Suite Style

In an effort to combat the lack of physical interaction in online shopping, Lizzie Tisch and Kim Kassel created a fun and exciting retail experience that takes personal shopping to a new level. Suite 1521 is a members-only shopping space located on New York’s Upper East Side that provides access to private two-day trunk shows of a clothing line and accessories collection, often with the designers present. For an annual fee of $500 dollars, Suite 1521 lets members see collections in their entirety rather than pieces a department store sells. The salon’s relaxed atmosphere offers special opportunities for private consultations with the designer’s team and there’s even an incentive program providing members with an accumulating rewards program.

Both Tisch and Kassel are recognized as New York fashion icons, with Tisch serving as Chair of The Friends Group of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Kassel with stints in the fashion world such as VP of Public Relations at Calvin Klein. Curated in a less conformist aesthetic- think more fashion forward- the designers include Rodarte, Giles Deacon, Libertine, Maiyet, and Prabal Gurung with featured accessories designers such as Bochic, Edie Parker, Kara Ross and Nicholas Kirkwood. It’s all about establishing new designers who don’t have their own stores who cannot get the representation to show their full vision or wide distribution in the US. Rendering special customer service to all their fashionable clients in a posh setting, Suite 1521 makes shopping a whole lot more refined than clicking online. www.suite1521.com