Shop Talk at Hollander & Lexer
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Hollander & Lexer started out as an antique furniture store in downtown Brooklyn, so it’s no surprise that besides an immaculate edit of menswear, there are a ton of weird and wonderful artifacts for sale at the new Willamsburg outpost, including 2000-year-old roman coins and handmade Indian scissors. We took a walkthrough their new in-house collection (look out for the buffalo-bone button-down shirts!) and some of their top picks for the fall.
Style TV: Shop Talk at Operations
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Since Matteo Gottardi’s brain doubles as an encyclopedia for international workwear (he literally ID’d the year of the military coats on our backs!) we had the Operations creative director walk us through the flagship store in SoHo himself. Operations was started by three college friends (Gottardi is one third of the trio) back in 2004, and those first rare workwear imports that filled store are still part of local sartorial legend. They now design collections for both men and women, and we caught Gottardi’s breakdown of the season’s best outerwear pieces on film.
FADER TV: Shop Talk at Ale et Ange
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If every store in the world looked and felt like Ale et Ange, we would probably spend our entire lives lounging around boutiques, sipping on Pimms cups in between trying on high-waisted shorts and pocket tees. The newly opened store sits just below ground level on the LES/Chinatown border and is literally the little stylee wonderland of our dreams. We spoke to co-owner Osoré Oyagha about transforming the space (it used to be a scuzzy basement office) and his taste for classic, impeccably made pieces that he and his partner Eloise Simonet have designed for the store—like gorgeous polka dot mini skirts, men’s button downs and spiffy ties. There’s even a special Ale et Ange toothbrush in the works!
Ale et Ange
37C Orchard Street, near Hester
New York
212-219-3670
Style TV: Behind the Scenes Shop Talk Special at Topshop
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On our maiden voyage to Topshop a couple of weeks ago (oh the lines!), we were lucky enough to have Topshop Style Advisor Keri Gibbs help us navigate the whopping four floors of goodness. This week, the gorgeous Gibbs was lovely enough to invite us in to Topshop’s VIP showroom, for a special behind the scenes edition of Shop Talk and peek at what will be hitting the store in the weeks to come. Appointments for the advisor are pretty much booked through early May, which is probably still good timing to get your sunnies/bikini/sundress game in order before the heatwaves hit.
FADER TV: Shop Talk at Billy Reid
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Alabama-based designer Billy Reid brought up all the gorgeous features of his New York store right from the South, reclaiming staircases, medicine cabinets, church peeves and lining the wall with his own family portraits. We paid a trip to the cozy new flagship NY store on Bond Street last week for a lesson in fine Southern tailoring (snake guards and spiffy sport coats!). We were also treated to a special run through the new heirloom collection: beautiful suiting that is individually tailored to fit the wearer quite perfectly. Billy Reid also happens to serve the best Van Winkle bourbon apple cider we have probably ever tasted.
FADER TV: Shop Talk at Pas De Deux
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After impersonating our favorite style icons (Monday=Francoise Hardy day, Tuesday=Bianca Jagger day, etc etc), our favorite pastime in the style department is probably shopping. But shopping is a lot more fun when you have a shop expert to help navigate the shelves/racks. Luckily our favorite stores are filled with lots of such specialists, all of whom know their German deadstock from their North American vintage.
Eddy Chai and Paul Birardi, the founders of Odin are slowly making an unofficial stylee row of E11th street between 1st and 2nd avenue. After Den comes Pas De Deux (that’s literally French for “Step of Two, ” but if you know your ballet lingo, it’s basically dance speech for partner dancing), their new women’s boutique that opened up a couple of months ago. The new women’s store is just as perfectly edited as Odin, so all the girlfriends that used to take their boyfriends on shopping trips next door will be happy forevermore. The shop is a gorgeous jewel of a walk-in closet, something that could be the set of a Wes Anderson movie. We were lucky enough to have the lovely Amy, who used to work at Odin and recently made the switch, guide us through all the lady stuff that ought to be in our winter wardrobes right now.
FADER TV: Shop Talk at Houndstooth
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After impersonating our favorite style icons (Monday=Francoise Hardy day, Tuesday=Bianca Jagger day, etc etc), our favorite pastime in the style department is probably shopping. But shopping is a lot more fun when you have a shop expert to help navigate the shelves/racks. Luckily our favorite stores are filled with lots of such specialists, all of whom know their German deadstock from their North American vintage.
For the second installment of Shop Talk we paid a visit to Houndstooth in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to talk to shop owners Maria Chavez and Michael Kimmins. Filled with tons of vintage menswear treasures, it is well and truly one of the only stores of its kind. Chavez and Kimmins are master store editors and have an exceptional eye for design. They are also intensely focussed when it comes to quality (they have a strict no synthetic fabrics rule, too, which we love!) and regularly globetrot to bring in the rarest pieces.
FADER TV: Shop Talk — Blue In Green
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After impersonating our favorite style icons (Monday=Francoise Hardy day, Tuesday=Bianca Jagger day, etc etc), our favorite pastime in the style department is probably shopping. But shopping is a lot more fun when you have a shop expert to help navigate the shelves/racks. Luckily our favorite stores are filled with lots of such specialists, all of whom know their German deadstock from their North American vintage. For the first installment of Shop Talk we paid SoHo menswear store Blue in Green a visit, to get a very important lesson in twelve thousand dollar Japanese selvedge.
