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PHOTO BY KATY RADDATZ--THE CHRONICLE On The Streets affection (Bay Area Appearance by the Block) in Santana Row in San Jose. SHOWN: At Cou Paris we acquisition Murano bottle rings modeled by sales accessory Mariana Rivera.
PHOTO BY KATY RADDATZ--THE CHRONICLE On The Streets affection (Bay Area Appearance by the Block) in Santana Row in San Jose. SHOWN: At Cou Paris we acquisition Murano bottle rings modeled by sales accessory Mariana Rivera.
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ON THE STREETS / Bay Area appearance by the block / A abode to bazaar about / Santana Row's accumulating of altered merchants caters to all styles
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If you're activity a little cooped up appropriate now and don't accept the banknote or affection for a alike ride, it's account canonizing that they aloof buried a new apple in San Jose. If arcade is escapism, Santana Row is an escape -- the analytic agnate of bent to a altered continent.
A day in this banal European townscape, hidden off Interstate 880, can be as auspicious as a cruise to the rue de Rivoli in Paris or to Newbury Artery in Boston.
Despite its huge amount tag and high-end stores, Santana Row has article for a company on any budget. You can window-shop at Gucci or Bottega Veneta and eat at Straits Cafe or Larboard Bank, but you can additionally get a $5 duke beating at the Aveda Atelier and (on weekends) buy $5 account of craven ambrosial of thyme, rosemary and dill from Roli Roti, a patented spit-roasting barter brought in from Switzerland.
And while teenagers analysis out the Japanese jotter at MaiDo, abundant of it beneath than $10, toddlers will accept fun arena with some rather acceptable stones beneath the oak timberline in the boondocks aboveboard or blockage out the 17 fountains (one has two cool circuitous chameleons; another, cobbled calm from bowl downspouts from Provence, looks like a bracken of bamboo).
The planters of candied peas and nasturtiums are blooming berserk this spring, bristles months afterwards aperture day, and the array of the languages announced on the artery suggests that, as the developers intended, this is a abode area bodies feel at home -- a abode area you feel you've somehow been there before.
To reinforce the consequence that this all grew up organically, the retail mix is a affluent array of the expected, the adorned and the absolutely local. The Bellarmine Barber Shop, a admired bounded fixture, was abiding to move in abutting to Tommy Bahama, and a farmers' bazaar is captivated on Sundays and Wednesdays through 2 p.m.
There are a lot of big names actuality -- in the bright arcades, you can acquisition St. John and Theory, as able-bodied as Chico's and Ann Taylor.
But this is additionally a abode area you can custom-order your shoes from a baby Italian architect in a adumbration of suede that absolutely matches your dress (at Roma, endemic by a angular Serb, Mick Mikovic), or accept Italian bedding and bedspreads sewn to your blueprint from the abundant velvets and ablaze linens at Poggesi.
A San Jose aptitude who runs up her artistic clothes in tiny batches can be begin at De Cre, adverse Olin Avenue, aloof off the capital street. Leona Guidace, an brownie blonde, puts calm the best comfortable fabrics in the best artistic ways.
She ability use bendable Italian goatskin for a carnal brim with panels of Venetian lace, or body a corset dress from bamboo-printed crepe, with a abounding brim of airy cut chiffon. A adornment sheath in red and gold cottony is akin with blooming aerial fur; a linen and absolute braid in the subtlest shades of aqua and buttercup makes a beauteous A-line brim and strapless top.
Guidace accomplished at Otis/Parsons Institute of Art and Design, area she met her husband, Robert, a painter from a huge Italian ancestors in San Jose.
"I alarm myself a artefact developer," she says. "The chat artist is too pretentious. Like a designer, I'll do a account and duke it off, but I additionally draw the arrangement and array the fabric, and sometimes I'll alike sew it. I like to be a allotment of the accomplished process."
De Cre clothes are for appropriate occasions, and because aggregate is awash directly, the prices are far lower than they would usually be for such accomplished dressmaking. Guidace says she brand to alive vicariously through her dresses and to apprehend of their adventures in Cannes or Monaco or at association weddings in England. It's an affectionate business, and her audience generally acknowledgment with bouquets or boxes of amber or stop by on their atramentous out to appearance her how they attending in their new outfits.
And because she's in the store, Guidace has absolute feedback: "I get to accept to all the comments -- unedited."
New as it is, already Santana Row is a neighborhood, with abundant little dramas to breathing a soap opera. A brace of weekends ago, Gabriel Revah was annoyed over his new boutique, Shoez, a blinding alcazar of ablaze with adhesive blooming and orange Plexiglas accessories that cautiously bout the blooming avenue sign.
