With vintage string, Clara defends a second -hand fashion reserved for subscribers

« Combattre à petite échelle les multinationales qui polluent et ne respectent pas les droits humains », c’est le défi que s’est lancée Clara Nedelec, créatrice du compte Instagram Ficelle Vintage. Elle chine des vêtements d’occasion des années 1970-1980, qu’elle poste sur son compte et revend sur Vinted, le premier site de vente de vêtements de seconde main en France.

The 22 -year -old Paimpolaise relaunched this activity in January to fight "fast fashion".This expression designates the rapid renewal of clothing collections, sold at low prices."I sell vintage clothes made in France, Italy, sometimes by hand.And often, brands no longer even exist ".On vinted, Clara has 790 subscribers.For the moment, she asks friends or women she sees on Instagram to put with the clothes she puts on sale."I don't do that for money," said the student."I spend it to buy other clothes that I will sell then or to pay the girls who pose on my Instagram account".

Flea markets, storage rooms, empty-butons to find vintage parts

Vintage string was created in 2019 but Clara had deleted her account to devote herself to seam.She started for the sale of darlings and bags in recycled fabrics "made in Brittany".And this, always with the same idea in mind: to oppose the functioning of the fashion industry.Vintage string, it is off and it is not the motivation that is missing.Clara goes every week to flea markets, storage rooms, or empty-butons to find vintage parts.

"I would like Ficelle Vintage to take a little magnitude, but I don't want to make it my job," said Clara, smiling.His goal is to educate people in the second hand, and "touch them by vintage, even if they do not buy at home", she adds.A passion therefore, but above all the means of "showing that you can dress differently".Indeed, 40 % of consumers would have bought second -hand clothes in 2020, compared to 10 % in 2010, according to the French fashion institute.Awareness or fashion effect?The Vintage string designer thinks that the second hand is developing for "ecological, but also economic reasons".

Work for human rights

Because yes, it is obviously cheaper to buy used clothes.Clara denounces it: "The working conditions of workers who make large brand clothes are very bad and factories, often unsanitary".And it is precisely to "work for human rights" that she entered the Faculty of Law in Saint-Brieuc.Student in the second year, her project is to work in humanitarian workers."It's very wide the law, but it is this branch that I like the most.I came to be interested in working conditions in factories ".