By Kim Velsey 3/05 2:02pm

Hipster vs. Hipster

They were all shopping there anyway. (Urbanoutfitters.com)

Hipsters Can’t Be Bothered to Feign Outrage About Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters Moving To Williamsburg

Williamsburg hipsters are very busy these days! Whether it’s butchering some kind of heirloom pig or smelting the umpteenth variation on a  V-shaped necklace to sell at Brooklyn Flea, what burgeoning tradesman or woman has time to dig through thrift stores for the perfect pair of high-waisted Jordache jeans or frumpy chic granny sweaters? Not to mention that the neighborhoods’ thrift stores have been hopelessly picked over since at least 2005.

Thank goodness Urban Outfitters—and maybe even Anthropologie!—will soon be coming to the neighborhood. The college campus staple and her older, wealthier sister (who’s always going off on trips to foreign lands, writing dreamy not-quite-coherent thoughts in her leather-bound diary) are both looking to move into Williamsburg, Crain’s reports. Read More

2/09/12 9:43am

Fashion Week Observed

McMillan at the Richard Chai Love Spring 2012 Fashion Show

Model Miles McMillan Strikes a Pose

Fresh off the runways in Milan and Paris, model-newcomer Miles McMillan (who walked in Dior, Etro, John Varvatos, Costume National and Damir Doma—to name a few) is gearing up for another strong season of shows and parties in New York. The Observer hunted him down to find out what life is like when you’re so in-demand. Read More

By Emily Geminder 3/15/10 8:41pm

Urban Outfitters Leases Unfettered Upper Broadway Spot

2625 Broadway

When Urban Outfitters last year declared its intent to renovate a landmarked theater on the Upper West Side, the outcry was swift. Although the Metro Theater stood empty, its interior Deco flourishes gutted several years ago, news that the national retailer planned to set up shop there sparked a Read More

By Lysandra Ohrstrom 8/07/08 6:42pm

July a Mixed Sales Bag for Chain Retailers

With government stimulus checks mostly spent, July was a gloomy month for retailers. WWD took a toll of the national chains that either fell short of expectations or took a hit last month–or both–compared to July 2007.

Sales were up 3 percent year-over-year at Wal-Mart, falling short of the 3.4 percent boost analysts Read More

By Staff 1/17/07 10:11am

Urban Outfitters Stops Selling Kaffiyehs as ‘Antiwar’ Scarves

You think Jimmy Carter has problems. Yesterday on the progressive Jewish blog, Jewschool, Mobius noted that Urban Outfitters was selling kaffiyehs—the Arab scarf popularized by Yasir Arafat—as “antiwar scarves”:

In hipster enclaves such as Berlin and Brooklyn, the kaffiyeh is so ubiquitous it’s already passe [and] as a fashion item it is viewed by Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 8/28/06 12:00am

Diabolical Anthropologic Duo

On a recent midday visit to Anthropologie on lower Fifth Avenue, women were wandering through the store with identical glazed looks—moving as if entranced, fingering the hem of a silky indigo-colored dress, say, before drifting over to the bath-accessories section to sniff Verbena soaps wrapped in toile-printed paper. Though the women were all physically different, Read More

By NYO Staff 3/05/01 12:00am

Tail Hook … Hail, Doctor!

Tail Hook

There they were, ascending the stairs of the Bergen Street station on the F train line: pants that zipped up the rear. One hardly noticed the woman encased in them.

Is this what the female sex has come to? We’ve plowed through legs, breasts and midriffs in the course of a century–is Read More