Exclusive | These women sold thousands worth of designer clothing to a Vogue-backed NYC consignment shop and say they never got paid or saw them again

Before deciding to sell her designer clothes, Monica Suk had barely heard of Dora Maar.Now, she wishes she never had — after the trendy NYC-based online luxury consignment shop went out of business, leaving her high and dry.The company and its founder and chief executive Lauren Taylor Wilson were once splashed across the pages of Vogue, Marie Claire, Women’s Wear Daily, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.Lilah Ramzi, an editor and fashion historian, and the style blogger Leandra Medine Cohen also helped promote the project, giving it additional heft — Rodarte and Markarian, who dressed Jill Biden for the 2021 inauguration, even teamed up with the trendy site to resell inventory.“It looked legit, and it was cool,” Suk, a 36-year-old tech professional in Hong Kong, told The Post.Wilson, 35, brought major cred to the project, having previously held impressive positions at luxury platform Moda Operandi, in marketing at Christie’s and Gucci before starting Dora Maar in 2019 — to sell high-end fashion through community and storytelling and establish a provenance for each piece of clothing.Unlike competing consignment operations like The RealReal, Vestiaire Collective, Poshmark or Rebag, Dora Maar, named for the Surrealist photographer and onetime lover of Picasso, elevated its consignors to rockstar status.The sellers, most of whom were microinfluencers Wilson called “muses,” were highlighted on the website and on social media in magazine-worthy photographs, typically wearing the clothes they were selling.Many of them were stylists hawking their own services, and they welcomed the exposure and chance to promote their brands.When Suk turned to the company to offload her estimated $16,000 worth of designer wares last year, a direct conversation with Brian Solis, Dora Maar’s head of fashion, helped to put her at ease, as did emails with Solis and the team.“They made it easy for me to sell my items,” she said — providing her with a DHL label and...