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If you're in New York this weekend, this is one you wont want to miss! Seven, Oak and BBlessing will be holding a massive sample sale this Saturday and Sunday from 12-8pm. The sale will be held at Nouveau PR at 150 Spring Street on the 3rd Floor. 70-90% everything. Cash only.

One of the Greenpoint waterfront's newest additions is Le Grenier, a boutique focused on industrial-aged gems. The boutique is your classic Brooklyn antique store with a bit of morbid side. Imagine something a single sailor might own in a ghost story from the turn of the century. Don't get us wrong, creepy is not a bad thing. In fact, for a shop owner to be true to this senablity is a rarity. Having a clear vision and fulfilling it takes strength--something that Le Gernier extrudes.

Address:
19 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn NY 11222
United States
Neighborhood: Greenpoint
Metro Area: New York

Website: http://www.legrenierny.com

Click here for our complete profile of Le Grenier .

Dress from Kris Van Assche.

Top from Oak. Dress (worn as skirt) from Alexander Wang.

Top from Yasuko Kurisaka.

Shot for Jargol by Lyndsy Welgos. Styling by Santiago Castillo. Makeup by Jill Ocasio. Models from Wilhelmina. All clothing available at Oak.

Starting with a trunk show last Thursday and culminating with a raucous party at the Tribeca Grand on Saturday, New York's Seven has been celebrating Britain's shoe design wunderkind Nicholas Kirkwood. Accordingly, Seven has 6 extra styles of Kirkwood's unflinching designs available until September 20th.

For some time, the rack or two of menswear inside Project No. 8 has been a source of some of the most considered yet creative men's clothing in New York. From these relatively humble beginnings came No. 8b, the Project No. 8 team's ambitious standalone men's boutique. The designers represented at shop share an almost obsessive attention to materials and craftsmanship. But creativity is also of import as each finds a way to subtly subvert stodgy menswear norms. Also in store are what could be considered projects No. 8c and No. 8d--namely a line well-made basics developed by the store under the label Various Projects and a collaboration with furniture manufacturer e15 to represent a rotating selection of the company's line.

Recently, Jargol got a sneak peak at New York based designer Telfar's upcoming Spring/Summer 2010 collection at EVA. Telfar's new collection held the top spot in the stores design window and was suspended from a group of androgynous white mannequins. The collection is light on fabric and heavy on geometry and layering. It is devoid of anything heavy like, zippers, buttons, or clasps. His white on white pieces were the strongest, if only for the fact that hung individually you get a real sense Telfar's signature geometry. You can find Telfar's work in New York at Oak, EVA, Pixie Market, Valley and Anything.

It was over 4 years ago that we walked into Los Angeles' Scout and were taken with the thoughtful collection of clothing from an international roster of budding fashion talents complemented by expertly curated vintage pieces. A lot has changed in four years. Scout moved to a new location in Hollywood. Jargol moved to New York. And Greg Armas, one of the original owners of Scout moved to New York himself and opened Assembly in mid-2008.

For his new retail effort, Armas has evolved the Scout retail concept. While still having an eye for up and coming fashion talents, Assembly honors the past as much as the future. This is reflected in the ambiance, in the prominently display selection of vintage clothing, accessories and objects, but also in the curation of new clothing and accessories. Surrounded by vintage and antique items that are desirable and relevant decades later, with Assembly there seems to be a predilection towards design and production that will stand the test of time. Shoes in beautiful, heavyweight leathers and canvases are preferred over trendy colorful sneakers. Shirts and dresses with careful construction and subdued colors prevail over more unorthodox treatments. Seasonal trends are mostly ignored.

Raquel Allegra tie dye top

Damir Doma sunglasses

Rachel Comey jazz shoe

A Detacher long sock

Veronique Branquinho button-up

Vintage 1940s brass piggy bank

Maryam Nassir Zadeh is a gallery like boutique just on the outskirts of the guided-tour heavy Lower East Side. It's the kind of space you have to live in New York to know about, or perhaps get lucky and pass by on happenstance.

