Even before she earned the title of global communications senior manager at eBay, Amanda Miller's worldview was more international than provincial. The 34-year-old native of New York City was raised by her father, a lawyer, and her mother, a publicist for a luxury jewelry line, on the Upper East Side, where at the time, Manhattan's interior design aesthetic was chintz and wallpaper that matched the couch and the drapes. After graduating from Vassar College, Miller interned at French Vogue in Paris and worked in public relations for a luxury brands firm before moving to California in 2009 to work for a company she had been shopping with for 10 years online - eBay. Racks of vintage Pucci, Prada, Dolce & Gabbana, Naeem Khan, Mary Katrantzou and various unsigned vintage pieces? "There's more value to vintage - it's unique, unlike what you might buy at the store, where there are multiples of a single item," she said. If you pick up a piece of clothing from your closet and think, 'Oh my God, I'll never wear that again, ' you should sell it so someone else can enjoy it. About $10 billion in sales at eBay comes from transactions conducted on mobile apps (Miller likes to check for new items from favorite designers while waiting for the eBay bus to whisk her to San Jose for work). [...] the key to her nesting instinct is always thinking about how to incorporate into her home life bits of her journeys abroad.
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