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"Reader Summer is headed to New York City in a couple of weeks and she needs to know where to get her shop on. To quote Phyllis Nefler from one of my all-time favorite movies, Troop Beverly Hills, &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;ve got a black belt in shopping!&amp;quot; You&amp;#x27;ve come to the right place, Summer my dear... Okay, so it&amp;#x27;s not so much a style problem...but I couldn&amp;#x27;t resist solving this one! I shared my favorite places to shop a few weeks ago, so a lot of those same stores will show up on this list. But I&amp;#x27;m going to break it down into the splurge-worthy spots, the not-usually-reasonable-but-what-the-hell-I&amp;#x27;m-on-vacation emporiums, and the cheap and chic stores you just can&amp;#x27;t miss. Here we go: $$$$$ Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys New York, Henri Bendel. These are all in the same-ish neighborhood (up near the beginning of Central Park and The Plaza hotel), and you should set aside at least a full afternoon to make your way through all three. Start on the top floors and wind your way down. Kirna Zabete. This is big-league fashion--we&amp;#x27;re talking Lanvin, Balmain, and Proenza Schouler. But there&amp;#x27;s also a great selection of quirky, affordable goods at the front of the store, and I&amp;#x27;ve almost never walked in there without asking what they&amp;#x27;ve got on the soundtrack. Even if you&amp;#x27;re not prepared to blow a lot of cash, it&amp;#x27;s worth a visit just to soak up the scene. While you&amp;#x27;re down in the Soho/Nolita area, you should also check out I Heart, Steven Alan, and of course, an endless stretch of high-end designer flagships (Marc Jacobs, Chanel, Michael Kors, Louis Vuitton). Pas de Deux: In my opinion, the best store for casual men&amp;#x27;s clothes in New York City is definitely Odin. I was majorly jealous of this fact until the shop&amp;#x27;s owners, Paul Birardi and Eddy Chai (his brother is designer Richard Chai) gave us gals the same treatment with the opening of the East Village&amp;#x27;s Pas de Deux. They carry 3.1 Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, and just about every other label that&amp;#x27;s on fire right now. Find out why i call it &amp;quot;my ultimate fantasy closet&amp;quot; here! Rare Vintage: It ain&amp;#x27;t cheap (at all), but the name definitely says it all. If you&amp;#x27;re serious about vintage and you love couture, call Rare and make an appointment to dig through their treasure troves of Herve Leger, Ossie Clark, Givenchy, Chanel, and more. $$$ Edith Machinist and Daha Vintage: You guys already got the backstory on my favorite pair of vintage shops a couple of weeks ago--these were once just one store, but now there&amp;#x27;s twice as much to love! I&amp;#x27;ve gotten the best vintage finds of my life here, including a YSL Rive Gauche top from the 60s (for under $100!) and some amazing riding boots that cost less than $50. While you&amp;#x27;re down on the Lower East Side, definitely pay a visit to TG 170 and Foley + Corinna. Duo: You&amp;#x27;ve got to do a little shopping day in the East Village (with a lunch stop at Dumpling Man!), and I suggest starting at Duo, where almost everything is under $100 and mostly made by local Brooklyn and NYC designers. You can scoop up more great vintage stuff at Cobblestones on East 9th Street (ask for Delanee and tell her I sent you!), and I haven&amp;#x27;t found a better place for supercute frilly undies than Azaleas. Bird: If you venture across the bridge to Brooklyn (and I highly recommend you do--how else will you get your mitts around a slice of pizza from DiFara&amp;#x27;s, AKA, the best thing you&amp;#x27;ll ever put in your mouth!?) then you must hit up Bird in Cobble Hill. We&amp;#x27;re talking A.P.C.,Loeffler Randall"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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