The 4 best men's clothing spots in Kansas City - Hoodline |
- The 4 best men's clothing spots in Kansas City - Hoodline
- Squire Fine Men's Apparel in Brookfield is closing as owner retires - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Fourth Floor, Men’s Wear. Fifth Floor, Martinis. - The New York Times
- Miuccia Prada Is GQ's 2019 Designer of the Year - GQ
- Old City apartments at site of collapsed Shirt Corner men’s shop sold for $22M - The Philadelphia Inquirer
| The 4 best men's clothing spots in Kansas City - Hoodline Posted: 10 Dec 2019 09:56 AM PST Shopping for men's clothing items? Hoodline crunched the numbers to find the top men's clothing spots around Kansas City, using both Yelp data and our own secret sauce to produce a ranked list of where to venture next time you're in the market for men's clothing. Kansas City-area buyers tend to spend more in December at retail and wholesale businesses than other months of the year, according to data on local business transactions from Womply, a provider of reputation management services and email marketing for small businesses. Estimated daily customers at Kansas City-area retail and wholesale businesses grew to 15 per business in December of last year, second only to September with an average of 16, and 7% higher than the average for the rest of the year. Hoodline offers data-driven analysis of local happenings and trends across cities. Links included in this article may earn Hoodline a commission on clicks and transactions. 1. Houndstooth First on the list is Houndstooth, located at 507 Walnut St. in River Market. The men's clothing spot is the highest-rated men's clothing spot in Kansas City, boasting five stars out of 18 reviews on Yelp. 2. Westside Storey Next up is Westside North's Westside Storey, situated at 1701 Summit. With 4.5 stars out of 38 reviews on Yelp, the men's clothing and women's clothing spot, offering antiques and more, has proven to be a local favorite. 3. Michael's Fine Clothes for Men Michael's Fine Clothes for Men, a men's clothing spot, is another much-loved go-to, with 4.5 stars out of 29 Yelp reviews. Head over to 1830 Main St. to see for yourself. 4. Banana Republic Over in Country Club Plaza, check out this outpost of the chain Banana Republic, which has earned 4.5 stars out of 20 reviews on Yelp. You can find the men's clothing and women's clothing spot, which offers accessories and more, at 450 W. 47th St. This story was created automatically using local business data, then reviewed and augmented by an editor. Click here for more about what we're doing. Got thoughts? Go here to share your feedback.  |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2019 09:28 AM PST CLOSE  Brookfield high-end men's clothier Squire Fine Men's Apparel is closing. Owner David Matsudaira said in a statement that he is shutting down the store at 3885 North Brookfield Road in the Sendik's shopping center because he is retiring. "It's been a good run. It's a very difficult decision but it's time," Matsudaira said. "It's time for me to start to divest." A retirement sale begins Thursday. The store will be open 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The store will return to normal business hours after the sale until the remaining inventory is sold. Matsudaira, who has had a long career in retailing, including time with Bon-Ton Stores Inc., previously was president of Suiters, a men's clothing store in Brookfield. "We had record growth and profits during my first holiday season, but the store's owner eventually needed to close," Matsudaira said. "Everything was sold to a liquidator, but I wanted to keep the store going and keep everyone employed. The community really needed a store like that. I bought the inventory I needed and the same retail space, hired the Suiters staff, and opened Squire in 2011." Matsudaira moved back to Seattle in 2016 when he acquired a stake in Butch Blum, a European menswear specialty store in the Northwest that opened its doors in 1974. He brought in Timothy Smasal as president and general manager to lead Squire's day-to-day operations. "Tim and our entire staff have done an exceptional job relating to customers and responding to their needs," Matsudaira said. "I appreciate everything they've done to deliver the stellar customer care that has been Squire's hallmark from our first day to our last." The upscale men's clothing business has become tougher as the culture has shifted to more-casual business attire and online sales have grown. Last year, men's retailer Bachrach closed at Mayfair mall in Wauwatosa. RELATED: Shorewood's Harleys menswear store is moving to the Marshall Building in the Historic Third Ward RELATED: Milwaukee-based shoemaker WDM opens first retail store, prepares to expand product lines Paul Gores can be reached at paul.gores@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter @pgores. Read or Share this story: https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/2019/12/09/brookfield-high-end-mens-clothier-squire-fine-mens-apparel-closing/2629966001/  |
