OPULENT OUTPOSTS – CHANEL BOUTIQUE AT HIRSHLEIFER’S
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| VERSACE OPENS AT HIRSHLEIFER’S |
When the Hirshleifer family bid farewell to some of their longtime in-store boutiques, there was no question of how to utilize the space.
For the six members of the Hirshleifer family on staff, creating an expanded in-store Chanel boutique was a unanimous decision. “We always wanted to make Chanel bigger. It wasn’t even a choice,” says Lori Hirshleifer Sills, who with her mother, Lillian, handles all the buying for the store.
The new boutique measures 1,500 square feet, more than double the original area, and was designed by Peter Marino, the architect responsible for the overall design of the Americana. The airy boutique manages to capture the same qualities that make Chanel the favorite of countless clients. “It’s very modern,” says Sills, “but it still has all the grace of Chanel.” The look of the new space is completed with two boxy pink tweed chairs and a gilt-edged glass table.
The Chanel fans who frequent Hirshleifer’s are apparently uniformly thrilled. “They love the openness of it.” And that’s, of course, to say nothing of the expanded stock, particularly in terms of handbags, shoes, and sunglasses, which tend to spend very little time resting on shelves before flying out the door. With such a following, Sills indicates that this expansion might………”
