Shop Talk: Essence of Tibet; Paco Collars; Empress Vintage - Berkeleyside |
- Shop Talk: Essence of Tibet; Paco Collars; Empress Vintage - Berkeleyside
- Community rallies to help retailer recover - Newsday
- Levi’s Vintage Clothing is Dropping a Limited Edition Cone Mills White Oak Farewell Collection - HYPEBEAST
| Shop Talk: Essence of Tibet; Paco Collars; Empress Vintage - Berkeleyside Posted: 21 Jun 2019 11:00 AM PDT  ESSENCE OF TIBET — The Tibetan gift shop on College Avenue is downsizing. Dolma, the current owner, and her ex-husband opened the business 18 years ago. In 2012, they took over the adjacent space that was formerly Sweet Dreams Party Store and operated out of two spaces. Citing increasing rent each year, Essence of Tibet is downsizing its inventory through a sale and consolidating into one space at 2903 College Avenue. Dolma hopes to make the final transition in July. Essence of Tibet, 2903 College Ave. (at Russell), Berkeley, 94705. Tel: 510-665-5889. Open Mon. – Sat., 10 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. and Sun., 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Connect on Facebook.  PACO COLLARS — After 10 years on Shattuck Avenue, the dog collar store is moving to West Berkeley. Co-owners Ana Poe and Leslie Sullivan will close their doors at 2905 Shattuck Ave. (at Russell) on July 6. The new location in West Berkeley at 2245 Fifth St. will open on July 16. The business makes and sells hand-crafted leather dog collars and was created in 2002 when Poe couldn't find a collar that was both strong enough and attractive for her pit bull Paco. Working initially in alternative spaces in basements and warehouses, the business moved into its current space on Shattuck in 2009. The five-person team said they are proud to be a local small business, centered and grown in Berkeley, with a global customer base. "We are also a queer, women of color owned business," Laur Freymiller, head of retail sales, said. Paco Collars will have a moving party in early August. The business will be shifting to an appointment-only model. Paco Collars, 2245 Fifth St. (at Bancroft), Berkeley 94710. Tel: 510-848-7226. Connect on Facebook.  EMPRESS VINTAGE — The vintage clothing boutique in the Lorin district of Berkeley is at risk of displacement. Janina Angel Bath, the owner of the shop, has been in business at this location for five and a half years and has had a storefront in the neighborhood for eight years. Bath, who is on a month-to-month lease, said her landlord, Jennifer Chen – a small business owner in San Francisco – wants her to leave but is not providing a reason. "I have paid insurance for the business for 2019 and have full stock of fall, winter and holiday items in the store now. To be forced to leave with no explanation as to why would be a disaster for the business" Bath said. Chen did not return Berkeleyside's request for comment. Empress Vintage is in a duplex space, shared with tech startup non-profit, Replate, which moved next door in September. Replate, which pioneered an app to facilitate the transfer of unused food from corporate events to nonprofits helping the hungry and needy, has hired a contractor to renovate its side of the shared garden. Replate is not interested in taking over Bath's space, the company told Berkeleyside. "We moved from a WeWork to the Lorin District to be closer to the community because as a non-profit that is core to our values," said Maen Mahfoud, the CEO of Replate. Empress Vintage specializes in all-gender vintage clothing and products for health and spirituality. The store hosts classes, workshops, trunk shows and performances. Connect on Facebook and Instagram. Empress Vintage, 1757 Alcatraz Ave. (near Adeline), Berkeley 94703. Tel: 510-542 – 6196. Open Tues., 2 – 7 p.m., Wed., 2 – 6 p.m., Thurs., Fri., Sun and Mon., Noon – 6 p.m., Sat., 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Shop Talk is Berkeleyside's regular Berkeley local business column. If you're a Berkeley business with news or a Berkeleyside reader who has spotted a change in your neighborhood or on your travels, shoot us an email with the details at editors@berkeleyside.com. Read previous Shop Talk columns. And catch up with all food- and drink-related business news with our Nosh coverage.  |
| Community rallies to help retailer recover - Newsday Posted: 21 Jun 2019 04:00 PM PDT The co-owner of Paper Doll Vintage Boutique says the business lost thousands of dollars in "a predatory business scam." Friday night the community chipped in to help the retailer recover. Paper Doll, which has two women's vintage clothing stores, in Sayville and Patchogue, was forced to close its Huntington store in October because of the losses, said Dominique Maciejka, who co-owns the business with her boyfriend, Joseph Laspina. The Greater Sayville Chamber of Commerce and local businesses lent their support to a fundraiser for the business Friday night to help it keep the remaining shops open. The Paper Doll Vintage Fashion Show Benefit Gala was held at the Sayville VFW Post 433. "It has been so touching. . . . It really makes me feel like the town wants us there and that what we do is unique enough and matters. It's not just a retail store. It's a whole community," said Maciejka, 