How Model-Turned-CEO Lauren Chan Finds the Coolest Vintage Online

Vintage has been a way for her to find her place and style in an industry that has historically excluded plus-size fashion. “I started shopping vintage years ago when I was the fashion news editor at Glamour. There, I wanted to wear fashion-forward pieces from aspirational brands, mainly to feel on par with my peers,” she says. “At the budget I had and the size I was, my only option to wear things like that was vintage,” she says. “Actually, I did research for an article once where I found out that most designer stores only carry up to size 6 or 8 on the rack. Rather than feel devalued in a store asking for a size 14 to spend an entire paycheck on, I shopped for affordable vintage online. From there, I fell in love with the treasure hunt of it all.”

In her early days of working in fashion, Chan wanted to dress in suits and most of her plus-size options were low quality. Buttons popped on her tops and at one point, en route to a cover interview, her pants from a mass retailer split. “I had to go do my interview with my bare ass on the chair in Soho House!” Chan’s solution came from the vintage world, where she was able to find higher-quality pieces like an Armani blazer. She was a big online shopper in lieu of going in person. “I exclusively shop vintage online because it’s so much more efficient when looking for bigger sizes,” she says. “ I find that when shopping vintage in person in New York, I mainly find size 10s and below. Since I wear a size 14, shopping trips are often a bust.”

While Chan was successful in getting vintage scores, mostly menswear that she got tailored, it still wasn’t enough. She used her inspiration from vintage suiting to launch her own label, Henning. “While [vintage] was a good solution, I desperately wanted to be able to buy a strongly structured, fully-lined wool suit off the rack—and I wanted to be able to offer that to other plus-size shoppers in order to share the message that we are just as valuable as our smaller peers who are able to so,” she says.

Currently, vintage is still the cherry on top for Chan’s look. “Vintage pieces work well with my style because I wear fairly classic pieces—my go-to’s are blazers, trousers, jeans, knits, and button-downs paired with more exciting outerwear and accessories,” she says. “A lot of vintage is exactly that, so it works out well!.” Chan has score-finding down to a science. Every day, she refreshes her go-to apps in her size and searches for what is next. “Online, I simply set the filters to sizes XL and above so I’m not wasting time looking at anything that won’t fit,” she says. On her just-purchased list? She bought a vintage Prada nylon bag in orange “for a steal”. Easy breezy.

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