architecture

BRIEF ALERT! Cosabella

This Week’s Intimate Discovery: Established Intimates Company Takes An Innovative Step

Last week I ventured downtown to see the new Cosabella flagship store in New York’s trendy Soho district. After closing their traditional Intimate Apparel showroom, they have designed a crossover milieu where wholesale and retail staff commingles with customers creating instant feedback and easy access.  Signature product statements stand out in a contemporary white space highlighted with textural surfaces and touches of antique … Read More


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BRIEF ALERT! Forty Winks

This week’s intimate discoveryA Fresh New Boutique Offers a Great Escape

From the first day I started my retail career, the mantra “location, location, location” was drummed into my head.  So when I was in Boston last week and decided to take a side trip to Cambridge to visit Forty Winks, a wonderful lingerie boutique located in Harvard Square, I knew exactly why this store has been so successful in its … Read More


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I love New York City.  It is a microcosm of energy, innovation, and design.  It is a cauldron of extreme contrasts: sophisticated, cool, sultry, novel and classic on one stage.  Its multinational character propagates an environment of creative diversity.  It may be exhausting, but it is always inspirational.  The DNA of this city is unique, a balance of established landmarks and new ideas, a platform for growth.   It was a fitting location and a prescient … Read More


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Eternal Style

Chrysler building photo from Getty ImagesThe New York skyline is an exquisite work of art, a sculpted landscape of concrete and glass that seems to defy gravity with skyscrapers whose facades soar skyward in a diaspora of architectural grace.  The details on these surfaces reflect the evolution of our national ethos and distinguish the differences that inform the New York character.  There is a vitality and sensuality in these structures that define a cultural diversity that cannot be duplicated in … Read More


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