Candace Bushnell opens Depop shop with decades of designer looks

Candace Bushnell has turned her own closet into a cultural object, and Depop has given it a storefront. The newest celebrity resale edit from the platform gathered more than 20 pieces from Bushnell’s personal wardrobe, drawing from decades of New York event dressing and a label-heavy mix that includes Manolo Blahnik, Prada, Marc Jacobs and Dolce & Gabbana.

The appeal is not just the clothes, but the life already lived in them. Bushnell said the pieces had been worn to Milan, Vogue events and a Miss Universe pageant in China, a pedigree that gives secondhand fashion a sharper point of view than a generic luxury listing. These are garments with mileage and memory, the kind of archive that now reads less like clearance and more like lore.

Bushnell’s own name sharpens the draw. Long before the HBO phenomenon made Sex and the City a global fashion reference point, she wrote the original column for The New York Observer in the 1990s, then turned that world into a 1996 book and later the television series. Her clothes carry that same New York circuitry: social calendar dressing, insider polish and the kind of city glamour that has always made provenance feel as important as cut.

Depop is leaning hard into that idea. The company says it has about 56.3 million registered users, more than 68 million items for sale and up to 600,000 new listings every day. It also says users have given 25 million items a second life since 2021, a metric that makes the Bushnell shop feel less like a novelty and more like a case study in how resale has become mainstream luxury commerce.

The timing matters too. On February 18, 2026, eBay said it would acquire Depop from Etsy in a $1.2 billion all-cash deal expected to close in the second quarter of 2026, underscoring how seriously the market now takes recommerce with a Gen Z and millennial following. Depop has increasingly used editorial-style collaborations to make resale feel styled, not scavenged, and Bushnell fits the formula perfectly: a recognizable name, a wardrobe with decades of New York event history, and pieces that already come with their own narrative value.