🎧 Pre-Loved Podcast: BAG CRAP
Amanda Marcuson, the founder of a vintage bag charm brand
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We’re chatting with Amanda Marcuson, the founder of BAG CRAP, a vintage bag charm brand.
Amanda is a longtime vintage collector, with a love of treasure hunting from countless weekends at estate sales, thrift stores, and flea markets searching for quirky items. She then became a luxury handbag resale expert, turned designer, and then charm curator.
She uses vintage keychains and repurposed toys to transform nostalgic items into playful one-of-a-kind bag charms that celebrate sustainability.
Her business has definitely experienced the major ‘bag charm boom’ — she's been featured in several issues of Vogue, GQ and Nylon, and worn by style icons like Tracee Ellis Ross and
.But, Amanda feels her one-of-a-kind bag charms, made from trinkets lovingly found all over the world, are more than just a trend item — and we get into it all!
“It's all about nostalgia — I feel like that's how this all started — like, I drilled a little hole in a Barbie, and put it on a Birkin and I was like, this is fun! I like this! Let me make fashion a little more fun for myself and then for other people too.”
— Amanda Marcuson, BAG CRAP
DISCUSSED IN THE EPISODE:
[5:43] How Amanda’s obsession with vintage handbags really began.
[9:21] Was Beanie Baby the first resale trend craze?
[13:04] While at FIT and in her fashion internships, Amanda was always crafting and upcycling.
[17:33] She learned about authentication and running a small business while working in the luxury handbag resale industry, including at The RealReal and Heritage Auctions.
[24:24] When she noticed the bag charms really starting to take off.
[31:51] We’re hungry for the little things that make us happy, even just a charm on your bag that communicates your individuality!
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Hope you enjoy the episode — and you can find me across the internet on Instagram, TikTok, and Threads! 💛 - Emily
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