Each week, Alexa is rounding up the buzziest fashion drops, hotel openings, restaurant debuts and celeb-studded cultural happenings in NYC. It’s our curated guide to the very best things to see, shop, taste and experience around the city. What’s making our luxury list this week? Michael Kors and Jimmy Choo both debut new Madison Avenue boutiques, John Mulaney is back on Broadway, and the Brooklyn Museum goes for the gold.
SHOP TALK: Michael Kors Moves to 61st and Madison Michael Kors has moved his Collection boutique from 790 Madison Ave. to 667 Madison Ave., on the corner of 61st Street, in a space formerly occupied by Smythson.
The move marks the East Coast debut of the designer’s new store concept for his Collection boutiques. Everything is on one level (versus two previously), and the design, Kors said, “has a welcoming feel, a sense of luxury and refinement.” On offer: Michael Kors Collection handbags, accessories, and ready-to-wear, with a shoe salon and seating area in the back of the store, and expanded dressing rooms.
MichaelKors .com WELL HEELED: Jimmy Choo’s new Madison Avenue space Jimmy Choo is also on the move, strutting a few blocks down Madison Avenue to its new storefront at 667. Its interiors were entrusted to London and New York-based interior designer Nebihe Cihan, who created a trio of salons furnished with vintage pieces by Luigi Pellegrin, Antonio Citterio and, Móveis Cimo, thereby introducing the brand’s “renewed retail aesthetic.
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