The Beggar just sat down for a lively Q&A with our friends at Gilt.com. Check it out HERE. We’re thoroughly delighted and honored to be getting such great coverage. That goes without saying. Cheers to Gilt and, especially, to our readers!
A tipster sends word that the Varvatos U.S.A. sale — on 5th between 28th & 29th— is stocked with leftovers from previous sales… which we knew. What we didn’t realize is that the stock is more expensive this time around! “Cashmere sweaters are $195 (previously $150), wool/cotton sweaters are $95 (previously $55) , suits are $475, etc. etc,” according to our eagle-eyed tipster. Still cheaper than retail, but good to know all the same. If you’re still interested, the sale is slated to go on through Friday.
Varvatos U.S.A. sample sale – 260 5th Ave between 28th & 29th – 12pm-7pm – Map
Last month, a Bergdorf floor manager told us, in effect, “It would take a cataclysmic event to affect our prices before December… We’re not Barney’s.”
Well, the market — call it cataclysmic or not — appears to have forced the fashion fortress to mark down women’s ready-to-wear, accessories, and shoes by up to 40%. And it’s not even November!
Men’s wear sales are said to be faring better than women’s wear right now, but we suspect that won’t keep the other high-end shoe from dropping shortly. “These aren’t normal times,” a Bergdorf clerk told us today. “There are a lot of factors that we didn’t have to consider last year or the year before that.” We’ll keep you posted.
Bergdorf’s – 754 5th Ave at 58th – 212-753-7300 – Map
Men.Style brings together some top designers to meditate on the future of fashion, which, as Giorgio Armani makes clear, isn’t quite the same thing as style. The illustrations by Mickey Duzyj really pop.
Raf Simons gets the best treatment by Duzyj (above), while Armani has the soundest advice for you, the consumer:
“I suspect we will see a return to more elegant, classic dressing. This will be because people will want to purchase clothes that have a longer life span and are therefore a better investment … Clothes and accessories should, to my way of thinking, be more about style than fashion.”
Century 21 isn’t so much a discount department store as it is the setting for a classic odyssey tale with treacherous obstacles to be overcome like the sea of downtown commuters barricading its entrances, the hordes of tourist shoppers ravaging its first floor, and the seductively unfamiliar brand names intent on luring you off course to sartorial wastelands…
Century 21 – 22 Cortlandt St between Church & Broadway – 212-227-9092 – Map
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