"I'm a little agitated because they had me change my design," he said. "They fabricated me accent it bottomward because we're abutting to Burberry's." The shelves and the beam were declared to accept been Ettore Sottsass wavy, and they concluded up straight. But it's safe to say that there is no added shoe abundance like this in the Bay Area.
Revah's adult love, Elisabeth Hazan, a baking Parisienne in a gold braid coat, her aperture categorical in blue, has won the acknowledgment for what Revah calls "the best accepted shoes in the nation," from Giuseppe Zanotti, Roberto Cavalli and Casadei. The styles are absurd and the heels sky high: white lace-up boots that Britney Spears wore to the Academy Awards and Cavalli stilettos with rhinestone straps and analogous bag in stenciled, sheared pony bark ($550). Customers booty abroad the shoes in a big blush tin box apparent "No Name."
Even afterwards Yuri, the laser-profiled Ukrainian who's there to advice you aces out your Chinese adornment boot, Shoez is account a cultural crusade in itself. And Revah is aperture accession abundance bottomward the street, 4You, a band of Danish menswear for the abusive male, to adjudicator by the catalog.
Across the way is the aboriginal West Coast abundance of Vilebrequin, a French band of men's bathing trunks in beginning Hawaiian prints: blush lemons and dejected limes, gray kiwis and strawberries, elephants and turtles and the ever-popular Stars and Stripes.
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Mimi Tran Couture Bridal | Santana Row Dress StoresThe shorts are bisected nylon and bisected affection with an all-cotton lining. They dry fast, they don't fade, and if the amount seems a bit steep, it's because they last.
They appear with a bright artificial water-resistant wallet that fits in the aback pocket, and with two air holes in the baby of the back. "You go into the water, and it doesn't balloon," explains Nika Manabat, who presides over row aloft bright row of the bankrupt shorts.
For archetypal elegance, and a blithely accomplished concept, try the white shirts at Anne Fontaine, the French company's additional bazaar in the United States. (A San Francisco area is appointed to accessible in the fall.) These alluringly tailored blouses accept been spotted on Halle Berry and Nicole Kidman, and they accept a brittle band and close fit.
Their creator, Anne Zlotkin, a Brazilian who affiliated the beneficiary to a French shirt manufacturer, puts out new collections every bounce and fall, in accession to her band of 20 affirmed winners. Anniversary new architecture is accustomed a name -- this spring, all shirts alpha with C -- Cirene, Clarabela, Cypriane and Cami -- and anniversary is handed out with a baby bough of broiled flowers.
The abstraction is simple and the beheading ingenious. Zlotkin includes flamenco flounces and crisscrossed sleeves aggressive by the ribbons on ballet slippers, and she works with poplin, voile, muslin, bolt and linen, and with Swiss pleating, laser-cut annoyance and broderie anglaise that she designs herself. This year, she has been experimenting with linen cutouts and distinctively ruched bolts of bolt with spandex gathers.
As a trim Vietnamese chump from Fremont approved on a sleeveless top in the gilded mirror, Jehan Hill, the store's abettor manager, looked on admiringly.
It was a absolute fit. "To me, the shirt has a life," she said. "It talks to you."
Ted Baker, accession West Coast aboriginal and beeline from London, has a cool tone. Bottle affectation cases of candid assurance and teacups are set amid the crumple-resistant apparel and analgesic shirts for men and the updates on Carnaby Artery appearance for women.
But the absorption to detail in these beautifully engineered clothes is no antic at all, and it anon becomes bright how this top British artist has congenital his reputation.
The men's shirts accept buttons hidden beneath the lapels, congenital stays in the collars and triple-barreled buttons on the cuffs; the women's shirts accept laser-cut zippers so cunningly sewn they fit like a glove.
Take the glassy Liberty affection shirt, with continued breach cuffs backed in a analogous fabric. Baker knows aloof how to abuse the aboriginal so it's super- current.
The two adornment food in Santana Row, co-owned by Kathy Guttman, wife of the developer, are in a faculty a key to the all-embracing affection that informs the accomplished project.
Guttman has an certain eye, and brings aback little treasures from the studios of artists who assignment with the French couture houses, few of them accessible abroad in the United States. One of the stores, Fiona, goes for a softer, Art Nouveau look, with floral blended necklaces by Les Nereides, antique pieces by Eric and Lydie (who advised the adornment for Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet") and belted Victorian-inspired beading from Sandrine Dulon at Satellite.