| Fourth Floor, Men’s Wear. Fifth Floor, Martinis. - The New York Times Posted: 09 Dec 2019 10:35 AM PST  New York City department stores have uncovered a relationship between mules and Moscow mules. In the basement of the new Nordstrom flagship on West 57th Street, a few feet from the women's shoe department, is the Shoe Bar, serving sparkling wine by the glass and bottle, as well as cocktails with names like Corpse Reviver 212. Le Chalet, a woody, après-ski-like bar that opened in February on the eighth floor of Saks Fifth Avenue, is also steps from the shoe department. In the cozy alcove, decorated with books, antlers and skiing apparatus, shoppers can order from a wide selection of rums, mezcals and whiskeys, or cocktails created by the noted bartender Nico de Soto. All over Midtown Manhattan, department stores are opening a new department: the spiffy, up-to-date cocktail bar. The new Neiman Marcus at Hudson Yards has Bar Stanley, a snug nook on the sixth floor that has two prebatched and bottled cocktails among its offerings. This month, Bergdorf Goodman will open Goodman's Bar, an Italian-style cafe and aperitivo bar, on the second floor of its men's store on Fifth Avenue. Nordstrom has not only the Shoe Bar, but also the Broadway Bar, on its third floor. Across Eighth Avenue in the Nordstrom Men's Store is another bar, the Clubhouse. (Nordstrom is not new to the bar business. Eight of its other stores in the United States and Canada have a Habitant bar, but Broadway Bar, Shoe Bar and the Clubhouse are unique to the New York stores.) "Once the idea got tossed around and accepted, it became a situation of, 'Why didn't we do this a long time ago?' " said David Kim, Nordstrom's director of food and beverage. "What better way is there to shop for shoes than sipping on Champagne?" Pouring drinks for customers has caught on in recent years at men's clothing chains and barber shops. And department stores have a long history of offering dining options, a strategy that keeps shoppers on the premises longer. But this new wave of bars is different. They are sleek and stylish and, more significantly, are not restaurants with a few dull wines-by-the-glass, but fully equipped, stand-alone bars with a wide variety of drinks. "Experience has become very important for customers," said Bruce Pask, the men's fashion director of Bergdorf Goodman. "It's not enough to be a restaurant or bar. It's got to be special. It's got to be a destination in itself." The Broadway Bar at Nordstrom was the destination last Wednesday evening for two shoppers, Alexandria Adams and Justin Davis. Visiting from Nashville, they had read about the bars online. Ms. Adams, a reporter for WSMV-TV, an NBC affiliate in Nashville, ordered a glass of Prosecco; Mr. Davis had an old-fashioned. "I wish we had this at our Nordstrom in Nashville," Ms. Adams said. Mr. Davis added, with a laugh, "It might give people a little more courage to buy something they wouldn't otherwise." Nearby, a quartet of women from Texas and Oklahoma had stumbled upon the bar, seeking refuge from the cold outside. "I think it's a great idea if you want to bring your husband shopping," said a Dallas woman who identified herself only as Angie. "Normally, I would never bring my husband." (If she did, he could order a rye-whiskey cocktail named Husband Daycare.) The bars appear to be popular. Mr. Kim said that one of every four purchases at Nordstrom are in one of the bars and restaurants. At Saks, people can drink at Le Chalet for hours after the store closes at 8:30 p.m. Until 11 p.m., the bar and the restaurant upstairs from it, L'Avenue, are open and accessible through a separate entrance on East 50th Street. Not only are customers coming to the bars, but the bars are coming to customers. In certain departments at Nordstrom and Bergdorf Goodman, shoppers can order a cocktail or glass of wine from a sales associate and have it delivered to them. Call it a new accessory. Shoe Bar and Broadway Bar Nordstrom, 225 West 57th Street, 212-295-2000, shop.nordstrom.com/c/new-york. The Clubhouse Nordstrom Men's Store 235 West 57th Street, 212-843-5100, shop.nordstrom.com/c/new-york. Le Chalet Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Avenue, 212-753-4000, saksfifthavenue.com/locations/s/newyork. Bar Stanley Neiman Marcus, 20 Hudson Yards, 646-562-3539, neimanmarcus.com.  |
| Miuccia Prada Is GQ's 2019 Designer of the Year - GQ Posted: 10 Dec 2019 05:08 AM PST Check out the rest of GQ's first annual Fashion Awards, honoring the designers, brands, and trends that made the biggest impact in 2019. This year's Met gala was a spectacle of look-at-me appearances, with guests arriving on divans, inside chandeliers, and on foot with their own head in their hands. And then there was Frank Ocean, who didn't so much arrive as show up, looking like the valet, in all-black Prada: nylon anorak, plain trousers, and leather boots. It was an elegant snub to the "camp" theme, totally anti-status—and classic Prada. "Doing fashion with men, I thought that they never wanted to exaggerate," says Miuccia Prada, who is referred to reverently in fashion circles as Mrs. Prada. "When it's too much 'fashion,' it's never right." Her contribution to men's clothing, she