Napa County is on the verge of losing its last fabric store.
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In the Spring-Summer 2022 Fashion Show, Abloh’s first U.S. show for the brand — was also his final one, a mystical and solemn occasion that ended with a red aircraft and “Virgil was present,” etched on the Miami skyline.
Its Louis Vuitton Men’s store in Miami’s Design District is the first standalone store in the United States and the second one worldwide, following Tokyo, which was inaugurated in 2020. Shibuya store in the year 2020. The store is situated at the intersection of 39th Street and 1st Avenue. The store’s all-white aluminum facade was inspired by the Marcel Wanders “Diamond Screen”-the -a adaptation of the monogram of the Maison and the cane-work from the original trunks, and the color scheme pays tribute to the modernist style of Miami.
The interior of the 3,586 square foot space has a sophisticated industrial design with exposed concrete and is embellished with millwork and bespoke furniture. A curved staircase connects the second and first levels of the shop, its monolithic style a nod to the modernist style of the city, with its blue leather handrails bringing to mind an image of Miami waterfronts. In honor of the store’s Design District location, the store has permanent spaces, unique statues, and a variety of artworks created by local artists, like the wall-covering design of Michelle Weinberg installed in fitting rooms and elevator art created by captain Casual.
The store offers the complete collection of Metiers from the Maison for men, including ready-to-wear and accessories, shoes such as watches, perfume, and watches, in addition to Miami men’s exclusives that include a chain-link necklace and a skateboard sporting graffiti, as well as the LV Runner Tatic sneaker.
Louis Vuitton has also expanded its Objets Nomades collection by transforming its Miami Design District store (now named the women’s boutique) into a full-on Objets Nomades installation curated by Patricia Urquiola on the third floor.
The latest Objets Nomades on shows consist of Campana Brothers’ Merengue, Raw Edges’ Cosmic Table, Marcel Wanders’ Petal Chair Designer Louis Vuitton’s Totem Lumineux, and the first appearance of designer Frank Chou’s Beijing-born Signature Armchair and Sofa. With its elegant, flowing arches inspired by the terraced fields of Yunnan and desert stock formations found in Arizona’s Antelope Valley, this is the only Objet Nomade designed explicitly for outdoor use. It is upholstered with the vibrant “Brio” fabric of the Italian label Paola Lenti.
The store’s front facade is covered in joyous, woven colors inspired by an upcoming Objet Nomade by the Campana Brothers.
]]>Several new businesses have opened in Yakima in recent weeks:
• SEWN, a fabric store specializing in clothing and sustainable fabrics, opened in downtown Yakima last month. Owner Sierra Hutton said she always wanted to run a fabric store, but the opportunity to do so arose when she saw that the space at 25 N. Front St. was newly built. available during a walk downtown. Previously, Berchman’s Brewing Co. was in space. The store is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
• Union Gospel Mission, has opened a new location for its thrift store, called Summit Thrift in the old Rite-Aid building off 56th and Summitview avenues, next to Safeway. Union Gospel Mission has opened its second thrift store, Mission Thrift, in the former Party Palace location at 2011 W. Lincoln Ave. in 2019 and renovated its original downtown location called Lighthouse Thrift last year.
Gesa Credit Union recently began construction on a new location at 3300 W. Nob Hill Blvd. The 4,500 square foot branch is Yakima’s third location for the Richland-based credit union, which operates locations at 901 Triple Crown Way and 1825 S. First St.
The credit union aims to open the new Yakima branch by November.
This story has been edited to clarify the names of Union Gospel Mission thrift stores.
Several new businesses have opened in Yakima in recent weeks:
• SEWN, a fabric store specializing in clothing and sustainable fabrics, opened in downtown Yakima last month. Owner Sierra Hutton said she always wanted to run a fabric store, but the opportunity to do so arose when she saw that the space at 25 N. Front St. was newly built. available during a walk downtown. Previously, Berchman’s Brewing Co. was in space. The store is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
• Union Gospel Mission, has opened a new location for its thrift store, called Summit Thrift in the old Rite-Aid building off 56th and Summitview avenues, next to Safeway. Union Gospel Mission has opened its second thrift store, Mission Thrift, in the former Party Palace location at 2011 W. Lincoln Ave. in 2019 and renovated its original downtown location called Lighthouse Thrift last year.
Gesa Credit Union recently began construction on a new location at 3300 W. Nob Hill Blvd. The 4,500 square foot branch is Yakima’s third location for the Richland-based credit union, which operates locations at 901 Triple Crown Way and 1825 S. First St.
The credit union aims to open the new Yakima branch by November.
This story has been edited to clarify the names of Union Gospel Mission thrift stores.
“We were at 1701 Post Road for 25 years,” said manager Jane Peck, who herself lived there for 17 of those years.
