NEW YORK, May 1, 2008/ — Store Adore is thrilled to announce the launch of its Customized Shopping Experiences. Store Adore (www.storeadore.com) launched in February 2008, and currently features a database of over 2,400+ boutiques and specialty stores, each of which has been personally visited by Store Adore’s editorial team. A premier shopping resource, Store Adore boasts intimate knowledge of boutiques and specialty stores in fashion, beauty, accessories, and home.

Join Store Adore’s savvy shopping editors on a customized shopping tour and bring the experience of browsing the Store Adore website to life. Our clients simply tell us where their interests lie or what neighborhood they’d like to know better, and we create a personalized shopping experience to satisfy their needs.

From eco-friendly goods to vintage accessories, innovative home design to newly opened fashion boutiques, the East Village to the Upper East Side, we will design an exclusive shopping experience to match any criteria.

Store Adore Customized Shopping Experiences are an ideal way to explore the city for residents and tourists alike. Store Adore will take customers to the types of stores they are guaranteed to adore. Unlike personal shoppers who pressure their clients into purchasing, Store Adore tours give an insider look at the local retail scene.

Currently, Store Adore Customized Shopping Experiences are only available in New York, but additional cities will launch soon. Store Adore Customized Shopping Experiences can be reserved for half or full days. Whenever possible, special discounts or gifts will be pre-arranged with stores.

Rates

· Half Day Tours: 4 hours, 4-8 store visits

o 1-4 people, ($1,000)

o 5-8 people, ($1,500)

· Full Day Tours: 7 hours, 7-10 store visits, including lunch break

o 1-4 people, $1,400 ($1,800)

o 5-8 people, $2,200 ($2,400)

**Price includes the scheduling and services of a Store Adore shopping guide. Car service, taxis, and lunch (for full-day tours) at a hip local restaurant can be arranged and will be charged separately.

Customized Shopping Experience Sample Itinerary: The Village

Greenwich Village and the West Village can often feel like a boutique-filled maze. While we adore the oft-traveled Bleecker Street stroll, there’s plenty more in this beloved neighborhood to delight the shopping palette This full-day tour brought a group of savvy shoppers on a full-day shopping experience, with a stop at charming neighborhood restaurant Extra Virgin for a refueling lunch.

Check out our map of the day here: http://www.storeadore.com/sdev/view_guide.php?guideID=107

• Auto

Essentially a gallery for artisan work and forward-thinking local designers, eclectic West Village boutique Auto specializes in clothing, home accessories and gifts that celebrate whimsy, creativity and sophistication, including . Auto occupies two small adjacent spaces, dividing fashion from the ample home selection. Quirky, fruit-shaped beanbag chairs (complete with fabric leaves), hand-poured D.L. & Co. candles, John Robshaw’s made-in-India prints and Missoni’s bold, plant-derived hues and other luxurious miscellany make Auto a favorite stop for any discerning gift-seeker.

• Otte

Sometimes an event calls for a look that strikes that elusive balance between natural and glam, edgy and sophisticated, spectacular and comfortable. Whatever the occasion—a gallery opening, a surprise weekend in SoBe, drinks with a power client—Otte has something to help achieve that fashion fusion. Most items (even the few basics) are luxurious and über-hip, from lines like See by Chloé, Ya-Ya, Raven, and Tibi, with an additional focus on emerging local designers.

• Butik Christensen & Sigersen

Tucked inside a mostly preserved old bar space, Butik Christensen & Sigersen looks and feels like a supermodel’s attic: personal and intimate, a bit dusty, un-self-consciously eclectic and as high-end as it gets. This boutique is, in fact, the brainchild of Danish model Helena Christensen, who stocks her shop with everything she would put in her own home—resulting in an offbeat, evocative store full of old-fashioned-looking odds and ends.

• Hable Construction

Crafty, organic-looking textiles designed by founders (and sisters) Katherine and Susan Hable form the heart of Hable Construction. The gorgeous felt, canvas and cotton fabrics are used to form throws, gardening hats and gloves and Christmas stockings and to cover photo albums, journals, stretched canvases that look like handcrafted works of art. The line is sold in the company’s tiny Perry Street storefront alongside one-of-a-kind antiques and treasures sourced by the owners from around the world.

