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Store Stories: Chez Renee

Our fashion community spreads across the US with brick-and-mortar stores from east to west. Each offers an intimate, personal touch as well as a unique shopping experience.  Today’s Story: Chez Renee 8181 CAMARGO ROAD,  CINCINNATI, OH 45243 Tell us a little about yourself. Chez Renee is a European women’s clothing boutique established in the fall of 2000 that specializes in catering towards the eclectic urban modern woman. Renee has a distinctive approach when it comes to picking out the most interesting and unique pieces for her store. Her broad sense of style and vast knowledge of the fashion industry is part of what makes Chez Renee’s customer service so special. Your favorite artist or designer and why Van Gogh is one of Renee’s favorite...

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Store Stories: Just Perfect Collection

TODAY’S STORY: JUST PERFECT COLLECTION with two physical stores in Maryland - Wear it Well 4816 Bethesda Rd Bethesda, MD 20814 and Sequel 10255 Old Georgetown Rd Bethesda, MD 20814 We take our mission seriously: Our Just Perfect wardrobe essentials, created by women with style, for women with style, assure you will be the best dressed woman in the room! Jackie Pletcher is no stranger to fashion retail, from joining her family at age 12 on buying trips to Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, to her buying career with Bloomingdale’s in NYC and Woodward & Lothrop in Washington, DC, to the creation of Just Perfect Collection with the purchase of Wear it Well & Sequel in 1998 & 2006 from women owners...

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Store Stories: Essential Elements

SHOP TALK WITH THE ALEMBIKA COMMUNITY Beyond ALEMBIKA.com, our fashion community spreads across the US with brick-and-mortar stores from east to west. Each offers an intimate, personal touch as well as a unique shopping experience. Now, on a bi-weekly basis, we will share “Shop Talk” to highlight businesses that are a part of the ALEMBIKA family. TODAY’S STORY: ESENTIAL ELEMENTS, CHICAGO 1. TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF: Hi, I’m Melanie, owner of Essential Elements-Chicago! As a young girl I was always excited when my mom received the Spiegel catalog in the mail, can you believe owner, Joseph Spiegel sent his first mail-order catalog in 1905! That was my early beginnings of falling in love with the world of fashion...

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STORE STORIES: Statement Boutique

SHOP TALK WITH THE ALEMBIKA COMMUNITY Our fashion community spreads across the US with brick-and-mortar stores from east to west. Each offers an intimate, personal touch as well as a unique shopping experience. Now, on a bi-weekly basis, we will share “Shop Talk” to highlight businesses that are a part of the ALEMBIKA family. TODAY’S STORY: STATEMENT BOUTIQUE, MANCHESTER, NH 1. Tell us a little about yourself: Founded in 2011 by mother-daughter team Andrea & Karen, Statement Boutique is located in Manchester, NH, specializing in easy chic travel wear and unique art-to-wear styles. With personalized customer service and a clothing selection in sizes XS-2X, we also offer hand-crafted jewelry and accessories to complete your looks. Your favorite artist or designer...

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STORE STORIES: BOUTIQUE W - LOCATED IN PA & DE

Shop Talk with the ALEMBIKA Community Beyond ALEMBIKA.com, our fashion community spreads across the US with brick-and-mortar stores from east to west. Each offers an intimate, personal touch as well as a unique shopping experience. Now, on a bi-weekly basis, we will share “Shop Talk” to highlight businesses that are a part of the ALEMBIKA family. Today’s Story: Boutique W 5001 West Chester Pike, Newtown Square, Pa 19073 168 Rehoboth Ave Rehoboth Beach, De 19971 Tell us a little about yourself. My earliest memory of fashion is when I was a little girl staying at my grandparents home at the Jersey shore....I was about 8! My grandmother was a milliner in NYC and had closets of handmade hats and beaded...

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