Welcome to Show Us the Receipts, our recurring column on what fashion people really buy and spend.
Money remains taboo in almost every corner of life, but in fashion, dollars and cents can take on an especially complex dimension—from both inside and out. With a high buy-in to the luxury market and wages that don’t often allow professionals access to the goods offered by their own industry, we often find ourselves wondering how, exactly, our contemporaries afford their wardrobes. Do they come from generational wealth? Are they on every PR gifting list known to man? Are they savvy sale shoppers and bargain hunters? Or are they just really shrewd budgeters?
Here, we asked three stylish people in or adjacent to the fashion industry to chronicle one month of their fashion consumption—and to note what was purchased at full price, discounted, and gifted.
This month, a corporate employee at a luxury house, a stylist, and a content creator all offered Vogue a peek at their receipts.
Read the first edition of Show Us the Receipts here.
