Word: nolita
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...WARMERS: I found these in a small store in NoLita in N.Y. They seem to be pretty popular this season. I like them because I can wear short skirts into the fall and stay warm...
SHOES: Also from a boutique in NoLita (this is the neighborhood where I find a lot of my favorite things). I bought them as a present for myself when I graduated from high school. They’re still my favorite shoes...
When Christiane Celle, the French owner of a boutique called Calypso on St. Bart's in the French West Indies, migrated north to New York's Nolita neighborhood in 1994, her bright and breezy peasant blouses ushered in a casual new uniform for skinny models, stylists, socialites and starlets. Paired with low-slung jeans and crocheted hip belts, the bohemian look seemed to symbolize liberation from the tyranny of all Gucci or Prada all the time. Soon designers like Tom Ford caught the bohemian bug, and a striking facsimile of the Calypso peasant blouse turned up on Vogue's September...