Critical Shopping

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For this week's Critical Shopper, Jon Caramanica tackles Dover Street Market. One of the biggest draws: people watching. "There was the guy wearing a beige fur draped over his shoulders and what looked like Alexandre Plokhov studded Armageddon boots, his hair in a topknot; or the club kids with bowl cuts musing over mesh tops; or the mismatched couple—hot foreign girl, dumpy local guy—taking a picture on the outer-space staircase. Here was a place for all of them." [NYT]