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What’s selling?
Cute eighties cotton and polyester
spring dresses and skirts. We’re right on the market
for sunglasses, like the big Olsen seventies aviators. Jewelrywise, we have all the wood beads and bangles—the ethnic look is really in.
Who’s your typical customer?
She’s a young, uptown girl who goes for the shabby-chic look. She carries a Balenciaga bag but pairs
it with a vintage T-shirt and a vintage hoodie, a jean skirt, and leggings. It verges on that Bobo look.
So have you read Bobos in Paradise?
Never heard of it.
What’s your style? Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver by day. By night, Jade Jagger with long disco dresses and head scarves. I’m doing high-waisted shorty-shorts with suspenders and pretty ruffle blouses with wedges or boots. I predicted last year that suspenders were going to be back in.
What do you predict for next spring?
I hope prairie won’t be big, though overalls done sophisticated are
good. Pantsuits. Twenties drop-waist dresses. Nothing robotic. It’ll be interesting
to see how Marc’s fall line plays out first. The volume is not all that figure-flattering.
What do you do for fun?
I saw the Kills at the
Bowery Ballroom last night. Not the Killers—the Kills
are more intimate. Sexually charged. I’m going to
the ICP to see Larry Clark
today. I love drinking at
the Modern.
Where does the store
name come from?
I heard
it’s a euphemism for heroin addicts. I’ve also heard
it’s sexual. I guess you have to use your imagination.
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