If lusting over designer goods is your shopping modus operandi, but emptying your cart when you look at your bank account is too, any hope of owning a piece of fashion history may seem out of reach—that is, unless you look beyond traditional methods.
Consignment stores that specialise in procuring in hard-to-get designer goods have emerged from, and have thrived in, a time where a stream of cult status-gaining, new releases have in near new filtrated our consciousness more than ever before.