theshopkeepers: The Shopper: JULIA FRAKES  Julia Frakes has an innate sartorial sense of style that is off of the seating charts. She may be little but the girl’s got big love - not just fashion but for literature, art, and, politics. Ask her about anything from Rachel Maddow to Rachel Antonoff to Rachel Feinstein and you’ll see what I mean. Below is a list of her favorite seven shops. Opening Ceremony, 35 Howard Street, NYC “You know how at Shakespeare & Company bookstore (the one on Paris’s Left Bank, not the spot near NYU) they allow young writers to live and work in the shop?  Well, in my book, heaven is on Howard Street with the OC fam… big love for Marc Sebastian, Kate Foley, Carol Lim, Humberto Leon, Sofia Cavallo, Jayna Lin, Rhamier Auguste, Sean Risley, Pernille Skovbjerg, and Olivia Kim.  Hands-down, all of the Opening Ceremony outposts set the bar in terms of innovative, groundbreaking, and brilliantly executed retail establishments.  The world is a more beautiful place thanks to Carol and Humberto’s brainchildren, vision, and off-the-charts collaborations.  OC sets the pulse.” Screaming Mimi’s, 382 Lafayette Street, New York City “Laura, Alice, Riza, Nicolette: Screaming Mimi’s is a New York legend; it is always an honor to work with their crew on all sorts of initiatives and projects.  Featuring the widest selection of vintage treasures on all ends of the price point spectrum spanning from the 1950s until the late 1990s, Laura has some of the most knowledgable and obliging employees on her staff  And of course it goes without saying that the gang is A+++ for editorial pulls to boot.” If, 94 Grand Street, New York City “Ann Demuelrmister, Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe, Dries Van Noten, Haider Ackermann, Rick Owens, Undercover, Martin Margiela, Yohj Yamamoto, Tao, and Faliero Sarti scarves.  Win win win win win win win.” John Derian Company, 6 East 2nd Street, New York City “My mom carries John Derian’s namesake decoupage collection at her dreamy boutique in Pennsylvania, Jane Leslie & Co.; so when I’m around NoHo and hop to John Derian Dry Goods, my intent is usually to snoop the art books, Hugo Guinness illustrations, Kuhn Keramik pieces, and Astier de Villatte and Cire Trudon bits.” Jane Leslie & Co., 186 United Penn Plaza, Kingston, PA “I may be biased, but JL&Co. is my no doubt my favorite spot to visit, ever: Pamela Love, Penhaligon’s, Lulu Frost, Jeanette Farrier, L’Artisan Parfumeur, Juliska, Santa Maria Novella, Hansel from Basel, John Derian, custom-painted antique furniture are amongst the highlights.  Plus one of their star employees Maryssa Lewko is the most helpful, caring, perceptive, bright, and merry shopkeepers I’ve ever known. I’m totally convinced that Janie, Susan, Becky and Maryssa are secret-keepers to the most imaginative gift-giving advice and charming gift-wrapping finesse in the biz.  (If you’re not in town, they’re also online and super helpful on the phone as well.)” Aedes de Venustas, 9 Christopher Street, New York City “All the loveliest odiferous wonders like Alexa Rodulfo, Cire Trudon, Diptyque, Frederic Malle, Etro, Ladurée, and Lalique Commingle in this luxe fragrance enclave complete with old-fashioned fineries like free samples, expert assistance, and fresh flowers atop gift-packaging upon request.” 143 Ludlow, 143 Ludlow, New York City “The finds culled by Chrissie Miller of Sophomore and Lindsey Thornburg of Cloaks juxtapose and interweave remarkably—and with incredible art and books under Leo Fitzpatrick’s superb eye—143 is an insanely covetable conceptual synthesis.”

theshopkeepers:

The Shopper: JULIA FRAKES 

Julia Frakes has an innate sartorial sense of style that is off of the seating charts. She may be little but the girl’s got big love - not just fashion but for literature, art, and, politics. Ask her about anything from Rachel Maddow to Rachel Antonoff to Rachel Feinstein and you’ll see what I mean.

Below is a list of her favorite seven shops.

Opening Ceremony, 35 Howard Street, NYC

“You know how at Shakespeare & Company bookstore (the one on Paris’s Left Bank, not the spot near NYU) they allow young writers to live and work in the shop?  Well, in my book, heaven is on Howard Street with the OC fam… big love for Marc Sebastian, Kate Foley, Carol Lim, Humberto Leon, Sofia Cavallo, Jayna Lin, Rhamier Auguste, Sean Risley, Pernille Skovbjerg, and Olivia Kim.  Hands-down, all of the Opening Ceremony outposts set the bar in terms of innovative, groundbreaking, and brilliantly executed retail establishments.  The world is a more beautiful place thanks to Carol and Humberto’s brainchildren, vision, and off-the-charts collaborations.  OC sets the pulse.”
Screaming Mimi’s, 382 Lafayette Street, New York City
“Laura, Alice, Riza, Nicolette: Screaming Mimi’s is a New York legend; it is always an honor to work with their crew on all sorts of initiatives and projects.  Featuring the widest selection of vintage treasures on all ends of the price point spectrum spanning from the 1950s until the late 1990s, Laura has some of the most knowledgable and obliging employees on her staff  And of course it goes without saying that the gang is A+++ for editorial pulls to boot.”
If, 94 Grand Street, New York City
“Ann Demuelrmister, Comme des Garçons, Junya Watanabe, Dries Van Noten, Haider Ackermann, Rick Owens, Undercover, Martin Margiela, Yohj Yamamoto, Tao, and Faliero Sarti scarves.  Win win win win win win win.”
John Derian Company, 6 East 2nd Street, New York City
“My mom carries John Derian’s namesake decoupage collection at her dreamy boutique in Pennsylvania, Jane Leslie & Co.; so when I’m around NoHo and hop to John Derian Dry Goods, my intent is usually to snoop the art books, Hugo Guinness illustrations, Kuhn Keramik pieces, and Astier de Villatte and Cire Trudon bits.”

Jane Leslie & Co., 186 United Penn Plaza, Kingston, PA
“I may be biased, but JL&Co. is my no doubt my favorite spot to visit, ever: Pamela Love, Penhaligon’s, Lulu Frost, Jeanette Farrier, L’Artisan Parfumeur, Juliska, Santa Maria Novella, Hansel from Basel, John Derian, custom-painted antique furniture are amongst the highlights.  Plus one of their star employees Maryssa Lewko is the most helpful, caring, perceptive, bright, and merry shopkeepers I’ve ever known. I’m totally convinced that Janie, Susan, Becky and Maryssa are secret-keepers to the most imaginative gift-giving advice and charming gift-wrapping finesse in the biz.  (If you’re not in town, they’re also online and super helpful on the phone as well.)”
Aedes de Venustas, 9 Christopher Street, New York City
“All the loveliest odiferous wonders like Alexa Rodulfo, Cire Trudon, Diptyque, Frederic Malle, Etro, Ladurée, and Lalique Commingle in this luxe fragrance enclave complete with old-fashioned fineries like free samples, expert assistance, and fresh flowers atop gift-packaging upon request.”
143 Ludlow, 143 Ludlow, New York City
“The finds culled by Chrissie Miller of Sophomore and Lindsey Thornburg of Cloaks juxtapose and interweave remarkably—and with incredible art and books under Leo Fitzpatrick’s superb eye—143 is an insanely covetable conceptual synthesis.”
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