With vintage fashion in high demand, the hunt for archival designer wedding dresses is becoming serious business.
One of the most intimate questions you can ask eBay power users is to show you their negotiations — the private DMs they exchange with sellers bargaining over the price of an item. But Alexis Novak humored me.
The item was a spring 2018 dress from the French luxury brand Céline, then under the creative direction of Phoebe Philo, a designer whose cult following is almost unparalleled in modern fashion. The gown, with long sleeves and a turtleneck and glazed in white sequins, was listed at $8,000. Ms. Novak offered $6,000. The seller politely
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