• The Bathroom

Tucked away inside a tiny space off bustling Bleecker Street, downtown New York’s The Bathroom is a wonderland of luxury products for personal pampering. This shop has every line you know and plenty you don’t—it’s a veritable launchpad for new products as they hit the market each season. Classic brands fly off the milk-glass shelves, along with the newest in European, local and organic innovations for skin, hair, home and baby. From home fragrance Agraria to all-natural scrubs and soaps from Napa Valley’s Olivina, there’s something for every sensitive nose and picky dermis.

• Mick Margo

West Village clothing boutique (and Store Adore favorite) Mick Margo, tucked away behind a wall of square antique glass panes straight out of a Dickens novel, sets forth a collection of clothing and accessories that reflects both Commerce Street’s old-world style and modern design innovations. Named for her grandfather, owner Nadine Ferber’s enchanting boutique draws from elegant collections by international and cutting-edge New York designers, like Vena Cava, Rachel Comey, Alexander Wang and VPL. Tucked away on its discreet corner, the warmly lit shop’s gold tones and beige suede couches provide a subtle backdrop to slouchy accessories and clothing that is at once modern and feminine, sexy and pulled-together.

• Ludivine

New York may be renowned for its beautiful women, but Paris is arguably the chicest place on earth. From streetwear to runway couture, Parisian fashion is enviably, effortlessly put together and marked by a relaxed confidence and sensuality. Ludivine Grégoire, owner of West Village boutique Ludivine, brings French style to the West Village through everyday and cocktail pieces unmatched in their feminine refinement. Neatly arranged by subdued hues like navy, eggshell and smoky lavender, the petite, sun-drenched shop offers a stunning collection from French designers Vanessa Bruno, Les Prairies de Paris and Claudie Pierlot.

• Claudine

With the look and feel of a tiny, quaint Paris flat, West Village boutique Claudine caters to the high-style girlie-girl. The shop offers a small, handpicked selection of finely made dresses, tops, jackets and accessories with a delicate modern aesthetic. Beneath playful striped walls, crystal chandeliers and a decorative birdcage are racks of backless jersey tops, kimono print dresses in cotton voile, and flirty gold frocks with puff sleeves by hard-to-find designers like Virginia Johnson and Kathy Kemp, along with stylish shoes and handbags and whimsical jewelry.

• Hus

Scandinavian for “house,” West Village boutique Hus offers the very best in absolutely everything from Sweden, Denmark and Norway. Passionate about Scandinavian innovation, owner Steen Knigge set up his bright, reflective ultra-modern shop like a tiny department store organized by designer. Fashion mainstays like Marimekko and and Filippa K offer clean-cut wool coats, layering separates, tunics and dresses, all of which display the tight lines and stark neutral shades characteristic of these progressive designers. A selection of fine-quality denim from Acne and Nudie Jeans is accompanied by a wall of sneaks and bright patterned handbags, while tables of home accessories offer great gifts like lemon peelers, butane lanterns, sterling silver barware and coffee carafes from lines like Stelton and Eric Bagger.

• Aedes de Venustas

Aedes de Venustas means “temple of beauty” in Latin. Karl Bradl and Robert Gerstner, owners of the small Greenwich Village storefront and online shop bearing the name, built theirs to the gods of fragrance. Aedes first earned cult following as Manhattan’s most exclusive fragrance destination over a decade ago, when models and photogs went swoony over the shop. The owners have dedicated their lives to importing rare labels and are renowned for their intimacy with each. Visit the discreet, velvet-draped storefront (signaled by the peacock in the window), and throw in the extra few bucks to order your selections gift-wrapped with the store’s signature black box wrapped with a silk ribbon and a bundle of fresh flowers.

Store Adore Information

Store Adore was founded by Meredith Barnett, a former editor at Lucky magazine, and Cristina Miller, a former strategy consultant. Store Adore is an online forum for passionate shoppers to find and share insights and information on the very best boutiques and specialty stores in the cities where they live and travel and online. As both a practical resource and an online shopping community, Store Adore is a place where shoppers can discover new stores (or find out what’s new with their long-time favorites!) and have the opportunity to talk shop(ping) with likeminded individuals.

The site currently covers shopping in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and online. Store Adore’s strong editorial content is supplied by locally-based writers who have their ears to the ground regarding their local shopping communities. The site is marked by a lively, insightful tone and well-researched, up-to-date information.