ORBISFASHION HOUSES & BOUTIQUES IN NEW YORK 14 shops in the atlas.Illustration
Fashion Houses & Boutiques in New York
14 stores · curated ORBIS register
Carolina Herrera established her fashion house in New York in 1981, with eveningwear central to the Caracas-born designer's clothing identity. The house also produces the Good Girl fragrance line, extending its offer beyond garments while retaining its New York headquarters. Daiki Suzuki's Engineered Garments works with asymmetric pockets and mixed fabrics, bringing a workwear-based approach to the city's fashion selection.
Aéropostale sells casual basics, denim, activewear and logo pieces aimed at teenagers and young adults. Frequent promotions and broad sizing make it a value-led mall chain rather than a specialist label.
Best for Teen fashion retail
Aeropostale was established in 1987 as a specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories. The company identifies young women and men as its core audience. Denim and fashion essentials sit at the centre of the offer. Current navigation separates women's and men's jeans. Clothing and collections make the gendered assortment visible without narrowing the brand to one product. Hoodies and graphic T-shirts sit beside denim as recurring casual categories. The business presents value as part of its positioning, but that should be understood as the company's own market description rather than a quality verdict. Aeropostale now sits within Catalyst Brands, whose portfolio also includes Brooks Brothers, Eddie Bauer, Lucky Brand and Nautica. That ownership context is useful because it places the chain within a wider American apparel group while preserving its youth-focused identity. Aeropostale is a 1987 mall-era retailer built around accessible denim and casual dressing for younger customers, not a technical denim maker or designer-led fashion house.
New York menswear label founded 2016 by Emily Adams Bode (now Bode Aujla), built around one-of-a-kind garments made from antique quilts, vintage bed linens and grain sacks; first woman to show at New York Fashion Week: Men's, 2018.
Best for Vintage patchwork, quilts
Bode was launched in New York in 2016 by Atlanta-born designer Emily Adams Bode, a Parsons/Eugene Lang graduate in menswear design and philosophy. The label is defined by its use of globally sourced antique textiles - New England quilts, 1920s French bed linens, southeastern-U.S. grain sacks - reworked using historical techniques such as quilting, mending, patchwork, sashiko, boro and applique. In 2018 Bode became the first female designer to present at New York Fashion Week: Men's; in June 2019 she staged her first runway show at Paris Fashion Week Men's. The brand sells direct-to-consumer and through roughly 30 brick-and-mortar retailers worldwide, and launched a womenswear line in 2023.
Founded 1981 in New York by Caracas-born designer Carolina Herrera; known for eveningwear and the Good Girl fragrance line; acquired by Spain's Puig in 2011, still headquartered in New York.
Best for Polished eveningwear and the Good Girl fragrance.
Carolina Herrera was born Maria Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Nino in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1939, into a family with ties to the city's civic elite. After early work as a publicist for Emilio Pucci in Caracas and a period of social prominence in Venezuelan and later New York circles, she moved to New York in 1980 at age forty and, encouraged by Vogue's Diana Vreeland, launched her own collection in 1981, debuting at Manhattan's Metropolitan Club. A Park Avenue boutique, Martha's, put her clothes in its windows, and the house built its reputation on structured eveningwear and bridal design - Carolina Herrera personally designed Caroline Kennedy's 1986 wedding dress. The company later expanded into fragrance, most recognizably the Good Girl line, along with accessories and footwear. In 2011 the house was acquired by the Spanish beauty and fashion group Puig. The label remains headquartered in New York.
Toronto-founded (1985) menswear-and-womenswear brand later owned by Ralph Lauren (1999-2021); sold to private-equity firm Regent LP in 2021. Known for a Fifth Avenue New York flagship among its multi-country store network.
Best for Modern essentials, tailored
Club Monaco was founded in Toronto in 1985 by Joe Mimran and Alfred Sung, building a reputation for pared-back, minimalist basics - cotton knits, tailored trousers, cashmere - at a step below full luxury pricing. Ralph Lauren Corporation acquired the brand in 1999 and expanded it into the United States, Europe and Asia, opening a flagship on Fifth Avenue in New York that for years combined clothing with a Strand Books outpost and a cafe. In May 2021, Ralph Lauren sold Club Monaco to Los Angeles private-equity firm Regent LP; the brand brought on a new creative director in September 2022 as part of a relaunch focused on returning to its original quality-and-simplicity positioning. Club Monaco now operates as a standalone company under Regent, with stores across North America and licensed operations elsewhere.
