Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly interview show about rad vintage style with guests you'll want to go thrifting with! Emily Stochl - @emilymstochl - is the show's creator and host.
Each episode is about second-hand fashion. We come at the subject from all sides. We discuss style, running a fashion business, the global second-hand industry, sustainability, and -- of course! -- the incredible stories behind our best vintage pieces, and why we choose second-hand first.
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S10 Ep21 JACKIE RABBITS: Jackie is a true-vintage dealer and Whatnot live seller - on going full-time with 17 years in reselling, and pushing through stage fright to do dollar-start auctions.
Season 10 · Episode 21
Monday, September 28, 2026 • Duration 50:24
Today we're chatting with Jackie of Jackie Rabbits, a true-vintage dealer whose path to reselling started early. Jackie was frequently thrifting with her mom as a kid, customizing denim and street wear as a teenager, and staging elaborate backyard photo shoots that stretched her creative muscles.
She started reselling at sixteen years old, and landed an antique mall booth soon after. Six years ago she took the leap into full-time reselling – ego death and all! – and these days she has a packed weekly calendar of live shows on Whatnot.
As she's built her vintage business, she's built a distinct point of view around handmade, richly detailed vintage while also becoming one of the earliest true-vintage sellers on Whatnot, pushing through stage fright to sell live nearly every week.
We're getting into it all — her dumpster diving stories, honest advice on pricing and pacing, and pushing through the nerves of going live, plus all the other practical wisdom she's picked up along the way.
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The Brimfield Debrief
Monday, September 21, 2026 • Duration 01:01:18
This week on Pre-Loved, we're launching something new: the The Debrief, a special podcast segment where we "debrief" what's happening in vintage — like when you're sitting down with your friends after a market to talk through everything you saw, bought, found and noticed.
For our first Debrief, there was only one place to start: Brimfield Antique Market, the oldest and largest outdoor antique market in the country, held across six days, three times a year, in Brimfield, Massachusetts.
Joining me is my longtime vintage market buddy Emily McKay, formerly the owner of Most Wanted Luxury Resale and most recently the processing and curation manager at Housing Works. This was Emily's first full trip to Brimfield proper, after tagging along for the pre-shows the year before — so we're covering what it's actually like to experience Brimfield for the first time, from the 4:30am field openings to what to pack, what to wear, and what we each came home with.
We also chat about Emily's research from her master's at Parsons, focused on consumer behavior toward distressed secondhand clothing — and how that research shaped what she was hunting for on this trip to Brimfield.
Whether you're dreaming about your first Brimfield or you just want in on show-and-tell, this one's for you! Let's Debrief!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[02:42] What Brimfield Antique Market is, and how to navigate it
[10:49] First impressions arriving at 4:30am: the intensity and energy of the earliest shoppers
[12:44] First finds of the trip
S10 Ep20 MESSY JESSY VINTAGE: Jessica Barr, a Brooklyn-based dealer - on opening a collaborative vintage showroom and her unexpected, growing specialty in vintage bridal.
Season 10 · Episode 20
Monday, September 14, 2026 • Duration 54:44
Today we're chatting with Jessica Barr, owner of Messy Jessy Vintage, a Brooklyn-based vintage brand specializing in women's wear and bridal, with a showroom she shares with two fellow dealers and a rotating presence at markets and events across New York, including the Manhattan Vintage Show.
Jessica studied journalism in school, and became fascinated with sustainability and inequality in fashion — studies that eventually led her to a dedicated practice of secondhand shopping and, not long after, selling vintage itself.
Her real education in vintage came post-grad, working for Matt Smith at Newburgh Vintage Emporium, where she sharpened her eye for feminine silhouettes and fell hard for 1970s dresses. From there, her Etsy shop grew from a side hustle into a full-time business, eventually landing her in a Brooklyn showroom. In the last year, vintage bridal has become an unexpected and deeply personal part of her business, drawing in brides for laid-back appointments and building a community she never anticipated.
We're getting into it all — the treasured thrift store finds, the incredible vintage buys from a theater's costume department, road trips across Massachusetts, and the labels and styles she can never resist. All that and more on today's show!
Let's dive right in!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[02:52] Jessica grew up loving fashion, including Jennifer Aniston street style and Phoebe from Friends, and hunting down pieces from Poshmark in high school
[04:45] She studied journalism in college with a focus on sustainability and inequality in fashion
[08:25] Reconstructing a shredded 1980s Pink Floyd tee from the thrift store
[10:21] Working for Matt Smith at Newburgh Vintage Emporium post-graduation
[13:11] Developing her vintage brand's point of view: 70s dresses, cottagecore, feminine eveningwear
[14:39] How vintage bridal became part of the business, and selling her first wedding dress
[17:24] Balancing TikTok trends with personal sourcing vision
S10 Ep19 WARDROBE AFFAIRE: Ivana Perbi founder of the world's first discovery platform for pre-loved fashion events - on pivoting from rental to resale, and building infrastructure for a global secondhand events industry.
