About Liana Satenstein
I’m a writer who has ended up in the schmatta industry as much as I tried to escape my roots. I’ll explain: I was at Vogue for over eight years during an incredible heyday of Wild West online fashion media. I was covering and starting vintage booms, and perhaps you remember some hits like the Mombasa bag and the Balenciaga City bag. I also covered the growing fashion industries in Eastern Europe, including Moscow, Tbilisi, and Kyiv, where I traveled every few months. Ask me about tarkhun and vzatki…
But some of my favorite stories for Vogue were early to the party pieces about wired headphones, celebrity reading culture, the allure of the slingbacks, and why I adore V-necks on a man, specifically Michael Douglas.
Also, duh, heinous footwear like Vibrams, and the thong heel when it was deemed disgusting.