Luxury reigns in stores as well-heeled buy, buy, buy.Autumn is always a busy time for fashionistas and foodies, fresh off their summer holidays to survey the latest trends. This season, innovative national store concepts will delight even the most discerning shopper as new stores, restaurants and hotels emerge on the scene. On the heels of the explosion of the "store-within-a-store" trend, Neiman Marcus Neiman Marcus U.S. department-store chain. It was founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1907 by Herbert Marcus, his sister Carrie Marcus Neiman, and her husband, A.L. Neiman. is entering the new millennium with the fusion of a new blog and specialty store Noun 1. specialty store - a store that sells only one kind of merchandise shop, store - a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" , called Cusp. Relying on input from customers, mostly in their 20's and 30's, the Cusp blog will let "it girls" decide what fashion trends should be carried in the store. The first Cusp opened in 9,500 s/fin Tysons Comer, Virginia. Another outpost has opened in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Young fashionistas who have never before shopped in Neiman Marcus are finding Cusp irresistible. New store concepts will also redefine the word "luxury," which we have followed for the past few seasons. As well-heeled shoppers continue to raise their standards on a regular basis, old favorites have reinvented themselves. J. Crew has gone luxe luxe n. 1. The condition of being elegantly sumptuous. 2. Something luxurious; a luxury. [French, luxury, from Latin luxus. , with plans to open its first Collection store at 1035 Madison Avenue Madison Avenue, celebrated street of Manhattan, borough of New York City. It runs from Madison Square (23d St.) to the Madison Bridge over the Harlem River (138th St.). In the 1940s and 50s, some of the major U.S. , while Coach Legacy, a premium division of the leather store will open on Bleecker Street. Ultraluxury innerwear in·ner·wear n. Clothing, such as lingerie, designed to be worn next to the skin. purveyors such as Wolford and Fogal of Switzerland have opened additional stores, as divas are demanding the highest quality in every aspect of their wardrobe. A trend that I have reported on in the past is the sparkle that has arrived on Madison Avenue, with a plethora of jewelry stores opening along the haute thoroughfare. The latest addition is Mauboussin, a mainstay in Parisian luxury jewelers, making a return returning to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of with a US flagship at 714 Madison Avenue. Kwiat is also making a regal Manhattan debut, Chopard is expanding, Graft has taken yet another location along Madison, and we eagerly await Di Modolo's expansion. When it comes to restaurants, a recipe for success need not be altered--a bevy bevy a flock of birds. of "spin-offs" of the city's favorite restaurants are appealing to a wide range of palates. Former employees of Peter Luger Lu·ger n. A German semiautomatic pistol introduced before World War I and widely used by German troops in World War II. [Originally a trademark.] Noun 1. steakhouse in Brooklyn, established in 1887, have gone on to open highly successful restaurants. A former Luger bartender started Mark Joseph Steakhouse, whose menu features a signature porterhouse similar to Luger's. Wolfgang's Steakhouse, Ben & Jack's Steakhouse and Benjamin Steakhouse, all opened by former waiters at Luger's, have earned reputations by offering dishes on par with the legendary steakhouse. For the Manhattanite with a sweet tooth, reinventions of standard bakeshops are easy to find, thanks to the cupcake revolution spurred by Magnolia Bakery Magnolia Bakery is a bakery opened in the mid 1990s and is located at 401 Bleecker Street, on the corner of West 11th Street in the West Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. on Bleecker Street. Subsequent openings of "copycats", including Buttercup buttercup or crowfoot, common name for the Ranunculaceae, a family of chiefly annual or perennial herbs of cool regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Bake Shop at 72nd and Columbus, Billy's Bakery at Ninth Avenue and 22nd, Sugar Sweet Sunshine at 126 Rivington, and Brooklyn's Little Cupcake Bake Shop, have made birthday cake even more delicious. The Pearl Oyster Bar Noun 1. oyster bar - a bar (as in a restaurant) that specializes in oysters prepared in different ways bar - a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" has thrilled seafood lovers for a decade, and plenty of other venues have recently opened in the hopes of recapturing some of the restaurant's signature flavors. A former partner of the Pearl chain opened Mary's Fish Camp, just six blocks from the original00. The renowned French chef Laurent Touroundel was a regular at the Pearl Oyster Bar, and some experts say it was the inspiration for his BLT 1. BLT - /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ Synonym for blit. This is the original form of blit and the ancestor of bitblt. It refers to any large bit-field copy or move operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS and Fish, opened in March 2005. Other variations on the oyster bar theme are Ditch Plains at 29 Bedford Street and Ed's Lobster Bar at 222 Lafayette Street. The hotel trend has not slowed, as new hotel openings will satisfy a growing population of tourists. Some highly anticipated openings are The Gansevoort Hotel on Park Avenue and 29th Street and a new Hyatt condo-hotel at 485 Fifth Avenue. The Marriott will open on West 57th West 57th can refer to:
Lower Manhattan is the epicenter of this promising trend. Four teen new hotels are planned for the Downtown neighborhood, all of which are sure to book up quickly, especially when the World Trade Center Memorial and Museum opens. The neighborhood currently has about 2,200 rooms, and that number is expected to double in the next two years. Lower Manhattan's hotel boom will result in a wide range of hotel options, from lower range lodgings to four-star establishments. Four Points SoHo Village, The Downtown Hotel, W Hotel and Hampton Inn are all set to open by 2008. Shoppers are getting ready to say goodbye to summer and welcome a host of additions to the retail landscape. From innovative new store concepts and restaurants to sparkling jewelers and creative hotels, trends in retail have never been more exciting. BY FAITH HOPE CONSOLO, CHAIRMAN, RETAIL LEASING AND SALES DIVISION PRUDENTIAL DOUGLAS ELLIMAN |
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