{"id":606352,"date":"2026-09-05T04:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606352\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:18:13","slug":"i-enjoy-the-hunt-why-hong-kong-shoppers-are-turning-to-second-hand-luxury-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/606352\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I enjoy the hunt\u2019: why Hong Kong shoppers are turning to second-hand luxury fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bending over trays of jade pendants, gemstone brooches and old watches, Dianne Gupta<\/a> takes her time as she sifts through a heap of tangled necklaces and rings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy the hunt. It\u2019s like finding hidden treasure when I see something I like,\u201d she says, drifting from stall to stall along Apliu Street, well known for second-hand and vintage stalls, in Hong Kong\u2019s Sham Shui Po neighbourhood.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, Gupta \u2013 who has been buying preloved items since she was a child \u2013 found a pair of Miu Miu flats for HK$35 (US$4.50) at a charity shop in Central, on Hong Kong Island. She is chasing that same high today.<\/p>\n

She is not alone \u2013 shoppers around the world are increasingly turning to different kinds of outlets and spaces to look for luxury fashion.<\/p>\n

\"InfluencerInfluencer Dianne Gupta in Hong Kong\u2019s Sham Shui Po neighbourhood. Photo: Jonathan Wong\"GuptaGupta loves to go thrifting in Sham Shui Po. Photos: Jonathan WongThis is also the case in Hong Kong, where Japanese resale brand Ragtag<\/a> recently opened a store in Causeway Bay, joining a growing roster of second-hand luxury players in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bending over trays of jade pendants, gemstone brooches and old watches, Dianne Gupta takes her time as she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[274301,274296,274295,114,274300,274298,274297,274299,274290,3448,85,46,274292,274289,274288,274291,46343,274287,3594,274294,46470,214935,274302,274293],"class_list":["post-606352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apliu-street","tag-aurianne-ricquier","tag-barrie-chan","tag-business","tag-carousell","tag-daisuke-hirano","tag-dianne-gupta","tag-elsa-shen","tag-hana-vintage","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-old-but-gold","tag-ragtag","tag-recommerce","tag-redress","tag-resale","tag-second-hand-luxury","tag-sustainability","tag-swop-society","tag-textile-waste","tag-thrifting","tag-tin-pan-alley","tag-top-swop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}