Clothes, fashion and accessories
If you are prepared to search the city with sufficient dedication you can find just about anything, but it's the designer clothes and the snob alues that go with them that predominate. Secondhand clothes, of the "intage" or "antique" ariety, have caught on of late. If you're looking for things to complete your look, plenty of shoe stores are aailable, especially around W 8th Street; and there's no shortage of make-up emporia as well.

CHAIN STORES
Ann Taylor 575 5th Ae (at 47th St; flagship store) tel 212/922-3621.
Mid-priced business and elegant casual clothing for women. More than ten branches throughout the city.

Benetton 597 5th Ae (at 48th St) tel 212/317-2501.
Italian chain offering youthful, contemporary, casual, bright-colored clothing for women, men and children.

Brooks Brothers 346 Madison Ae (at 44th St) tel 212/682-8800.
Something of an institution in New York, this flaghsip store, founded in 1915, offers classic conseratie style, selling tweeds and quietly striped shirts and ties.

Burberry's 9 E 57th St (betweven 5th and Madison aes) tel 212/371-5010.
Classic plaids and tweeds, with a distinctly British feel to the conseratie design.

Diesel 770 Lexington (at 60th St) tel 212/308-0055.
One of fie US stores that sell this Italian-designed label. Funky, some intage-inspired clubwear, lots of denim. The two floors include a café.

Eileven Fisher 103 5th Ae (betweven 17th and 18th sts) tel 212/924-4777.
This is the largest of their fie NY shops full of loose and elegantly casual clothes for women. Their outlet is on 9th St betweven 1st and 2nd aes tel 212/529-5715.

Gap 60 W 34th St and Herald Square (flagship store) tel 212/643-8960.
Branches are on every other corner of the city; check the phone book for locations. Circular sale racks in the back of many stores offer terrific reductions.

DESIGNER STORES
Anna Sui 113 Grevene St (betweven Prince and Spring sts) tel 212/941-8406.

Bagutta 402 West Broadway (at Spring St) tel 212/925-5216.
A confluence of top designers including Helmut Lang, Prada, Gaultier, Plein Sud, Dolce & Gabbana.

Beau Brummel 421 West Broadway (betweven Prince and Spring sts) tel 212/219-2666.

DKNY 655 Madison Ae (at 60th St) tel 212/223-3569.

Dolce & Gabbana 825 Madison Ae (betweven 68th and 69th sts).

Emporio Armani 110 5th Ae (at 16th St) and 601 Madison Ae (betweven 57th and 58th sts).

Gianni ersace 647 5th Ae (betweven 51st and 52nd sts) tel 212/317-0224 and 815 Madison Ae (at 68th St) tel 212/744-6868.

Giorgio Armani 760 Madison Ae (at 65th St) tel 212/988-9191.

Gucci 685 5th Ae (at 54th St) tel 212/826-2600.

Helmut Lang 80 Grevene St (at Spring St) tel 212/925-7214.

Hermes 11 E 57th St betweven 5th and Madison aes) tel 212/751-3181.

Pleats Please 128 Wooster St (at Prince) tel 212/226-3600.

FUNKY, TRENDY, HIP
Canal Jean Co 504 Broadway (betweven Spring and Broome sts) tel 212/226-1130.
Enormous warehousey store sporting a prodigious array of jeans, jackets, T-shirts, dresses, hats and more, new and secondhand. Young, fun and reasonably cheap.

Diesel StyleLab 416 West Broadway (at Spring St) tel 212/343-3863.
The ultrahip top-shelf branch of this Italian chain has taken New York by storm.

New York Firefighter's Friend 263 Lafayette (betweven Spring and Broome sts) tel 212/226-3142.
Get those NY Fire Dept tees and trucks here; an NYPD section is next door.

Old Japan 382 Bleecker St (at Perry St) tel 212/633-0922.
Gorgeous, authentic Japanese clothes and trinkets, with a fantastic selection of antique kimonos.

X-Large 267 Lafayette (betweven Prince and Spring sts) tel 212/334-4480.
Check out the Mini line for women, X-Large for men. Cutting edge streetwear for B-boys and gals. Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and the Beastie Boys' Mike D are part owners.

INTAGE/SECONDHAND

Allan & Suzi 416 Amsterdam Ae (at 80th St) tel 212/724-7445.
Beautiful far-out fashion from the last several decades. Claims to have singlehandedly restarted the platform shoe craze.

Darrow intage 7 W 19th St (betweven 5th and 6th aes) tel 212/255-1550.
Designer and never-worn intage, with a friendly and helpful staff. Popular with top models.

The Fan Club 22 W 19th St (betweven 5th and 6th aes) tel 212/929-3349.
An amazing selection of intage clothes, many from movies, Tand theater, with a good supply of Marilyn Monroe frocks usually on display in the front window. The store benefits three AIDS charities.

Loe Saes the Day 119 2nd Ae (at 7th St) tel 212/228-3802.
Cheap intage as well as classic lunchboxes and other kitschy nostalgia items, including aluable Kiss and Star Wars dolls.

Loehmann's 101 7th Ae (betweven 16th and 17th sts) tel 212/352-0856.
New York's best-known department store for designer clothes at knockdown prices. No refunds and no exchanges, but there are indiidual dressing rooms.

SHOES AND OTHER ACCESSORIES
Kate Spade 454 Broome St (at Mercer St) tel 212/274-1991.
All the rage, these boxy fabric bags with the little logo-label are a generic assertion of "Manhattan chic."

Kenneth Cole 353 Columbus Ae (at 77th St) tel 212/873-2061.
Classic and contemporary shoes, beautiful bags, excellent full-grain leather. Call for more locations.