Monday, August 31, 2026 • Duration 46:33
Today we're chatting with Ivana Perbi, founder of Wardrobe Affaire, the world's first discovery platform dedicated to pre-loved fashion events, which is on a mission to help secondhand event organizers seamlessly host fashion experiences and help shoppers discover them – all over the world. Ivana grew up in southern Germany, where secondhand wasn't a trend but simply how her family shopped, and where weekends at the flea market where her mother sold clothes shaped her eye for style.
After a decade working inside luxury fashion houses like Louis Vuitton and Chanel, a research trip back to her birthplace of Accra, Ghana — and a visit to the sprawling Kantamanto secondhand market — changed everything for her. Ivana left the corporate world, retrained as a UX designer, and launched a fashion rental platform in Berlin.
But after three years of testing, and some incredibly successful event pop-ups, she recognized a much bigger opportunity and pivoted Wardrobe Affaire into what it is today: a platform built to solve the real logistical headaches of hosting and discovering pre-loved fashion events.
We're getting into it all — the pivot from rental to events, and her favorite vintage finds, including the vintage Chanel she found for a steal at a Berlin flea market!
Let's dive right in!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[02:54] Ivana loved style and collecting fashion magazines growing up
[07:04] When sustainability in fashion started to connect with her personal values
[08:20] Learning about Ghana's Kantamanto Market and the scale of secondhand clothing waste
[11:07] Ways to keep clothing in circularity — repair, swapping, and rental
[13:29] What she learned about repair and craftsmanship working at Louis Vuitton and Chanel
[15:23] The origin story of her first fashion rental platform
[16:18] Convincing lenders, consumers, and investors to embrace rental in Germany
[18:08] What she learned about the "attitude-behavior gap" in sustainable fashion
S10 Ep18 VICE and GRAFT: Megan Olson's curated vintage shop in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter - on holy grails, generational estate sales, and the Louisiana Vintage Festival.
Season 10 · Episode 18
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 • Duration 54:31
Today we're chatting with Megan Olson — co-owner and shopkeep of Vice & Graft, a curated vintage shop in the heart of New Orleans' French Quarter specializing in pieces from the Victorian era through the 1970s, with a deep focus on local New Orleans history. Megan's path into vintage was anything but conventional — she spent 15 years as a nurse before COVID prompted her to walk away from a corporate healthcare career and follow her lifelong love of antiques and vintage instead.
It all started when she and her husband had the opportunity to buy 5,000 rare band t-shirts, launching them into their first vintage business – Swamp Rags, an 80s-90s-Y2K spot with a focus on tees. Not long after, Megan opened Vice & Graft, now in its fifth year as a brick-and-mortar on Royal Street, where she's built a reputation for sourcing directly from generational New Orleans families — uncovering everything from Victorian day coats to a Mardi Gras queen's entire 1930s wardrobe.
Megan is also the owner of Second Line Estate Sales, and together with her husband, she hosts the Louisiana Vintage Festival, which grew into a two-day event this year at the House of Blues French Quarter, featuring over 50 Louisiana vintage dealers.
We're getting into it all — her rarest finds and holy grails, the pieces she can't bring herself to sell, and why she believes New Orleans might just be the most singular city in the country for vintage.
Let's dive right in!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[05:39] The 1997 MTV Music Awards were Mergan's personal style wake-up call.
[06:57] Megan's first big vintage buy of 20 Victorian petticoats.
[10:53] Pivoting from 15 years in healthcare into antiques and vintage instead.
[17:00] Dividing sourcing and aesthetic between Swamp Rags and Vice & Graft.
[21:11] Vice and Graft's vintage has a deep focus on local New Orleans history.
[26:03] How the French Quarter vintage scene has grown since Vice & Graft opened.
S10 Ep17 ISLE of MONDAY: co-founders of the first rental platform for luxury archival fashion, Gabriella Carota and Janelle Gray - on redefining how women access designer clothing.
Season 10 · Episode 17
Thursday, July 2, 2026 • Duration 50:56
Today we're chatting with Gabriella and Janelle — the co-founders of Isle of Monday, the first on-demand rental platform for women's luxury vintage archival clothing. Gabriella is the sourcing powerhouse behind the brand, while Janelle leads marketing and growth — and I'm so excited for you to hear how two friends turned a shared love of vintage into a platform that's redefining how women access designer archival fashion.
