Never pay retail for wild designer clothes—the Rachel Tashjian way
The GQ staff writer is a heat-seeking missile when it comes to these yard sales, thrift stores & Etsy pages
Rachel Tashjian: she’s either your favorite fashion writer or your favorite fashion writer’s favorite fashion writer (unless your favorite fashion writer’s taste in the work of their colleagues is trash, in which case, get a new fave!!)
At GQ, where she’s a staff writer, Rachel routinely gets off these exquisite prose clusters about, e.g., people copping Bearbricks on The Real Real, what pop stars rocked at the Covid VMAs, what Melania Trump rocked at the Covid RNC — and what it all means. (Links below.) She also musters these aerodynamic verbal shurikens as a co-host GQ’s “Corporate Lunch” podcast...
If you read her stuff and follow her on IG, you know that Rachel’s interest in clothes is idiosyncratic & far-ranging, but she has a special soft spot for under-the-radar joints — so we asked her to choose a rare & cherished personal possession to tell us about …
She sent us pics of a dope / lunatic suede bomber, above right and below, from Hood By Air, the NYC creative collective whose clothes a visionary writer at the New York Times Magazine once called “beguilingly weird” in a piece that should have been at least 5x as long.
Hood By Air went defunct for a minute but recently announced a relaunch, so we were that much more excited to chop it up with Rachel about them…