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The FAB Warehouse Sale
Is A Mess Of Abundance
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Costume National, Jean Paul Gaultier, Pierre Balmain,
Roger Vivier and more

COLLABORATION ANTICIPATION:

Adidas X Pharrell Williams
Is Coming This Summer

ALEXANDRA JACOBS GOES SHOPPING:

Errant Lily Edition

27CRITICAL2_SPAN-superJumboPerhaps the most striking bit of information revealed in this week's Critical Shopper column in the Thursday Styles, is that Alexandra Jacobs has no idea what to do when a lily showers its pollen on her clothes.
For future reference:
Don't touch.
Get a vacuum cleaner or at least a dustbuster and remove the damaging dust with as little contact as possible.
Even masking tape can help, but never, ever try to rub it out or use water.

Anyway, to replace a dress that is probably ruined forever, our shopper goes to the relatively new Carven boutique on Mercer Street in SoHo. We're actually a little bit surprised that it took her so long, since it opened months ago, and Critical Shoppers are usually quicker on the uptake, but we all have our lapses. The Shophound loved the inventive design of this little shop. Jacobs was charmed as well, but it was only price that kept her from finding a substitute for her stained frock. Surprise! The clothes at the SoHo boutique of a French label are expensive, even if they are at the low end of the designer price scale these days. It may, however, be the cruelly extended winter that is also putting Carven's sprightly offerings just a bit out of reach,

The charms of Carven are easy to grasp on a day of warmth and whimsy; less so, somehow, when it’s chilly.

You would think that late March would be a perfectly reasonable time to start considering Spring clothes that have been in the stores since January, but Mother Nature seems to have other plans. Maybe next month, or in May, when they get marked down.

Critical Shopper: A House and Its Perpetual Spring By Alexandra Jacobs (NYTimes)
Carven 83 Mercer Street between Broome & Spring Streets

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