Monica Sallay found a rare $100 dollar Balenciaga fall 2006 dress at a Goodwill.
Ten Years Before Her Wedding, This Bride Found Her Balenciaga Wedding Dress at a Thrift Store
Not every bride would thrift a dress for their wedding, but Monica Sallay aka @sartorialscraps had unintentionally bought her wedding dress second-hand a decade before she actually got married. The software marketing manager had always had an obsession with archival fashion and currently spends her free time building up her collection, which includes a Cardi B-approved cyberdot jumpsuit from Jean Paul Gaultier’s fall 1995 show and a trove of rare Comme des Garçons and Issey Miyake. Also in her collection is a rare Balenciaga dress from the fall 2006 collection, designed by Nicolas Ghesquière, that the 29-year-old bought in New York City 10 years ago at a Goodwill shop, and wore for her wedding in May 2019.
While Sallay never considered herself a “wedding person”, the Balenciaga dress became her dream dress. Before entering the world of software marketing, Sallay had studied at the Parsons School of Design and lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. An avid shopper, she often trawled the Goodwill a few blocks from her apartment. “I was spending all the money that I had earned over the summer [from interning] essentially on clothes,” she says. “It was a nice little therapeutic activity for me.” One day in 2011, strolling past the Goodwill, she caught a glimpse of a short white embroidered dress with a scalloped neck in the window. “That dress in the window totally melted my heart, especially the way that embroidery was done,” she says. “I was so obsessed with the way it looked.”
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Liana Satenstein
