J. Crew Group Inc. (New York) will open its first men’s-only store this summer, in the TriBeCa neighborhood of New York.
According to Daily News Record, the store will be in The Liquor Store, a landmark building on West Broadway at White Street. DNR said the store will be smaller and more intimate than the company’s other stores. It will carry “the best-of-the-best” of the retailer’s collection, including Collector’s Items, its upscale, limited-edition items. “It will also offer the company’s ‘list’ of items every man should own,” DNR reported.
Crew ceo Millard Drexler said the store is “a very short-term lease,” involving “very little investment and risk,” that will allow the company “to fool around and play with a men’s store. It’s going to be small.”
Drexler said the company is continuing to search for locations for “one or two” larger freestanding men’s stores, but no leases have been found.