Audrey Gelman, former The Wing CEO, has a cottagecore shop in BK
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reddit.comPosted Sep 22, 2022, 1:54 AM UTC
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reddit.comOnce again, I say: āYou need to understand that New York City is filled with people who are absolutely full of shit. Con artists, hustlers, and circus freaks, all looking to make a buck.ā
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Itās a pale imitation of another store, Salter House, which is only a few blocks away on Atlantic and has been there for years!!!
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Salter house is dope though - the woman that runs it makes her own clothing and bakes bagels from fermented vegetables (they are fire).
The Six Belles is possibly the dumbest store I have ever walked into - and I highly recommend walking in to laugh out loud at some pretentious ācottagecoreā bull shit. Itās like she bought out some antique store in rural Ohio and wrote a story about the āpiecesā so she could mark it up 50000x.
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Agree, I love Salter House! Wasnāt trying to throw shade
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Salter House is POC owned š will continue to support my fellow WOC over racist failed girlbosses living out an English colonialist fantasy anytime. Not to mention their stuff is better than the Six Bells (from what I can tell from glancing in from the sidewalk awayā¦not planning on visiting 6B tbh).
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Uh, no. You donāt get to take someoneās heritage away from them because theyāre too light-skinned in your estimation (which, Sandeep looks plenty Indian to me). Would you also claim Meghan Markle isnāt POC because sheās half white and spent her entire Hollywood career passing for roles? Or that Barack Obama isnāt either because heās also half white and was raised by the white side of his family? Just, no.
Also, lol if you think sheās going around passing as white with a name like Sandeep.
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Absolutely love Salter House!! Was so happy to see they made it through the pandemic
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Another racist, just like Leandra Medine Cohen. How do they get away with this?
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Uh because theyāre white and benefit from white supremacism
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A lot of them are also pro-Trump but never dare to mention it
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Just want to clarify that Audrey has been a POS (and might still be one?), but sheās definitely not a Trump supporter. She worked in Democratic politics for some time earlier in her career and fundraises for progressive Democrats.
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Leandra Medine Cohen and Arielle Charnas seem very Trumpy
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Omg I havenāt seen her name in a hot minute. Is she still doing that weird thing with her stick legs?
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yup yup
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Totally agree that they are both awful. The Wing and Manrepeller overlap, but just a reminder (and I am not coming for you at all I am sure you just are comparing their two businesses) to anyone commenting to please avoid antisemitism, which this Reddit has already had problems with.
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most ppl donāt care
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cracker barrel for millennial trust fund babies
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Omg
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This chick just has 9 lives. Somehow keeps getting a millllllion chances!
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100%. From political ādarlingā (Ergh) to canoeing on Girls because sheās friends with Lena Dunham to the Wing and now thisā¦ it is kind of crazy.
The fake village is both creepy and hilarious.
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Wealth gives you that luxury
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Failing upā¦ we love to see it.
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Slay! Women can run companies into the ground on the backs of exploited workers and then waltz off to another venture, just like men!
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I mean thatās literally how all business in the US is run. Not saying itās ok but thereās nothing new about this
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Yeah of course, but historically generally only men have been allowed to do it.
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Classic girlboss shit š
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Theyre really trying to rebrand the bullshit that was the wing & the horrible way they ghosted their members??? Iām flabbergasted!
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Sheās a friend of Lena Dunhamās, that explains everythingš
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This whole enterprise has a creepy Victorian cosplay element to it and I wonder how much she marks up those antiques she finds.
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I just went on the Antiques category, and call me crazy but $80 for a stack of vintage Penguin books is fucking stupid. Generally speaking, the website gave me some weird vibes.
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I popped in recently and there were these little wooden blocks a couple inches big that were painted like houses and, shit you not, they were priced between $50-80.
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Itās giving British sitcom 1994 set piece (Iām talking about the iconic men behaving badly show and Deborahās horrible fake farmhouse apartment (itās on Amazon prime))
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Isnāt her husband a billionaire? Iām sure he supports her pet projects whenever she fails at something
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I had no idea her husband founded Rap Genius š
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She dated Terry Richardson for a time. So truly gross.
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Can't believe I once wanted to be a member of the Wing. I signed up several times and they never even reached back out.
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I love the fictional village setting! What a concept š¹š¹
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as a white woman who grew up in a poor rural community, I hope this comes out okay, but there is a history of poor white folk too who always get exploited by wealthy urban people who treat our lives like some sort of joke "oooh the poor dumb country people with their little folksy crafts" or "ooh look poverty porn" let me go sell it! I really really HATE this thing.
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Another racist "gIrLbOsS"
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Ohhhhh marnie
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I donāt understand how a small cottage core shop can āreek of colonialismā. Can someone please explain?
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Ugh I love this Reddit so much. Just constantly posting about the shit I see and want to discuss š¤š¼ but in all seriousness.. lol. She just casually exploits her employees and girlbosses herself too close to the sun and then gets to escape to a land of fancy antiques. Must be nice!!
Girlbosses herself to close to the sun is the most perfect phrase.
Vogue writes of her wedding and how she and her husband walked out: "to the unexpected recessional, Trick Daddyās āIām a Thug.ā - I'm sorry but what white person needs to do that. Why? wtf