Saks, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom, and Lord & Taylor are hardly bargain-basement stores. But anyone who's had to buy a Vera Wang dress for a wedding will be shocked in October when they get a look at the price-tags on Ms. Wang's new line of lingerie.
Of course, a month before that Ms. Wang will already Read More
FRANCESCA: I am not a big believer in white shoes. Even to wear with a wedding dress. And then there’s the whole – “I will NEVER wear these again” thought. Still, it struck me as appropriate.
When, after two days of shopping, I failed to find the magic shoe, or any white sandal Read More
Seattle’s corporate invasion continues apace. Or not.
Women’s Wear Daily is reporting that Nordstrom is teaming up with the Related Companies to build a department store in Battery Park City.
The high-end retailer has reportedly eyed many properties throughout Manhattan throughout the years, to no avail; if built, the Battery Park City location Read More
On a recent Saturday afternoon, my friend Francesca and I enjoyed a fairy-tale shopping day. We were at Jeffrey, of course, moseying though the shoe department, pausing to opine on the merits of the Prada mule. We passed the dreadlocked D.J. spinning old Barbra and entered the women’s salon, where a Lacoste-shirted salesman, channeling Jeffrey Read More
On a recent Saturday afternoon, my friend Francesca and I enjoyed a fairy-tale shopping day. We were at Jeffrey, of course, moseying though the shoe department, pausing to opine on the merits of the Prada mule. We passed the dreadlocked D.J. spinning old Barbra and entered the women’s salon, where a Lacoste-shirted salesman, channeling Jeffrey Read More
PRIZM is a “lifestyle segmentation system” that uses census and demographics data and info from “millions of consumer purchase records” to categorize neighborhoods according to their buying habits. (It’s used by the marketing-research company Claritas Inc., and you can enter your own ZIP code at http://www.cluster2.claritas.com/YAWYL.) Here’s the PRIZM lowdown on some local Read More
