What the Closet Sale Craze Says About Shopping

The hottest place to shop in New York right now? Someone else’s closet.

Over the past few years the “closet sale” has become a staple of the New York shopping scene. For the biggest ones — see Chloë Sevigny’s “sale of the century” (2023), Jenna Lyons’ so-called stoop sale (2024) and Jemima Kirke’s remote-to-Soho Red Hook event (2024) — lines wrapped around the block, followed by headlines in The Cut, New York Times and Vogue. But it’s not just celebrities: Influencers,…