After being shot right on into our eyeballs, upon winning Search for a Supermodel, Nicole Trunfio has since gone from fashun-strength to fashun-strength. If there’s anyone you’re going to take advice from, on where to shop, it may as well be someone who has worked for some of the most impressive fashion names in the world. This is a gal who once dropped $13,000 in one day at The Webster in Miami, has a pair of green Balenciaga pants that no-one else on the East Coast owns and is proper in love with Nolita for its New York City born and raised Designers.
Pedestrian recently had the pleasure of talking to Nicole – who has been busy livin’ la vida loca in New York, launching her new jewellery line and releasing an EP with her band Henry Blac. She kindly gave us the insider tips on where to eat, where to shop and how to Trunfio-it-up in NYC.
Opening Ceremony
Address: 35 Howard Street, New York, NY 10013
Phone: (212) 219-2688
E-mail: purple@openingceremony.us
Website: http://www.openingceremony.us/p107.html
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 11-8pm, Sunday 12-7pm
Nicole says: Really like Opening Ceremony – plus they’ve just renovated, so they have a lot of new stuff.
Dagny and Barstow
Address: 264 Bowery, New York NY 10012 (btw Houston & Prince)
Phone: (212) 675-2346
E-mail: info@dagnyandbarstow
Website: http://dagnyandbarstow.com/
Opening Hours: Sunday to Wednesday 11am-7pm, Thursday to Saturday 11am-8pm
Nicole says: There’s a really dope new store on Bowery called Dagny and Barstow. We actually sell my jewellery line there. I walked past their store and they have a Swash London jacket, which is the most beautiful jacket I have ever seen. They have really unique, cool Designers and really beautiful one-off pieces. It’s really expensive but you know you’re getting quality and that no other other store in New York sells the same stuff.
CÉLINE
Address: 870 Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, NY
Phone: (212) 535-3703
Website: celine.com
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 10am-6pm
Nicole says: CÉLINE. I fucking love CÉLINE. Everything CÉLINE.
Can you give us three places to eat in New York, one of which includes a place that sells decent coffee?
Gimme Coffee
Address: 228 Mott St, Manhattan, NY (between Prince and Spring in Nolita)
Phone: (212) 226-4011
Website: www.gimmecoffee.com/
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 7am- 7pm , Saturday to Sunday 8am-8pm
Nicole says: Gimme Coffee is a really good coffee spot, that would be my local of choice.
Momo Sushi Shack
Address: 43 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Phone: (718) 418-6666
Website: http://www.momosushishack.com/
Opening Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 12 pm – 3:30 pm + 6 pm – 10:30 pm , Friday and Saturday 6 pm – 12 am
Nicole says: I love Momo Sushi in Brooklyn. It’s in Bushwick Brooklyn, kind of in the ghetto but it’s the best sushi I’ve ever had. It’s in a garage and…I shouldn’t be telling you guys this actually, because then it’s going to become crowded. It’s the shit though, they flick their fingers and tell you to eat it within two minutes or else it will go bad. It’s got a really cool vibe, they play great music and its super affordable. It’s in a good neighbourhood too, lots of young good looking people.
Shun Lee West
Address: 43 West 65th Street New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 595-8895
Website: www.shunleewest.com
Opening Hours: Sunday 11:30 am – 10pm, Monday to Friday 12pm-12am, Saturday 11:30am – 12am
Nicole says: It’s this gangster old-school Chinese restaurant near Lincoln Centre. They have the best pork buns, the best pork ribs and the best everything really. It’s never packed but you see the most interesting, authentic, born and raised New York characters in there.