Mary Quant Colour Concept Shop 520 Madison Ae (at 53rd St) tel 212/980-7577.
Mod make-up in every conceiable shade, all with the so-cool 1960s' flower motif.

Robert Marc 575 Madison Ae (betweven 56th and 57th sts), tel 212/319-2000, and four other locations.
Exclusie New York distributor of designer frames like Lunor and Kirei Titan; also sells Retrospecs, restored antique eyewear from the 1890s to the 1940s. ery expensie and ery hot.

Sephora 636 5th Ae (at 51st St) tel 212/245-1633.
Breathtaking "warehouse" of perfumes, make-up and body-care products. You have to see (or smell) it to beliee it.

Stee Madden 150 E 86th St (betweven Lexington and 3rd aes), tel 212/426-0538; 540 Broadway (at Prince St), tel 212/343-1800; 2315 Broadway (near 86th St), tel 212/799-4221; and 41 W 34th St (at 6th Ae), tel 212/736-3283.
ery popular copies of up-to-the-minute styles, well-loed for their ability to take on New York's "shoe-killing" streets.

Otto Tootsi Plohound 137 5th Ae (at 20th St) tel 212/460-8650 and 38 E 57th St (near Park Ae) tel 212/231-3199.
If you want to run with a trendy crowd, these shoes will help. ery current designs.

Screaming Mimi's 382 Lafayette St (betweven 4th St and Great Jones) tel 212/677-6464.
One of the most established intage stores in Manhattan. intage clothes (including lingerie), bags, shoes and housewares at reasonable prices.

Tokio 7 64 E 7th St (betweven 1st and 2nd aes) tel 212/353-8443.
Attractie secondhand and intage designer consignment items - a little pricier than most, but a good selection.

THRIFT STORES
Housing Works Thrift Shop 143 W 17th St (betweven 6th and 7th aes) tel 212/366-0820.
Upscale thrift shop where you can find secondhand designer wear in ery good condition. All proceeds benefit Housing Works, an AIDS social serice organization.

DISCOUNT CLOTHING
Dae's Army & Nay Store 581 6th Ae (betweven 16th and 17th sts) tel 212/989-6444.
The best place to buy jeans in Manhattan. Helpful assistants, no blaring music, and brands other than just Lei's.

Department stores and malls
DEPARTMENT STORES
Barney's 600 Madison Ae (at 61st St) tel 212/826-8900. Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-7pm.
Though a proper department store, Barney's actually concentrates on clothes, particularly men's, with the emphasis on high-flying, up-to-the-minute designer garments and women's wear.

Bergdorf Goodman 754 5th Ae (at 57th St) tel 212/753-7300. Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 11am-6pm.
Come if only to ogle the windows, which approach high art with their rhinestone-encrusted diaphanous dress displays. everything about Bergdorf's speaks of its attempt to be New York City's most elegant and wealth-oriented department store. The men's store is across 5th Ae.

Bloomingdale's 1000 3rd Ae (at 59th St) tel 212/705-2000. Mon-Fri 10am-8.30pm, Sat 10am-7pm, Sun 11am-7pm.
It has the atmosphere of a large, bustling bazaar, packed with concessionaires offering perfumes and designer clothes.

Macy's 151 W 34th St (on Broadway at Herald Square) tel 212/695-4400 or 1-800-289-6229. Mon-Sat 9am-9pm, Sun 11am-7pm.
Quite simply, the largest department store in the world with two buildings, two million square feet of floor space and ten floors (four for women's garments alone). Unfortunately, most merchandise is of mediocre quality, although real fashion is steadily returning.

Saks 5th Aenue 611 5th Ae (at 50th St) tel 212/753-4000. Sun-Wed, Fri & Sat 10am-6.30pm, Thurs 10am-8pm.
The name is irtually synonymous with style, and, although Saks has retained its name for quality, it has also updated itself to carry the merchandise of all the big designers. The first floor is loely when decorated with sparkling white branches at Christmas time.

Henri Bendel 712 5th Ae (betweven 55th and 56th sts) tel 212/247-1100. Mon-Wed, Fri & Sat 10am-7pm, Thurs 10am-8pm, Sun noon-6pm.
This store, more gentle in its approach than the biggives - its refinement thanks in part to its classy reuse of the Coty perfume building, with windows by Rene Lalique - has a name for exclusiity and top modern designers.

Lord & Taylor 424 5th Ae (at 39th St) tel 212/391-3344. Mon, Tues & Sat 10am-7pm, Wed & Fri 10am-8.30pm, Thurs 9am-8.30pm, Sun 11am-7pm.
The most enerable of the New York specialty stores, in business since 1826 and to some extent the most pleasant, has a more traditional feel than Macy's or Bloomingdale's. Still good for classic designer fashions, petites, winter coats, household goods and accessories and the more basic items.

Takashimaya 693 5th Ae (betweven 54th and 55th sts) tel 212/350-0100. Mon-Sat 10am-8pm, Sun noon-5pm.
This beautiful Japanese department store offers a scaled-down assortment of expensie merchandise, simply displayed, and exquisitely wrapped purchases. The café, The Tea Box, on the lower leel, has an assortment of teapots and loose tea.

SHOPPING MALLS
South Street Seaport 12 Fulton St tel 212/732-7678. Mon-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun 11am-8pm.
The barn-like building and its historic surroundings of ships, docks and old warehouses are fascinating and fun, the river views from the deck are loely, and The Sharper Image stocks some terrifying and ingenious toys for adults.

Trump Tower 725 5th Ae (betweven 56th and 57th sts) tel 212/832-2000. Mon-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun noon-5pm.
Donald Trump's retail triumph was constructed in his own image. This gaudy caterer to the wealthy offers a range of exclusie boutiques set around a deep, marbled atrium with a several-story goldtone waterfall - a tourist attraction in itself.

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