Speaking as someone who likes a bit of boy-ness in my wardrobe, I’m always pleased when menswear favorites go femme. Think the boyfriend jacket, the boyfriend jean, and now the boyfriend shoe. The Generic Man’s Brandon Day and Kevin Carney kept hearing that the ladies loved the kicks they made for dudes, so they decided [...]

Weather? Frightful. Economy? Still in death spiral. Fashion week? Quickly looming. There are plenty of reasons, in other words, not to go shopping. But there will soon be one solid counterargument to remove the Visa, MasterCard, or AmEx from its lockbox and hop the L train to Brooklyn: On Monday, the new Bird boutique opens [...]

From now until New Year’s, beloved Brooklyn retailer Bird will give holiday shoppers a preview of its third store, soon to open in Williamsburg. The Grand Street space will be the borough’s first silver-rated LEED-certified commercial renovation. In layman’s terms: Bird proprietor Jennifer Mankins has gone green, and much of the merch at the pop-up [...]