Wow. I checked out one of the two new Bloomingdale’s Outlets yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised by the good assortment and decent values. They had a good assortment of Kate Spade (bags, shoes and apparel), Stuart Weitzman shoes, Ferragamo shoes and some novel bags, Cole Haan shoes and bags, Carlos Falchi totes, Tory Burch apparel [...]
If you are dreaming about a late summer/early fall vacation, I can’t say enough about the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. I prefer to vacation in places with great shopping and Nantucket tops the list.
There are authentic Nantucket lightship and friendship baskets at the Four Winds Craft Guild (www.sylviaantiques.com) and custom made [...]
Bloomingdale’s opened their first outlet store at the Potomac Mills Mall in Woodbridge, Virginia yesterday. Potomac Mills is an approximate 45 minute drive south from Washington, D.C. This is a huge outlet mall with all of the usual outlet stores. I will check it out next time I am there to let you know if [...]
If you are in the market for a gently used designer bag for fall, check out www.bbosprivatesale.com. This site is a sister site to Avelle.com. You may have heard of Avelle before. Avelle offers designer bags and jewelry for rent for special occasions. They had such success selling their end of season rental bags, that [...]
Ah, another case where companies who cater to the mid market are buying upscale brands: Jones Apparel Group (makers of labels like Nine West, Bandolino, Easy Spirit, Evan Picone, Enzo Angiolini, and Sam & Libby ) has bought a 55% stake in Stuart Weitzman Holdings LLC. Stuart Weitzman himself will retain his 45% share of his namesake [...]
On August 6th, Bloomingdale’s will open a scaled down version of its New York flagship in the Santa Monica Place shopping center in California. The new store will have sharply edited assortments of contemporary women’s and men’s sportswear, accessories, shoes, cosmetics and denim. The so called “SoHo template” store (modeled after the SoHo store in [...]
Yes, I know the title of my post is a little dramatic, but there is some truth to this title. Abercrombie & Fitch had to temporarily close their namesake store in South Street Seaport and sister store Hollister in SoHo recently. Abercrombie is asking the Mayor for advice on how to handle bed bug infestations [...]
I learned recently that Theory is owned by Link Holdings Co. Ltd. Although Theory was founded in 1997 by Elie Tahari and Andrew Rosen, Tahari sold his interest in the company in 2003. Andrew Rosen still owns a sizable share and stayed on as chief executive.
I assumed Tahari still had a stake in Theory since the [...]
Check out www.longchamp.com. Click on United States and then, E Shopping. The Sale Header should pop up. I clicked around and saw that most of the leather bags selected for the sale are 50% off. Some of the popular “pliage” (you know that handsome nylon and leather trim foldable bag) are only 20% off. I [...]
Gold prices have increased 13% in the past six months as financial investors look for a stable investment while avoiding fluctuating currencies. Gold is selling for more than $1200 an ounce today compared with around $925 a year ago and approximately $420 five years ago.
Gold hasn’t reached the high prices of the early 80’s (would [...]