.Nordstrom has permanently closed its Jeffrey specialty stores and is saying goodbye to its designer fashion director.
Nordstrom Inc. has permanently closed its three Jeffrey specialty stores and is saying goodbye to Jeffrey Kalinsky, founder of the luxury stores and Nordstrom’s designer fashion director, WWD has learned.
Closing Jeffrey as well as the 16 full-line stores is a response to COVID-19 and “ensuring we have the right footprint to best serve customers,” Nordstrom said in a statement.The decision on Jeffrey raises questions of how well the stores performed and the state of the designer business at Nordstrom and elsewhere. Barneys New York was liquidated last February, and the Neiman Marcus Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on May 7.
The collaboration with Kalinsky, which was unusual in retailing and reflected an awareness by Nordstrom that the store needed a catalyst, someone with the type of skills and relationships with designers it lacked, if the company wanted to be a serious player in designer. Jeffrey was a high profile fashion emporium that made a splash in 1999 when Kalinsky opened the 12,000-square-foot Jeffrey store at 449 West 14th Street in New York’s Meatpacking District. At that time, it was a rather desolate section of the city.
“Sometimes I wish that retail and design were still based on substance,” Kalinsky said. “Today, there’s way too much smoke and mirrors. I get very stimulated by new — stimulated by the right new because just because something’s new doesn’t mean much.”
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