I Love Vintage developed from an online vintage business into an Amsterdam shop, later introducing its own Bannou clothing label. Rumors carries designer vintage from the 1950s to the 1990s, alongside bags and scarves on Haarlemmerstraat. Antwerp's ANEW combines vintage clothing with home objects in its Wolstraat showroom, also presenting handmade studio pieces.
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The West Port shop is physically divided between a front showroom for independent designers and a back room of hand-picked vintage. Limited editions, reworked garments and one-off pieces mean the stock changes materially between visits.
Best for Unique and ethical women's clothing from independent brands
Run by four generations of the Issa family and now by Farooq Issa and Muneera Daya, Phillips Antiques has traded for over 160 years, long settled in Waterloo Mansions in Colaba, Mumbai. The meticulously curated shop deals in oleographs, prints, folk art, brass, furniture and other rare Indian artefacts.
Best for Antiques, artefacts, furniture, oleographs
Three generations on Royal Street since 1912, M.S. Rau deals in Fabergé, Tiffany, important paintings, furniture and other works with provenance, operating as a specialist fine-art and antiques gallery in the French Quarter.
Abanicos Andrés Pascual has hand-crafted fans in Aldaia, Valencia since 1880, now run by the fourth generation of the same family of fan-makers. The workshop sells its classic, antique, and men's fan collections along with repair parts through its own online shop, and also repairs and personalizes fans on request.
Best for Fourth-generation hand-crafted fans since 1880 — classic, antique, and men's collections
Dalla Lidia Merletti d'Arte has run its Burano lace shop and museum since 1930, when founder Erminia 'Mora Boccolo' Costantini's family school began producing the intricate Punto Burano stitch later revived by her descendants. Today the atelier on Via Galuppi sells handmade lace pieces alongside a private collection of antique European lace.
Best for Handmade Burano lace and antique European lace
Vintage and indie-designer retailer founded in 2006 in Amsterdam by siblings Babak and Faranak Mirjalili, grown from an online vintage venture into a bricks-and-mortar shop on Prinsengracht, later adding an in-house label, Bannou, in 2013.
Vintage clothing and design shop on Haarlemmerstraat in Amsterdam, founded in 2011, selling curated designer vintage from the 1950s-90s alongside leather bags, scarves and jewelry. Has a sister store, We Are Vintage, at separate Amsterdam addresses.
Best for Amsterdam vintage clothing and denim
Rumors Vintage & Design is a vintage clothing and accessories shop in Amsterdam, founded in 2011 and located on Haarlemmerstraat, one of the city's older shopping streets running through the historic Haarlemmerbuurt at the edge of the Jordaan. The shop stocks curated designer and second-hand pieces spanning roughly the 1950s through the 1990s, including denim (Levi's among the labels cited), Dr. Martens boots, leather jackets and bags, silk scarves, dead-stock sunglasses and vintage jewelry, with an emphasis on French vintage designer pieces alongside more everyday retro clothing. It operates alongside a sister shop, We Are Vintage, run by the same team at separate addresses elsewhere in Amsterdam (Eerste van Swindenstraat and Kinkerstraat). As a curated resale operation rather than a thrift or charity shop, Rumors positions its stock around specific eras and named designer labels rather than a general secondhand mix, drawing both local shoppers and visitors browsing Amsterdam's vintage-shopping circuit centered on the Jordaan and Nine Streets area.
State of 8 sells luxury vintage and pre-owned clothing, jewellery and shoes in Antwerp. Private styling appointments help clients navigate one-off sizes, condition and a changing designer inventory.
Best for Approachable luxury resale with in-person styling.
Curated designer vintage boutique on Veikou Street near the Acropoli metro, opened in 2020 by an owner known as Mo, who built the collection from years of personal collecting and travel before opening the shop.
Best for Designer vintage clothing and accessories
Mo Vintage Athens opened in 2020 on Veikou Street, close to the Acropoli metro station in the Koukaki area of central Athens. The shop is the work of its owner, who goes by Mo and had previously worked within the fashion industry before turning years of personal collecting into a retail business. On the shop's own About page, the owner describes the decision this way: after years of collecting clothes and items while traveling and drawing inspiration from different places, the choice was made to share that personal collection with others rather than keep it private. The boutique specializes in authentic designer vintage clothing, shoes, and accessories dating primarily from the 1970s through the 1990s, selecting pieces for their design and rarity rather than stocking broadly across eras or price points. It is positioned within Athens's small circuit of dedicated vintage and secondhand shops as one that leans toward higher-end, designer-label finds rather than general secondhand clothing, and it has been included in city guides to vintage shopping in Athens alongside a handful of other specialist stores. The shop functions as a single, owner-curated boutique rather than a chain, with each piece selected individually by Mo based on the same collecting instinct that built the original personal wardrobe the business grew out of.
Modernon in Athens sells vintage furniture and lighting, with decorative objects and older appliances forming part of its range. The business works with objects from different decades of the twentieth century, caring for pieces by hand. Items are offered for rental as well as sale, serving temporary settings alongside buyers furnishing their own spaces.
Best for Vintage furniture and lighting for sale or rental
Modernon is an Athens concept store created from the design research and collecting practice of Joe Petropoulos, an industrial designer and design-history researcher. Its official story describes a long search for emblematic objects carrying original Mid-Century Modern elements. The store translates that research into a broad vintage catalogue shaped by Mid-Century Modern and Bauhaus design. Furniture categories include seating and storage alongside tables. Lighting ranges from ceiling and floor lamps to illuminated signs, while electronics cover audio equipment and clocks as well as televisions. Telephones and cameras appear beside them. Smaller objects add tableware and office pieces as well as toys. Sporting equipment and decorative props widen the assortment. This mixture is important because it places canonical furniture forms beside the ordinary technologies and domestic objects that carried modern design into daily life. Modernon's Projects and Stories sections extend the shop beyond transactions by showing how objects are interpreted and placed. The business is therefore both a dealer and an editorial design project. Petropoulos's training provides the intellectual frame, while the catalogue supplies the material evidence: a changing archive of twentieth-century forms across furniture and lighting. Sound, communication devices and household use broaden the archive into everyday domestic life.
Auckland's designer-recycle institution — racks of consigned labels hunted by stylists and students alike, the city's first stop for a second life in good clothes. Retrock precedent: resale done with a curator's eye is atlas soul.
Best for Designer consignment institution of Auckland
South Congress, Austin—Emily Hoover's vintage shop since 2005 curates hand-selected pieces 1890s–1990s, from Jean Paul Gaultier to local artisan jewellery.
Best for Curated boho and Western vintage styles on South Congress.
Feathers Boutique Vintage was founded in 2005 by Emily Hoover on South Congress in Austin, Texas, establishing itself as a cornerstone of the neighbourhood's fashion culture. The boutique specializes in hand-selected vintage pieces spanning roughly 1890–1990, with emphasis on designer vintage, rare denim, and distinctive accessories. Inventory highlights include garments from established fashion houses (Jean Paul Gaultier, Gucci, Christian Dior) alongside sustainable fabrics and jewellery from local and international artisans. New arrivals are added every Friday, maintaining inventory freshness and encouraging repeat visits. The shop operates at 1700 B South Congress Ave, open 11am–7pm daily, and offers buy, trade, and consignment services by appointment. The boutique maintains a parallel online shop at feathersboutiquevintage.com and an active social media presence (@feathersvintageaustin on Instagram), reflecting contemporary retail expectations while preserving the core in-store curation experience. Feathers represents a specific retail category—curatorial vintage with design-forward eye—distinct from generic thrift or uniform consignment models. After nearly two decades on South Congress, the shop has become embedded in Austin's vintage fashion ecosystem, serving both tourists and established collectors seeking hand-vetted pieces with documented fashion lineage.
