Vintage Store

At Pick n Weight in Mitte, you pay not per piece, but per kilo: Each item has a color marking, and weighing is done on scales in the shop. The assortment ranges from costumes from the fifties to seventies blouses and nineties sportswear.

SOEUR on Marienburger Straße offers used women's fashion from labels like Acne, Marc Jacobs, or Chloé, plus jewelry and individual home furnishings. A good part of the stock comes directly from customers who bring in their own items.

Gormannstraße 19a in the Scheunenviertel is Carolina and Aron's second store and the more design-focused of the two. The assortment comes almost entirely from Italy; cashmere, silk, wool, and leather define the selection, while synthetic fabrics are consistently sorted out. Among vintage stores in Berlin, this is the go-to address for Italian goods with provenance.

Among the antique dealers on Suarezstraße, SPITZE has been offering original clothing, textiles, and accessories from 1860 to 1960 for about 40 years. Two rooms, organized by decade, are stacked with evening gowns, fur and wool coats up to the ceiling. Among Berlin's vintage stores, this is the go-to address for film and theater productions.

Actress Lilly Anders still personally selects the pieces for her store on Nollendorfstraße, not by brand, but by fashion era and condition. Fräulein Anders is primarily known for clothing from the fifties, complemented by an online workshop on developing one's own vintage style. Among the vintage stores in Berlin, this is the curated Fifties collection.

Around half of the inventory at Garments Vintage on Linienstraße comes from current TV and film productions. The two owners themselves worked as costume designers and thus acquire goods that do not appear in regular retail.

Not Too Sweet's second store on Oranienstraße focuses on selection over quantity: Nineties and early two-thousands secondhand, plus sportswear, individual designer pieces, and upcycling from Berlin workshops.

At Dieffenbachstraße 52 in the Graefekiez, a sibling duo runs HARDT, a store for second-hand designer fashion with a focus on Helmut Lang, Yohji Yamamoto, and Prada. The selection remains deliberately small and understated, opting out of Y2K and party wear. Among Berlin's vintage stores, HARDT is the quiet and very well-curated one.

Trollby has been located on Eisenacher Straße in Schöneberg since 2009, recognizable by its red Swedish-style ticket booth. Over 100 square meters are filled with used equipment for pregnancy, babies, and children, from maternity wear to car seats.

Paul's Boutique in Oderberger Straße specializes in sneakers, with over a thousand pairs permanently available. Used denim and leather jackets hang in between, and motorcycle helmets or 80s boomboxes stand among the racks.

For over ten years, CALYPT in Wrangelkiez has stood for curated designer vintage, from leather jackets and trench coats to party outfits and an unusually large selection of shoes. The store accepts pre-owned items through its purchase program. The vintage store remains fair on pricing: mules are around 60 Euros, a designer blouse around 90 Euros.

Lunettes Selection offers over 1,000 unworn spectacle frames from old stock, ranging from 1950s cat-eyes to classic panto glasses and Y2K sunglasses. Frames are inspected and fitted with lenses in their own master workshop, including those brought in by customers. Among Berlin's vintage stores, this is the one exclusively dedicated to eyewear.

Das Neue Schwarz on Mulackstraße exclusively carries second-hand designer fashion, from Vivienne Westwood to YSL Vintage to Isabel Marant. The store originated from an online shop and doesn't look like a second-hand store at all.

KiKiLa on Schulze-Boysen-Straße has been run by the Kinderhilfe in Lichtenberg association since 2008. Everything on the shelves comes from in-kind donations from the neighborhood: children's clothes, toys, picture books, and balance bikes.

Gewandhaus on Belziger Straße only accepts well-preserved outerwear made from natural materials, along with leather shoes and accessories. Merino wool, alpaca, silk, and cashmere are found here much more often than polyester.

On Mommsenstrasse, Macy'z carries pre-owned fashion from labels like Valentino, Chanel, Alexander Wang, or Hermès, much of it from the Charlottenburg neighborhood. The pieces are inspected and refurbished before sale and are spaced out on the racks.

Many items at Veist in Selchower Straße bear a tag with their backstory: for example, a silk blouse of an ambassador's wife or a patterned cardigan of a New Yorker. Used clothing thus becomes a piece with documented origin.

In Karl-Kunger-Straße in Alt-Treptow, the assortment ranges from 1920s dresses, the New Look of the Fifties, to the anti-fashion of the Seventies, with a focus on skirts, dresses, and blouses from the Fifties and Sixties. Hats, bags, and scarves are also available. Among Berlin's vintage stores, this one covers the broadest span of decades.

For over a decade, Siebenstern has been located on Florastraße in Pankow, selling new and second-hand goods side by side. Jackets cost between 8 and 18 Euros, trousers between 5 and 8 Euros, and there are also shoes, wooden toys, and books.

FiNDUS on Stargarder Straße is one of the city's oldest children's second-hand shops and is run as a family business. Covering over 80 square meters, it offers clothing up to size 164, as well as shoes, toys, car and bicycle seats.

In the beautiful shoe boutique Stiefelknecht in Berlin-Friedrichshain every customer is treated like a king, because the owner makes sure you get the service you require.

At Limonadenbaum on Nansenstraße, secondhand and new goods stand side-by-side without one feeling like a compromise. Used items are checked before acceptance, selected for quality and craftsmanship, not quantity.

The Berliner Büchertisch in Gneisenaustraße in the Bergmannkiez sells donated used books, thereby funding its literacy programs. Approximately 40,000 books are given free of charge to schools, daycare centers, and social institutions every year. Children up to 16 years old can choose a book and take it for free during each visit.

Trash Schick on Wühlischstraße has been collecting since the eighties, and this is reflected in its stock: clothes from that era hang alongside military jackets and accessories from several decades. The focus is on shoes.

Diana Dodik and Natasha Arana have been running Sing Blackbird since 2009 in Sanderstraße, now entirely focused on originals from the nineties and Y2K years. Items are purchased on a commission basis, with pieces in the designer section costing around 70 Euros. Among Berlin's vintage stores, this is the brightest and most clearly organized.