Shop With: Christene Barberich, digital media pioneer and thrifting savant.

Once you do, though, you may just come to trust their opinion and taste more than a traditional retailer’s—especially when those retailers are increasingly stocking the same brands and the same products, with no discernible point of view.

Creativity, point of view, taste, curatorial acumen and stylistic savvy are new units of consumption. Keywords are group buying and shared ownership.

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