The store blurs the line between a boutique and a gallery. For instance, the cover of their website presents a gorgeous glass sculpture by Philip Low. Clothing for men and women hang adjacent to modernist sculpture, while tables of sculptural jewelry sit alongside vintage accessories and ephemera.

The artistry of the boutique reminds us of De Vera in Soho which similar to Maryam Nassir Zadeh sells a variety of one-of-a-kind curiosities. But what makes Maryam Nassir Zadeh unlike anything we have seen in New York is that they are able to bring this kind of high-end curatorial eye to the space but make it contemporary at the same time. These are not priceless Italian baroque church relics--the items sold in Maryam Nassir Zadeh are very present, very relevant, and very in-touch if not a year or two ahead of their time. You can feel Zadeh's direct connection to store with her textiles that fill the space with warmth and dismiss the conservative ultra modernist appeal of bigger stores like Jil Sander. This is not your grandmother's modernist boutique.

• Creatures of Comfort in Los Angeles is having a blowout sale this weekend with up to 90% off previous seasons' merchandise. The sale will take place from 10am-6pm at 730 N. Edinburgh, just a few doors behind the store.
• Celebrating the removal of the scaffolding that has been in front of its store for too long, BBlessing in New York is offering 30% off all Spring collections through this Sunday.
• Don't miss a 3-way sample sale happening this weekend involving Grey Ant, Alex & Chloe, Costume Dept. at New High Mart (741 New High Street) in Los Angeles. The store itself will be offering 10-50% their spring merchandise at the same time.

The 21st edition of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is "Birthday." To find out what this actually means you'll have to go to the opening at Kiosk where the collection will be featured for one week. This "mini" edition of Kiosk will be running from the opening party at 7pm on February 13th through the 20th.

If you're in Brooklyn tonight, may we recommend a show at Glasslands featuring friend of Jargol Nathan Antolik. More info here. We'll see you there.

• Jumelle in Brooklyn is having a spring cleaning sale today through Monday with 60-75% off past seasons' goods. In store only.
• I Heart in New York is having a Valentine's Day sale today with 70% off fall clothing and accessories.

Brooklyn's Thistle & Clover is hosting a Valentines Day sale today through next Saturday. Enjoy rebates of 20-50% off while indulging in a chocolate or two.

• I Heart in New York is having a 2 day sample sale from on January 28-29 from 12-8pm. The main attraction will be samples from Australia's graphic design prodigy's Perks and Mini. There will also be pieces from Samantha Pleet and Wowch.
• Lyell in New York is a having a cash only sample sale on January 24-25 from 12-7pm. All remaining Fall 2008 pieces will be on sale, plus select pieces from the Holiday 2008 collection.
• Harputs Market in San Francisco has 50-60% fall merchandise, including their burgeoning in-house collection.
• To celebrate Chinese New Year, San Francisco's Rare Device is taking an additional 15% off all items in store, many of which has already been discounted. Custom orders and art are excluded from the sale. Online shoppers can use code YEAROFTHEOX to get the discount.
• Nana in DC has 50% off everything in store except denim.
• Scout in Los Angeles is moving! Visit through this weekend for 60-90% off all men's and women's clothing and accessories. The shop will reopen in March in Hollywood.

A good bit before Ikea wandered its way there, Erie Basin had already found a loyal following in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The one-of-a-kind shop scours the country near and far to find chic, moody, and yes a bit eerie examples of jewelry and objects from the 18th and early 19th centuries. More recently they've been adding modern collections that have the same Gothic feel as their antique finds.

We've been admiring the store from afar for well over a year, ogling their impeccably curated online shop. We finally had a chance to visit the shop for ourselves to add it to the New York shopping guide.

Ogle the online shop yourselves but, if you do get the opportunity, we encourage you to get out to Red Hook and see the real thing.