Bangkok’s vast weekend market with thousands of independent craft, vintage, art and food traders.Established 1982.
Best for Thousands of independent craft, vintage, art
Chatuchak Weekend Market descends from a nationwide flea-market initiative launched by Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram, who in the early 1940s ordered every Thai town to establish one as a tool for local economic development; Bangkok's version opened at Sanam Luang in 1942. Over the following decades the market was shuffled between sites — to the grounds of Saranrom Palace for roughly eight years, then to Sanam Chai, then back to Sanam Luang — before the municipal government settled it permanently at Chatuchak in 1982, a move timed to Bangkok's bicentennial year. Five years later, in 1987, a clocktower was built on the grounds to mark King Bhumibol Adulyadej's sixtieth birthday, and it remains the market's best-known visual landmark and orientation point today. What began as a modest economic-development project has since become one of the largest markets of its kind anywhere: current estimates put its stall count above 15,000 across a maze of covered sections, drawing roughly 200,000 visitors on a typical weekend. That scale means Chatuchak now functions less as a single market than as an entire self-contained shopping district, organized loosely by category — antiques, clothing, plants, pets, food — spread across a footprint large enough that first-time visitors are routinely advised to plan a specific route rather than attempt to see it all in one visit.
Barcelona's largest flea market — since the 14th century, selling everything from antiques to clothes to electronics under a spectacular mirrored canopy designed by b720 Fermín Vázquez.
Best for The mirrored canopy, the flea market finds, and the 14th-century tradition.
Basel's most charming shopping street in the Old Town. Independent boutiques, artisan workshops, antique shops, and cafés along cobblestone lanes. The Spalentor gate anchors this atmospheric district.
Best for Basel's most charming shopping street in the Old Town
A vintage shop at 13026 Highway 9 dealing in restored mid-century-modern stereo equipment and vinyl records. It also stocks vintage clothing and locally made apparel.
Best for Restored stereos, vinyl and vintage apparel
Greet Verbeke deals in antiques, contemporary art and European collectibles from a Bruges gallery-shop. The stock mixes period furniture with modern works.
't Apostelientje is a Bruges specialist in handmade lace, with antique and contemporary pieces across a wide range of lace types, budgets and occasions.
Best for Handmade and antique lace, shawls, trims and lace objects
Balstraat runs through the St Anna quarter, on the quiet side of Bruges, and 't Apostelientje trades from it a few doors along from the Kantcentrum, the lace museum and school at number 16. The shop deals in handmade and antique lace only. That distinction carries real weight here: lace is the default Bruges souvenir, dozens of shops sell it, and a substantial share of what they sell is machine-made or imported, a caveat repeated often enough in accounts of the trade to read as the settled local condition rather than a complaint. Stock runs from antique pieces to contemporary work, framed and unframed, across a wide span of prices, and the shop sorts buyers through it. Obscurity here is a matter of a few hundred metres. The Markt and the Burg absorb the day-trip traffic almost entirely; St Anna is a residential pocket, and most visitors who reach it are walking to the lace museum or the Jerusalem Chapel. The shop's trade depends on the people who make that walk on purpose, which is a smaller number than the city's visitor figures suggest.
Retrock sells vintage clothing and the work of young Hungarian designers from a large store at Anker köz 2-4 in Budapest. The shop states it has operated for twenty years and picks thousands of men's and women's pieces one by one, with sustainability as its founding idea. Hungarian designers have held a prominent place since the beginning, and an ethical wool line from Ecuador is also carried. A webshop shows part of the range, and new arrivals appear on Instagram.
Best for Vintage denim and leather jackets, band tees, independent Hungarian designers
Secondhand Rose, established in 1971, describes itself as the longest and oldest running second-hand ladies clothing shop in Cape Town. The shop at Shop 8, Grove on the Square, Warwick Street, Claremont, sells vintage clothing spanning the pre-1990s era alongside brands such as Country Road, Ferragamo, Fendi, Chanel, Gucci and Burberry.
Vintage and thrift shop opened in 2009 by Paul Gazar at 1430 W 18th Street in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood; the largest store of its kind locally, with weekly-refreshed stock.
Best for Vintage clothing, furniture, and local art in Pilsen
Pilsen Vintage and Thrift opened in 2009 at 1430 W 18th Street in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, part of a wave of vintage shops that opened in the area around that time. It was founded by Paul Gazar, who had worked at another local vintage shop before striking out on his own. The store is described as the largest vintage and thrift shop in the Pilsen community, selling clothing, furniture, records, housewares, accessories and jewelry spanning roughly the 1940s through the 1980s, with new stock brought in on a weekly basis. It sits within Pilsen's broader cluster of secondhand and vintage shops along and near 18th Street.
Randolph Street Market is a Monthly indoor/outdoor vintage market with antiques, fashion, indie designers, and food. At West Loop, the range centers on monthly vintage antiques, indie designer fashion, and food market.
Best for Monthly vintage antiques, indie designer fashion, and food market
Chor Bazaar is a Sunday flea market near Delhi’s Red Fort, with independent sellers of antiques, posters, coins and curiosities. It is a multi-vendor event, not one merchant door.
Best for Antiques, vintage Bollywood posters, old coins
Lovebirds is a Delhi fashion studio known for contemporary clothing and selected accessories, not principally an antiques shop. The Instagram profile is the available first-party source for current collections and store information.
Best for Vintage antiques and local-designer fashion in New Delhi
A warehouse shop buying and selling vintage, retro, antique, and pre-owned furniture, lighting, crockery, posters, clocks, and decorative objects. The business also repairs, restores, rents, and trades furniture. Established 2020.
Best for Vintage furniture, lighting, crockery, and clocks, with repair and restoration
Jenny Vander is a vintage clothing and costume jewellery shop at 50 Drury Street in Dublin 2, established in 1974. Nine cabinets hold jewellery sorted by colour, and the clothing centres on evening and cocktail dresses made before 1960. Only true vintage is sold, with no reproductions, and stock changes weekly. There is no website, so buying means visiting the shop in person.
Best for Designer vintage clothing and costume jewellery
Jenny Vander sells vintage clothing and costume jewellery from 50 Drury Street in Dublin 2. The Shopkeepers records the shop as established in 1974 and notes there is no website, so a visit in person is required. Visit Dublin describes nine jewellery cabinets in which pieces are arranged by colour, and states that only true vintage is sold, with no reproductions. The clothing leans toward evening and cocktail dresses made before 1960, along with shawls and stoles, beaded tops and jackets. DublinTown puts it as statement dresses for a woman of 1925 onward, decade by decade, with cases of costume jewellery that often come as complete sets of earrings and necklace with a matching bracelet. Stock changes weekly. Stylists are frequent visitors, and The Shopkeepers lists the shop in its Ireland selections for 2023 and 2024, adding that international stylists have dressed clients in looks bought here. Ball gowns are a particular strength, and the shop trades under the Jenny Vander name on Instagram.
Edinburgh vintage-clothing shop with three floors of curated retro fashion spanning the 1920s through the 1990s, rather than relying on a subjective 'best' claim.
Best for Three floors of curated retro fashion from the 1920s to 1990s
Harlequin Antiques is listed in Edinburgh as an antiques; its official website and supplied OpenStreetMap place record provide the public-door evidence.
Furniture restorer Christian Wetzel has run this antiques shop at Krämerbrücke 10 since 1997, dealing in Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces. Alongside jewellery, antique linens and lighting, the owners also buy in select older pieces.
Best for Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and period antiques
Florence-based restorer and woodworker — antique frames and hand-finished objects from the Oltrarno tradition.
