Critical Shopping

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Jon Caramanica is so into the whimsical men's selection at the new 3.1 Phillip Lim store that opened on Great Jones Street earlier this month. Inside the "huge, bright space with ceilings so high you barely notice them, with plenty of room to step back from the racks and ponder who you might yet become with just one or two sartorial tweaks," he contemplates a $1,200 oversized blanket jacketChrist the Redeemer statue that gazes out over Rio. Of course I tried it on." [NYT]