Kate Spade

 NY I had lunch with Andy Spade, now 47 and married to handbag designer Kate Spade, recently at the Bowery Hotel in Manhattan, catty-corner to Mr. Spade’s new venture on Great Jones Street. Partners & Spade is an advertising and branding studio which also ...

By Meredith Bryan “Oh my gosh, I feel like I am being attacked when I walk down 57th Street,” said Stacey Bendet, owner and designer of Alice + Olivia. Recently, she said, “I walked into Dior and felt like honey in a swarm of bees.” Minji Kim, owner of Min-k, an accessories boutique with locations in Nolita and th...

By Meredith Bryan “Depending on who wins I’ll either be in brights or mourning black,” e-mailed Kim France, editor in chief of Lucky—a Condé Nast shopping mag that will surely escape the Newhouse chopping block, as women would rather starve than stop shopping (actually, starving would just make our purc...

By Meredith Bryan The immediate future is equally gilded, precipitous stock market plunges be damned! A massive bi-level Ralph Lauren store is planned for fall 2009, an Apple store—crown jewel of any Manhattan shopping district—will spring up on the site of an old movie theater, and a Danny Meyer restau...