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'''Charivari''' was a clothing store in [[New York City, New York|New York City]]. Its first store opened in 1967, it grew to have six stores and it finally closed in 1998. It is known for championing [[avant-garde]] fashion designers in the 1980. Its rise to prominence in fashion coincided with the [[gentrification]] of its neighborhood, [[Manhattan]]'s [[Upper West Side]].<ref name="VFair16">{{cite news|last1=Sischy|first1=Ingrid|title=The Rise and Fall of Charivari, the Cult Boutique of Fashion’s Cutting Edge|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-charivari-the-cult-boutique-of-fashion|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=4 August 2016}}</ref> |
'''Charivari''' was a clothing store in [[New York City, New York|New York City]]. Its first store opened in 1967, it grew to have six stores and it finally closed in 1998. It is known for championing [[avant-garde]] fashion designers in the 1980. Its rise to prominence in fashion coincided with the [[gentrification]] of its neighborhood, [[Manhattan]]'s [[Upper West Side]].<ref name="VFair16">{{cite news|last1=Sischy|first1=Ingrid|title=The Rise and Fall of Charivari, the Cult Boutique of Fashion’s Cutting Edge|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-charivari-the-cult-boutique-of-fashion|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=4 August 2016}}</ref> |
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==Background== |
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During the 1970s and 1980s the store grew from one to five locations (four were on the Upper West Side, there was a store on [[57th Street (Manhattan)|West 57]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Duka|first1=John|title=A Charivari in Midtown|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/17/style/a-charivari-in-midtown.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=17 June 1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Schiro|first1=Anne-Marie|title=Fashion; A Kickier, Bigger Charivari|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/07/style/fashion-a-kickier-bigger-charivari.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=7 October 1990}}</ref> and a sixth location on the [[Upper East Side]] was added in 1992<ref name="NYT09">{{cite news|last1=Weber|first1=Bruce|title=Selma Weiser, Boutique Innovator, Dies at 84|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/business/17weiser.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=16 June 2009}}</ref>). The [[Upper West Side]] locations were designed by Alan J. Buchsbaum.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Giovannini|first1=Joseph|title=Alan Buchsbaum, High Tech Architect, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/obituaries/alan-buchsbaum-high-tech-architect-dies.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=11 April 1987}}</ref> The store championed Japanese and European designers and is with significantly contributing to the revolution in fashion that took place in the 1980s.<ref name="VFair16" /> Some of the designers featured at Charivari included [[Azzedine Alaïa]], [[Giorgio Armani]], [[Ann Demeulemeester]], [[Dolce & Gabbana]], [[Perry Ellis]], [[Jean Paul Gaultier]], [[Katharine Hamnett]], [[Marc Jacobs]] (who, as a teenager, worked at Charivari<ref name="NYT09" />), [[Helmut Lang (fashion brand)|Helmut Lang]], [[Issey Miyake]], [[Thierry Mugler]], [[Dries van Noten]], [[Miuccia Prada]], [[Gianni Versace]], and [[Yohji Yamamoto]].<ref name="VFair16" /> Writing about the closing of the chain in [[The New Yorker]], Rebecca Mead noted: "If, during the nineteen-eighties, you wanted your clothes to indicate that you were a) in the know, fashionwise; b) a bit of an intellectual; and c) not afraid of wearing unfinished seams or jackets turned inside out, or other things that might, if not worn with sufficient élan, look like fashion disasters, then you shopped at Charivari."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mead|first1=Rebecca|title=Rag Trade|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/02/01/rag-trade-16|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[The New Yorker]]|date=1 February 1999|pages=24}}</ref> |
