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 [...]