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Todd Snyder, 25 E. 26th St.

Big-in-Japan menswear designer Todd Snyder plans his first local outlet with a bar and barbershop inside (December). 

 

“A lot of bigger men’s retail spaces can be intimidating, so I decided to make this a bunch of smaller shops inside the larger one. There’s going to be a shoe shop for our nubuck P.F. Flyers ($149), a denim area for our indigo selvedge denim ($195), a Moscot eyewear shop (because I only wear Moscots), and a barbershop all cordoned off by charcoal shelves layered with flannel. There’s also a tailor shop where we’ll do made-to-measure, which brings my career full circle because I started off in fashion working at a tailor in Des Moines. There’s a 25-seat bar, so guys could come just for a drink or stop by after shopping. But my favorite part is the floor. I’m friends with the guy from LV Wood — we did our first fashion show in his office — and he made me an oak called ‘fumed hakwood.’ He achieves the perfect color by putting the wood over a flame to burn it, as opposed to staining. It looks like lightly burnt toast.”