Festive frocks, vintage pieces, and indie designers (especially young Latino newcomers) showcased in a modern-styled boutique.
Refined. Delicate. Ladylike. At Emma Fletcher’s new Nolita boutique, one side of the room displays perfectly edited, right-for-right-now vintage picks, while the other side showcases the designer’s immaculate, tailored designs.
Gem of a boutique serves as a launching pad for emerging and hard-to-find designers. Small but stellar collection of vintage pieces, too.
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Once you realize the vintage shop was named after an old book and movie in which a country girl marries up, you see the inspiration for the colorful cotton Western skirts that hang next to fancy lace and silk dresses.
Beachy outpost of a Soho showroom with vintage collectibles like rare surfboards and special accessories stylists like to fight over.
The Greenpoint accessories shop drips with nostalgia for a bygone era from the boudoir-style decor to the pinup bathing suits and feather headbands for sale. The focus is on jewelry with necklaces, bracelets, and rings from local designers like Digby & Iona, as well as stunning original pieces from the ’50s.
Enter the sidewalk hatch to a basement shop channeling London (or Paris!) in the ’60s. Clothing for men and women is styled near jazz records, apothecary potions, horn-rimmed glasses, and a vintage bathtub. Co-designers Osore Oyagha and Eloise Simonet manufacture their wardrobe in NYC in limited runs.
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Owners of antiques store Darr extend their quirky, eclectic taste for vintage finds into men’s clothing in a retail space, adorned with busts, across the street.
Find carefully selected, well-edited vintage treasures or shop store’s flirty, bohemian, eponymous line.
Originally a rental showroom, the LES store now offers women’s designer clothing, accessories, and shoes from the ’60s to the ’80s. Browse big names (YSL, Dior, Chanel, Valentino) — perhaps even alongside a few (Rachel Weisz, Beyonce, Lucy Liu).