Not faulting anyone for...
Not faulting anyone for being born with a silver spoon. Some of my pals have been and cannot control that anymore than I can control being born with OCD or my ridiculously gorgeous chin.
But it's quite easy to have good taste when you have deep pockets. Especially when you can just hire someone to make appear as such.. A vintage Nelson Kangaroo? I'll take two.... Oh and throw in that Noguchi rudder as well...
Uh...
Hey, I'm jealous, too... And maybe she IS living off an enormous inheritance or something... But the business she co-owns is well-known and appears to be successful; I think there's a pretty good chance that she's paying her own way.
Her LA store is in the high-rent district (on Melrose, just down the block from Denmark 50), but her merchandise is the creme de la creme, so she can charge a lot for it (see the web link below for a $25K dress she sold at auction last year). She doesn't have to sell many pieces to make $50-70K a week, which works out to like three million dollars a year. Plus, there's her fashion-design business; I have no idea whether it's profitable, but even if it isn't, it probably isn't losing much.
It's easy to imagine that the owner of a $3 million+ business and her former-world-champion pro athlete boyfriend -- ok, he was skateboarding champion, but still -- can afford to live in one of the dozens of Neutra homes in Los Angeles... Especially when the co-owner of the business is one of Los Angeles's most active collector/renovators of midcentury architecture and furnishings, and so can probably get her the good-guy price on everything.
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=5131084
Fastfwd--
Out of curiosity-- how do you know that the Paco Rabanne dress was consigned by her? I believe "Resurrection: Avant-Garde Fashion" is just the title of the sale (?). (Not doubting you, just wondering how you gleaned this info--)
$70,000 a week between the two stores? At the average price of $1,000 per item, that's five pieces a day. I dunno how plausible that sounds to me, at least at NY's small Mott Street store.
Google ( http://www.google.com) is your friend.
A quick search for something like:
resurrection christie's
will turn up numerous links including this one:
http://www.nysun.com/style/reimagining-fashion-as-decorative-art/86370/
Oh, and re: $70K...
It's LA.
If some celebrity stylist gets it into her nutty little head that 1960's Pierre Cardin would be perfect for one of her clients, then that client's going to have 1960's Pierre Cardin, by God, and cost is no object.
Also, there are LOTS of women in that town with nothing better to spend their money on than clothes. None of them wants to wear what some other woman's wearing, so a store like Resurrection is appealing.
And if they hear that Rachel Zoe shops there, the store becomes practically irresistible.
Plus, the movie business is in LA, and movie costume departments sometimes need high-end vintage clothing. And there are people who collect vintage clothing the way we collect vintage furniture.
I wouldn't find it hard to believe that the LA store pulls in $50K+/week all by itself. The NYC stores probably don't do as well, but I'd be very surprised if they didn't make at least $20K/week.
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