This month the 72-year-old national chain, which began selling second-hand designer fabrics in Bedford Village, NY as Calico Corners in 1948, opened downtown at 224 Post Road. East.
“It’s a great location because of the visibility,” she said, noting that the groundbreaking ceremony on February 8 included a visit from State Senator Will Haskell, as well as a range of officials. , designers and industry professionals.
“They decided to do it before COVID,” she said, “but surprisingly we opened the store as planned.”
The corner building on the west side of Imperial Avenue, which originally housed Ed Mitchell’s and, in recent years, the State Cleaners, is now a new Calico store offering a range of design services, both in person and virtual, including custom furniture. , custom upholstery, furnishings and window treatments.
“We do pretty much anything that is made of fabric,” Peck said.
The store no longer houses the fabric bolts they used to cut for samples and the like, although the services and offerings, as well as the quality, will remain the same.
“I feel like our move makes us more up to date,” noted Shaun Amberg, designer with the store for 13 years.
The new location still attracts its loyal clientele as well as a few new ones.
“I know you can trust them when it comes to quality and value for money,” said client Kathy Volpe, who has just moved to Westport from Massachusetts and is decorating her new home.
“When I built my house 25 years ago outside of Boston, I went to Calico,” she said, where she had design work, window treatments and even new furniture for her.
“I was extremely happy with the quality,” she said, adding that the furniture was still in use in her other home on Cape Cod. “All the things they’ve done for me still look perfect.”
Peck said business was booming this year, due to the pandemic.
“We are seeing an increase in the number of customers decorating their homes because they are so much more at home,” she said. “Also, we have seen new homes, people moving into this area and they need to decorate their homes.”
Store visits are by appointment, Peck said, although they can also travel directly to their homes to consult or work with a customer virtually.
“We’re also allowing people to borrow fabric and take it home for two days to see how you like something,” she said, adding that it was a better option than just having the traditional small sample to continue.
She noted that the commercial nature of the store is part of what makes it unique. While customers can visit simply to purchase a fabric or related item of interest, they can also involve their work and design team to the level they require.
“We do a lot of design work here (and) we have a lot of products that we can offer our customers,” Amberg said. “It’s a great location.
Michael Recht has seen sales in his Yardage Town fabric stores decline for decades.
At its peak in the 1970s, the National City chain had 16 stores in San Diego County. But from the late 1980s, Yardage Town began closing stores amid declining sales due to working women having less time to sew and discount clothing chains creating. less need to sew.
Recht will now close the four remaining local stores. This will mark the end of the family business which opened its first store in El Cajon in 1953, just a decade after the creation of its national competitor Joann Fabrics.
“First of all, I’m 71,” said Recht, who lives in San Diego. “I can’t go on forever. And I have no one to leave it to. My two children are satisfied with their job. But also, it is not such a profitable business.
The business was started by his father, who was from Poland. He started Yardage Town because he loved buying and selling, and loved fabrics and clothing.
As a child, Recht was not interested in his father’s fabric stores. When his father took him to Yardage Town, he would go to the back room and read comics. He dreamed of becoming a writer.
But he started working there full time after graduating from college in 1972 and fell in love with it.
“If I make a big sale, it’s kind of a peak,” Recht said. “When people come in and I have exactly what they want, it’s a great feeling. I feel bad when I don’t have what they want. I try to anticipate what to stock for customers, ”many of whom have come to stores with their parents or grandparents since they were little.
When Recht started the business in the 1970s and early 1980s, he said the fabric industry had benefited from a business boom.
“Clothes were still relatively expensive to buy then, so people sewed,” he said. “They taught sewing at school. It was a great saving of money to sew your own clothes. Now you can go to discount clothing stores and buy some really cheap clothes instead.
Discount stores like Five Below, TJ Maxx, Marshalls and Ross contributed to lower sales in Yardage Town. He added that it didn’t help that more women started working and had less time to sew. And fewer and fewer schools offered sewing lessons.
“We certainly struggled to pay the bills,” he said. “There were a lot of times like that. “
Why didn’t Recht leave the company then?
“I went to college,” he says. “But that was the only thing I really knew how to do. So I had to stick to it. And then you still hope things get better. But they didn’t.
His sister, who still owns half the business with Recht, and his nephew understood this and stopped working for the family business two years ago. Recht stayed on to reduce inventory at the remaining stores in Encinitas, National City, Vista and Chula Vista. Recht will close the Encinitas store, which is currently holding its closing sale, in March, at the end of the lease. He will eventually close the other three stores housed in buildings he owns.