35. With tickets at $40 each, the event included food donated by local restaurants, as well as live music, a photo booth, tarot card readings and other offerings. "We're trying to make lemonade out of lemons here," she said. Due to a settlement reached in January, Maciejka is barred from discussing the specifics of her court case. According to documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan in November, Maciejka laid the blame for her business' woes at the foot of Quicksilver Capital in Valley Stream, which gave her a merchant cash advance, or MCA. An MCA is a type of funding for small businesses in which lenders grant up-front cash as an advance on a borrower's future sales. Quicksilver did not respond to a request for comment. Christopher R. Murray of Stein Adler Dabah Zelkowitz in Tarrytown, the attorney listed in court documents as representing Quicksilver, hung up on a reporter and did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. With an MCA, the business pays back the balance plus a premium "through automatic deductions from the merchant's daily credit card or debit card sales or from its bank account," according to the National Consumer Law Center, a nonprofit based in Boston. "Like payday lenders, providers of merchant cash advances may claim that their loans are short-term -- and that [annual percentage rates] are irrelevant -- when in fact the business model is based on a long-term debt trap," the center says. MCA lenders are increasingly at the center of controversy because, according to critics, they treat MCAs like repayable loans with daily payments, which make them unlawful because they exceed the interest rates allowed by state law. In New York the interest rate limit on business loans is 25 percent. In a December letter requesting Maciejka's legal action against Quicksilver be dropped, Murray wrote that "it is settled law in New York that purchase and sale of future accounts receivable transactions are not usurious loans," or loans charging unreasonably high interest rates. MCA contracts often include clauses called "confessions of judgment," in which borrowers sign away their right to resolve disputes in court. "They can enter judgment against you without any notice and seize your bank accounts without you even knowing. You wake up in the morning and all your money is gone," said attorney Shane R. Heskin, a partner with Philadelphia law firm White and Williams LLP. The New York Assembly and Senate passed bills this week banning the use of confessions of judgment for out-of-state borrowers. The Federal Trade Commission launched an investigation into the merchant cash advance industry in May. Known for litigating MCA cases, Heskin represented Maciejka's business, Forget Me Not Fashions LLC doing business as Paper Doll Vintage Boutique, and another plaintiff in a class-action suit filed in November against Quicksilver Capital and affiliated businesses over MCA practices. Maciejka alleged that Quicksilver deducted $304 daily from Forget Me Not Fashions' checking account for several months as repayment for $45,000 borrowed in July, according to the court filing. The daily deductions allegedly sometimes exceeded the contract's stipulated deduction limit of 19 percent of daily sales, according to the court complaint. Quicksilver refused to refund the money or adjust the daily payment, according to the complaint. Quicksilver's actions resulted in Maciejka and Laspina's closing the Huntington store, as they were unable to pay rent, buy merchandise or make payroll, according to the court filing.  Tory N. Parrish covers retail and small business for Newsday. She has worked at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Observer-Dispatch in Utica, N.Y.  |
| Posted: 11 Jun 2019 12:00 AM PDT  At the turn of 2018, one of the US's last and oldest selvedge denim makers closed its doors, ending the longest-standing partnership in American selvedge denim history. Cone Mills White Oak shut down on December 31, 2017, marking the end of its 112-year operation and its century-long partnership with Levi's. To commemorate this legendary denim mill, Levi's Vintage Clothing has created two unique commemorative pieces, consisting of a 1955 Levi's 501 jean and a 1953 Type II trucker jacket. Both garments are made from six different Shrink-to-Fit fabrics that span across the 100-year-long shared history between the two companies. This collection will be the first and last time these six different fabrics — recreated by Cone Mills White Oak — join together in one garment. As limited edition items, both the jeans and the trucker jacket will come encased in a commemorative box constructed of Carolinian White Oak wood. "It's a way to say thank you for all our beautiful fabrics," says Levi's Vintage Clothing Senior Designer Paul O'Neill, "and to celebrate our long history together." These two farewell pieces from Levi's Vintage Clothing and Cone Mills White Oak are now available over at Hudson's Hill, Unionmade and Canoe Club, retailing at $599 USD per piece. There's only 150 of each made, so vintage denim enthusiasts should be sure to act fast. Elsewhere in fashion, Prada joins the chest rig hype with its own nylon harness bag.  |
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