Best for Restored and hand-made wooden objects.
Jane Harman studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art and came to Florence on study grants. In an interview with Progetto Oltrarno she describes starting in this San Frediano workshop as an apprentice to Enrico Sarti and later taking it over. Alongside furniture restoration she makes smaller wooden pieces of her own, among them puzzles and candleholders. The same interview places the workshop on Via Lorenzo Bartolini, a short walk from the church of Cestello.
Vintage clothing shop on Merchants Road in Galway city centre, owned by Maggie Concannon, selling unisex pieces spanning multiple decades — sweaters, dresses, jackets, coats and accessories in suede, fur, wool, leather and cashmere, priced roughly EUR120-300.
Best for One-off vintage clothing and accessories
Planet Retro Vintage operates from Merchants Road in the centre of Galway, Ireland, and is owned by Maggie Concannon. The shop deals in vintage clothing and accessories spanning several decades, organised both by garment type — sweaters, tops, dresses, jackets and coats, gilets, vests and blazers — and by material, including suede, fur, wool, leather and cashmere, with prices generally running from about EUR120 to EUR300. Local write-ups describe the stock as leaning on one-off pieces rather than repeated stock, and the shop has carried designer vintage items, including jackets from Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. label. Alongside clothing, Planet Retro also stocks rugs and other accessories. The business runs an online shop in addition to its physical premises, offers click-and-collect, and the shop is wheelchair accessible.
Geneva's largest open-air market held Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday. Everything from antiques and books to fresh produce and Swiss crafts. The Sunday flea market is for vintage finds.
Best for Everything from antiques and books to fresh produce and Swiss crafts
Independent vintage clothing shop founded in the 1990s in Glasgow's Virginia Galleries, now trading from Kings Court on King Street in the Merchant City. Stock includes antique wedding dresses, vintage bowling shoes and retro football tops.
Best for Long-running vintage clothing in Merchant City
Mr Ben Retro Clothing was founded in the 1990s in the Virginia Galleries in central Glasgow, an arcade of independent boutiques in the city's Merchant City district. The shop has since relocated to its current premises at Kings Court, 101 King Street, still within the Merchant City area, and has become one of the longest-running retro and vintage clothing stores in Scotland. Its stock spans an unusually wide range - antique wedding dresses, vintage bowling shoes, retro football shirts, fur coats, denim, jackets, jewellery and woollens - much of it labelled with the era and, in some cases, the origin of the piece.
A vintage clothing shop in Kings Court, the courtyard off King Street near the Trongate, stocked with garments from the 1960s through the 1980s. Rails hold jackets, dresses, footwear and accessories alongside period Levi's, Converse and Dr Martens.
A three-floor traditional antiques dealer for furniture, paintings and decorative objects. The family business dates its beginnings to 1883 and the era of romantic travelers to the Alhambra.
Best for Furniture, paintings and decorative objects
Secondhand department store run by Hamburg's municipal sanitation service, Stadtreinigung Hamburg; rescues furniture, clothing, books and electronics daily from bulky-waste collections and donations for resale, with an in-house repair workshop.
Best for Second-hand retro fashion curated in the Schanze
Stilbruch is Hamburg's secondhand department-store operation, run by the city's own sanitation authority, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, rather than a private vintage retailer. It marked its 25th anniversary in July 2026, putting its founding around 2001. The stores are stocked from what the operation intercepts daily — furniture, clothing, books, bicycles, kitchenware and electronics pulled from bulky-waste collections, recycling drop-off points and direct donations before they reach landfill — and an in-house workshop refurbishes items before they go back on the floor. The two confirmed Stilbruch locations open to shoppers are in Altona (Ruhrstraße 51) and Wandsbek (Helbingstraße 63), both operating six days a week with separate hours for dropping off goods. The model doubles as municipal waste diversion and affordable secondhand retail, funded through the same public sanitation budget that runs Hamburg's household waste collection.
Founded by former New York pediatrician Mark Rapoport and his wife after they moved to Hanoi in the early 2000s, this Ba Đình gallery at 44B Hàng Bún Street is devoted to the antiques and textiles of Vietnam's 54 recognized ethnic groups, with themed rooms including tribal textiles and shamanic ritual objects.
Best for Vietnamese ethnic textiles, jewelry, and ritual objects
54 Traditions Gallery was founded by Mark Rapoport, a former New York pediatrician, and his wife after the couple relocated to Hanoi in the early 2000s and began collecting cultural artifacts from Vietnam's ethnic minority communities. It is now, by its own account, the only gallery in Vietnam dedicated specifically to the arts and material culture of the country's 54 officially recognized ethnic groups. Spread across three floors and seven themed rooms at 44B Hàng Bún Street in Hanoi's Ba Đình district, the collection includes tribal textiles and costumes, Buddhist statues, tribal jewelry, ceremonial swords, ritual scrolls, and ceramic pieces the gallery says were salvaged from centuries-old shipwrecks, alongside dedicated rooms on the Central Highlands and on shamanic tradition. The gallery offers free guided tours led by staff versed in the archaeological and cultural background of the pieces on display. According to the gallery, some of the Rapoports' original finds have since entered institutional collections, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History, the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi.
Jocie Sinauer has run this antiques shop since 1997, making regular buying trips to France to hand-select 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century French, Belgian and Swedish furniture, ironstone and glass. The stock favors a cool palette of original surfaces and patina over restoration, and has been featured in Vogue and GQ's list of top American shops.
This Warren Street shop deals in antique Americana, silver and exotica, drawing on Hudson's history as a 19th-century whaling port for its name and stock. It operates as an independent dealership rather than part of a chain, part of the concentration of antiques shops along Warren Street.
Founded in 1976, Sofa Art & Antiques has built its name on a curated stock of Ottoman and Anatolian paintings, sculpture, calligraphy, jewelry, and ceramics rather than volume antiques-market inventory. The shop operates from Şahkulu Seraskerci Çıkmazı in Beyoğlu and ships internationally through its own multilingual site.
Aspen Karuizawa sources and repairs Western antique furniture from a shop in town dedicated to imported pieces rather than reproductions. The business posts its own company profile and shop details directly on its site rather than through a listings platform.
Antyki z pasją Marek Kruczek is a compact independent antiques shop dealing in small objects, collectibles and decorative pieces. At Kazimierz, the range centers on compact independent antiques shop dealing in small objects, collectibles and decorative pieces.
Best for Compact independent antiques shop dealing in small objects, collectibles and decorative pieces
Kraków vintage shop founded spring 2021 by Ela and Magda as an Instagram-only project; opened a physical store on ulica Kalwaryjska in Stare Podgórze in June 2023. Curated secondhand clothing, now run by Ela and Tomek.
Best for Tightly curated vintage clothing in Kraków's Podgórze district
Bohema Vintage started in spring 2021, launched by two Kraków residents, Ela and Magda, as an Instagram-only secondhand clothing project rather than a shop with a storefront. After roughly a year of selling through social media, the pair moved the operation onto a proper e-commerce site, before opening their first physical location in June 2023 on ulica Kalwaryjska in Kraków's Stare Podgórze district, on the right bank of the Vistula opposite the historic center.
The shop's stated purpose is to promote secondhand fashion and more deliberate buying habits, framing each resold garment as diverted from landfill and given continued use rather than treated as disposable. The stock is curated rather than bulk-sourced, spanning outerwear, dresses, denim, leather pieces and accessories selected piece by piece for condition and style.
The founding team changed in early 2025, when Magda chose to pursue a different professional path and stepped back from the business. Bohema Vintage has continued under Ela, now working alongside Tomek, who joined the shop after its founding. The business still runs both its physical Podgórze location and an online store with regular drops of newly sourced pieces.
