MINNEAPOLIS — An international pop star is on tour in the Twin Cities and she’s making her visit all about giving back and helping the environment.
“Billie Eilish came into the shop as a complete surprise,” Justin Schaefer, the owner of VINTAGE, off Lyndale Avenue South in Minneapolis, said. The business is just over a year old and occupies the historic 1930s White Castle building.
Schaefer and his son got to meet the Grammy Award winner on Saturday ahead of her back-to-back concerts at the Xcel Energy Center.
“[Billie] was very kind, vibing the place out,” Schaefer said. “She picked up a 1960s referee jacket, and a cooking apron from the 1970s with a nude female figure, like body, screen print on top of it.”
Friends Courtnee Schippel and Hope Easter intentionally visited VINTAGE after Eilish shopped there. They went to her concert on Sunday night.
“We were like, you know what we’re going to go [to VINTAGE], and if it’s open it’s meant to be,” Schippel said. “We were like, ‘What if we’d come yesterday? What if we had met Billie on a whim?'”