Shopping is so anesthetized these days. See it, click it, buy it has taken all the folie out of dressing ourselves. What if there were another way? It turns out there is, and the .001% has known about it all along. (Quiet luxury was a red herring.) It’s what we are calling niche riche, the clothes, accessories, and objets for people with actual personalities and actual taste. Or who just want to seem that way.
Chris Brock — Ojai-based ceramics artist.
Desert Vintage — Vintage clothing store that carries everything from Edwardian cotton shirts to Phoebe Philo–era Celine, with locations in Tucson, New York City, and Paris.
Dosa — Go to its LA showroom for the slip dresses and skirts, but stay for whatever Christina Kim has picked up on her travels to sell.
Galerie Estrada — Miami-based gallery inspired by Paris couture salons of the early 20th century that has a deep specialty in real-deal Fortuny gowns, but sells everything from Chinese hairpins to Babani silk robes.
Lucchese — The ultimate Western bootmaker based in El Paso, Texas, known for its custom boots.
Maison Bonnet — Need a pair of vintage sunglasses recreated? Just want to look like Sofia Coppola? This Paris-based custom glasses shop can do it all…for a price.
One/Of — Patricia Voto’s jewel box atelier on the Upper East Side is reason enough to visit, but her largely made-to-measure clothes and accessories, often created out of dead stock fabrics, are a way to let your most elegant freak flag fly.
Santa Fe Dry Goods — This Santa Fe institution and its sibling shops, Wild Life and Workshop, go heavy on the Japanese and Belgian sides of things, balancing craftsmanship and wearability with a little weirdness. Its array of jewelry is arranged by color.
Shiprock — A Santa Fe gallery that has all manner of delights, from tiny silver boxes to antique Navajo rugs.
Thank You Have a Good Day — Tribeca shop that makes the inharmonious—say, cream handmade leather trousers and a shirt made from 1930s silk—look made for each other.
Yaser Shaw — Once you can identify his tissue-thin shawls in shades of chartreuse and hot pink, you’ll see them on people of all ages with one thing in common: good taste. Well, two things: good taste and a love for the super soft.