A Kraków vintage clothing shop with locations at Stradomska 16 and Krakowska 10, bridging the Old Town and Stradom near Kazimierz. The neon-lit interior stocks curated secondhand pieces spanning 1920s flapper dresses to 1980s statement wear.
Best for Carefully selected secondhand vintage clothing in Kraków.
Flyin' Vintage is a Kraków secondhand clothing retailer operating from at least two addresses close together on the edge of the Old Town near Kazimierz — Stradomska 16 and Krakowska 10 — putting it within walking distance of the former Jewish quarter's cluster of antique and vintage shops. The shop distinguishes itself from typical thrift stores through curation rather than volume: rather than racks organized only by size, the stock spans a wide range of decades, from 1920s flapper-style dresses through bold 1980s statement pieces, selected individually rather than bought in bulk lots. The interior uses LED and neon lighting rather than a traditional secondhand-shop look, giving the space a more boutique, nightlife-adjacent feel than a typical charity-shop-style thrift store. Prices are generally described as accessible relative to the quality and rarity of individual pieces, and the shop maintains an active social media presence to move new stock as it arrives, consistent with a small, owner-curated vintage operation rather than a chain.
An independent vintage clothing shop in Krakow's Podgórze district at Ul. Kącik 8, having relocated from an earlier address nearby; open limited afternoon hours Wednesday through Sunday, selling curated secondhand pieces.
Best for Vintage fashion in Stare Podgórze
Lucky Vintage operates from Ul. Kącik 8 in Krakow's Podgórze district, on the right bank of the Vistula across from the historic Kazimierz quarter. Krakow shopping guides describe the shop as one of several independent vintage and secondhand outlets that have clustered in Podgórze as the district has developed a reputation as an alternative retail and creative area distinct from the more touristed Old Town and Kazimierz. According to its Instagram listing, the shop keeps limited afternoon hours — Wednesday 15:00–20:00, Thursday and Friday 13:00–19:00, and weekends 12:00–16:00 — typical of a small, owner-run secondhand shop rather than a larger retail operation. Coverage in local shopping round-ups (Miasto Kobiet, krakowfood.pl, Wanderlog) consistently places it among a short list of recommended Krakow vintage stores, and notes that the shop has relocated at least once from an earlier Podgórze address.
Independent vintage clothing shop in Krakow's Kazimierz district, known for a tightly curated selection restocked with new deliveries weekly.
Best for A strongly curated vintage shop floor in Kazimierz
Pevex Vintage is a small independent vintage clothing shop in Krakow's Kazimierz district, run out of a compact storefront on Jozefa street. What distinguishes it from Krakow's many other secondhand shops, per customer accounts, is how tightly the stock is edited for a small footprint, presenting a curated selection that turns over with fresh deliveries every Monday. Reviewers describe the owner as knowledgeable and helpful without being pushy, and note finds such as woolen coats and silk shirts among the stock. Some customer reviews also caution that prices run higher than at other Krakow vintage shops.
The antiques market that draws all Europe — Sundays in the Venice of Provence, hundreds of antique dealers, brocante stalls, and the thrill of the hunt.
Best for Sunday antiques, brocante stalls, and Europe's best antique market.
Lesain Antiquités deals in furniture and decorative objects from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. Its shop is at 91 avenue Julien Guigue in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, with an online catalogue for browsing before a visit. The dealer provides condition information and can arrange delivery for purchases in France or abroad.
Best for Furniture and mirrors from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century
Lesain Antiquités sells older furniture and decorative objects at 91 avenue Julien Guigue in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Its stated period range runs from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century, so this is a dealer to consider when a room calls for an antique rather than a reproduction. The range includes mirrors and trumeaux alongside the furniture selection. The paintings and sculpture provide smaller-scale possibilities for buyers furnishing a room. The dealer says it describes the condition of objects and any customary restoration, information worth reading before arranging transport for a large purchase. For mirrors and frames, the shop specifically invites enquiries with the dimensions a buyer needs before discussing a suitable piece. Its online catalogue provides a way to inspect the current offering before visiting or asking for more photographs. Delivery is offered within France and internationally, though the arrangements belong to the individual purchase. The business also advertises valuations and house-clearance work, giving it a sourcing role as well as a retail one.
2 bis Avenue de l'Égalité (Quai de la Gare), L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue
Housed in a converted 3,000-square-metre silk mill by the old train station, this antiques village has gathered dealers under one roof since 1978 and now shelters more than 80 exhibitors trading in furniture, decorative objects and collectibles from every era. An upper-floor gallery space called Nouvel VAG adds contemporary and numbered works by emerging artists alongside the antiques trade below.
Best for Browsing dozens of antique dealers in one historic building
Thrift Genius is a Lagos-based secondhand clothing shop that refreshes its stock with new arrivals every Sunday. Each piece is hand-picked and quality-checked before it goes on sale, with nationwide shipping across Nigeria.
Claudio Riso apprenticed under maestro Antonio Malecore before opening his own cartapesta workshop on Via Vittorio Emanuele II in Lecce's historic center, continuing a chain of papier-mâché training that runs back generations. The studio restores antique sacred statuary alongside making new saints, nativity figures and decorative pieces entirely by hand.
Best for Hand-modeled cartapesta saints and nativity figures
On Time Antiques is an antiques and collectibles shop in Liberty. Its in-person selection includes antiques, estate finds and collectibles, with a focus on antiques, estate finds and collectibles.
Vintage & Design Isolde curates original mid-century furniture and objects from the 1950s through 1970s out of Linz's Altstadt Markthalle, sourcing pieces by designers such as Kai Kristiansen, J.T. Kalmar, and Carl Auböck rather than stocking reissues. The shop restores and resells originals, and also rents pieces out and advises on interiors built around genuine vintage design.
Ghost London launched four decades ago and makes women's contemporary clothing with a vintage feel. Its viscose fabrics are woven exclusively for the label, and its prints are designed in-house each season. Almost every garment is garment dyed, cut oversize in greige cloth and boiled so it shrinks and takes a deeper colour. The finished pieces can be machine washed at 30 degrees.
Best for Garment-dyed viscose dresses and separates with a vintage feel
Ghost London launched four decades ago and now works as an established house for women's contemporary clothing. Its collections keep a contemporary vintage feel, with feminine lines and modern silhouettes alongside signature garment dyed pieces. Every fabric is produced and woven exclusively for the label from viscose yarns, and every print is designed in-house each season in the same vintage-inspired spirit. The garment dye process defines the house. Each piece is first constructed in raw greige cloth and cut several sizes larger than its finished size. The made-up garment is then boiled at high temperature, shrinking as it takes the dye, which gives the viscose a softer, more fluid hand and a deeper colour than piece dyeing. The same process makes the clothes practical to own. Almost every garment, bridal wear included, can be machine washed at 30 degrees or washed by hand, then reshaped while damp and steamed on the reverse if needed. The range runs from tea dresses and slip dresses to separates and knitwear, together with a wedding collection that includes bridesmaid dresses, all sold from the label's own online shop.
John Simons opened the Ivy Shop in Richmond in 1964 and first labelled the Baracuta G9 a Harrington jacket in 1965. The shop moved to 46 Chiltern Street in Marylebone in 2011 and sells its own collections alongside Baracuta and Paraboot, with Jamieson's of Shetland. Vintage pieces sit with the new stock, as they did at the Covent Garden shop from 1982.
