Emma Chamberlain Shares Her Top Tips for Vintage Shopping
The Run-Through with Vogue
Vogue
4.1 • 764 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Emma Chamberlain will go to great lengths to find the right piece of vintage for her closet. She is not a stranger to curling up in bed at the end of a long day to try to hunt for the perfect item for her wardrobe when she gets a break from her demanding schedule.
“I kinda let the algorithm take me on a journey,’ says Chamberlain on her online shopping habits. “The internet… it is a mess. It is toxic, but I'm gonna use the algorithm to my benefit, if I can.”
Although Chamberlain says when she does have a break, she loves to shop in person. "When I'm in New York, Chinatown,” says Chamberlain giving a shoutout to James Veloria. “But also all the little shops up in that little shopping center.”
At home in Los Angeles, Chamberlain has one hotspot she keeps going back to, the Rose Bowl Flea Market.
Chamberlain will be back on Vogue’s Met Gala carpet this May as Vogue's special correspondent for her sixth consecutive year. “I don't expect anything…Like every year I'm like, ‘This could be the last year’,” says Chamberlain. “I am so grateful that I've ever been able to do it.”
Also on this episode, Vogue Runway's Irene Kim and producer Alex Jhamb Burns take listeners inside the second annual Vogue Vintage Market which took place this past Saturday. They spoke to folks in the line—some who had been waiting for hours—about the vintage pieces they were most coveting and the pieces they walked out the door with.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Run Through is brought to you by eBay. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, y'all. It's Arden Fannie Andrews, Vogue's Beauty Editor at Large, and I'm back to talk about one of my favorite topics, eBay. At long last, I have become a seller. All of my years of shopping on eBay have shown me what to do now. Like, what information do I want to know? What do I want to see? I don't believe in hoarding luxury. You have to share it. And that's why I'm shopping and selling on eBay. |
| 0:25.6 | Stay clear of the closed doors, please. |
| 0:35.6 | Good morning. |
| 0:40.3 | It's Alex John Burns, a producer on the Run Through podcast, |
| 0:45.3 | and I just got out of Canal Street, |
| 0:49.3 | and I am walking to the vintage sale. |
| 0:55.0 | It is a beautiful sunny day here in Manhattan. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm kind of cold, but I'm about to see |
| 1:07.0 | perhaps the big line of people waiting to get into Vogue's vintage market today. |
| 1:13.6 | Okay, I'm approaching. It looks like there's a line. I'm getting here now. |
| 1:20.6 | Hello. Good morning. Thank you. It's windy and cold outside. |
| 1:28.3 | There is a really long line down the block of what is this Mercer Street, |
| 1:34.3 | of people waiting to get into the sale, pretty much as far as I can see. |
| 1:40.3 | You are at the front of the line, right? |
| 1:43.3 | Yes. When did you get here? Literally just now. I use |
| 1:47.8 | the same old line dudes. It's a company in New York for line standards and I heard about |
| 1:54.1 | from a friend last year and she used it and she loved it and so it's a way to save time. So how does it work? So you just pay ahead to one of the people |
| 2:07.2 | that are in charge at the company and then they send someone here to sit in line for you. |
| 2:11.9 | Okay, so you're standing in line right now. When did you get here? We got here at 8.45 a.m. |
| 2:20.7 | Okay. Committed. Yes, very committed. We had to be here. |
| 2:26.6 | Okay. And what are you looking for today? I'm looking for broaches because I think men need to bring broaches in. And I'm also looking for great like bomber jackets. I'm thinking like maybe like a |
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