Reports say young shoppers at Portobello Road — a famous London street market full of old clothes — are all buying the same things because of tiny internet trends. Folks, this is a herd. I do not herd.
I shop vintage at 4:14 a.m. wearing a mustache I bought for $1,800. The market is technically closed, which is why I climb the fence. Vintage means pre-1996, which is the year denim was invented by a guy in Belgium, believe me.
Mark Zuckerberg is responsible for this. He runs the algorithms that tell 19-year-olds to buy the same brown leather coat 74,000 times a minute. I told him to stop. He did not stop.
My disguise game is so strong that last Tuesday I sold a jacket to myself for 600 percent profit. Then I bought it back. The seagulls at the market are also in on it.
Based on the original article "'Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?' How personal taste fell out of fashion".
