A Love Letter to Y2K
Hi, I’m Lily — the 27-year-old founder and curator behind The Angel Chateau. ♡
I moved to Maine from Canada after meeting my husband, and after becoming a stay-at-home mom, I found myself looking for something that could bring together two things I had always loved: fashion and entrepreneurship. I started selling clothing online as a way to make a little extra money while staying home with my son, never expecting it to become what it has today.
Then I discovered the Goodwill bins.
I fell completely in love with the hunt — and especially with finding pieces from the early 2000s that instantly brought me back to my childhood. Y2K fashion has always felt personal to me. My mom and stepmom were absolute fashion icons of the early 2000s, and some of my earliest memories are of fawning over their wardrobes and dreaming about the day I could have closets of my own.
In sixth grade, while other kids were probably dreaming about what they wanted to be when they grew up, I had a very specific career plan: become the manager of a Victoria’s Secret PINK store so I could get a discount on all the clothes. Some things apparently never change.
What started as something to do from home quickly became a genuine love for curating. I became obsessed with researching brands, learning the history behind different pieces and collections, and finding the special things that had somehow survived all these years. There’s a feeling that comes with uncovering an incredible piece from the 2000s that you just can’t recreate by buying something new.
Eventually, reselling stopped feeling like a side project and started becoming something much bigger.
In August 2026, The Angel Chateau opened its first brick-and-mortar space in Windham, Maine. What began with me digging through bins and selling clothes online had turned into a real-life shop filled with the pieces I love most — nostalgic Y2K finds, iconic brands, and the kind of clothing that makes you stop in your tracks and wonder how it possibly made it all the way back to you.
Today, every piece in The Angel Chateau is still selected with that same excitement I felt when I first started sourcing. I want shopping here to feel like stepping into the closet you dreamed about growing up — only now, you finally get to take the clothes home.
Thank you for being here and for letting me share a little piece of my childhood, my closet, and my Chateau with you.
With love,
Lily ♡