Lucien Pellat-Finet

Definitely really expensive, but it is about the coolest stuff ever. Bought a hoodie and a headband a few years back when I was drinking in the afternoon so I didn’t really realize at the time how stupid it was spending $ 1000 on the aforementioned items, but hey it was worth it in the long run. I loved that damn hoodie for years until I let some pilled-​out girl borrow it for a couple days. She got booted off to rehab and took my damn sweater with her! Bitch!
Personal issues aside, LPF is a pretty wacked-​out puppy. You gotta check out the store, they have cashmere everything covered in things nobody else would ever emblazon across a $ 3000 sweater or a $godknowshowmuch bed cover.

Amazing cashmere, the softest ever — Plus it’s not all stodgy and British-​ish. Give me a skull on my $ 2,000 sweater any day. Yea, it’s crazy expensive but your worth it, and even if your not, I sure as hell am =)

Only one block from my apartment I walk by this place almost every single day. What enticed me in was their «50% Off Everything» sign hanging in the window. I had some extra cash, needed some new clothes and Lucien was having a sale — so I stopped in.
Lucien Pellat-​Finet is a French house which does wonderful things with cashmere, including beautiful hoodies and gloves. They also make some kick-​ass t-​shirts complete with rhinestone-​studded skulls and devil horns, one of which I snapped up.
The store is large, clean and airy. They’ve also got the cutest little Japanese boy working there who kept telling me what good energy I had and how much he loved crazy people. I appreciate the good energy part but wonder if my absolute craziness is that obvious — guess so…
Worth a trip to the Village, this shop is tres expensive but if you can hit it on a sale you’ll do well.

I think you should get a plane ticket to the production site in Scotland, a visit to Lucien’s Maison in Paris, complimentary cleaning for life, and a guarantee that you’ll never have to wait in line, anywhere, or be cold, anytime, if you’re dropping $ 3,200 for a skull’d out cashmere sweater from Lucien Pellat-​Finet.
That said, the cashmere is ultra lux and soft, the style is fun, bold, and quirky and you would instantly fit in anywhere in Japan as there are practically more Lucien stores there than Gaps. In nyc it’s more hit or miss on design, but it is very cool they take custom orders. Also, sketchy Parisian tourists will ask to hang with you if they catch sight of the label, faites attention svp…

Over 10 million dwellers in the tri-​state area and I’m only the second person to review this store? What the fuck? Uhhh, hello, Sweater Queens? Represent! This boutique is smack dab in the middle of Homo Ground Zero. I mean, it’s fucking ON Christopher AT Gay, you just don’t get a faggier address than that.
Anyway, there are five main design houses known for their excellent work with cashmere. Malo, Loro Piana, Clements Ribeiro, Bruno Cuccinelli, and Lucien Pellat-​Finet.
Here’s a cheat sheet to the people who wear the Fab Five:
Malo = After taking in a healthy dose of the sun at plage Moorea, I will cover my plastic tits with this über-​soft Riviera wrap and retire to my yacht, the S.S. Exploiteuse.
Loro Piana = I will pretentiously wear this hideous beige shawl-​collared sweater while the servant brings me a snifter of brandy and I pretend to read Bleak House in front of my brick fireplace.
Clements Ribeiro = Do you like my cashmere kilt with the periwinkle/​fluorescent orange plaid pattern? Feel how soft it is. Did I mention I’m not wearing any underwear?
Bruno Cuccinelli = I don’t know who the fuck I am. My name sounds Italian, but I spend a lot of time in France.
Lucien Pellat-​Finet = I smoke a lot of weed. But I’m not just a user, I’m a dealer — how else could I afford this?
LPF is my favorite. He uses the finest cashmere to produce excellent, colorful, densely woven, form-​fitting sweaters which usually have fun intarsia designs. Perennial favorites are sweaters with hemp leaves and/​or skulls in various permutations (rich stalkers, take note: I love the Mickey Mouse skull), though please steer clear of the Bedazzled monstrosities. LPF also makes cardigans, gloves, caps, t-​shirts, and a small collection of leather accessories.
This boutique is somewhat small and narrow but utilizes the space to great effect. The sales staff can be standoffish; I guess it’s because so many of us come in just to run our hands over and under these ridiculously soft (and ridiculously priced) babies. I think it’s worth it: provided you don’t store your precious knits next to a moth colony, LPF sweaters will reward you with a long life free of pilling. So if you tire of the sweater, or if it was just a huge fashion mistake, you can hock it on ebay as new — like that pink cardigan in my closet.