Best for Ivy League menswear, Harrington jackets and Baracuta G9s from the man who named them
John Simons began in 1955 as a window dresser for Cecil Gee, then a prominent name in British menswear. After selling from a market stall in Hackney he opened Clothesville on Mare Street in 1963, a shop that dressed the mod scene. The Ivy Shop followed in Richmond in the summer of 1964. In 1965 Simons recognised the Baracuta G9 as the jacket worn by the character Rodney Harrington, and his shop's label became the first documented use of the term Harrington jacket. The Squire Shop opened on King's Road in 1967 with co-founder Stuart Malloy, and in 1982 J. Simons opened on Russell Street in Covent Garden, early in its approach to selling vintage goods. The storefront moved to No. 46 Chiltern Street in Marylebone in 2011. The rails today mix the house's own collections with Baracuta and J. Press, with G.H. Bass and Paraboot and Jamieson's of Shetland alongside. The shop presents itself as the reference for Ivy League style in Britain, filtered through a mid-century American and European eye, and vintage pieces still hang beside the new stock.
The world's largest antique market — Saturdays on Portobello Road, vintage jewellery, silver, bric-a-brac, and the carnival energy of Notting Hill.
Best for Antiques, vintage jewellery, Saturday market, carnival energy.
Portobello Road Market is a London street market whose appeal comes from the contrast between its sections rather than one category. The official market history stretches back 160 years and describes hundreds of traders dealing in old and new goods. Antiques and bric-a-brac remain central while fashion and food widen the mix and crafts appear beside books and music. On Fridays and Saturdays, stalls extend along Portobello Road and around the corner into Golborne Road. The antiques section includes temporary pitches and shops while arcades add individual dealer booths. Published categories begin with textiles and ceramics, then extend to fine art and jewellery. Silver and china are represented alongside antiquarian books. Saturday brings a dense concentration of UK trader stalls, while Friday also supports a defined antiques trade. Other parts of the market serve produce and prepared food while new goods share space with second-hand fashion. Portobello is therefore a long, varied market street rather than solely an antiques destination. Different merchandise and trading formats occupy distinct stretches of the route, with permanent shops and open-air stalls both part of the operation.
Teddy Fresh emerged in 2017 when Hila Klein, seeking affordable colorful clothing with genuine playfulness, founded a streetwear label blending children's whimsy with vintage eclecticism and refined aesthetics.
Best for Colourful street polos, bold
Teddy Fresh emerged in 2017 when Hila Klein, seeking affordable colorful clothing with genuine playfulness, founded a streetwear label blending children's whimsy with vintage eclecticism and refined aesthetics. Based in Los Angeles, the brand has developed a distinctive voice by licensing partnerships with properties including Looney Tunes, SpongeBob, and Care Bears. Each collection balances bold graphics and nostalgic references against deliberately accessible price points, avoiding the cynicism that often shadows streetwear. Beyond apparel—tees, hoodies, jackets, dresses, and accessories—the brand maintains active charitable campaigns, with notable recent expansion into Teddy Glow, a high-end makeup line launched in November 2025. The label's evolution reflects deliberate curation rather than seasonal churn; each drop speaks to a specific cultural reference or creative collaboration.
Founded by Doris Raymond over forty years ago, The Way We Wore is a Los Angeles vintage boutique dealing in authenticated designer, couture, and runway pieces from houses such as Chanel, Dior, and Gucci. Items are sold through its online shop with global shipping, and the showroom can be visited by private appointment.
Mitt Möllan is a collective in Möllevången, Malmö, housing shops such as La Kasbah, Möllans Te, South Soles sneakers, Typotopia and Trisses bokbox alongside a shoe and key service. A food court adds vendors including Bao Bao, Pin Pin Dumpling and Naan Wrapsters.
Best for Independent local shops and vintage finds
Milan vintage-fashion boutique founded by Claudia Jesi (1946-2022), a pioneer of Italian vintage retail from the 1980s onward; its flagship sits on Via Gian Giacomo Mora, with further shops in Milan, Rome and Madrid.
Best for Italian couture vintage, archival accessories and tailored alterations
Cavalli e Nastri was founded by Claudia Jesi (1946-2022), widely credited as a founding figure of vintage-fashion retail in Italy, who began selling curated period clothing in Milan in the 1980s. The flagship sits on Via Gian Giacomo Mora, a side street off Corso di Porta Ticinese in central Milan; the business has since expanded to three Milan locations plus a Rome boutique and a Madrid location. The stock spans designer pieces from the 1950s through the 2000s - Chanel, Gucci, Prada, Valentino, and Giorgio Armani among them.
Munich Schwabing gallery and antiques — a sprawling basement treasure trove of chandeliers, mirrors, frames, candlesticks, and collectible porcelain.
Best for Gallery and antiques in Schwabing since 1984
Kunst Oase is an independent antiques and art gallery located in Munich's Schwabing neighborhood at Hohenzollernstrasse, established in its current form in 1984 by owner Manfred Wambsganss. Wambsganss, originally trained as a freelance artist, took over the basement space to create a gallery for colleagues and has since built it into a comprehensive antiques destination spanning two levels. The street-level shop introduces visitors to paintings, candlesticks, decorative tableware, and ornamental pieces. A sprawling basement—accessible by descending past antique mirrors—holds an extensive inventory of vintage and period furnishings: more mirrors, picture frames, glassware, and collectible porcelain. Hundreds of antique lamps, chandeliers, and elaborate crystal lustres from multiple decades hang from the ceiling, creating a densely layered, visually immersive environment. The shop operates on a self-guided browsing model; Wambsganss, often seated on a corner bench, greets visitors warmly but allows customers to explore at their own pace without sales pressure. The space has become known for its abundance and the feeling of discovery.
Maisha by Nisria is a sustainable fashion and design studio based in Gilgil, Kenya, making one-of-a-kind handmade clothing and accessories from upcycled materials such as secondhand fabrics and discarded clothing. Its Asili Collection is built entirely from upcycled and recycled fabrics including curtains, bedsheets and offcuts.
Three generations of Neapolitan bespoke tailoring shaped by the London House style, with an extensive archive of vintage cloth supporting the house’s made-to-measure and bespoke work.
Best for Bespoke Neapolitan tailoring and jackets from archive cloth.
Retrophilia curates fashion from the 1960s through the 1980s in Naples’ Chiaia quarter. The Via Chiaia shop is a focused stop for vintage clothing, with the decades and point of view clearer than the old generic treasure-hunt language.
Dunn and Sonnier occupies a renovated 1830s creole cottage at 3433 Magazine Street on the edge of New Orleans' Garden District, selling imported antiques, event items and contemporary decor accents. The shop also delivers floral arrangements daily for weddings, corporate spaces, private homes and the film industry.
New York menswear label founded 2016 by Emily Adams Bode (now Bode Aujla), built around one-of-a-kind garments made from antique quilts, vintage bed linens and grain sacks; first woman to show at New York Fashion Week: Men's, 2018.
Best for Vintage patchwork, quilts
Bode was launched in New York in 2016 by Atlanta-born designer Emily Adams Bode, a Parsons/Eugene Lang graduate in menswear design and philosophy. The label is defined by its use of globally sourced antique textiles - New England quilts, 1920s French bed linens, southeastern-U.S. grain sacks - reworked using historical techniques such as quilting, mending, patchwork, sashiko, boro and applique. In 2018 Bode became the first female designer to present at New York Fashion Week: Men's; in June 2019 she staged her first runway show at Paris Fashion Week Men's. The brand sells direct-to-consumer and through roughly 30 brick-and-mortar retailers worldwide, and launched a womenswear line in 2023.
At 812 Broadway in Manhattan, Flight Club's flagship store has been a hub for sneaker collectors since 2005, dealing in rare and exclusive releases from Air Jordan, Nike, and Adidas. The shop also runs a consignment desk with its own daily hours for sellers looking to trade in pairs.
Takaida-nishi 5-4-35, Higashi-Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Semba Motors is a long-running Higashi-Osaka specialist in vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycles, restoration, imported parts and related motorcycle sales.