Gabriella's path to vintage started young — she's been collecting and reselling, all while working as a model from age 16, which put her in close contact with stylists and sparked her obsession with archival pieces. Janelle came at vintage from a different angle entirely, falling in love with vintage furniture and interior design. The two met at a pop-up at Canal Street Market, where Janelle spotted Gabriella's collection and the rest was history!
After running future pop-ups together and getting certain requests from their customers over and over, they saw the gap rental could fill. They officially became business partners in January 2024, building out a rental platform with bespoke logistics, cleaning, and a proprietary pricing model built specifically for one-of-one archival pieces.
Isle of Monday launched into beta on December 1st of 2025 and officially opened to the public on May 18th — and the growth since has been staggering, from under 2,000 followers pre-launch to nearly 50,000 today, with pieces recently worn by Keke Palmer, Doechii, and Ashley Graham, among others.
On today's episode, we get into all of it — their now-famous Roberto Cavalli dress that went viral on TikTok before they'd even launched, what it's really like fundraising as two female founders in the still-misunderstood fashion tech industry, and why they believe archival vintage is becoming an investment-grade asset class in its own right.
Let's dive right in!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[4:38] Gabriella's path to vintage started young — she's been collecting and reselling, all while working as a model from age 16
How to Market Your Vintage Brand Without Burning Out This Summer
Monday, June 22, 2026 • Duration 40:23
Pre-Loved is back with the second installment of the Resale Report, our monthly segment dedicated to the business of vintage and secondhand — made specifically for the small shop owners, solo sellers, and independent dealers.
Joining me again is Sloane Middleton-Mann, founder of Business of Vintage, the world's only marketing agency specialized for vintage sellers. Sloane brings a rare combination of industry experience and formal business school training — she went back to get her MBA specifically to translate retail and marketing best practices to the one-of-a-kind space of secondhand, and has been helping vintage sellers build smarter businesses ever since.
We start with a debrief on Vintage Store Day, which we covered in our first Resale Report — including the press wins, the local crawls, and the shop owner whose entrepreneurial story landed a full profile in her local paper.
Then we get into the real topic of the day: summer social media strategy. It's flea market and outdoor pop-up season, which means dealers are busier and more exhausted than ever, even as the season hands them some of the richest content of the year. We talk about how to turn that contradiction into your advantage — a repeatable "minimum viable content strategy," what to actually capture at a market without losing your mind, what happens to your account if you go quiet for a real vacation, and how to turn a sourcing trip into a sold-out drop.
Whether you're trying to survive your busiest selling season or just trying to build a more sustainable relationship with your phone, this one's for you.
Let's talk shop!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
S10 Ep16 NY Archive: Gianna Corvino, vintage shoe specialist and founder of The NY Archive Collective - from playing dress-up in mom's closet to opening a vintage collective in Chelsea.
Season 10 · Episode 16
Monday, June 15, 2026 • Duration 59:09
Today we're chatting with Gianna Corvino — the founder of The New York Archive, which has just opened The New York Archive Collective, a brand-new flagship vintage collective in the heart of Chelsea. Gianna is a vintage shoe specialist turned store owner, and I'm so excited for you to hear how she went from playing dress-up in her mom's closet to curating 15 vintage vendors – across the range of the fashion dress up closet – under one roof.
Gianna grew up in New York City, completely enamored with her mother's shoe collection — pink, sparkly heels that felt like the coolest thing in the world to a little girl. That early love of nostalgia, accessories, and on-screen icons from movies like 13 Going on 30 and The Devil Wears Prada eventually became the foundation for The New York Archive, which Gianna started as a portfolio project while applying to fashion school.
Amidst starting the archive, though, her story took a wild turn — after a startup equity deal fell through she felt the push to go all-in on vintage. She landed her first Manhattan Vintage Show spot, started sourcing pieces for celebrity stylists and television shows, and built a devoted online community through sharing radically transparent "building in public" content on social media.
Just one week ago, Gianna opened the doors to The New York Archive Collective — a brick-and-mortar space she built out with her building's handyman, Angel and with help from his son, almost entirely through DIY, donations, and Facebook Marketplace finds.
On today's episode, we get into all of it — why the vintage shoe niche was a space nobody else was filling, the holy grail hunting and sourcing stories – including for pieces worn on the recent Love Story show about Carolyn Besette Kennedy, and what it's like to watch your wildest dream become a physical space you can actually stand in.
Let's dive right in!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[4:46] Gianna grew up in New York City, completely enamored with her mother's shoe collection.
S10 Ep15 MEOW VINTAGE: Kathleen Schaaf, the "Big Kitty" of Meow Vintage, located in Long Beach since 1986 - on crisscrossing the country hunting deadstock and doing vintage her way.