says, has been "to make a little bit of fashion to free them. But not too much." To wear Prada, Ocean's look coyly reminded us, is to use your brain to put on clothes: to take an intellectually rigorous approach to getting dressed. If other designers chase must-have garments, Mrs. Prada chases ideas, always hunting for the next big one. We meet in Milan for an interview and photo session in a hangar-like space at the Fondazione Prada, which has recently been covered in a vast, funky palette of tiles for her spring 2020 womenswear show. That show had been only about a week earlier, but, she tells me, "I am already into something different." After all, she says, "clothes can help to express yourself, but what counts is who you are, and what you think, and how to behave." For Mrs. Prada, style is the avenue to intellectual revelation. In the '90s, at the helm of the company her grandparents founded in 1913, she began to produce women's and men's clothing, transforming a luxury-leather-goods business into the thinking person's fashion brand. This year, in addition to Ocean, a number of men wore Prada as if they'd joined a monastic order, often head to toe and in some cases even exclusively. Jeff Goldblum, Odell Beckham Jr., Ansel Elgort, and A$AP Rocky showed how Mrs. Prada's alchemy of restraint and subversion, which felt like the spirit of the age in the late '90s, is an appealing statement today, in a world where getting dressed has become such a performance. Now, after three decades of fashion that challenges, beguiles, and delights, her relentless spirit of creative integrity is a heritage in the same way other brands tout craftsmanship. "There was a moment in the past few years that seemed like only bombastic announcement was working," she tells me. Her fingers, with nails bare and neatly trimmed short, stroke a pile of pearl strands that hang around her neck. "But now, mainly in the new generation, there is an appreciation of serious integrity." Mrs. Prada is one of the few current designers who make actual trends rather than viral garments. Her fall 2019 collection was definitive Prada in its conflicting conviction: beautifully thought-out clothing that looked amazing on Instagram. The cartoony Frankensteins, ghoulish roses, and grotesque neon tufts of hair on button-up shirts and wool pullovers were like a zap of electricity that brought the collection to life online months before it landed in stores. (You might say Mrs. Prada played three-dimensional chess while other designers, some of whom seem to exist almost exclusively online, played Instagram checkers.) Although she prefers to work with established silhouettes rather than developing her own signature—"I like to work in the frame of the classic," she says—you know something is Prada when you see it. In this age, that can be bad, the sign of a meme disguised as fashion—and yet with Prada, it's an indicator of aesthetic clarity. Mrs. Prada is as proactive and forward-thinking as any designer working today. She responded head-on to the controversy around a monkey key chain the brand produced in late 2018 that resembled racist caricatures like Little Black Sambo, asking director Ava DuVernay and artist Theaster Gates to lead a program that pushes the brand's staff toward a more diverse reality beyond scholarships and corporate training. Gates recently spearheaded a project in London, a kind of traveling social club, where he invited "creatives and artists of color. And we didn't have to call that the diversity party," he says. The idea is to get "the Prada execs and the Prada salespeople and the Prada logistics people alongside these amazing people," Gates says. And Mrs. Prada is open to the hard truths? "In some cases, Miuccia is also bringing difficult truths. She's saying, 'I don't want to just do some kind of token thing.' "  Prada's 2019 hits (from left): Frank Ocean at the Met gala, A$AP Rocky onstage, and a spring runway look. From left: Dia Dipasupil; Paras Griffin; Victor VirgileHer legendary mind has made Mrs. Prada, who loves cinema, into something of a movie star herself, with a celebrated wardrobe that commingles power with intimacy (she is wearing riding boots and a brown coat with huge mother-of-pearl buttons over a cream slip with a lace hem), and a conversation style that demands an exchange of ideas with almost romantic urgency. At one point, a thought about fashion as self-expression morphed, over the span of a few sentences, into a discussion of why women are still subjugated to men. "Because probably we don't like power enough, or we are not interested enough," she says. "Or we are more human." I suggest that men have made power look unattractive. She objects: "For the whole of history, women were attracted by power. Do you think that's really so?" I was thinking of the past five years; she was thinking of the past 500. Mrs. Prada sees the moment and the history.  |
| Posted: 09 Dec 2019 11:29 AM PST [unable to retrieve full-text content]Old City apartments at site of collapsed Shirt Corner men's shop sold for $22M The Philadelphia Inquirer  |
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