How to Build a Fashion Store Worth Leaving Home For

Owners: Shelley, Caryn & Lori Hirshleifer, David Sills, Rob Sills, Marci Hirshleifer, Andrew Feinberg, Jennifer Goldman

Hirshleifers is a rare thing: a family-run luxury retailer now in the hands of the Hirshleifers’ fourth and fifth generations. Just outside New York, it pairs the biggest international houses with newer names, all filtered through the personal eye of a buyer who is present and involved. Clients come for the relationship as much as the clothes — the owners still shape the experience in real time. In an era of consolidation, it stands for a deeply personal and increasingly rare model of retail.