Best-of-the-best vintage luxury auction preview draws Kim Kardashian West in a pink rubber dress
A hand-painted 1930s Hermès bag, vintage Kelly and Birkin bags, Chanel clutches ... and a surfboard – vintage chain What Goes Around Comes Around’s Christie’s sale is out of the ordinary
In sifting through their substantial trove of designer vintage finds, Seth Weisser and Gerard Maione, co-founders of US luxury resale boutique chain What Goes Around Comes Around, were looking for more than your typical Birkin bag.
They found an Hermès travel bag from the 1930s, delicately hand-painted and accented with palladium hardware, and another item from the venerable French house, a rare alligator Kelly bag in a celadon shade from 1995. Looking for a surfboard from Chanel, a shoe trunk designed by Manolo Blahnik for Louis Vuitton or Andy Warhol-inspired Versace leggings? They’re all here too.
What Goes Around Comes Around, which has shops in New York, Miami and Beverly Hills, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. And instead of throwing a big party, Weisser and Maione decided to team up with Christie’s New York to offer at auction more than 200 fashion pieces they have acquired over the years; pieces, said Weisser, that represent “the best of the best of brands that are so coveted”.
In August, the fashion entrepreneurs hosted a preview of the auction items at a Beverly Hills event, attended by celebrity clients including Kim Kardashian West, who showed up in a Pepto Bismol-coloured rubber dress. The collection was subsequently dispatched to New York, where it will be auctioned piece by piece on September 18.
