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For years, New York City has been lauded (by mostly New Yorkers, but still) as the fashion capital of the world, but now NYC designers are casting a westward eye toward the more casual City of Angels.<\/p>\nFor years, New York City has been lauded (by mostly New Yorkers, but still) as the fashion capital of the world, but now NYC designers are casting a westward eye toward the more casual City of Angels.<\/p>\n
Henri Bendel, for example, has a couple new locations in Beverly Hills — and although NY designers are by no means relocating to sunny SoCal (Sophomore <\/em>designer Chrissy Miller, for one, doesn’t “get all the embellished denim and crazy graphics” of LA), expect several more east coast shops to open cross-country.<\/p>\n Perhaps it’s the sunny climate or the hippie history, but California tends to be much more casual and thus more receptive to creative experimentation than New York: a gold-mine for high-end retail brands in a still-recovering financial market. \u00c2\u00a0Whatever the case, we look forward to seeing what comes out of these new east-meets-west endeavors — and have one more reason to use up our frequent-flyer miles.<\/p>\n