Longchamp

Longchamp at 132 Spring Street (bet. Wooster & Greene) doesn't carry denim, but I found all-weather coats, handbags and accessories to go with jeans.  What's striking is the store itself, whose strips of terra-cotta and steel swoop me up from the sidewalk all the way to the ceiling in the back.  It's like an old amusement park where models and handbags slide up and down wooden chutes into infinity.  When I take a walk in Soho, I make a point of stopping here to enjoy this work of art.  You can read more about the store's design and architect Thomas Heatherwick here (is he single?).

Here are denim blue patent leather totes and belt, but I also liked the

multicolored patch handbag set co-designed by Kate Moss, which is no longer available on the store's web site, http://www.longchamp.com/.

Post:  Dec. 18, 2010