New York menswear artisans — soft-shoulder chore coats, chinos, custom suiting and factory-direct trouser programs.
Best for Knit polos, trousers, jackets
Epaulet Brand is a New York-based menswear specialist focused on tailored and artisanal clothing construction. The brand operates primarily as an e-commerce retailer offering both ready-to-wear in-stock items—chore coats, chinos, jeans, shirts, pants, bags and accessories—and custom clothing services for suits, sportcoats, trousers, overcoats and custom shirts produced through partnerships with manufacturers in the United States and Europe. Epaulet is particularly known for soft-shoulder construction techniques and use of premium cloth from suppliers like Loro Piana. The brand emphasizes quality craftsmanship and offers direct purchasing programs allowing customers to commission custom trousers and other tailored pieces. Epaulet positions itself within the contemporary menswear movement prioritizing construction quality and material selection over mass production.
Broadway, downtown Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
For around 40 years Impressions of Saratoga has anchored downtown Broadway with gifts and souvenirs, including its exclusive Saratoga Collection keepsakes. Its sister storefront, The Dark Horse Mercantile, carries horse-racing-themed apparel, gifts and home decor.
Best for Local souvenirs and Saratoga-branded gifts
This lakeside boathouse in Bolton Landing sells and rents touring kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddleboards, backed by a staff whose combined outdoor experience the shop measures in decades rather than years. Alongside boats it stocks paddling apparel, maps, and camping gear, and runs lessons and demo days straight off its own launch.
A specialty ski and snowboard shop on Main Street selling and servicing alpine equipment, apparel and accessories for the surrounding Whiteface and High Peaks terrain. It operates independently of the big-box rental counters, focusing on fitting and tuning gear for local skiers rather than volume tourist rentals.
Lemlem makes ready-to-wear clothing and swimwear that traditional weavers hand-weave in Ethiopia, and it also sells accessories. The brand is certified as a B Corporation for the way it works with its artisan communities.
American luxury designer — grunge meets glamour, the Snapshot bag, and a career that defined 1990s fashion. The most influential American designer of his generation.
Best for Snapshot bags and American grunge-glamour
New York fashion label founded in 2002 by Parsons classmates Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, who combined their mothers' maiden names for the brand and sold their senior thesis collection to Barneys before opening a Madison Avenue store in 2012.
Best for The PS1 satchel and downtown intellectual polish from New York's art-fashion duo
Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez met at Parsons, merged their senior thesis into one collection, and sold it entire to Barneys — the founding legend of Proenza Schouler, named for their mothers' maiden names, launched 2002 and crowned almost immediately: inaugural winners of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund in 2004. They became New York fashion's definitive art-school success: the PS1 satchel (2008) was the it-bag American design had been waiting for — the Madison Avenue flagship followed in 2012 — and the mainline's printed silks, sculpted knits and gallery-adjacent references made them the Whitney crowd's house label.
For two decades the duo carried downtown's flag — CFDA awards in multiples, a White House state-dinner dress for Dr. Biden, collections that treated Ellsworth Kelly and Judd as moodboard peers. In January 2025 they stepped down from their own label, and by April were installed as creative directors of Loewe, succeeding Jonathan Anderson — the biggest European posting ever handed to American designers of their generation.
Proenza Schouler continues under new creative leadership with the founders' codes intact: intellectual polish, prints with provenance, New York arguing it belongs in Paris.
American menswear basics since 2008 — garment-dyed Supima cotton tees, shirts, and sweats made entirely in the USA.
Best for Garment-dyed American cotton basics
Save Khaki United is an American menswear brand founded in 2008, dedicated to reinterpreting classic American workwear and basics with contemporary fit and sustainable practices. All pieces are manufactured in the USA, emphasizing domestic production and fair labor standards. The brand's focus centers on high-quality Supima cotton, a premium long-staple variety grown domestically that absorbs and retains dye better than standard cotton, offering vibrant, long-lasting color while being less prone to pilling or shrinkage. Each garment is washed and dyed in their California studio to achieve a soft, broken-in feel. The product range includes short-sleeve and v-neck tees, lightweight sweatshirts, and casual basics designed for comfortable, understated everyday wear. The brand's design philosophy emphasizes simplicity, comfort, and durability, positioning itself as modern American essentials for men and women who value quality construction and domestic manufacturing.
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