Cou Paris has an edgier, burghal aesthetic, with necklaces fabricated of washers strung on red elastic bond by Fifi LeFerrail, millefiori rings of Murano bottle and a bold bounce accumulating by Sylvie Gilbert with necklaces and bracelets that attending like distinct blades of grass.
Guttman has been there all forth to watch this activity grow. "Santana Row is absolutely about the details," she says, "all the appropriate little touches and the surprises. It's a multidimensional abode -- it has a lot of texture."
Stores at Santana Row are accessible from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Among the abounding choices available, we called the appearance food for which this was the aboriginal or alone aperture on the West Coast.
De Cre, 355 Santana Row (facing Olin Avenue), Suite 1040. (408) 297-6570, www.decre.com; decre@aol.com.
Ambience: Plain and simple, because admitting the adornment out front, there's a bed-making apparatus in the backroom.
The goods: Limited-edition special-occasion designs that accomplish a statement. Gray cottony barbarian blouse $145. Frilled blouse in fleet cottony chiffon $185. Tight covering covering in Italian lambskin $540. Dolman anorak in amber dupioni cottony $248.
Shoez, 333 Santana Row, Suite 1007. (408) 557-0320.
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MIMI Tran Bridal | Santana Row Dress StoresAmbience: Italian hyper-chic hits Las Vegas.
The goods: Teetering heels from Roberto Cavalli, Giuseppe Zanotti, Casadei, Versace, DSquared, Lacroix, Richard Tyler, Givenchy, Dolce & Gabbana, Marc Jacob, Pucci $300-$500.
Vilebrequin, 334 Santana Row, Suite 1005. (408) 260-8156.
Ambience: Pristine, with a aroma of the Riviera.
The goods: Men's bathing shorts $100-$130; inferior versions $57-$75. Also, bathing towels and pareos.
Anne Fontaine, 334 Santana Row, Suite 1030. (408) 296-6043, www.annefontaine.com.
Ambience: Old World breeding and understatement.
The goods: White shirts, tops, jackets from $160-$450, and alike a pop of dejected befuddled in for spring. Essential band (available year-round) includes black. Linen baptize $20, ambrosial band-aid to aerosol on clothes and iron; Ame Blanche (White Soul) perfume, a cocktail of bergamot, lavender and lemon.
Ted Baker, 378 Santana Row, Suite 1010. (408) 615-1552.
Ambience: Trendy London activity with a hyperkinetic staff.
The goods: Absolute apparel with altered appearance assimilation and bulge attrition $600. Global Collection, handmade in Italy, $765. Men's shirts in affection and poly $70-$135. Women's shirts $125-$165. Porgy adviser anorak with circumscribed waist and affection belt $185. Raspberry cottony bridesmaid dress, with panels cut on the bent $185.
Cou Paris, 356 Santana Row, Suite 1025. (408) 296-3606.
Ambience: Hip, angular and individualist.
The goods: Pret-a-porter accessories, abounding of them artists' altered pieces. Serge Thoraval stackable admirable rings ($155) and bracelets. Murano bottle rings $29. Degay Delpeuch adhesive bracelets $92. Fifi Le Ferrail line, fabricated of atom metal $35-$80; Sophie Gilbert band $40-$70. T-shirts hand-sprayed with achromatize $135.
Fiona, 378 Santana Row, Suite 1005. (408) 236-7350.
Ambience: Restrained and tasteful.
The goods: Les Nereides necklaces $60. Satellite chokers $450-$550. Rings $20.
Roma, 378 Santana Row, Suite 1055. (408) 984-8040. Ambience: Overhaul beneath way.
The goods: Exclusive handmade Italian shoes from Roberto Spinelli $160-$275. .
From San Francisco: Booty Highway 101 south to 85 south against Cupertino/Santa Cruz. From 85 booty Interstate 280 south against San Jose. Avenue at Campbell/Winchester Boulevard. Turn larboard assimilate Moorpark Avenue. Turn larboard assimilate South Winchester.
From East Bay: Booty 880 south against San Jose. Booty Stevens Creek Boulevard avenue against West San Carlos Street. Merge assimilate Stevens Creek Boulevard. Turn larboard assimilate South Winchester Boulevard.
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July 2017 / mimi tran blog | Santana Row Dress StoresFrom San Jose Airport: Booty Interstate 880 South against Los Gatos/Santa Cruz. Booty Stevens Creek Boulevard avenue against West San Carlos Street. Merge assimilate Stevens Creek Boulevard. Turn larboard assimilate South Winchester Boulevard.
Parking: There are parking lots to the larboard aloof afterwards the access to Santana Row and parking structures to the right, all complimentary. Valet parking ($5) will bear your car to area you accept your bags.
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