Best for Vintage Harley-Davidsons, restorations, imported parts, and motorcycle sales
French brand founded 2005 by Michaël Azoulay — elevated casual basics blending Californian ease with South of France sensibility, woven in Europe and organic cotton.
Best for Pigment-dyed soft-tee basics from Marseille
American Vintage was founded in 2005 by Michaël Azoulay, a Marseille native, inspired by his travels to the United States in the early 2000s. The brand blends typically American casual attitude with the traditional allure of French fashion, creating an edited wardrobe of elevated basics inflected with vintage references. Based in Signes, a small town near Marseille, the brand employs 850 people worldwide with an annual turnover of 140 million euros. American Vintage is well known for casual cuts and a nuanced color range, using natural materials and quality fabrics with vintage treatment. Their perennial pieces sit at the intersection of Californian cool and South of France flair. The production process emphasizes sustainability: 68 percent of clothes are made in Europe (mainly Portugal and Bulgaria), with 11 percent from factories implementing sustainable processes, and 28 percent using organically-grown cotton.
A menswear brand that upcycles vintage French military fabrics into contemporary clothing. Each piece is unique — a jacket might be made from a 1960s army tent or a vintage naval duffel bag.
Best for Upcycled vintage French military fabrics into unique contemporary menswear — each piece one-of-a-kind.
Montmartre vintage buy-sell-trade shop stocked with luxury labels, denim, leather goods, and second-hand statement pieces at accessible prices.
Best for Affordable Paris vintage — second-hand leather, denim, and statement pieces
Chine Machine occupies a lively corner at 100 Rue des Martyrs in Paris's Montmartre district, just steps from metro Abbesses. The shop operates as a vintage marketplace where customers buy, sell, trade, and consign clothing across a curated range spanning menswear and womenswear. Inside, you'll find luxury designer pieces alongside work by local Paris makers, alongside denim staples and leather accessories. The inventory rotates with buyer interest—pieces stay reasonably priced, and the shop particularly welcomes selling: bring branded clothes and receive immediate payment of 30% estimated value, or 50% as store credit. Hours run Monday–Saturday 12:00–20:00, Sunday 13:00–20:00, with selling appointments available by monthly reservation. A steady draw for both locals and visitors seeking genuine secondhand finds rather than curated boutique pricing.
Collector Square brings authenticated pre-owned luxury into a physical Paris setting at 36 boulevard Raspail as well as online. Bags, watches, jewelry, art and other collectibles share the same specialist resale platform, giving shoppers several categories to compare without losing the authentication service that defines the business. Its clearest use is for examining established luxury pieces on the secondary market.
Best for Pre-owned luxury bags, watches, jewelry, and collectibles with expert authentication
Dutch-founded vintage chain, part of wholesaler GAIA, with a large Paris branch at 12-16 rue Tiquetonne near Les Halles rather than in the Marais. Racks span decades of secondhand menswear and womenswear, from denim to sportswear.
Best for Vintage denim, jackets, sportswear, and retro finds.
Episode is a secondhand and vintage clothing chain built by the Dutch wholesale company GAIA, which supplies and operates vintage stores across several European cities including Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen and Paris. Rather than a single independent shop, Episode functions as a multi-city retail arm of a wholesale vintage-sourcing business, selling clothing bought and graded in bulk through GAIA's supply chain rather than curated piece by piece in the way a small owner-run vintage shop typically operates.
The Paris location sits at 12-16 rue Tiquetonne, near Les Halles in the 2nd arrondissement, where it has operated for more than two decades, well outside the Marais district. The shop is large by Parisian vintage-store standards, organized into ordered sections that let shoppers move through decades of stock, with a stated focus on clothing from the 1970s and 1980s alongside broader secondhand denim, jackets and sportswear.
As part of a chain rather than a single proprietor's collection, Episode's stock reflects wholesale vintage sourcing at volume rather than the item-by-item hunting more typical of independently owned vintage boutiques, though the Paris store has built a following among regular vintage shoppers in the city over its two-decade run on rue Tiquetonne.
Free’p’Star is a Paris vintage chain with five current shops across the 4th and 1st arrondissements, including addresses on rue de la Verrerie, rue du Temple and rue Saint-Denis. The stores are built around densely packed secondhand clothing and bargain-hunt rummaging rather than a tightly edited luxury-vintage presentation.
Best for Bargain-hunt vintage rummaging across several central Paris shops
Free'p'Star is a long-running Paris vintage retailer built on volume rather than curation: dense clothing rails and floor bins of jackets, dresses and denim from the 1970s-90s, priced from roughly 5 to 60 euros, sorted loosely rather than by size or era. Its widely-cited original Marais address on rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie has closed, but the business continues to trade from several nearby storefronts - current reporting places locations on rue de la Verrerie, rue du Temple and rue Saint-Denis near Les Halles, with roughly five Marais-area shops in total. It is open 365 days a year and is routinely covered in Paris shopping guides as a destination for bargain vintage hunting rather than polished selection.
Saint-Germain gallery opened in 1982 by François Laffanour and Mara Cremniter on rue de Seine, specializing in furniture by 20th-century architects — Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Royère. Holds the archives of the former Galerie Steph Simon (1956–1974).
Best for Collectible French modernist furniture
François Laffanour and Mara Cremniter opened the Downtown gallery on rue de Seine in Paris's Saint-Germain quarter in 1982, at a time when furniture designed by architects rather than furniture-makers was still a little-explored corner of the market. Laffanour took over running the gallery alone in 1992 and has continued to lead it since, building a reputation as one of the market's specialists in architectural furniture from the mid-20th century onward — pieces made by architects who, working in the decades after the Second World War, brought a functional, freedom-oriented approach to furnishing interiors. The gallery represents and deals in work by figures including Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Royère, and Matthieu Matégot. It also holds the archives of the former Galerie Steph Simon, which from 1956 to 1974 represented furniture by Perriand, Prouvé, Le Corbusier, Serge Mouille, Georges Jouve, and Isamu Noguchi, giving Laffanour's gallery a direct historical link to that earlier program. Laffanour, born in 1952 in El Biar, has worked in the design and antiques trade for over four decades and is regularly described in trade press as a leading figure in the market for 20th- and 21st-century architect-designed furniture. The gallery continues to mount exhibitions from its Saint-Germain address and takes part in international design and art fairs such as PAD.
Founded in 2017, Imparfaite is a French vintage platform combining selected secondhand pieces with archive drops from fashion brands and private sales.
Best for Vintage and resale designer finds, archive pieces, and one-off discoveries
Jaiio is a Paris-based resale platform for authenticated pre-owned designer fashion. Its Galeries Lafayette corners in Haussmann and Toulouse sell curated luxury pieces alongside the brand's own boutique near Gare du Nord.
Best for Authenticated pre-owned designer fashion at Galeries Lafayette corners
Jaiio began in 2020, when childhood friends Aurélie Baranes and Joy Ignaczak set out to simplify the secondhand fashion market for sellers who didn't want to photograph, price, and ship their own wardrobes. The premise: hand over a bag of designer clothing, and Jaiio's team handles authentication, photography, listing, and sale. Luxury pieces are checked using the Entrupy authentication system before they're priced at 30 to 80 percent below retail.
The company now runs its operation from a 530-square-metre headquarters near Paris's Gare du Nord, where a staff of thirty photographs several hundred items a day and stores roughly 25,000 pieces awaiting sale. Beyond the e-commerce site, Jaiio holds near-daily live shopping sessions on the Whatnot app, moving pieces from Chloé and Saint Laurent that have lingered online, and dedicates some streams to charity sales.
