Kasuri

Visit : Kasuri

Located in Hudson, NY, a historic river⎯town that serves as an artistic destination and escape for many new yorkers, Kasuri brings cutting edge directional fashion to the hudson valley. The boutique offers a finely curated selection of Japanese, European, and American labels housed in an exquisitely renovated space, where the historical and contemporary collide. With a sensibility firmly rooted in the avant-garde and staffed by a team passionately devoted to fashion, Kasuri strives to create an environment where experimentation and tradition integrate in ever⎯evolving ways.

Since opening in 2014, Kasuri has been a singular Hudson Valley destination for the sartorially inclined. The shop carved out a name for itself with its curated cross section of avant-garde haute couture that leans heavily Japanese, with designers like Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake, and Yohji Yamamoto, plus other European icons like Vivienne Westwood, Rick Owens, Bernhard Willhelm, and Henrik Vibskov. But unlike other high-end shops where associates are “studiously ambivalent or even hostile,” to quote Osofsky, Kasuri’s creative director, the goal at Kasuri has always been to welcome everyone in and make them comfortable. This extended into the community with fashion programming for local youth.

Hours : Thursday⎯Saturday from 11⎯6pm Sunday from 12⎯4pm

“There's no reason for us to be in this space if we can't use it to build something in the community that’s meaningful and not about commerce,” says Osofsky. “The new space is so exciting to us because it allows us to do so much of the DIY punk rock stuff we were doing in our old space. Youth fashion workshops, art openings, readings. We’ve been kind of seduced by this building, but we have to figure out how to inhabit it.”

Inside the brick façade, house music drones through the ample space tastefully stocked with racks of designer clothing, alongside objets d’art and a selection of books of intrigue. But Kasuri’s own inventory alone wasn’t enough to fill the space or the team’s expanded mission—they needed to pull in other businesses.