{"id":98198,"date":"2025-07-28T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98198\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:00:10","slug":"nyc-used-to-be-the-fashion-capital-of-the-world-now-you-can-hardly-find-a-decent-clothing-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/98198\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC used to be the fashion capital of the world \u2014 now you can hardly find a decent clothing store"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time for class to return<\/strong><\/p>\n

New York, New York. Once, a helluva town<\/a>. The prices stay up but the merchandise is down.<\/p>\n

Days of old, need shmattas for a wedding, confirmation, bar mitzvah, divorce settlement, you\u2019d just walk in the West 30s and see dudes pushing racks of dresses, coats, suits. Shove names like Gucci, Valentino, Chanel, Dior. That Seventh Avenue chunk was Fashion Alley.<\/p>\n

So busy that \u2014 amble by in your own outfit \u2014 some rack-pusher could\u2019ve even hustled it right off your behind to resell to a pushcart in Venezuela. These movable racks had clothes, shoes, sprinkles, feathers, fashion, flowers \u2014 many Washington, DC, thieves ago \u2014 that was then IT!<\/p>\n

Not now. Sayonara. Products aren\u2019t in stores. Why? Because there aren\u2019t many stores. Because shops aren\u2019t paying their bills. Saturation was luxury clientele. Now they\u2019re not buying what they did.<\/p>\n

Handbags? Meh<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHandbags do not always enthuse luxury spenders. Chanel, Gucci, Balenciaga, Valentino, Dior changed their top designers. Sales are down. Money\u2019s down. The look is down. Revenue is from a wearable look. That\u2019s what\u2019s notable. But look at what\u2019s wearable today,\u201d so says a designer who formerly dressed the Oscars and Tonys. \u201cSmall brands are even affected. Tees made in China, Vietnam, Uruguay. It\u2019s scary. Fashion\u2019s not unique, not special, not wanted in the big time. No reason for the consumer to shop.<\/p>\n

\u201cVIP society has become casual. Jeans for a thousand dollars? Chanel shirt to go with the jeans \u2014 $1,200.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd European runway garbage isn\u2019t wearable. Theirs is your crotch hanging out, butt crack visible, breasts grabbable, designers making your navel into a small potted plant growing feathers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe onetime personal shopper\u2019s been poached. That bar mitzvah or top-of-the-line wedding shopper who went to your home with carte blanche so you needn\u2019t suffer dressing room tryouts has switched to everyday Nordstroms. Once the prevail of Saks 5th, Neimans, those high-priced, nose-up-your-behind salespeople who\u2019d hand-carry original Paris creations to a VIP? Gone. Kaput.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stores closing. The new generation wears garbage. Fast fashion<\/a>. Guys do T-shirts. Stomachs hang out. Chopped tops, cutoff jeans. They\u2019ll spend on food and experiences \u2014 not clothing. It\u2019s only to look hot on Instagram or TikTok. You have to give consumers a reason to buy. Canadians no longer come. Chinese are buying less. Europeans are down in terms of shopping here. Luxury people aren\u2019t customers anymore. Stores are going out of business.<\/p>\n

No one has style<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was in Due restaurant the other night. Throats were in pasta. Behinds were in jeans.<\/p>\n

Watch, French billionaire\u00a0Bernard Arnault\u00a0who already owns LVMH, Dior, Bulgari, Givenchy, Fendi, Tiffany, Celine, Kenzo, Marc Jacobs, Pucci, Loro Piana, Loewe, Guerlain, Sephora, plus another stock of stores, and already owns 57th and 5th\u2019s three most famous corners .\u2009.\u2009. watch. Just watch. WATCH. He\u2019ll grab Bergdorf\u2019s next.<\/p>\n

With shmattas\u2019 hem lengths today, if a female wants her appendix taken out and doesn\u2019t want it to show, they\u2019ll have to remove it through her nose.<\/p>\n

And not only in New York, kids, not only in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time for class to return New York, New York. Once, a helluva town. The prices stay up…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,64247,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5925],"class_list":{"0":"post-98198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fashion-designers","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-womens-fashion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114928394219698681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}