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* Walker's nine brick-and-mortar stores are among the highest-performing multibrand fashion boutiques in the U.S.
Los Angeles retailer Elyse Walker has opened the doors to her New York flagship on Madison Avenue at 74th Street.
The 4,000-square-foot store follows the smaller space she opened in November in TriBeCa, on North Moore Street.
Stocking her edit of designer and advanced contemporary pieces from Carolina Herrera, Jason Wu, Nili Lotan, Saint Laurent, Celine, Altuzarra, Bottega Veneta, Gabriela Hearst, Eterne, Sablyn and more, Walker's nine brick-and-mortar stores are among the highest-performing multibrand fashion boutiques in the U.S., with close to $8,000 in sales per square foot in her Pacific Palisades, Newport Beach and Napa Valley locations (not counting stock room space).
Expanding east has been a homecoming for the native New Yorker, who was raised in retail in Scarsdale, New York. She started her career opening her own outpost of her family's Capretto Shoes on Madison Avenue before moving west to build a fleet of multibrand luxury boutiques in California.
"I still have clients from my mom's shoe store....I used to help Sylvia Yasgur, and her in-laws owned Yasgur's Farm," she said of the Bethel, New York, dairy farm that hosted Woodstock in 1969. "Sylvia still shops with me. We've always had a following in New York because of my...