Season 10 · Episode 15
Monday, June 8, 2026 • Duration 54:27
Today we're chatting with Kathleen Schaaf — the owner of Meow Vintage, located right in the heart of Retro Row in Long Beach, California. Kathleen is a vintage legend, someone who has been doing it for a long time, and doing it her way, and I'm so excited for you to hear her stories from four decades in the business.
Kathleen grew up thrifting with her mom, raiding her aunt's hand-me-downs in elementary school, and haunting the cheap, treasure-packed shops of downtown Long Beach before anyone was calling it a "vintage scene". She opened Meow Vintage in 1986 — nearly forty years ago — and has been a fixture of vintage ever since.
But Kathleen's story goes so much deeper. She's a dead stock hunter — crisscrossing the country before the internet even existed, cold-calling merchants and slipping into back rooms and dusty attics from New Mexico to Massachusetts, building relationships with dealers and shop owners that have now spanned three generations. And along the way, she built a parallel career outfitting film and television — from Roseanne and Seinfeld all the way to Stranger Things.
On today's episode, we get into all of it, plus what forty years in the business has taught her about people, quality, and the difference between loving vintage and just selling it. All that and more!
Let's dive right in!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[5:05] Kathleen grew up thrifting and accumulated a lot of great vintage.
[6:22] The "aha" moment where Kathleen realized she could be a vintage dealer — buying an entire rack of deadstock 60s pointy flats
[9:51] She quickly became a deadstock hunter, criss-crossing the country looking for "new old" stock.
[13:36] Opening Meow Vintage in 1986 on Retro Row in Long Beach,
[16:06] Crisscrossing the country before the internet even existed, digging for deadstock.
[20:36] What the vintage landscape looked like when she opened
[26:52] She built a parallel career outfitting film and television
S10 Ep14 LADIES OF THE LOON: Lexis Zenobia is a dealer specializing in vintage mohair – on cinematic storytelling for this one-of-a-kind archival collection found at a mansion in the woods.
Season 10 · Episode 14
Monday, June 1, 2026 • Duration 01:02:46
Today we're chatting with Lexis Zenobia , a full-time artist and vintage dealer, the owner of Ladies of the Loon — which is doing something really unique – this is a vintage brand that has taken a truly singular path in the resale world, one paved entirely in vintage mohair.
A little background, Lexis grew up in Wisconsin, and came of age in Milwaukee's vintage scene. She launched a fashion photography business at 18, and spent several years on the road in an RV, selling vintage out of the back and collecting pieces across the American West.
But it wasn't until she became the steward of a one-of-a-kind vintage mohair collection that everything changed for Lexis. Today, you're going to hear the story of a find beyond her wildest dreams: thousands of vintage and hand-knit mohair pieces, spanning from the 1920s onward, capes, gowns, skirts, sweaters — including a collection of nearly 200 hand-knit Italian cardigans from the 1950s and 60s. This is a collection so significant, it should be shown in a gallery.
On today's episode, we get into all of it: how a sleepless night and a full moon set this whole thing in motion, why Lexi made the bold decision to sell off her entire existing inventory and go all in on mohair, what makes this textile so special to photograph and to wear, and the pieces — that sold in minutes which she still thinks about. All that and more!
Let's dive right in!
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[5:16] Early memories of Lexis vintage shopping with her mom, including an antique store in a rural barn.
[7:50] Her career in vintage actually started with fashion photography.
[11:04] She originally became a vintage dealer because she needed to do a big closet cleanout, and it accidentally launched a decade-long career.
[14:31] How COVID reshaped the business
[18:16] How she became the steward of a one-of-a-kind vintage mohair collection, spanning from the 1920s onward.
[26:35] Why vintage mohair is a special textile, nicknamed "the diamond fiber"
[16:23] How to dress for Brimfield, and what to pack
[23:58] Documenting the show and noticing the street style trends
[32:21] Emily's research on consumer behavior toward distressed secondhand clothing
[41:49] Show-and-tell of our finds
[50:14] How pricing works at Brimfield
[58:07] Did it live up to the hype? Final reflections on Brimfield, and advice for first-timers
Thanks for listening to Pre-Loved! You can find me across the internet on Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn! 💛 - Emily
[19:16] Why her bridal content resonates so strongly
[23:37] Going full-time in vintage when she moved to Brooklyn, and the hustle of NYC's saturated but supportive vintage market
[27:56] Opening a shared Brooklyn showroom
[34:01] How her sourcing has shifted toward wholesale as the business has grown
[41:31] Holy grail finds and go-to labels
[48:22] Favorite pieces from her personal collection, and her current vintage wishlist
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