Author name: Lexy Silverstein

Lex in the City: Notting Hill, London Second Hand Thrift Guide

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Notting Hill might be best known for its pastel-colored houses and the famous Portobello Road Market, but it’s also one of London’s best neighborhoods for secondhand shopping. Whether you’re hunting for designer vintage, affordable charity shop finds, or the perfect Y2K statement piece, this West London hotspot has something for every type of thrifter. Portobello […]

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Wedding Season Without the Waste: 7 Ways to Make Your Wedding More Sustainable

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If you’re getting married this summer, you’re already in the middle of it. If you’re getting married next June, you’re probably booking vendors right now. Either way, this is the moment when most of the decisions that determine how much waste your wedding generates actually get made — the venue, the florist, the caterer, the

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Lex in the City: Newport Beach Second Hand Thrift Guide Part II

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If Newport Beach Part 1 leaned more toward classic vintage and surf-adjacent finds, Part 2 is all about the resale and consignment side of the secondhand world. This stretch of Orange County specializes in designer labels, luxury consignment, contemporary fashion, and carefully curated closets rather than racks of true vintage. The best approach is to

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Upper East Side thrift and consignment shopping guide featuring the New York City skyline and the best secondhand, vintage, and luxury resale stores in Manhattan.

Lex in the City: NYC’s Upper East Side Second Hand Thrift Guide

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Unlike downtown’s chaotic warehouse thrifts, the the Upper East Side specializes in elegant consignment, neighborhood thrift shops, and vintage stores hiding between immaculate brownstones of New York City. The best part? You can spend an entire afternoon bouncing between stores within a 20-minute walking radius and never feel like you’re trekking across Manhattan. This guide

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Coachtopia Is Now on Depop: What It Means for Circular Fashion and Resale’s Future

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Coachtopia just opened an official shop on Depop. New bags. Restored bags. Vintage Y2K Coach finds. All in one place, at depop.com/coachtopia. On the surface, it sounds like a pretty standard brand launch announcement. A sub-brand opens a storefront on a resale app. Fine. But there’s a lot happening underneath that press release that’s worth

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Lex in the City: NYC’s Greenwhich Village Second Hand Thrift Guide

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Greenwich Village thrifting is smaller and more scattered than people expect, but that’s part of the charm. Unlike Williamsburg or the East Village, the Village isn’t dominated by giant resale warehouses. Instead, it’s full of longtime neighborhood vintage stores, carefully curated boutiques, church thrifts, and hidden specialty shops tucked onto side streets. This is a

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Beyond Reusable Water Bottles: Ariel DeLaCruz on What Sustainability Actually Means

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From The Lexy Show, Season 9 — listen here We spend a lot of time in this space talking about what to buy. The right water bottle. The organic cotton. The sustainable brand over the fast fashion one. Those things matter. But after talking with Ariel DeLaCruz, I’ve been sitting with a different question entirely:

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Your Swimsuit Might Be Killing the Ocean — Here’s What to Do About It

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Today is World Ocean Day. Your Instagram feed is probably full of blue graphics and “protect our oceans” captions from brands that have never once looked at their supply chains. So let’s skip the aesthetics and talk about what’s actually happening. How the Fashion Industry Is Polluting the Ocean The ocean covers over 70% of

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On May 16, 2026, Everlane's board voted to sell the company to SHEIN for $100 million. And if you felt something drop in your stomach when you read that, you're not being dramatic. That feeling is the correct response to what just happened. I've been covering SHEIN since before most people knew how to pronounce it. I fought them when they came to my school. I've written about their business model, their labor practices, their greenwashing playbook. I followed them closely but I didn't see this coming.

SHEIN Just Bought the Brand That Was Supposed to Be the Alternative to SHEIN

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The Everlane acquisition isn’t ironic. It’s the strategy. There’s a line from Everlane’s Instagram, posted two days before the news broke: “Better isn’t a mood. It’s a standard we refuse to lower.” The comments are now disabled. On May 16, 2026, Everlane’s board voted to sell the company to SHEIN for $100 million. And if

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Your Jewelry Has a Dirty Little Secret — And Nobody Is Talking About It

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From The Lexy Show, Season 9, Episode 19: “Why Sustainable Jewelry Deserves More Attention | Atma Prema” We’ve spent a lot of time dissecting the environmental sins of fast fashion: the polyester, the sweatshop labor, the overconsumption. These are all important conversations. But along the way, we forgot about the shiny things that take an

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Lexy Silverstein, sustainable fashion journalist and secondhand shopping advocate, author of the Lex in the City thrift tour guide series

Thrifting Isn’t Stealing From Poor People. Here’s What the Data Actually Shows

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The internet loves a villain. And lately, the villain of sustainable fashion discourse is the thrifter. The person scanning racks at Goodwill for a deal, wearing vintage, hunting secondhand for something unique. The claim: by shopping secondhand, you’re pricing out poor people and taking what isn’t yours. It doesn’t hold up.

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Sustainable Fashion at the Met Gala: Who Actually Showed Up (And What Was Happening Outside)

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There was no theme this year. Not really. The spring 2026 exhibition is titled “Costume Art,” and the dress code is “Fashion Is Art,” referencing the exhibition’s pairing of garments with art objects. Which is fine as a curatorial concept. But as a directive for what celebrities should wear to one of the most photographed events on the planet, it offers almost nothing. No lens. No urgency. No invitation to ask harder questions. Just: be artistic.

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Met Gala 2026: Bezos, the Ball Without Billionaires, and What Sustainable Fashion Actually Means

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We love the Met Gala. The looks are genuinely unhinged in the best way, the fashion is incredible, and your entire For You Page turns into a runway recap for 48 hours straight. We are not here to cancel fashion’s biggest night. But this year, there’s a lot more happening on those steps than couture – and if you care about sustainable fashion, it’s worth actually talking about.

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Lex in the City: San Diego Second Hand Tour Guide

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If there’s one thing about San Diego thrifting — it’s not one strip, it’s a full city-wide hunt. You’re not walking one street like Silver Lake. You’re bouncing between beach towns, suburban warehouse thrifts, and tucked-away vintage spots. Some stores are curated and easy. Others feel like you walked into someone’s garage sale times a

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