HATS BY SELIMA ATELIER
This new shop has Men's and Women's Hats and is in downtown NYC.

Selima Salaun is best known for making glasses, but now she and partner Virginie Promeyrat have launched a line of men’s and women’s headwear.

They also brought in milliner, Lopeti Etu and set up shop in a two-story basement called Bond 07 by Selima. The exposed-brick walls make for a hip happy fashion site.

The hats come in seven styles (five unisex, two for women) from classic fedoras to a one-of-a-kind couture top hat embellished with vintage chains and brooches. They have drawers filled with ribbons, feathers, tulle, jewelry, beads and buttons.

Summer hats are straw and horsehair and winter hats come in velour, felt or beaver fur. Classic cloches come in straw dyed in turquoise, rose and lavender, and hatbands are draped in fine braids of horsehair.

They also offer customized, made-to-order hats at no extra charge.

7 Bond St., basement near Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012 (917) 668-1317

JEREMY ARGYLE STORE IN SOHO NYC

Shirts from $128–$142 at Jeremy Argyle.

Jeremy Argyle opened a new store on Spring Street, offering men a paradise of preppy shirts. Designer Brian Jeremy Guttman hopes to cater to the fashionable male from work to play and beyond.

“Conveniently for Guttman, who launched the line this month on his site, the preppy, just-in-from-Nantucket look is huge for men this summer, with boat shoes and plaid on everyone's must-have list. These days, no one wants to dress the part of the slick banker, so casual basics and classic shirt options at affordable prices are the new thing to buy and wear.”

Jeremy Argyle, 160 Spring St., at West Broadway (212) 586-2240.

DEREK LAM OPENS A STORE ON CROSBY STREET IN NYC

New Derek Lam store

Fitting Room at Derek Lam store in NYC

The new 2,800 square foot Derek Lam store has white brick walls, high curved acrylic room dividers and a concrete floor, which, according to a New York Times reporter, “gives a shopper the slightly disorienting impression of being in a five-star dolphin tank.”

“Mr. Lam’s boutique is a veritable celestial ice tray of rigid purity and austere refinement. He seems to be positioning himself to inhabit the ultra-luxe space in fashion for which Valentino has been the go-to guy for decades: couturier to the tippy-top wealth.

“This recipe for femininity looks as if it is aimed toward a stereotypical Hong Kong billionaire’s wife. The clothes evoke a demure, under-control, decidedly non-rowdy (read: non-Western) type of woman who appreciates her role as an ornament of great value, and sits prettily and quietly in Gulfstream jets.

“Mr. Lam is known for delicate silk sheaths; mannequins were standing around in dusty sherbet versions of these, like headless polo spectators. A Band-Aid-colored dress ($2,390) that had one cap-sleeve, and one asymmetrical batwing from shoulder to hip.

“It is practically the Sistine Chapel of obsessive compulsive disorder,” said the reporter.

Derek Lam - 10-12 Crosby Street. (212) 966-1616.