Calvin Klein

VERY DISAPPOINTING!!! I purchased a handbag from the Calvin Klein store at Jersey Gardens Mall and they did not have gift boxes. I decided to see if I could get a box at this store and was promptly told that not all Calvin Klein store are the same and that I would not be able to get a gift box from here. Wow, i never felt so undeserving in such a while. I felt like someone who had the good fortune to get an apartment in a high rise only to be told that I needed to use a separate entrance than the other residents. Wow, never again Calvin Klein, never again:(

I wanted a sensational suit for my friends wedding, something no one else would have, so I decided to go to Calvin Klein Collection on Madison Ave. Totally lost, I walked around this amazing place and was greeted by what I thought was a planted model for the store. However it was a salesperson named Christopher. He was amazing as I am very hard to fit and he made me look thinner and I felt better about myself. He was so accommodating and totally new how to work with me. I will definitely be back and hopefully he will be able to work with me again! Patrick c. Butler Southampton, NY

This is an interview season… Great! I need a new suit… and a pair of shoes… and a shirt. So I went in and ended up getting all of them.
My overall experience about this place was great. I have visited here twice. First time a month ago I went in to check out the suit. I was greeted by Christopher, one of the people who work there. I was wearing cargo shorts with a tee shirt, but he didn’t judge me based on my look and took my interest about the suit seriously.
So yesterday I stopped by again, and ended up buying a suit, a pair of dress shoes and a dress shirt. Luckily Christopher was available again and very attentive throughout the whole shopping experience which took almost 2 hrs. In the middle of the session, he offered us a glass of sparkling water, too.
I know this place is way out of budget for most of us (including me), but if you can afford to buy them you will be served as a fiver star guest always.

So I’m walking by and I see the sign for Calvin Klein and I think to myself «I could really use some more work pants» because Mr. Klein’s are the only design that has ever fit me to a T, ever, in my whole life… and there is a security guard out front and a few sales reps in an otherwise empty space, save for a few dress dummies in an artsy formation and some racked clothes under muted lighting. So I’m shlepping along looking at my limited choices and since most of the pants are made of wool I decide I don’t want any (wool is too scratchy a fabric for me to sit in for 10 hours a day). There are about 10 widely-​spaced pairs of shoes scattered about the walls and a few purses. «This one’s cute,» I think to myself, pick it up and discover the $ 1,200.00 price tag. Holy shit, I’m in the *real* Calvin Klein store. The kind that only French princesses and diplomats wives shop at — this is NO Beverly Center shop, let me tell you. I go back to the pants and discover $ 600+ price tags there. That’s a lot of scratch to cause long-​day scratch on my ass!

Before I start, I’d like to acknowledge that this is obviously out of my budget and even though I stay in my lane for the most part so as to not appear like some majorly balling sophisticate, I just wanted to include this ode to Calvin Klein Collection and the Mad Ave space that houses it.
In the arena of famous, established American design houses, there is Calvin Klein and like Ralph Lauren. While they obviously cater to very different clientele, due to maybe the fact that their diffusion lines occupy the same miserable area of blandness in Macy’s and whatever, they are somehow always seen as equivalents. It is my feeling that Ralph Lauren has stopped having any value as a designer. He was doomed as soon as he paid something like 10 grand for each foot of wood for the fence to his ranch. There are designers like Ralph who makes dresses festooned with gratuitous bows and ruffles serving no real purpose other than making for a perfectly ridiculous campaign in the desert lands of the west. There is a reason why American designers are so irrelevant, and it is Ralph Lauren. It’s pedestrian and easy. Oh, look, every girl can wear some frilly mess and feel pretty [OR like mary on a ranch]. And then there are labels like Calvin Klein whose understated aesthetic is just so… intelligent.* Francisco Costa is so next level, yall. He’s taken Calvin’s minimalism and given it architectural depth and it is so so good, season after season. The dresses for summer are lighter than air and the ultra heavy coats of winter are like sculptural art.
Business wear in America gives me tequila vomit in the mouth. Boxy blazers and straight leg with slight flare in the pants, and kitten heels?! That is enough to convince that corporate life is hell. There are alternatives guys, when I’m grown, my closet will be filled with Calvin Klein and Jil Sander.** I will bring sexy back to the office.
The service is super friendly.
*That sounds way pretentious to inject intellect into clothing talk, but it’s totally appropo. An analogy: Ralph Lauren and excessive ostentatious details as design is something like inserting extra big SAT words to sound smart. There is nothing genius about either one of those situations. Calvin Klein is subtle prose whose beauty is its simplicity. So deep.
** And silky, mad printed, louche Dries for the weekend.

Should my bankroll balloon to that size which I hope it might then I will shop here — the Calvin Klein Collection ain’t cheap. While I made no purchases I sure did marvel at my future housed under this Madison Ave roof.
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Much like a modern museum, Calvin Klein’s Manhattan flagship is a muted space. As a result, the designer’s creations do not compete with the interior.
This spare John Pawson-​designed 22,000-square-foot store at the corner of Madison Avenue and 60^th Street was created to house luxury. You’ll find the high-​end Calvin Klein Collection and home furnishings here but no jeans.
It’s zen-​like for sure, but since I’m a person with very little ability to meditate I didn’t find it terribly interesting. Still, were money no object, it’s hard to think of a better place to browse for a dress.

This store location is airy and open, great for a cocktail hour. I came here for an event that is hosted at Calvin Klein annually, for Safe Horizon, a not-​for-​profit that serves women who have been through domestic violence and abuse. The space of the store is such that you can hold around 100 – 150 people without it seeming too crowded and without pushing into the CK designer wear on the racks.

Beautiful clothing. The only Calvin Klein I’d wear. Gorgeous space. Staff very helpful. Great selection of objects for the home too.

I adore the dresses here. Sadly the prices are exorbitant. But if you’re willing to spend the big bucks, shop here. Better than buying it at the department store cause they do free alterations.