J. Crew Collection Store
1035 Madison Ave. (79th St.), Manhattan
We take the bus up Madison Avenue all the time yet somehow we never noticed this fancy J. Crew that, apparently, sells pieces from their collection. Hee hee. If not for the label inside a window-displayed shoe, we would not have known this store had anything to do with that 1983-catalog-shop. That, of course, is the point.
From the website:
Seems J. Crew's CEO and 30toMidnight have something in common. Here's a quote he gave The New York Times last year when the store opened: The prices of designer clothes were getting to a point that was very unfriendly to a lot of people, and the ubiquity of designer clothes was making them less special. Fashion is the opposite of ubiquity.No. 1035 is the exclusive Madison Avenue women's shop dedicated to the Collection label, plus one-of-a-kind products and vintage pieces.
We were just saying that. Mickey Drexler, clearly you are Age Appropriate. No wonder you left The Gap.
