Come summer, you see retailers around the city leaving the doors of their stores propped wide open in the hopes of enticing shoppers in with blasts of frigid air conditioning. In protest of this decidedly carbon-non-neutral trend we bring you, This Store Blows, highlighting the city's worst offenders. Want to join forces with us? Contributions, accompanied by a photo, are always accepted.
Stores: Urban Outfitters, Best Buy, American Apparel, David Z, Marc Jacobs, Versani, Forecast, Michael K., Old Navy Date: 6/26/08. Time: 6:30 to 7PM. Why These Stores Blow: To quote our photographer: "I gave up taking photos because there were just so many with their doors open." When the brownout comes, we'll be looking at you, Broadway retailers.
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Today's Street Scenes subject is Anna, shot on West 10th and Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. Feel free to vote on whether you like or dislike her outfit below—your choices are 'Perfection!,' I feel strangely ambivalent about it,' or 'Who Did This To You.' Also, a note: Krieger would like you to know that this girl is a mere 13 years of age. Let's keep it clean.
Anna is wearing a shirt she bought at a thrift store, Forever 21 shorts, David Z sandals, her mom's bag and vintage sunglasses. Her favorite store is Urban Outfitters.
It really is time to check in on the David Z store nearing completion on St. Marks Place between Second and Third Avenues. The shoe shop, which we first got wind of in late August, is readying for what will undoubtedly be a glorious late November/early December debut. We checked in on their progress, and the shoe racks are already up inside. David Z’s six other Manhattan locations always seem to be stocked with as many tourists as shoes, so it makes sense to open along this stretch of St. Marks—once an artsy counterculture destination, now a trampled tourist trap.
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