For shoppers who prefer to browse in person, Jaiio operates two corners inside Galeries Lafayette — a 100-square-metre space in the Haussmann flagship split between premium clothing and accessories, and a smaller 37-square-metre corner in Toulouse. In 2025 the platform reported over 100,000 items resold and more than €3.5 million in sales, with consignors collectively earning over €1.5 million from their own wardrobes.
Paris gallery founded in 2000 by Philippe Jousse, split between a furniture space at 18 rue de Seine showing mid-century designers like Jean Prouve, Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier, and a contemporary art space at 6 rue Saint-Claude.
Best for Collectible design furniture and contemporary art exhibitions
Jousse Entreprise is a Paris gallery founded in 2000 by Philippe Jousse, operating across two distinct spaces. The furniture gallery, at 18 rue de Seine in the 6th arrondissement, deals in architect- and designer-made furniture from the mid-20th century, representing figures including Jean Prouve, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Serge Mouille, Jean Royere, Georges Jouve, Andre Borderie, Mathieu Mategot and Alexandre Noll. A second space at 6 rue Saint-Claude in the Marais focuses on contemporary art. Jousse has spent more than three decades working to build recognition for the mid-century architect-designers his furniture gallery represents, and the gallery has exhibited at fairs including Design Miami and Independent.
Kiliwatch mixes a dedicated vintage section with new labels such as Barbour, Patagonia, Lee and Japan Blue. Men’s and women’s accessories sit beside the clothing, making it broader than a by-weight vintage stop.
Best for Paris vintage denim, jackets, and military-inspired pieces
Paris second-hand clothing by weight—vintage pieces from across storeys, colour-coded price tiers from 20 to 60 euros per kilogram.
Best for Second-hand clothes sold by weight
Kilo Shop is a Parisian network of vintage second-hand clothing and accessory stores where most items are sold by weight using a choose, weigh, and take-away system. Price tiers are indicated by colour stickers: red (20 euros/kg), green (30 euros/kg), blue (40 euros/kg), and orange (60 euros/kg). The flagship Le Marais location spans 500 square metres over two storeys with a wide choice of unique, quality pieces. Additional locations include Paris Saint-Germain (250m²), Paris République, Grands Boulevards, and Chaussée d'Antin. Each store spreads vintage finds across multiple floors, offering a treasure-hunt experience of roaming across casual, fun, and decidedly Parisian second-hand fashion.
La Frange à l’Envers is a Paris-and-Bordeaux secondhand shop founded by two sisters, selling recent clothing, shoes, leather goods and jewelry from accessible labels through luxury houses.
Best for Designer resale finds, archive pieces, bags, and jackets
Vintage-luxury boutique at 16 Rue des Saints-Peres in Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris, selling authenticated pieces from houses including Hermes, Chanel, Dior and Saint Laurent inside a 1930s-styled space.
Best for Luxury vintage bags, jewelry, shoes, and designer clothing at a Paris showroom.
Mademoiselle Josephine is a vintage-luxury boutique and consignment showroom located at 16 Rue des Saints-Peres, 75007 Paris, in the Saint-Germain-des-Pres district. The shop is set inside a space styled as a 1930s boudoir and sells handpicked, authenticated vintage clothing, leather goods, accessories and jewelry from designers including Yves Saint Laurent, Thierry Mugler, Christian Dior, Chanel, Celine, Louis Vuitton and Hermes. The business advertises around 20 years of experience in luxury authentication and offers worldwide insured shipping along with a 14-day return policy.
Launched in 2020 by brothers Fabien and Vincent Huché-Deniset after sorting their own closets during lockdown, this Paris platform collects and resells secondhand pieces from roughly 200 partner brands and department stores, raising 1.2 million euros in April 2024.
Best for A circular-fashion platform for pre-loved, responsible wardrobe refresh
Paradigme was founded in 2020 by brothers Fabien and Vincent Huché-Deniset, who wanted to build a project together and found their starting point while sorting through their own wardrobes during successive pandemic lockdowns. That process led them to identify the limits of existing resale platforms, and they subsequently consulted secondhand enthusiasts and worked with brands directly to design a different kind of secondhand model. Rather than functioning as a peer-to-peer consignment marketplace, Paradigme positions itself as the first secondhand fashion platform to partner directly with brands, department stores and e-commerce sites, collecting and reselling used items sourced from roughly 200 partner labels. The company completed its first funding round in April 2024, raising 1.2 million euros with backing from investors including Showroomprivé, Hartwood and Campus Fund, funding used to expand the team, develop the platform and add new brand partnerships. Paradigme's growth has drawn coverage in French business and fashion press, including a listing among Challenges magazine's roundup of the year's notable startups, as part of a wider push toward circular, brand-partnered resale in French fashion retail.
Built in 1847, this glass-roofed passage connects Boulevard Montmartre to Rue de la Grange-Batelière and is known for old bookshops, stamp dealers, and the Hôtel Chopin.
Best for Glass-roofed passage for old bookshops, stamp dealers, antique toys, and vintage posters.
Pretty Box trades in vintage fashion, including designer pieces, denim, dresses, jackets and bags. Its Instagram feed functions as the current shop window, so availability may change before a visit.
Best for Designer vintage denim, jackets, and archive browsing in Paris
ReSee is a luxury consignment platform that collects, photographs, and resells pre-owned designer fashion. Current stock spans coats from The Row, vintage jewelry, and menswear sourced directly from sellers' wardrobes.
Best for Spans coats from The Row, vintage jewelry
Rouje translates Jeanne Damas's Parisian style into wrap dresses, red lipstick and a shoppable version of the label's Instagram image. The range centers on Parisian-style vintage dresses, with production associated with France.
Paris-founded online marketplace for secondhand furniture and decor, started in 2014 (originally as Brocante Lab) by Charlotte Cade and Maxime Brousse; lists over 300,000 vetted vintage and design pieces from individual and professional sellers.
Best for Second-hand French furniture and decor, flea-market shopping from home
Selency was founded in Paris in September 2014 by Charlotte Cade and Maxime Brousse under the original name Brocante Lab, later rebranded to Selency. The idea was to bring the browsing experience of a French flea market online, letting people buy vetted secondhand furniture and design pieces without physically visiting antique fairs. The platform has grown to list more than 300,000 items, moderated by an in-house team for authenticity and condition. Alongside individual consignment, Selency runs a professional-seller program aimed at established vintage and antiques dealers.
Sézane occupies L'Appartement at 1 rue Saint-Fiacre, in the Sentier quarter of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Morgane Sézalory opened it in October 2015, after building the label online. Seasonal collections and monthly capsule editions fill rooms furnished from the Saint-Ouen flea market. Menswear runs separately as Octobre Editions, a few doors along at number 12.
Best for Sezane ready-to-wear and home objects at L'Appartement, rue Saint-Fiacre
Sézane sells from L'Appartement at 1 rue Saint-Fiacre, in the Sentier quarter of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris. Morgane Sézalory opened the address in October 2015, some years after she established the label online. The rooms keep the proportions of the flat they once were, with high ceilings under ornate moulding. Much of the furniture came out of the Saint-Ouen flea market, chosen by Sézalory herself. A large marble table and deep armchairs stand among the wide fitting rooms.
The stock covers the autumn winter and spring summer collections, along with monthly capsule editions issued in limited runs. Footwear sits alongside the clothing. Jewellery and leather goods occupy the same floor of the shop. A second register runs to the home and the desk: stationery, pouches, household linen, gourmet food, pocket mirrors and terrariums.
The shop works as a connected boutique. Computers and tablets stand through the space, so a visitor can try a garment and then order the size wanted, with delivery included. Grands Boulevards is the closest metro station to the door. Menswear is handled separately under the name Octobre Editions, a few doors along at 12 rue Saint-Fiacre.
