NY Fashion Goes Cross-Country

For years, New York City has been lauded (by mostly New Yorkers, but still) as the fashion capital of the world, but now NYC designers are casting a westward eye toward the more casual City of Angels.

Henri Bendel, for example, has a couple new locations in Beverly Hills — and although NY designers are by no means relocating to sunny SoCal (Sophomore designer Chrissy Miller, for one, doesn’t “get all the embellished denim and crazy graphics” of LA), expect several more east coast shops to open cross-country.

Perhaps it’s the sunny climate or the hippie history, but California tends to be much more casual and thus more receptive to creative experimentation than New York: a gold-mine for high-end retail brands in a still-recovering financial market.  Whatever the case, we look forward to seeing what comes out of these new east-meets-west endeavors — and have one more reason to use up our frequent-flyer miles.

Read the full story  {LA Times}





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