Alex Tunnell finished just one semester at Southern Union Community College before he dropped out as the side hustle he’d been doing since middle school was finally starting to take off.Once he got to high school, he started creeping into the thrifting space, selling anything he could on eBay.
“We had some other hiccups along the way,” Tunnell said. “But really over the last year or so, we’ve been able to push things in the direction we feel like it needs to go for the future.”Fortunately for Tunnell, Auburn fans love it too. A lot of the vintage Auburn stuff at Atelier Auburn is sourced out of the Auburn, Birmingham and Huntsville areas, Tunnell says.But just as the Auburn Family is spread out across the country, so are many of the pieces that Tunnell brings into Atelier. Packages that contain vintage Auburn apparel come from all over the southeast and the rest of the country and find their way to Atelier Auburn.
“We’ll kinda match it what color everybody is wearing to the game as well,” Tunnell said. “So Auburn has white-outs or orange-outs… so we’ll try to pull stuff for that specifically.”