During the 1970s and 1980s the store grew from one to five locations (four were on the Upper West Side, there was a store on [[57th Street (Manhattan)|West 57]]<ref>{{cite news|last1=Duka|first1=John|title=A Charivari in Midtown|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/17/style/a-charivari-in-midtown.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=17 June 1984}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Schiro|first1=Anne-Marie|title=Fashion; A Kickier, Bigger Charivari|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/10/07/style/fashion-a-kickier-bigger-charivari.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=7 October 1990}}</ref> and a sixth location on the [[Upper East Side]] was added in 1992<ref name="NYT09">{{cite news|last1=Weber|first1=Bruce|title=Selma Weiser, Boutique Innovator, Dies at 84|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/business/17weiser.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=16 June 2009}}</ref>). The [[Upper West Side]] locations were designed by Alan J. Buchsbaum.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Giovannini|first1=Joseph|title=Alan Buchsbaum, High Tech Architect, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/obituaries/alan-buchsbaum-high-tech-architect-dies.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=11 April 1987}}</ref> The store championed Japanese and European designers and is with significantly contributing to the revolution in fashion that took place in the 1980s.<ref name="VFair16" /> Some of the designers featured at Charivari included [[Azzedine Alaïa]], [[Giorgio Armani]], [[Ann Demeulemeester]], [[Dolce & Gabbana]], [[Perry Ellis]], [[Jean Paul Gaultier]], [[Katharine Hamnett]], [[Marc Jacobs]] (who, as a teenager, worked at Charivari<ref name="NYT09" />), [[Helmut Lang (fashion brand)|Helmut Lang]], [[Issey Miyake]], [[Thierry Mugler]], [[Dries van Noten]], [[Miuccia Prada]], [[Gianni Versace]], and [[Yohji Yamamoto]].<ref name="VFair16" /> Writing about the closing of the chain in [[The New Yorker]], Rebecca Mead noted: "If, during the nineteen-eighties, you wanted your clothes to indicate that you were a) in the know, fashionwise; b) a bit of an intellectual; and c) not afraid of wearing unfinished seams or jackets turned inside out, or other things that might, if not worn with sufficient élan, look like fashion disasters, then you shopped at Charivari."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mead|first1=Rebecca|title=Rag Trade|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/02/01/rag-trade-16|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[The New Yorker]]|date=1 February 1999|pages=24}}</ref> |
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Jon Weiser who, with his mother Selma and sister Barbara Weiser founded and ran the stores, attributed the company's decline and eventual failure to poor financial planning, the recession in the 1990s and its own success: the availability of the avant-garde designers championed by Charivari in both the designers' own stores and at larger department stores made a store like Charivari unnecessary.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Foderar|first1=Lisa W.|title=Charivari: Boutique Blues on West 57th Street|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/06/nyregion/charivari-boutique-blues-on-west-57th-street.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=6 November 1997}}</ref> |
Jon Weiser who, with his mother Selma and sister Barbara Weiser founded and ran the stores, attributed the company's decline and eventual failure to poor financial planning, the recession in the 1990s and its own success: the availability of the avant-garde designers championed by Charivari in both the designers' own stores and at larger department stores made a store like Charivari unnecessary.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Foderar|first1=Lisa W.|title=Charivari: Boutique Blues on West 57th Street|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/06/nyregion/charivari-boutique-blues-on-west-57th-street.html|accessdate=3 March 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=6 November 1997}}</ref> |
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==Timeline== |
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In 1967, Upon the debut of Charivari, the Upper West Side received its first glimpse in high fashion. Charivari was a family business company founded by Selma Weiser and her daughter Barbara as well as her son Jon.<ref name=CharivariOpening>{{cite web | url = https://www.westsiderag.com/2017/07/16/charivari-a-fashionable-upper-west-side-story | title = Charivari: A fashionable upper west side story | accessdate = 7 April 2020 | date = 16 July 2017 | work = West Side Rag | author = Kahn, Anna}}</ref> |
