Upon hearing the news that BarneysNY has filed for bankruptcy protection, and that its future is uncertain, Vogue’s Lynn Yaeger remembers her fondest shopping memories at the store.
, which I assumed was French but was not, and bought my first ever Comme, a perfect smock dress. It cost $365, and I had to get a loan from theI can close my eyes and remember every inch of that store—the tinydepartment with its thick cashmere pullovers, long before that house had a name designer; the shoe balcony with its patent leather Robert Clergerie tuxedo pumps; the antique jewelry corner, where I worshiped at the altar of art deco engagement rings and Victorian snake necklaces.
When the Madison Avenue store opened in 1993, it wasn’t roses but the mosaic floor that beckoned, a radical departure from typical department store décor, and one so beloved that there was an outcry in 2011 when it was replaced with chilly gray stone. How many hours have I spent—how many days, even months if you laid them end to end, wandering around this place? In 2006, I fell madly in love with a coat that was part of Comme’s masculine/feminine collection.
Perhaps that incident didn’t improve the store’s bottom line, but it made one obsessive Barneys shopper very happy. I am still wearing that coat—it’s vintage now!—and I plan to be wearing it this winter, and next, as I cruise the aisles of Barneys, which we can only hope manages to survive this bankruptcy, ready to entrance a new generation of shoppers, as starry-eyed as the girl who craved a CDG refrigerator smock.
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