H&M Setting Up Shop in Downtown BK
Somehow we missed this major retail news from Tuesday: H&M “has officially signed a 15-year lease at property owner Al Laboz’s 497 Fulton Street building on the Fulton Street Mall. The 29,600-square-foot store, between Hoyt and Bridge streets, will be H&M’s first street location Brooklyn,” reports the Observer. Due to construction, it won’t open until…
Somehow we missed this major retail news from Tuesday: H&M “has officially signed a 15-year lease at property owner Al Laboz’s 497 Fulton Street building on the Fulton Street Mall. The 29,600-square-foot store, between Hoyt and Bridge streets, will be H&M’s first street location Brooklyn,” reports the Observer. Due to construction, it won’t open until 2010.
I have a few things I still wear from H&M from 5 years ago.
It’s not my favorite store in the world, but if you need something inexpensive and current, it can be found there if you search.
I prefer finding vintage designer clothes at places like Beacon’s Closet (which usually cost about the same as stuff from H&M) but everyone has a different style. Lots of woman I know (a couple are runway models) have tons of H&M stuff.
People have different budgets, let’s accept that Biff.
No reason to knock H&M. Show me a place where I can make a 19/20 year old fashion-concious college student happy and give her a nice pile of clothes for under $200, and I’ll happily shop there.
Anyone knocking H&M is clearly not shopping for a family on a budget.
People have different tastes. Let’s accept that. If H&M works for some and they like what they find there, then more power to them.
DIBS, the white truffle comment was hilarious. And yes, slopefarm knocked it out of the ballpark with his comment in derwood’s Forum post. Quote of the Year. Period.
H&M clothes are great for what they are — cheap, fun, fashion-forward items. They are not meant as investment pieces and probably not to last more than one season (although I do have some items that have lasted years, since I bought them at H&M in Paris before they were even in NY), and for that they are perfect — why would I spend $200 (or more) on a dress that I’m only going to wear a few times when I can get a pretty good (and not bad quality) copy for 1/4 that price?
I think most of the complainers here are guys, and men’s fashion just isn’t their key market anyway. And if this is anything like the H&M on 125th St it will be paradise for size 10 and under, unlike the other Manhattan stores, which seem to sell out of anything between 6 – 12 in one day.
Back on topic…
“Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) — Hennes & Mauritz AB, Europe’s
second-largest clothing retailer, plans to open its first two Russian stores in Moscow in March as it seeks to capitalize on rising consumption in the country.”
Two in Russia next year, one in Brooklyn in 2010!!!!! I guess that Russian taste for fine clothes beats out Brooklyn’s.
DIBS = gay elitist with money, the worst kind!!!
Did you just get up BRG??
slopefarm’s going to win QOTD today in Asshat derwood’s Forum post.
is the fulton street mall an actual mall like the malls in jersey? ha. *missing my jersey malling days as a youth*
-rob
DIBS = elitist
BRG = racist homophobic
I thought H&M coming to Fulton St mall was old news; I even have a vague recolletion of reading about it on Brownstoner. Is Fulton St the same as “Albee Square Mall”, or are they one and the same? Clearly I am not up on the nomenclature, although I love shopping at Macy’s in Brooklyn which is nearby.