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In 1976, With the relocation of the men's store across the street, Charivari's rising status as a cutting-edge pilgrimage was secured. Alan Buchsbaum, a minimalist architect became the designer of several Charivari's expansion. Also in 1976, Esquire magazine ran a feature about America's 8 top stores and Charivari was picked for New York.<ref name=Expansion>{{cite web | url = https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-charivari-the-cult-boutique-of-fashion | title = The Rise and Fall of Charivari, the Cult Boutique of Fashion’s Cutting Edge | accessdate = 7 April 2020 | date = 4 August 2016 | work = Vanity Fair | author = Sischy, Ingrid}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 10:23, 7 April 2020
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Clothes shop |
| Founded | April 1, 1967 in New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Founder | Selma Weiser[1] |
| Defunct | 1998 |
| Fate | Bankrupt |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Selma Weiser (Founder) Barbara Weiser Jon Weiser |
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Charivari was a clothing store in New York City. Its first store opened in 1967, it grew to have six stores and it finally closed in 1998. It is known for championing avant-garde fashion designers in the 1980. Its rise to prominence in fashion coincided with the gentrification of its neighborhood, Manhattan's Upper West Side.[2]
Background
During the 1970s and 1980s the store grew from one to five locations (four were on the Upper West Side, there was a store on West 57[3][4] and a sixth location on the Upper East Side was added in 1992[1]). The Upper West Side locations were designed by Alan J. Buchsbaum.[5] The store championed Japanese and European designers and is with significantly contributing to the revolution in fashion that took place in the 1980s.[2] Some of the designers featured at Charivari included Azzedine Alaïa, Giorgio Armani, Ann Demeulemeester, Dolce & Gabbana, Perry Ellis, Jean Paul Gaultier, Katharine Hamnett, Marc Jacobs (who, as a teenager, worked at Charivari[1]), Helmut Lang, Issey Miyake, Thierry Mugler, Dries van Noten, Miuccia Prada, Gianni Versace, and Yohji Yamamoto.[2] Writing about the closing of the chain in The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead noted: "If, during the nineteen-eighties, you wanted your clothes to indicate that you were a) in the know, fashionwise; b) a bit of an intellectual; and c) not afraid of wearing unfinished seams or jackets turned inside out, or other things that might, if not worn with sufficient élan, look like fashion disasters, then you shopped at Charivari."[6]
Jon Weiser who, with his mother Selma and sister Barbara Weiser founded and ran the stores, attributed the company's decline and eventual failure to poor financial planning, the recession in the 1990s and its own success: the availability of the avant-garde designers championed by Charivari in both the designers' own stores and at larger department stores made a store like Charivari unnecessary.[7]
Timeline
In 1967, Upon the debut of Charivari, the Upper West Side received its first glimpse in high fashion. Charivari was a family business company founded by Selma Weiser and her daughter Barbara as well as her son Jon.[8]
In 1976, With the relocation of the men's store across the street, Charivari's rising status as a cutting-edge pilgrimage was secured. Alan Buchsbaum, a minimalist architect became the designer of several Charivari's expansion. Also in 1976, Esquire magazine ran a feature about America's 8 top stores and Charivari was picked for New York.[9]
References
- ^ a b c Weber, Bruce (16 June 2009). "Selma Weiser, Boutique Innovator, Dies at 84". New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ a b c Sischy, Ingrid (4 August 2016). "The Rise and Fall of Charivari, the Cult Boutique of Fashion's Cutting Edge". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Duka, John (17 June 1984). "A Charivari in Midtown". New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Schiro, Anne-Marie (7 October 1990). "Fashion; A Kickier, Bigger Charivari". New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Giovannini, Joseph (11 April 1987). "Alan Buchsbaum, High Tech Architect, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Mead, Rebecca (1 February 1999). "Rag Trade". The New Yorker. p. 24. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Foderar, Lisa W. (6 November 1997). "Charivari: Boutique Blues on West 57th Street". New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- ^ Kahn, Anna (16 July 2017). "Charivari: A fashionable upper west side story". West Side Rag. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
- ^ Sischy, Ingrid (4 August 2016). "The Rise and Fall of Charivari, the Cult Boutique of Fashion's Cutting Edge". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 7 April 2020.