NEVERWORNS' liana satenstein on working at vogue, studying in st. petersburg, and pre-9/11 fashion

meet liana statenstein

meet liana satenstein

You might spot freelance fashion writer and founder of the interactive resale hub of vintage, NEVERWORNS Liana Satenstein on a run with her husband around Prospect Park. She loves a destination run, and when she worked at Vogue she would run from Brooklyn to the office each morning, but she’s taking things a little easier lately since she’s pregnant with her first child. If you don’t catch her on a run, she might be digging through the vintage racks at James Veloria or food shopping in Brighton Beach. We caught up with Liana to talk about working at Vogue, getting into fights at school, and spending time in Ukraine and Russia.

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“When I first got to Russia, I went to a meet-and-greet for study abroad students. Everyone was talking about why they wanted to come to St. Petersburg. They were all like, I read this Dostoevsky book, or I’m really interested in Russian history. And I was thinking, I spent a year in Ukraine drinking and sitting on the back of motorcycles and going clubbing and going to this school with no doors on the toilet and bartering at secondhand markets. Dostoevsky? What the fuck are these people talking about? It was just so foreign to me.

I didn’t read Dostoevsky until this year. I didn’t start reading him until I interviewed Marc Jacobs for High Snobiety and we spoke about Notes from Underground, which I read. Then I read a short story of his and I’m going to pick up Crime and Punishment.”

on her advice for new writers