplus,” as she and her musician husband were both vintage lovers, but would continue to go back to France to source workwear, particularly the ‘bleus’ which were a quintessential part of her upbringing.

Tune in for Marie’s fab stories, plus a fascinating amount of social and fashion history – this episode is a really fun deep dive, so let’s get right into it!

DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:

[4:01] Growing up as a teenager in rural France in the 1980s, loving indie music and vintage fashion.
[5:37] On Marie’s first trip to Paris she saw Azzedine Alaïa while out and about.
[7:12] Thrifting in Paris in the late 1980s at the Guerrisol.
[11:33] On shopping at the iconic Parisian flea markets.
[16:23] She first started selling her “surplus,” as she and her musician husband were both vintage lovers.
[19:36] The history and aesthetics that drew Marie to vintage workwear.
[39:53] French workwear is meant to last a long time, and some pieces have beautiful mending.
[51:59] The pieces in her vintage collection that Marie finds especially unique.

EPISODE MENTIONS: