Luxury resale has become an industry where hashtag#luxury items change hands, offering access to those who can’t afford it. Luxury brands allow it because, even as the item changes hands, its symbolic value remains intact, or even grows.

The opportunity of access doesn’t democratize high-end brands; it just drives traffic, conversation, and a feeling of hashtag#aspiration. It prolongs the desire to one day own a first-hand item. What is being sold in second-hand shops aren’t just luxury products, it's a controlled illusion of luxury, a permitted form of belonging to the upper class.

Has hashtag#resale market become a way for consumers to become luxury owners – while they keep dreaming of being luxury buyers?