Parisian womenswear label founded in 2006 by designer Juliette Swildens with a bohemian-chic, 70s-90s-inspired aesthetic; several Paris boutiques, including its rue de Turenne store, closed in 2024, though the label continues online.
Best for Vintage-inspired fashion; Premium Parisian
Swildens is a Paris womenswear label created by designer Juliette Swildens in 2006, built around a bohemian, vintage-inflected take on Parisian style with references spanning the 1970s through 1990s and a recurring use of menswear-adjacent tailoring on feminine pieces such as jumpers and cardigans. The label operated a network of standalone boutiques in Paris, including a store on rue de Turenne, but announced the definitive closure of that Turenne location in September 2024, and other Paris addresses have also since been listed closed. The brand has continued to release seasonal collections sold online and through third-party stockists such as Smallable, suggesting a shift away from standalone retail toward wholesale and e-commerce distribution rather than a full shutdown of the label.
Founded by Sylvie Chateigner in Paris in 1994, Thanx God I’m a V.I.P. specializes in curated luxury vintage for women and men, with designer clothing, shoes, bags and accessories.
Best for Vintage designer finds, archive pieces, and one-off discoveries
Paris vintage-luxury boutique in the Triangle d'Or near Hermes, Chanel and Louis Vuitton's flagship stores, trading since 1987 with roughly 5,000 pieces on hand. Hermes and Chanel items are authenticated in-house by checking stitching, hardware stamps and date codes.
Best for Collector-grade authenticated vintage Chanel and Hermès
Valois Vintage has traded in Paris's Triangle d'Or - the luxury district near the flagship stores of Hermes, Chanel and Louis Vuitton - since 1987, making it one of the longer-established vintage-luxury dealers in the city. The boutique holds a large rotating inventory, cited at around 5,000 pieces spanning bags, ready-to-wear, jewelry and shoes from major design houses. Its authentication process examines construction quality, materials, hardware and stitching across brands; for Hermes specifically, specialists check leather grain, saddle stitching, hot-stamped markings, logo typography, closures, and date stamps. The shop also lists internationally through platforms such as 1stDibs.
Paris-founded resale marketplace for authenticated pre-owned luxury and designer fashion, launched in 2009 as 'Vestiaire de Copines' by six co-founders including Fanny Moizant and Sophie Hersan, and rebranded to its current name in 2012.
Best for European luxury resale
Vestiaire Collective launched in 2009 under the name Vestiaire de Copines, founded by six people - Fanny Moizant, Sophie Hersan, Sebastien Fabre, Alexandre Cognard, Henrique Fernandes and Christian Jorge - starting with around 3,000 pre-owned fashion items sourced from friends and family. The company rebranded to Vestiaire Collective in 2012 as it began expanding beyond France. Its core proposition is authentication: listings from individual and professional sellers go through an internal review process, now combining human expertise with AI-assisted checks. The platform has grown to operate across more than 70 countries.
Luxury vintage e-shop operating since 2000, pairing an online catalogue with physical stores in Paris's Marais and Tokyo's Minami Aoyama district, dealing in pre-owned Hermès, Chanel and Louis Vuitton.
Best for Luxury vintage bags, watches, and designer pieces sold online
This Paris-based vintage e-shop has operated since 2000, dealing in pre-owned luxury handbags, jewelry, watches and accessories from houses including Hermès, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Rolex. It pairs its online catalogue, updated with daily new arrivals, with a physical retail presence at 25 Janvier stores, including one in the Marais at 97 Rue Vieille du Temple, and a flagship in Tokyo's Minami Aoyama district. Running an e-commerce vintage-luxury operation since 2000 puts the company among the earlier entrants into a Paris resale trade that has since become far more crowded, as newer platforms and boutiques have multiplied around the same pool of authenticated Hermès and Chanel pieces drawn from private collections and estate sales. The Tokyo location gives the business a second core market outside France, reflecting Japan's own long-established appetite for authenticated Western luxury resale goods, a category where provenance and authentication procedures are central to customer trust and to the prices such vintage pieces command.
Plants & Vintage Clothing is a plant and vintage-clothing shop in Pasadena. Its in-person selection includes houseplants, hand-selected vintage clothing and rotating vendor goods, with a focus on rare plants and hand-selected vintage clothing.
Best for Rare plants and hand-selected vintage clothing
Antique Sugar is a Phoenix vintage clothing shop offering an ever-revolving selection of curated menswear and womenswear spanning the entire 20th century, from 1930s brooches to 1990s gowns. The Downtown Phoenix storefront sells in person and online, and also buys vintage pieces from sellers.
Portland vintage emporium since 1999 — buy-sell-trade curated retro fashion from Victorian era to 1990s.
Best for Buy-sell-trade vintage clothing and curated retro fashion
Red Light Clothing Exchange has been a Portland destination for vintage fashion lovers since 1999, recognized as 'Portland's Best Vintage Store' by Portland Mercury Readers Choice Awards 2011. Located at 3590 SE Hawthorne Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, the shop operates as a buy-sell-trade emporium known for its broad, carefully curated selection. They buy and sell men's and women's contemporary and vintage clothing and accessories, stocking popular street wear labels and fashionable garments from the Victorian era through the 1990s. Every piece is curated rather than left for customers to dig through unsorted stock. More women's pieces are available but solid finds exist for everyone. Prices reflect the curation ($25-100 for most pieces), and the store also buys customer clothing on consignment.
A vintage shop selling clothing, accessories, jewelry, bags, shoes, and collectibles, with much of its stock sourced from former Czechoslovakia.
Best for Vintage clothing, jewelry, bags, and collectibles sourced from former Czechoslovakia
Bohemian Retro is run by Rebecca Eastwood, a British-born textile designer who has lived in Prague since the early 1990s and studied textile design in the UK to postgraduate level. She opened the shop in Žižkov, one of Prague's traditionally working-class districts now known for its bars, galleries and independent stores, building a stock of clothing, accessories, jewelry, bags, shoes and collectibles spanning roughly the 1920s through the 1980s. A significant share of the merchandise is sourced from the former Czechoslovakia, giving the shop a distinctly Central European character rather than the more generic Western vintage stock common elsewhere in the city. Eastwood has spoken publicly about the growth of vintage clothing as a retail category in the Czech Republic, describing how local interest in secondhand and period clothing has expanded since the shop's early years. The store operates on a limited weekly schedule, open Wednesday through Saturday, and Eastwood is known for offering hands-on styling help to customers browsing the racks rather than running the shop as a simple walk-in retailer. The result is a small, personally curated vintage destination shaped by one owner's decades of residence in the city and professional background in textiles, rather than a chain or a reseller operating at scale.
Run by Union Film inside Prague's Kino Svetozor on Vodickova street, Terry Posters sells original and reprinted Czech film posters alongside DVDs, books, music, and clothing both in person and online. The shop, open weekday afternoons, also buys vintage film posters from collectors through its in-house curator.
Kolaportid, Reykjavik's weekend public market at Tryggvagata 19, where stalls of collectors, booksellers and food traders run Saturdays and Sundays 11:00-17:00. First-party door live with vendor directory and events.
Rio de Janeiro vintage and secondhand-designer resale shop in Botafogo, associated with founders Manoela Carvalho and Flavia Kux; ships nationally within Brazil. Its website currently shows a password-gated 'on a break' notice.
Best for Vintage and designer resale, as featured by Vogue in Rio
Mercado Moderno specialises in Brazilian modernist furniture and design objects in Rio. Condition, authorship and restoration should be checked piece by piece because most vintage inventory is unique.
Best for Brazilian modernist furniture and design objects in Rio