Owning some of the buildings in Yardage Town, which are relatively large, also helped the company stay afloat for so long as it didn’t have to pay rent. The National City store spans 30,000 square feet, and the warehouse, which it also owns, sits below an additional 30,000 square feet. The Chula Vista and Vista stores are each approximately 10,000 square feet.
What will Recht do after closing the business and selling the remaining buildings?
“I care about it every day. I really like coming here. I work six days a week. I really don’t have a hobby.
So he recently asked his son to buy him golf clubs for his birthday.
“But I don’t play,” Recht said. “I hope I like it.”
Hang Nguyen is a freelance writer for UT. You can reach her at [email protected].
]]>Fabric and craft retailer Jo-Ann is moving to the West Bank.
A banner announcing the store’s opening was placed on a storefront inside the Westside Mall, the large complex on Stumpf Boulevard and the Westbank Freeway. The place is anchored by a Rouses and a Sports & Outdoors Academy.
The interior of the storefront is empty, but the banner says it will house a future Jo-Ann and lists a website for Gretna’s new location. (Unfortunately, it’s not yet fully functional. We’ve checked.)
A sign stuck to the window said the store is hiring now. Online job postings for the Gretna store showed a range of openings, including an assistant store manager, education coordinator and member of the retail team. Those interested in applying can do so online at www.joann.com/careers.
It’s unclear when the new Jo-Ann store will open. The storefront banner did not provide an opening date. The retailer did not immediately respond to requests for further details.
Until now, Jo-Ann fans have had to drive across the Mississippi to shop in Metairie. Jo-Ann has two locations in Metairie, one at 1111 Veterans Memorial Boulevard and another further on the busy thoroughfare at 7000 Veterans. The retailer also has a Slidell store.
The Westside Mall was once home to Hancock Fabrics, a Mississippi-based fabrics and crafts retailer, but the store closed last year. Hancock closed the Gretna site and all of its remaining 185 stores in April 2016 after filing for bankruptcy. The old Hancock store remains vacant and the signage still in place.
The new Jo-Ann will be located a few storefronts from the Hancock, closer to the Rouses.
Jo-Ann, founded in 1943, has approximately 850 stores nationwide. This includes eight stores in Louisiana.
]]>Napa County is on the verge of losing its last fabric store.
Hancock Fabrics, located in the River Park shopping center, will close in May or June, a store employee said. The company, which went bankrupt for the second time in February, will close the remaining 185 stores in the United States, a press release said.
The news left buyers in dismay.
Napan John Darnell stopped by the Hancock store on Monday afternoon to collect supplies for various art projects.
“It’s a little sad because now there won’t be any more fabric stores” in the area, Darnell said. “I am disappointed,” he said. As to where he will buy after Hancock closes, “I have no idea.”
The River Park store appeared to be busy Monday. “There are so many people shopping, I don’t know why they are closing,” Darnell said.
Falling income, high debt and a lack of credit led to the decision to file for bankruptcy, according to the company.
“It was a wonderful neighborhood boutique,” said Marilyn Tetarchik of Sonoma.
“It was one of the few reasons we came to Napa,” said his companion, William Jelinek.
Tetarchik said she doesn’t like shopping for fabrics online “because you can’t see the colors or textures” on a computer screen.
“People don’t use fabric stores anymore,” Jelinek said. Unfortunately, for many people, buying something is cheaper and faster than it is to sew it, he said.
Tetarchik said she didn’t like the trend. “Making your own clothes is kind of self-expression,” she said.
Jelinek said he would miss expert advice from Hancock employees. Even though some stores like Walmart have a small selection of fabrics, these retailers would not offer the same level of expertise.
Hairstylist Norma Galvan works at Your Style Hair Salon, next to Hancock Fabrics. The shutdown is bad news, she said. Her senior customers enjoy picking up embroidery and crochet supplies at the store, she said. In addition, “there are a lot of people quilting in this city.”
The closure could impact the salon’s business, Galvan said. “This store brings a lot of people to the square.” When asked what the ideal replacement tenant would be, Galvan replied “another fabric store”.
Upon hearing that the store was closing, customer Luvlyn King expressed her dismay. “Now where are we going to get our things? “
Before fast and discount fashion retailers like Target and Walmart took hold, Napa was home to many fabric stores.
Longtime locals may remember Massen’s Fabrics, Fabrics Inc., House of Fabrics, and Nor-Mar Fabrics and Gifts. Other fabric stores were found in Saint Helena and Calistoga.
After Nor-Mar closed in 2014, Hancock Fabrics had to meet the needs of craftsmen and sewers in Napa. The store had a bit of everything from buttons to faux leather, quilting supplies, velcro, and bolts to interior decorating fabrics.
While stores like Target and Michaels sell a handful of basic sewing supplies, Napans who want something more will have to travel to Santa Rosa, Fairfield, Vallejo or elsewhere for these goods.