From Vogue to vintage: How to find the best second-hand fashion bargains
Bay Garnett, the Vogue super-stylist and host of the This Old Thing? podcast speaks to Metro ahead of the Oxfam Fashion Fighting Poverty show and gives her secrets behind curating your own original style – and finding the very best bargains.
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She’s here for all of it. She’s here for the pale pink Burberry trenchcoat, another Batley treasure unearthed for our shoot by Oxfam’s senior fashion adviser, Bay Garnett, a nod to Coel’s neon bubblegum bob as Arabella in I May Destroy You.
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From September 7, you’ll be able to have the most luxurious second hand shopping experience of your life thanks to Bay Garnett and Oxfam…
Bay Garnett curates an Oxfam charity shop at Selfridges
Located next to Miu Miu and over the way from Balenciaga, the pop-up store will take place over four weeks, part of Oxfam’s annual Secondhand September initiative. Stock will be regularly rotated from a whopping 1,500 pieces handpicked by Garnett in the lead up to the opening.
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It’s always been my passion to work with a charity that deals with secondhand clothes but to lend that high-fashion eye
Thrift maestro and stylist Bay Garnett, the mastermind behind 10’s hen-party-inspired Oxfam cover shoot.
As we head towards the UN’s 2030 deadline for sustainable development, it’s clear that second-hand will play an increasingly important role in fashion. Garnett is buoyed by a new generation who are recasting consumption and, with it, their relationship with fashion. “Do you remember when being a consumer was utterly celebrated?” says Garnett, who recalls her former magazine colleagues trotting off on shopping sprees every lunchtime. “That was happening. It was all about buying stuff, but that has changed.”
My Life, My Style
Known for creating cinematic images in farflung destinations from Syria to Cuba, Garnett has once again been travelling around the world for her latest role as the senior independent fashion advisor at Oxfam. ‘I’ve been to the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, and to Senegal in West Africa with them, and I’ve seen the work they do up close,’ she says. ‘One of the first things you notice is these huge water tanks they’ve installed – it’s incredible.’ This spring, she is collaborating with the charity on a temporary project in Selfridges that will run for eight weeks from 20 April. ‘I’m hoping that people will come and visit the space and do a bit of a double take,’ she says. ‘I love the idea of clothes having a purpose – that really excites me in a way that fashion doesn’t by itself.’
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Why second hand is best
Garnett has long preached the gospel of thrift. But it was by dressing Kate Moss in a vintage banana-printed top for British Vogue in 2003, that she became, as Tennant describes her, “the queen of second hand”. “Second hand is about empowerment. And not being a fashion sheep,” she says. “I’ve always loved the independence of it...I love Oxfam because it does two beautiful things at once: it gives clothes new life, and it helps the poorest people in the world. What’s not to love?”
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Oxfam’s campaign is backed by many who work in fashion, including the model Stella Tennant, and Bay Garnett, a stylist best known for putting Kate Moss in vintage clothing. About 15 years ago, the vintage trend was “about referencing the past and about individuality and a sense of coolness” said Garnett. “This time, its meaning is not just aesthetic but political. With the younger generation wearing second hand is a political and environmental choice.” Garnett said: “There is a brilliant magic that happens in a charity shop. It’s a different mindset. It’s more of a task. I love the thrill when you find something. And you may not every time – and that’s life – there are no guarantees. But when you do no one else will have it.”
Thrift Pioneer
When you meet Bay Garnett, she is everything you want her to be... we are talking about the uber stylist identified with coining the phrase 'thrifting'.
Bay Garnett: from 1990s thrifter to cutting edge stylist. Irish times, 6 September 2016.
Bay Garnett, the contributing editor of British Vogue, renowned stylist, thrift-shopping pioneer... "It’s all very good looking at fashion magazines and seeing what everyone else is doing, but going thrifting and thinking left of field and really feeling it is a great way for you to harness your own sense of individuality and to run with it. So, for me, Cheap Date was very much about passion for second-hand clothes shops, thrifting, and being into stuff.”
Switch on to Second Hand September
Bay Garnett, Oxfam's senior independent fashion advisor, who curates all the clothes for the charity's annual catwalk show, Fashion Fighting Poverty, during February's London Fashion Week. She famously styled Kate Moss for British Vogue in a banana-print top that she found in a second-hand store, and co-founded thrifting fanzine Cheap Dates, so she knows a thing or two about a quality bargain.
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Second hand but not second best...
The show, watched by the likes of socialist Millie Mackintosh, was styled by fashion expert Bay Garnett, to show that Londoners can look "supremely stylish" in second hand items and encourage them away from always buying new garments. Garnett said of the show: "I'm styling this for a very simple reason. I love clothes, and the opportunity to work with them in a way that can actually help people is so exciting. I get a lot of pleasure from knowing that. I love second hand clothes, and I love Oxfam's commitment to fighting poverty. This collaboration is a no-brainer for me".
Cheap thrills
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Oxfam's first ever fashion show was a triumph.“This show was to highlight that Oxfam really does have great things,” says Bay Garnett, contributing editor of Vogue, and the woman responsible for bringing the show together. “You’ve done something that’s good for charity and the environment, sure, but also, for once, no one else has got it except you.” For every £10 spent, clean water can be provided for 10 people, or a mosquito net to help prevent malaria. That's why this new campaign is so crucial for Oxfam's business.
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“The shoot, styled by thrift-aficionado and Vogue contributor Bay Garnett...is proof that secondhand doesn’t have to mean stained armpits and moth-eaten togs.
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"The amount we consume is just not sustainable", says Bay Garnett, Oxfam's senior independent fashion adviser and stylist. Far from seeing second hand as an alternative lifestyle choice, Bay is passionate abou tit - she did, after all, pioneer thrifting for high-end fashion, using her finds in fashion shoots for Vogue. "I always loved the thrill of the hunt," she says. "Charity shops give you a sense of independence to create your own style because it's not presented to you."
Cheap and Cheerful
If you want to dress thriftily but sharply, there should only be one name on your list: Bay Garnett, the Englishwoman that has shown the trendiest New Yorkers what to wear.
Second hand rose
This girl knows what she's doing. Effortlessly stylish, Garnett was so good at shopping for England, she's gone transatlantic. "It's the thrill of the find. Knowing I can find a one-off and create something chic out of it". She looks, not to be too simpering, amazing. Natural, elegant, the epitome of the quirky Brit girl in Manhattan.
The accidental activist
I don’t mind admitting that I’m in awe of Bay Garnett. Having made her name as a stylist by promoting charity-shop chic, she is often referred to as the “best-dressed thrifter on the planet”, that is, when she’s not featuring in Harper Bazaar’s best-dressed list.
How I got here: Bay Garnett
Bay Garnett is a stylist, author, and contributing fashion editor to British Vogue who has worked with the likes of Kate Moss, Juergen Teller and Bruce Webber. She pioneered the idea of thrifting - shopping in second-hand shops for unique clothing - using many of her finds in her shoots
Cheap thrills
Bay has long been bargain obsessed. "I like the hunt', she says, "and I hate looking like everyone else."
