Nasty Gal Vintage starts to become a huge hit and becomes bigger and bigger. She soon noticed that the way she styles her models with different vintage combinations, works well. To kill time, she hunts for vintage treasures online and opens an eBay shop – the birth of Nasty Gal Vintage. Her job contains checking student IDs in the lobby of an art school. When Amoruso gets a hernia in 2006, she needs a job to get a health insurance. How a hernia made Amoruso start her own business She does dumpster diving and shoplifts a lot, until she gets caught.Įen bericht gedeeld door Sophia Amoruso op om 11:14 (PST) At that time, she lives in a small apartment and is totally broke. A true fashionista.įive years later, she sells her first item on eBay: a stolen book. To put things in perspective, Amoruso fell in love with a piece of vintage clothing at age 13 in 1997 – a red pair of disco pants, which she secretly put on at the bathroom of the roller rink. How it all started? With a stolen book, sold on eBay. In less than one decade, #GIRLBOSS Sophia Amoruso has developed from a high school dropout to a true power woman with two companies: Nasty Gal and the #GIRLBOSS Foundation. Read her full story below, together with some life lessons from her book, #GIRLBOSS – the book you definitely need in your life.Ĭover photo: © Sophia Amoruso, Instagram #GIRLBOSS Sophia Amoruso She literally stood out of the crowd and felt weird about herself. When she was a teenager, Amoruso felt she was different. #GIRLBOSS Sophia Amoruso – It all started with dumpster diving and selling vintage clothes on eBay and resulted in a 100-million dollar fashion company (Nasty Gal), a successful book and a Netflix series.

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