About

 

Kiwi opened in 2002, just off Seventh Avenue on Berkeley Place. This was before anyone called the neighborhood a destination. Christine Alcalay was a young designer with the garment district in her blood, something her mother put there. She had a stubborn idea about what a neighborhood shop could be. She wanted to make a place that helped you find the version of yourself that felt best, somewhere that felt like you had always known it from the very first visit.

fig. followed in 2014, when the space next door opened up. A men's shop felt like a gap worth filling. Park Slope had nowhere for men that felt like them: considered, unfussy, and stocked by someone who actually cared about the cut and feel of a garment. So they made it happen.

Over the years, Kiwi has carried Christine's own collection, CHRISTINE ALCALAY, alongside more than a hundred other designers. Some were established names, and some were the ones you hadn't heard of yet. The shops stock what the team would wear themselves, which means labels with a maker behind them, fabric you want to keep touching, and cuts that hold up to a real life and a real body.

That realness starts with the people behind the counters. They don't just ring you up. They remember what you wore last time, what you're shopping for, and the date or the interview you're nervous about. They hope you feel how special these spaces are the moment you walk in, and it's why a first visit so often turns into many. They're the best friend in your walk-in closet, the ones who tell you the truth and find you the thing you didn't know you were looking for.

For more than two decades, Kiwi and fig. have dressed this neighborhood through daily life, meetings, and dates. They've been there for the weddings and the big nights, the anniversaries and the whole calendar of a life. They aren't a stop on the way to somewhere else. They're a staple, independent and still right here.

Come in, and they'll find it with you.