St. Louis Magazine

Fashion Flair

MINDFUL SPACES p.30

RELAX & RESET p.32

BEFORE DECIDING TO trade in a decade-long career in commercial real estate for the role of small-business owner, Sierra Stream had never traded in anything, much less designer shoes and luxury handbags. She recalls how a friend, upon finding this out, asked (incredulously), “You just give all your clothes away to Goodwill?”

In September 2021, Stream purchased the beloved Byrd Designer Consignment from Emily Elbert and developed a passion for secondhand goods. “It would be hard not to, working here,” she says. “Probably 20 percent of the stuff we get in still has the tags on it.”

Stream isn't planning

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