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The first days of summer in New York City have an indescribable energy. Yes, they are hot and sticky and humid, but the air is buzzing with an electricity that mixes freedom and possibility. Walking into the Kallmeyer store on a recent muggy afternoon, where the designer was showing her resort collection celebrating the store’s five-year anniversary, that feeling was magnified tenfold—and not just because Megan Rapinoe was sitting at one of the tables that had been set up in front of the store, casually people-watching in her Kallmeyer outfit while music boomed from a nearby speaker.

“We opened the store five years ago to ,” Daniella Kallmeyer explained. “I opened this store as a pop-up with pennies I had scraped up, and two weeks later we were certain that this was our destiny.” Amid the music, the celebration, the drinks, and the so-called adult Lunchables of potato chips and caviar from Raf’s that were passed around, Kallmeyer’s collection remained the center of attention.



See the waxed cotton field jacket in a deep shade of olive green with contrasting corduroy details or the tuxedo shirt with an undone bow tie resting across its shoulders. A black silk jacket with a slightly cropped silhouette had a shirtlike collar and four buttons on its lapel and was so severe in its silhouette that it became almost a seduction. I noticed it on the rack as Kallmeyer talked about a character from the 1999 film that she’d been thinking about.

“He wears a tuxedo shirt.

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